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  3 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Jubilee in exile: Catholics in Loikaw do not want to lose hope Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Displacement, hunger, cold, the fatigue of a daily life in refugee camps or in makeshift settlements in the forests cannot stop the Catholic faithful of Loikaw, a diocese in the Burmese state of ...
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  3 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “In Bukavu, young people are joining self-defense militias” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Bukavu is calm at the moment, but young people are flocking en masse to the recruitment centers of the self-defense groups of the so-called 'Wazalendo' militias," report Fides ...
• 3 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Poverty, food insecurity, inadequate health care and high cost of living Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the serious waves of violence that are affecting the Nigerian population, including kidnappings, clashes, terrorist attacks and brutal murders, there is poverty, food insecurity, in ...
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  3 February 2025
  RUSSIA - Jesuit Stephan Lipke consecrated bishop in Novosibirsk: "To do the good that is possible here and now" by Chiara Dommarco Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 2 February, the German Jesuit Father Stephan Lipke was ordained bishop in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk. Pope Francis appointed the Jes ...
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  2 February 2025
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis on the day of the Presentation of the Lord: “In Jesus dwells all the fullness of God” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “This always leaves us astounded: universal salvation concentrated in just one! Yes, because in Jesus dwells the fullness of God, of His Love”, said Pope Francis during the Sunday Ang ...
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  1 February 2025
  ASIA/LAOS - Farewell to Father Titus Banchong: "It was Jesus who was interested in me, not me in him" by Paolo Affatato Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - "I am ready for Jesus and will be his martyr if I am worthy and if he wants me. I now believe that the time is very close," wrote the Laotian priest Titus Banchong Thopan ...
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  1 February 2025
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - Sister Anna on her work in the mission in Djibouti Ali Sabieh (Agenzia Fides) - "I like to see how the Lord works in people; it is He who called me to be a missionary, in the mission among non-Christians, and I am here to give hope," says Consolata Missionary Sister Anna ...
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  31 January 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Homs: The new era is full of mysteries by Gianni Valente Homs (Agenzia Fides) - "A new era has begun for Syria. And it is a difficult time again," said Archbishop Jacques Mourad. The monk of the Deir Mar Musa community, spiritual son of Father Paolo Dall' ...
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  31 January 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In Toribio, the end of a historic stage, but not the end of a mission Toribio (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for having walked with us, for being part of our history," were some of the words that resonated during the Mass of thanksgiving celebrated on Sunday, January 26, which marked the 41 ...
• 31 January 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Four years after the coup: prayer and charity in the face of violence, hunger and displacement Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholics hope that the state of emergency will not be extended and pray for justice and peace," Joseph Kung, a Catholic from Yangon who works in the National Human Rights Commission, told Fides ...
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  31 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Without electricity and water: Catholic parish in Goma welcomes 2000 displaced people Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest danger for the population of Goma is the so-called 'Wazalendo' militiamen," local church observers told Fides about the situation in the capital of the Congolese province of North ...
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  30 January 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy law becomes a trap and a business: accusations organized for the purpose of blackmail and extortion Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a criminal group that makes a business out of framing innocent people with false accusations of blasphemy. The organization uses the blasphemy law as a trap and as a business for blac ...
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  30 January 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catatumbo: Humanitarian aid corridor established and state of emergency declared Tibú (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of violence, mainly due to the control of international cocaine trafficking in the Catatumbo region, has led President Gustavo Petro to declare a state of emergency and deploy the army. ...
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  30 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Foreigners leave Bukavu: fears of advance of the M23 rebel movement on the capital of South Kivu province” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “In Bukavu, foreigners are fleeing,” missionaries from the capital of the Congolese province of South Kivu tell Fides. “The various embassies in Kinshasa have ordered their compatriots to ...
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  29 January 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Manipur: "The situation is polarized: we need peacemakers" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - "There is less violence in Manipur today than a year ago, thanks to the massive presence of the Indian armed forces: more than 70,000 soldiers are deployed in all the buffer zones that separate t ...