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18 January 2024
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Prosecutor investigating links between narcos and corrupt officials killed
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - César Suárez, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assassinated yesterday, January 17, was carrying out delicate investigations. The prosecutor was murdered with at least 20 gunshots last night in Guayaqui ...
18 January 2024
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - 16 non-governmental organizations dissolved, including some Catholic organizations
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the release of 19 Catholic Bishops, priests and seminarians (see Fides, 15/1/2024) detained in the prisons of Managua, it became known that sixteen non-governmental organization ...
18 January 2024
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “No matter how hard and long the struggle, the time of reconciliation will come”
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The texts of the meditations, prayers and celebrations to be used by Christians around the world during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 (January 18-25, 2024) were published this ...
18 January 2024
EUROPE/RUSSIA - New Russian edition of Pope Benedict XVI "Jesus of Nazareth" presented in Moscow
by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, January 17, the new Russian-language edition of the book "Jesus of Nazareth" was presented in Moscow at the Biblioteca dello Spirito cultural center. The ...
17 January 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Wamba
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Janvier Kataka Luvete.
The Holy Father ha ...
17 January 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Désiré Lenge Mukwenye as bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Msgr. Désiré Lenge Mukwenye has hitherto served as diocesa ...
17 January 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the shores of Lake Chad: Dozens dead in fighting between Boko Haram and the Islamic State
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Violent clashes broke out between Boko Haram and militants from the Islamic State - West Africa Province (ISWAP) on the shores of Lake Chad, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The fightin ...
17 January 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The service of the missionaries of Saint Columban in Pakistan for more than forty years
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than forty years, the missionaries of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban - priests, nuns and lay missionaries - have been at the service of the people of Pakistan. Father John Boles, ...
17 January 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, Explains Japanese Leader
by Victor Gaetan *
“Jesus and Buddha were peacemakers and promoters of non-violence,”
Pope Francis, May 28, 2022
Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third f ...
16 January 2024
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Suicide bombing in Mogadishu near the Cathedral
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed and two injured in a suicide attack carried out this morning, January 16, 2024, in front of the mayor's office in Mogadishu. Authorities report that the explosion caus ...
16 January 2024
AFRICA/MOROCCO - Assembly of the Bishops of North Africa comes to an end
Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference dealt with the synodal process, a theological reflection on the life of the Churches of the Maghreb and the reception and implementation of the Dec ...
16 January 2024
AFRICA/ANGOLA: Farewell to Father Jorge Luis Rodríguez CM: he led the Vincentian mission in Angola
Lombe (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jorge Luis Rodríguez Baquero CM, Colombian (from Medellin), of the Congregation of the Mission, founded by Saint Vincent de Paul in 1625, died in a car accident at the age of 57. The accid ...
16 January 2024
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A missionary: "After the looting, the people return what they had stolen: a collective repentance"
Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - "These days a curious phenomenon is taking place: the people who participated in the looting of recent days in Port Moresby are returning the looted goods. The appeals from the police and al ...
15 January 2024
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Release of bishops, priests and seminarians detained by the Nicaraguan government
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan government has released 19 bishops, priests and Catholic seminarians detained, in some cases for more than a year. Among them are bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro del Carmen M ...
15 January 2024
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Security forces regain control of prisons and free hostages
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In Ecuador, eleven police officers and a total of 201 prison officers have been released in seven prisons in the country, where they had been taken hostage by revolting prisoners (see Fides 12/1/2 ...
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