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  27 February 2025
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Ethiopian Prime Minister visits Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Mogadishu today, February 27, where he was received at the airport by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohammed. This is an important step towards ...
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  27 February 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Puja ritual in a Buddhist temple dedicated to Pope Francis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Buddhist monks of a temple in the capital Colombo spontaneously gathered for a special "Puja" ritual to pray for the health of Pope Francis and his speedy recovery. During the Puja ritual, t ...
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  26 February 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Let us learn to "detect" the presence of God in smallness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Learn to "detect" the presence of God in smallness, as did the two elders of the Temple, Simeon and Anna, who thanks to their "clear eyes" were "capable of seeing beyond appearances" and re ...
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  26 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - M23 rebels loot 10 tons of strategic minerals from a plant in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 10 tons of strategic minerals were taken by M23 militiamen from a plant in the Congolese province of South Kivu. This is what was reported by the "Thematic Working Group on Mining and ...
• 26 February 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Tabora Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Josaphat Jackson Bududu, of the metropolitan archdiocese of Tabora, Tanzania, until now vicar for consecrated life and parish priest of Saint Jose ...
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  26 February 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cost of living and fight against crime: the population's expectations from the new government Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Sri Lanka are waiting for a change in the new government, especially on the economic level, with measures that reduce the cost of living and lower taxes on essential goods such as ...
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  26 February 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - War in Sudan continues: use of the air force, including drones, is becoming increasingly important Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest information from the authorities, 46 people were killed in the crash of a military transport plane in Omdurman, the "sister city" of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Among ...
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  25 February 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Missionaries appeal for ceasefire, humanitarian aid and arms embargo in the ongoing war Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Twelve million displaced people and tens of thousands of victims have been reported since the conflict broke out in April 2022 between the army on the one hand and the paramilitaries on the oth ...
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  25 February 2025
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "May the abolition of the death penalty be a first step towards promoting the culture of life in prisons" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - With the abolition of the death penalty, Zimbabwe has taken a fundamental step towards aligning its laws with the fundamental Christian principle of "love your neighbour as yourself" (Mark 12:31) ...
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  25 February 2025
  VATICAN - Archbishop Nappa appointed Secretary General of the Governorate of the Vatican City State Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Emilio Nappa as the new Secretary General of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, with effect from 1 March 2025. This was announced today by the ...
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  25 February 2025
  Theology, geopolitics and economics come together in an innovative course of studies on Asia at the Urbaniana University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The close links between the cultures, religions and societies of Asia and how they relate to the rest of the planet will be the focus of a new course called "Transregional Asian Studies" created at ...
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  25 February 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - United in prayer and hope: meeting and prayer in Taizé style for the Pope Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful of Phnom Penh are gathering in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in the Cambodian capital for prayer and Eucharistic adoration in the style of the Taizé community, to ...
• 25 February 2025
  VATICAN - Appointment of secretaries-general of the Governorate of Vatican City State Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, modifying the Fundamental Law of Vatican City State, of 13 May 2023, and Law no. CCLXXIV on the Governance of Vatican City State, of 25 November 2018, has appointed the fol ...
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  25 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Sister Ana, a missionary among young Filipinos: this is how we help them discover their talents by Pascale Rizk San Carlos (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago the seventh edition of the "Asian Mission" initiative ended, which this year had the motto "Made for a mission. Made for peace". The event brought together 5 ...
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  24 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “We are grateful that we are still alive”: Witnesses report from Bukavu one week after the conquest by the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to be alive", this is the prevailing mood in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was taken by th ...