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  28 March 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Society of the Divine Word missionaries commemorate 150 years of their founding, as a sign of the “Missio Dei” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In the Gospel accounts, the disciples who first encounter the risen Jesus do not recognize him immediately: Mary Magdalene mistakes him for the gardener, Peter and the other Apostles who see him ...
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  28 March 2025
  VATICAN - The Missionary Exhibition in the Vatican Gardens, which 100 years ago introduced the world to the “Church in a state of mission” by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Books, black and white photographs, artifacts from deserts and tropical rainforests. Letters with testimonies and accounts of excursions to impenetrable and inaccessi ...
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  28 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A society that gives space to God, that seeks to be guided by Him is a society that is a sign of hope La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - "Social pastoral care is a fundamental dimension of the Church's mission, which seeks to make the Kingdom of God present amidst the difficulties and challenges of daily life," said Dante Braida ...
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  27 March 2025
  AFRICA/MALI - Operation Sounkalo Solidarité: solidarity, sharing, social cohesion during Ramadan and Lent Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Since March 1, the official start of Ramadan, thousands of people of all faiths have gathered in various locations across the country to share food, which is distributed every afternoon at 6:00 p ...
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  27 March 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In a nation divided over Duterte's judicial affair, the Church preaches and works for unity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In a country torn apart by the trial of former President Rodrigo Duterte, indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity committed during the "war on drugs" he wag ...
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  27 March 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Escalation in South Sudan: Christian churches appeal for a peaceful solution Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in South Sudan is escalating: Yesterday, March 26, Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest, further escalating the renewed clashes between him and President Salva Kii ...
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  27 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father John Ubaechu, kidnapped on Sunday 23 March, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerian priest John Ubaechu, kidnapped on Sunday, March 23, has been released (see Fides, 24/3/2025). This was announced yesterday, March 26, by the Archdiocese of Owerri in a statement signed by ...
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  26 March 2025
  GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: "mission springs precisely from the experience of feeling loved" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "To go and proclaim the Gospel, we first need to set down the burden of our history at the feet of the Lord, to consign to Him the weight of our past. Only reconciled people can bring the ...
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  26 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Four new priests ordained in Ningbo on the Feast of the Annunciation Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Ningbo, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, celebrated the ordination of four new priests on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord. The diocesan priests, according ...
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  26 March 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Archbishop Nappa visits Nagasaki and Tokyo: safeguarding the memory of the Japanese martyrs Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, Archbishop Emilio Nappa, Secretary of the Governorate of the Vatican City and former President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, began his visit to Nagasaki, Japan, at Nishizaka Hill ...
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  26 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop Kukah: "The democratization of development leads to the development of democracy" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Democracy is a progressive development. Democracy gives one the opportunity to prove one's failures and gives one a greater chance to correct past mistakes," said Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of ...
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  26 March 2025
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Bishops invite “to work together to ensure that the vote on October 31 takes place peacefully” Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Fair, transparent, inclusive, and peaceful elections." This is the wish of the bishops of Ivory Coast for the presidential elections on October 31. " Ivory Coast is at a crucial turning point ...
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  26 March 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop Sumlut Gam: Cathedral in Banmaw "miraculously remains standing" after the fire Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The majestic building of Banmaw Cathedral, in Kachin State, northern Burma, set on fire in recent days by the Burmese army (see Fides, 17/3/2025) “is still there, miraculously standing,” the ...
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  26 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two people involved in the kidnapping and murder of Father Sylvester Okechukwu have been arrested Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two people suspected of being involved in the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Father Sylvester Okechukwu, the priest kidnapped and murdered in Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria, have been arrest ...
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  25 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Lent in Chinese Catholic communities: pilgrimages, vocational testimonies, and scrutiny for catechumens preparing to receive Baptism Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – ‘Scrutiny’ for catechumens preparing to receive Baptism, along with pilgrimages, works of charity, and sharing: this is how many Chinese Catholic communities intensely experienced the thir ...