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31 October 2023
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Political unrest and blockades: Catholic cathedral damaged
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Government and opposition politicians should engage in dialogue and not fuel political instability. Conflict and violence are not good for the country. We want peace. Our people have the right to ...
30 October 2023
ASIA/HOLY LAND - "The importance to recognize and see the other as a human being": Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam, where Israelis and Palestinians live together
Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in traumatic times of war. Everyone at our School for Peace is shocked and saddened by the incomprehensible atrocities committed by Hamas and the lethal and vengeful response tha ...
30 October 2023
AFRICA/MAROCCO - A bell tower next to a minaret: Marrakech, workshop of fraternity
Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - "Imam, rabbi, Franciscan, Muslim and Christian friends, all gathered in moments of sharing about peace, prayer and long silences: moments full of responsibility. And mystery..." This is the de ...
30 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bandits attack rectory and kidnap parish priest in north-east Nigeria
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) -Kidnappings of priests in Nigeria do not stop. The priest, Rev. Fr. Thaddeus Tarhembe, was abducted from his parish in Ibi Local Council of Taraba State (north-eastern Nigeria) in the early hours o ...
29 October 2023
VATICAN - “The Church is mission”. The Synod Report reaffirms the missionary dynamism of the synodal Church
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Rather than saying that the Church has a mission, we affirm that the Church is mission. ‘As the Father has sent me, so I send you’ (Jn 20:21)". Thus begins the eighth Chapter of the "Synthesis ...
28 October 2023
ASIA/LAOS - "Now that I am Bishop, I still have a lot to learn". The 'on the move' mission of the Vicar Apostolic of Paksè
by Paolo Affatato
Paksè (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary spirit, the missionary practice of going to the villages and visiting Catholic families, or talking about Jesus to those who do not know him, with joy in the he ...
28 October 2023
AFRICA/BENIN - "The catastrophic security situation in Libya opens the door to terrorism in the Sahel region"
Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The increasing spread of armed groups that are causing fear and terror throughout the Sahel region is a consequence of the catastrophic security situation in Libya. And the label 'jihadists' sh ...
27 October 2023
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Caritas Freetown calls for “immediate action” against the spread of synthetic marijuana
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "Immediate action" against the spread of Kush, a synthetic marijuana that has dangerous health effects among young people. This is what Caritas Freetown in Sierra Leone is asking for. “The wi ...
27 October 2023
ASIA/MYANMAR - The pastoral service of three new priests in Taunggyi, a territory where life is in danger due to the civil war
Taunggyi (Agenzia Fides) - For the three new Burmese Jesuit priests of the archdiocese of Taunggyi, a city in central Myanmar, which is part of the territory of Shan State, the task of serving the community and caring fo ...
27 October 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Khrist Premalaya" Regional Philosophate Seminary in the archdiocese of Bhopal
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 11, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the rev. Father Thomam Peringalloor, SVD, 68 (2/11/1955) and 39 years of pries ...
27 October 2023
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Sister Giovanna, Comboni missionary in the land of Jesus: "join us in prayer"
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "You know very well the reality we are experiencing. The war has been going on since October 7: bombings by Israel on Gaza following Hamas attacks (see Fides, 8/10/2023). Here in Jerusalem, th ...
26 October 2023
ASIA/INDIA - The Holy See grants the "Nihil Obstat" for the cause of beatification of the 35 martyrs of Odisha
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – For the Catholic Church in India there is a "significant step forward" in the process of beatification of Kanteshwar Digal and Companions, the so-called "35 Martyrs of Kandhamal", who were ...
26 October 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Muslims express solidarity with the Palestinian population
Marawi city (Agenzia Fides) - Filipino Muslims express their solidarity with the Palestinian people subjected to bombings in Gaza and call for an end to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip: the conflict in the Middle East ...
26 October 2023
OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Leeward Islands: the need to encourage vocations in the church
Bora Bora (Agenzia Fides) – “I am in Bora Bora. About fifteen teenagers and their animators are sleeping in the premises of the Blessed John Paul I, the complex, facilities intended for catechesis and parish activiti ...
26 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Brother Eze was killed to scare the other two hostages"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – "Brother Godwin Eze was killed to scare the two postulants who were kidnapped with him," say the Benedictines of the Eruku monastery in Kwara state, northern Nigeria to Fides. On the night of Oc ...
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