News

• 28 November 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A march for peace: two women kidnapped by an armed group in the east of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two peace-seeking activists in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, were abducted by an armed group led by a deserting Congolese army officer (FARDC). Sarah Atosha and ...
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  28 November 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic journalists must only give the truth Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Communicators have a powerful and mysterious mission, and Catholic journalists are called to report the facts and try to act as "evangelists of our times", said the Secretary General of the Ugan ...
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  26 November 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bearing witness to Jesus Christ on a daily basis: the experience of a "family on mission" in the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Ayacucho Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Learning to distinguish between mañoco and yucuta, and know what manaca is and what seje is; knead the food with his own hands, to enjoy it with the brothers of the indigenous communities of Pa ...
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  26 November 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A film on St. Andrew Kim, pioneer of human dignity and equality among men Daejeon (Agenzia Fides) - "The film 'A Birth' narrates the life of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon. The examples and virtues of our saint raise spiritual questions about how to live today. The title of the film is a reference at ...
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  26 November 2022
  VATICAN - The Holy See: "surprise and regret" over installation of Chinese Bishop which did not take place in conformity with the Provisional Agreement Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See took note "with surprise and regret" of the news of the “installation ceremony” that took place on November 24, in Nanchang of "His Exc. Msgr. Giovanni Peng Weizhao, Bishop ...
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  25 November 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Peace talks raise hope: 'But people are exhausted and need help' Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the enormous difficulties caused by the crisis, the effects of the conflicts, climate change and the severe drought that are afflicting our country, the population at least finds relief in ...
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  25 November 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Strike in Santa Cruz: "That the problem be solved once and for all and that daily life be resumed immediately" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pastors of the Catholic Church of Santa Cruz, stand in solidarity and echo the cry of the people, asking that, once and for all, the problem be solved and that the City and Department ca ...
• 25 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New kidnapping of a priest together with a group of faithful; released another priest kidnapped last week Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Peter Abang Ochang, parish priest of the St. Stephen Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) church in the diocese of Ogoja, in the state of Cross River, has been kidnapped in a still undefined area o ...
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  25 November 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Around 20 families a month: Patriarch Sako laments the emigration of Iraqi Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Christians, living mainly in the cities of the Nineveh Plains and other areas of northern Iraq, continue to leave the country. This is happening "at a rate of around 20 families a month," ...
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  25 November 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The contribution of women in the struggle for freedom and in the defense of human dignity Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Burmese women are making a crucial contribution in the fight for respect for human dignity, for the restoration of freedom and democracy and in opposing the violence of the military junta in Myanma ...
• 24 November 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - The Episcopal Conference: "We have no news of the fate of Fr. Hans-Joachim Lohre" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment we have no further news or contacts with the kidnappers of Fr. Hans-Joachim Lohre" sources from the Mali Bishops' Conference told Agenzia Fides regarding the kidnapping of Fr. Hans ...
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  24 November 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Card. Aós: The University and the "dialogue for unity". A lot of prayer is needed "if we really want dialogue" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - There are two very useful instruments in democracy to confront and present ideas: debate and dialogue. The debate has one goal, which is to win. One wants to win an argument, so he tries to con ...
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  24 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Promote reconciliation between communities for sustainable peace Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The civil war that has lasted for years continues to cause the death of thousands of people, the displacement of different areas and the destruction of infrastructures. Failure to comply with the 2 ...
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  24 November 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Patriarchate: let us pray for the end of Turkish military operations in north-east Syria Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate has issued an invitation to pray during the Advent season, asking the coming Savior Jesus, to also bring peace, the end of suffering and danger to the populatio ...
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  23 November 2022
  VATICAN - Bishop Arrieta: the Agreement on the appointment of Chinese Catholic Bishops is not new in the history of the Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called "sinicization" of the Catholic Church in China, that is, the adaptation of the forms of ecclesial life to the Chinese cultural and social context, in itself "is not ...