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  21 November 2025
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Katharina Zellweger: "Sanctions against North Korea need to be reconsidered and peace diplomacy is needed" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “North Korea is subject to extremely strict sanctions due to its missile and nuclear programs. The sanctions are having an effect, but instead of harming the regime, they are primarily affecti ...
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  21 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities celebrate the memory of witnesses to the faith, in the month in which the deceased are commemorated Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Father Paul Wang, a Lazarist, served between Beijing and Hebei Province during difficult times in the 1970s and 1990s. He traveled on foot from village to village, wearing hand-me-down clothes ...
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  21 November 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian Crisis: Millions displaced without food, drinking water, sanitation, and shelter El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) – With the intensification of fighting that led to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) taking control of El Fasher and the withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Joint Operations Com ...
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  21 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - About a hundred students kidnapped in the attack on a Catholic school Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A Catholic school in Nigeria was attacked, and around 100 students were kidnapped. In the early hours of November 21, an armed group on 60 motorcycles and in cars stormed St. Mary’s Catholic P ...
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  20 November 2025
  "Apostolic Cinema": Missionary cinema, a resource for today's mission by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Hidden in the archives of many religious congregations and ecclesiastical institutions around the world lies a treasure that deserves to be rediscovered and shared. This is t ...
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  20 November 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Myanmar's army raids and arrests people in "Scam cities" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's military government has launched an operation to combat online criminal activity in so-called "scam cities" located on the border between Myanmar and Thailand: on November 18, the army ...
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  20 November 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Lazzaro You: “The Council of Shanghai was of crucial importance for the history of the Asian churches” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The “Concilium sinense”, which took place in Shanghai between May and June 1924, was an event of crucial importance for the history of the Church in Asia. This ecclesiastical event “marked ...
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  20 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Father Paschal is alive”: Archdiocese of Kaduna denies rumors of the murder of the priest kidnapped on November 17 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “It is not true that Father Bobbo Paschal was killed,” reads a statement from the Archdiocese of Kaduna, sent to Fides, refuting rumors circulating on various social media platforms that the ...
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  19 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-conversion laws: Catholics promote protection of freedom of conscience based on the constitution Jaipur (Agenzia Fides) – In the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, bordering Pakistan, the Jaipur Catholic Welfare Society has turned to the Supreme Court to challenge the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Religious C ...
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  19 November 2025
  November 20, presentation of the book “Cinema and Mission: Audiovisual Sources and History of Catholic Missions” will take place at Palazzo de Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, November 20, at 3:00 p.m., the book "Cinema and Mission. Audiovisual Sources and History of Catholic Missions" will be presented at the Palazzo de Propaganda Fide. The book, e ...
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  19 November 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan Council of Churches appeals to Kenyan President for efforts to achieve peace in South Sudan Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – “South Sudan is at a delicate and challenging stage,” members of the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), which unites the main Christian denominations in South Sudan, including the Cat ...
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  19 November 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Attack on the Foyer Saint Camille: “Continuing to run a hospital in this reality is heroic” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, October 28, and Saturday, November 15, members of one of the armed gangs active in the area stormed the “Foyer Saint Camille” in Port-au-Prince. In a statement sent to ...
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  19 November 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Dozens dead in illegal mine. Bishops propose state of emergency to combat the phenomenon Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Three illegal miners have died of asphyxiation after being trapped in a tunnel in Ghana. The three men were part of a group of “galamseyers” (a term that refers both to the illegal mining of ...
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  18 November 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Violence continues in Nampula province Nampula (Agenzia Fides) - Houses and a school burned, properties looted, and civilians killed, wounded, or kidnapped. This is the scene of the escalating violence that continues to plague the districts of Memba and Erati ...
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  18 November 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Followers of the "Iglesia Ni Cristo" take to the streets: they demand "justice, accountability, transparency" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - With an impressive demonstration that drew over 300,000 people to the streets of Manila over two days, the "Iglesia Ni Cristo" (INC, Church of Christ), a powerful Philippine Christian evangelical ...