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• 3 February 2023
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Demonstrations in Goma against African peacekeeping force. Tensions between Kigali and Kinshasa: extraordinary summit in Burundi tomorrow Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have the right to study like the students in Kinshasa," shout the students in Goma, who took to the streets today, February 3, in the capital of North Kivu as well as in other localities of ...
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  3 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Pope Francis to Congolese Bishops: "Christian prophecy" is not "political activity" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Christian prophecy" is not "political activty". Christian prophecy becomes incarnate "in a wide variety of political and social activities, yet that is not generally the task of Bishops and pa ...
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  2 February 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Giving one's life to Christ to be happy. The testimony of five consecrated sisters Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - One gives one's life to Christ by following His promise of happiness. And following the steps of Jesus leads on unknown paths, where He never abandons us. This is what five sisters who grew up i ...
• 2 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In the east of the country: rape as a weapon of war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "An action aimed at humiliating and killing a community through singular and sometimes systematic acts perpetrated in this or that village." Thus a report sent to Fides, signed by Fr. Justin Nk ...
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  2 February 2023
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - World Day of Consecrated Life: "Messengers of Solidarity and Hope in Today's World" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "In our current context in which we experience fragility, loneliness, inequality that leads to injustice, violence, neglect, uncertainty in the face of a bleak future, consecrated life feels c ...
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  1 February 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The situation of indigenous peoples arouses "holy indignation" in the hearts of all, especially Christians Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) asks the authorities for "adequate treatment dedicated to the Yanomami people and to all indigenous communities present in Brazilian territory. Given th ...
• 1 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The "3Ts" that exemplify the exploitation of Congolese resources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The "3T" - cassiterite ("Tin" in English), wolframite (tungsten), coltan (tantalum) are the main minerals mined in eastern DRC. This comes from reports from the various UN organizations that ha ...
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  1 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Silent strike commemorates second anniversary of military coup Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There is a ghostly silence in the cities, villages and countryside of Myanmar today. Large parts of the civilian population, religious communities, associations, companies and ordinary citizens h ...
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  1 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Pope Francis to Congolese Christians: Jesus knows your wounds. Become missionaries of peace Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus knows the wounds of the Congolese people and of the peoples of the other African lands. Wounds "that ache, continually infected by hatred and violence". He himself tells all the wounded a ...
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  31 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to missionary Tommy Murphy, friend of the Church and the Chinese people Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone in China called him Chen Fa-yi. He, like the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, had also wanted to take a Chinese name. Father Tommy Murphy, a good-natured Irish missionary who had b ...
• 31 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "In eastern Congo the situation is unbearable," says Fr. Luis Arcos, explaining why the Pope has given up on going there Goma (Agenzia Fides) - "Why is the Pope not going to the east? Because it is an unbearable situation. There is a risk that they will throw a bomb and kill innocent people," says Father Luis Arcos, a White Father of Spani ...
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  31 January 2023
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - On May 6 the Beatification of the first Bishop of Montevideo, born on a boat of emigrants Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Brasilia, Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa, will preside over the rite of Beatification, as Papal Legate, representative of the Holy Father Francis, of Monsignor Jacinto Vera, fir ...
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  31 January 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - New students at the Catholic College, which deals with the integral formation of young people Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The "Catholic Church Student Center" in Phnom Penh, a college of the Cambodian Church, welcomed 18 new students, presented yesterday, January 30, at the opening ceremony of the new academic y ...
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  31 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Pope Francis speaks about people's suffering and hope: 'Hands off Africa' Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Hands off the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hands off Africa". The words of Pope Francis, shortly after his arrival in Kinshasa "in the name of Jesus as a pilgrim of reconciliation and pea ...
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  30 January 2023
  VATICAN - "The Lord does great things through the little ones". Cardinal Tagle consecrates Father Emilio Nappa, Assistant Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, as Bishop Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us". The words of the Apostle Saint Paul in the fifth chapter of the Letter to the Romans was the theme o ...