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  21 April 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis 1936-2025 Vatican City (Fides Agency) - At 9:47 this morning, Monday, April 21, Easter Monday, Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announced with sorrow the death of Pope Francis with these words: � ...
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  21 April 2025
  Thank you forever, Pope Francis by Gianni Valente Rome ( Fides Agency) - “Remember your leaders, who preached the word of God to you, and as you reflect on the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith."This passage from the Letter to the Hebrew ...
• 17 April 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed the Rev. Fr. Marek Ochlak, O.M.I., currently Provincial Superior of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Poland, as Bishop of the Diocese of Fenoarivo Ats ...
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  17 April 2025
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - More than two thousand young people and adults will receive baptism at the Easter Vigil Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel attracts young people and adults seeking baptism in Malaysia: according to official communications from the local Church, the Catholic community in Malaysia will welcome more tha ...
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  16 April 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis and the parable of the Prodigal Son: "Wherever we are lost, and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After meditating on Jesus' encounters with some figures from the Gospels, Pope Francis, continuing the cycle of catechesis dedicated to the life of Christ read in the light of the themes of ...
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  16 April 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Farewell to Father Angelo Lazzarotto, a great friend of Chinese Catholics by Gianni Valente Rancio di Lecco (Agenzia Fides) - The old group photo chosen to accompany this memory portrays him in civilian clothes, just behind Deng Xiaoping. It was May 22, 1978. At 53 years old, the priest and ...
• 16 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The State is collapsing, opening the door to criminal gangs" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The Haitian people are a martyred people (...) and the Church that is in communion with this people lives this suffering in its flesh", said Father Marc-Henry Siméon, spokesman for the ...
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  16 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The London conference ends without a final declaration; the RSF proclaim the formation of an alternative government Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The London conference organized exactly two years after the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war on 15 April 2023, to try to put an end to the conflict, ended without a final declaration. The c ...
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  16 April 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Easter in the Jubilee Year: a celebration of faith and hope Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “The spirit of the Resurrection shines brightly despite the shadows of discrimination and marginalization affecting Christians in Pakistan. From the bustling cities of Lahore and Karachi to t ...
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  16 April 2025
  ASIA/LEBANON - The mission of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles and the new hopes of the Lebanese people Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - After five consecutive years of crises, many Lebanese are beginning to harbor hope for a new era for the Land of the Cedars, prompted by the election last January of a new President of the Republ ...
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  16 April 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Eldoret: "We are completely destroying our country through corruption" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are left wondering where will the poor go and who will stand for them. What we are doing is wrong and we are completely destroying our country through corruption", Msgr. Dominic Kimengich, B ...
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  15 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Sudanese conflict enters its third year Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – With tens of thousands of dead, 14 million internally displaced people, and more than three and a half million refugees in neighboring countries, Sudan is entering the third year of a devasta ...
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  15 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Children and adults of the Pourcine Pic Makaya community: a people of heroes by Father Massimo Miraglio* Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – Every morning, around 250 children walk for hours along steep and dangerous paths to reach the primary and nursery school in Pourcine Pic Makaya, wh ...
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  15 April 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The nation consecrates itself to Divine Mercy: a "collective response of faith and hope" Manila (Agenzia Fides) – In a context of growing social and political polarization, the Philippines is preparing to consecrate itself to Divine Mercy as a sign of national unity. The country's Bishops' Conference has c ...
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  15 April 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Maniema province is also suffering the consequences of the war in neighboring North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Calm has returned to Lubutu, in Maniema province, following clashes between two factions of Wazalendo militiamen sparked by a leadership dispute. Reconciliation was achieved last weekend duri ...