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  4 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Al-Shabaab violence continues: "apostate militias and soldiers" in the crosshairs Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Violence is rampant in Somalia. The terrorist group Al-Shabaab has been leading a bloody insurrection against the federal government for 15 years. The rebel group claims responsibility for the ...
• 4 January 2023
  AFRICA - The memory of Pope Benedict XVI of some African Bishops: "A great theologian of profound humanity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in different parts of Africa remembers Benedict XVI with masses and suffrage prayers. The Bishops of Uganda, who said they had a close relationship with Pope Benedict XVI, reme ...
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  4 January 2023
  Joseph Ratzinger's gifts to Chinese Catholics by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - For the past 15 years, Catholics from all over the world have been invited to pray for their brothers and sisters in the Church in China once a year. Since then, the World Day of ...
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  3 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The news of the death of Benedict XVI in areas of the country exacerbated by ethnic conflicts Malakal (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reaches the most remote and critical corners of the planet every day. Among these, Agenzia Fides received a testimony from the outskirts of So ...
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  3 January 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in Chhattisgarh Narayanpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh (central India) was vandalized by a tribal mob. The incident, which happened yesterday afternoon, January 2, in the ...
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  3 January 2023
  From experience to experience. Proclaiming Christ according to Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith". This was the title of the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the last in which Benedict XVI to ...
• 3 January 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The absence of war is not real peace. The country needs a real dialogue between the social and political partners" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe is experiencing a situation of "negative peace" says the Episcopal Commission for "Justice and Peace" of Zimbabwe, in its commentary on the message of Pope Francis for the World Day of P ...
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  3 January 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catholic priest murdered in north-west of the country Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest has been killed in Burkina Faso. Father Jacques Yaro Zerbo was assassinated by unidentified armed men on Monday, January 2. According to a statement sent to Fides signed by ...
• 2 January 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A new attack on a village in the north of the country claimed by ISIS-Mozambique Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – The attack on December 30 on the village of Namande, in the district of Muidumbe, province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, has been claimed by ISIS-Mozambique. The jihadists posted im ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The faithful pray and remember Benedict XVI, "Pope of charity" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - As in many other Asian countries, the Catholics in the Philippines are praying for Benedict XVI, who died on the morning of December 31 at the age of 95. "I wish to thank all of you who accompani ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese bishops and the People of God pray for Pope Ratzinger: may he continue to intercede for the good of our Church from heaven Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude and joy, intertwined with an emotion full of consolation, prayers and grateful memory for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who left this earth on the last day of 2022. These are the sentim ...
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  31 December 2022
  Benedict XVI , "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" has returned to the Father’s House Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. His heart stopped beating at 9.34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Po ...
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  31 December 2022
  Like a beautiful sunny day. The "good life" of Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Now that the increasingly fragile figure of Joseph Ratzinger has left this earth, the Church is more alone on this earth. And Pope Francis is also more alone. The unparalleled p ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - In grateful memory of the murdered missionaries. Witnesses, not "testimonial" by Gianni Valente This year, as at the end of each year, Fides Service remembers the names and lives of the missionaries and people involved in the pastoral work of the Catholic Church (priests, men and women religio ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in the year 2022 by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 18 missionaries were killed in the world in 2022: 12 priests, 1 re ...