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• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India, and appointment of first metropolitan archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India, elevating the see of Calicut to a metropolitan Church and assigning to it as suffragans the diocese of Kannur and ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Dumka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Sonatan Kisku, until now vicar general of the diocese of Dumka and parish priest of Saint Mary’s, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Dumka, I ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Simla and Chandigarh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Simla and Chandigarh, India, presented by Bishop Ignatius Loyola Ivan Mascarenhas. The Holy Father has ...
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  12 April 2025
  Cardinal Parolin: A Christian perspective on the encounter between the Gospel and China by Cardinal Pietro Parolin* Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish Cardinal Pietro Parolin's preface to the book by the missionary and priest Antonio Sergianni, "The journey of the Gospel in China. In the footsteps ...
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  11 April 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Farewell to Bishop René Dupont. 71 years on mission "With joy and without shame" by Pascale Rizk Andong (Agenzia Fides) – René-Marie Albert Dupont, Bishop Emeritus of Andong and missionary of the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris for 71 years in South Korea, has died at the age of 96. His p ...
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  11 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - First hearing before the International Criminal Court on allegations of genocide in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The government of the United Arab Emirates described as a "campaign of lies and slander" the accusations made yesterday, April 10, by the Sudanese government at the first hearing before the I ...
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  11 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic Church in Chin State destroyed by airstrike Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - Airstrikes by the Burmese army have destroyed the Catholic Church of Christ the King in the town of Falam, in the Diocese of Hakha, part of the Burmese state of Chin, in northwestern Myanmar. Acco ...
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  10 April 2025
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - “We have to be a bit like children”: Sister Irena’s mission in the villages around Almaty Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "First saints, then missionaries," Saint Giuseppe Allamano, founder of the Congregations of the Consolata Missionaries and Missionary Sisters, used to say. And that is the first gift we should as ...
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  10 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - General al-Burhan launches full-scale diplomatic offensive Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – As the war in Sudan continues, the diplomatic activism of the government headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), is intensifying. This April 10, the ...
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  10 April 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Apostolic Vicar of Harar: "We have no news of Father Habtewold, who was kidnapped on March 23, and my priests and I are very worried" Harar (Agenzia Fides) - "None of the kidnappers ever contacted me or my priests, and as far as I know from what my priests have told me, the kidnappers contacted the family the day after the kidnapping," Bishop Angelo Pa ...
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  9 April 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: Jesus' love is free Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Eternal life is not "an inheritance, something that is obtained by right", but Jesus' "free love." Pope Francis recalled this during his third week of convalescence at Santa Marta in the Va ...
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  9 April 2025
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionaries in the Terreiro community: "We must break existing patterns" Bengo (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been without electricity for a month. ...The generator only works for a few hours in the evening," says Father Martino Bonazzetti of the Society of African Missions. "But even amidst ...
• 9 April 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of bishop of Port Harcourt Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, presented by Bishop Camillus Archibong Etokudoh.Il Santo Padre ha accettato la ...
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  9 April 2025
  VATICAN - Subsidies and support to achieve financial autonomy: How the Dicastery for Evangelization supports local Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - How much funding does the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches) allocate to help the dioceses in the territories under its jurisdic ...
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  9 April 2025
  ASIA - Religious deception in human trafficking: Victims passed off as "pilgrims" and "missionaries" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – There is a new, insidious stratagem used by human traffickers in organizing trafficking, preparing, and involving victims, in order to evade airport controls: passing themselves off as mission ...