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  23 November 2025
  VATICAN - Leo XIV: “great pain” and “deeply saddened” to learn of the kidnapping of priests, faithful, and students in Nigeria and Cameroon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I was deeply saddened to learn of the kidnapping of priests, faithful, and students in Nigeria and Cameroon. I feel great pain, above all for the many young men and women who have been ...
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  22 November 2025
  Concert in the Roman Church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami to support the iniatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A classical guitar concert was organized in a church in the heart of Rome to raise funds for projects supported by the Pontifical Mission Societies. The event took place on Saturday, November 22, ...
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  22 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Violence increases after Donald Trump announces military action to “protect Christians” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “It appears that there are people deliberately trying to plunge this country into chaos,” wrote Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos in an article published in the diocesan weekly news ...
• 22 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Rabindra Kumar Ranasingh, of the clergy of the metropolitan archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India, until now dean of the Khristo Jyoti Mahavid ...
• 22 November 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Larantuka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Larantuka, Indonesia, presented by Bishop Fransiskus Kopong Kung. The Holy Father has appointed the Re ...
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  22 November 2025
  ASIA - Pilgrims of Hope in Asia: the Missionary Congress of the Churches of the Continent Penang (Agenzia Fides) - An Asian missionary congress entitled “The Great Pilgrimage of Hope” will take place in Penang, Malaysia, from November 27 to 30. It is organized by the Office for Evangelization of the Feder ...
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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 ...