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  23 February 2025
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - The Pope hospitalized at the Gemelli Hospital asks for prayers and carries the pain of the world in his heart Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis is hospitalized at the Gemelli hospital in Rome with the diagnosis of bilateral pneumonia. The medical bulletin released yesterday evening, Saturday 22 February, spoke of a "re ...
• 22 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGER - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Maradi Maradi (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Maradi, Niger, presented by Bishop Ambroise Ouédraogo. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Ignat ...
• 22 February 2025
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Dakar Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Dakar, Senegal, presented by Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye. The Holy Father has appointed Bisho ...
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  22 February 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In the Jubilee Year, Catholics entrust themselves to the intercession of Cardinal Stephen Kim, Servant of God Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of people - up to 800 a day - come every day to the Catholic cemetery of Yogin, a city south of Seoul, to visit the tomb of Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922-2009), "Servant of God" and ...
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  22 February 2025
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The first intercontinental meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Asia and Oceania is currently taking place in Sydney Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, representatives of the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Asia and Oceania are meeting for an intercontinental meeting. The meeting, which is currently ...
• 21 February 2025
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 9, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization - Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches - appointed Msgr. Carlos ...
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  21 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Beheaded bodies of 70 people found in a Protestant church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70 bodies, including women, children and the elderly, were discovered on February 14 in a church of the Evangelical and Baptist Center of Congo and Africa (CEBCEA) in Kasanga, near th ...
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  21 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rwandan soldiers and M23 militiamen disguised as Congolese soldiers Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The riots that precede the capture of the cities by the M23 are a constant", explains a local source in Bukavu to Fides, referring to what happened to Bishop Sébastien Joseph Muyengo Mulombe ...
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  21 February 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - In the Holy Year, the new “Good News” website launched in Bahasa Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the Holy Year of the Archdiocese of Jakarta coincide with the launch of the “Kabar Baik” (“Good News”) initiative. The newly created Catholic web platform is dedicate ...
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  21 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Uvira robbed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Uvira was robbed yesterday, February 20, according to a statement issued by the diocese of the city in South Kivu currently being conquered by the M23. "Together with Bishop Séb ...
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  20 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Chaplain and nuns prevent Bukavu prison from burning down completely Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is thanks to the chaplain and some nuns that the prison was not completely burned down," reports a source from the local Church in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese province of South Kiv ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem back Armenian Patriarchate in the face of threat of confiscation of Church property Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - " If one member suffers, all suffer together", say the Patriarchs and Heads of the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, quoting St. Paul from the First Letter to the Corinthians, in order to maint ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - BJP woman as Delhi Chief Minister: raising expectations among Catholics New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Rekha Gupta (50) is the new Prime Minister of the Capital Territory of Delhi. The Indian People's Party (Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP), which also leads the federal government with Narendra Mod ...
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  20 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Damulak escapes after his kidnapping on February 6 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Cornelius Manzak Damulak, kidnapped on February 6 (see Fides, 7/2/2025), managed to escape from the hands of his kidnappers. According to the police in the State of Niger (central Nigeria) ...
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  19 February 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - From Gemelli Hospital the Pope continues his Magisterium: "The the poor and foreigners are invited among the first to meet God made child" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – While Pope Francis is being treated for bilateral pneumonia at the Agostino Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the Holy See Press Office has released the text of the catechism prepared by the Holy ...