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23 May 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Bloody invisible hands fuel the conflict between Teke and Yaka"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The bloodthirsty invisible hands of Kinshasa" are at the origin of the conflict in the region of Kwamouth, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was affirmed by the Bisho ...
23 May 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - There is no respite for the Sudanese people: even the latest ceasefire attempt has failed
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, May 23, 2023, the truce between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into effect last night, was broken (see Fides, 22/5/2023). Army heli ...
23 May 2023
ASIAVIETNAM - Pilgrims return to La Vang shrine to 'cry out' to Mary
Hue (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not miss the opportunity to make a pilgrimage with your family or your community. This is the time to pray as a family. Come and visit and pray to Our Lady of La Vang": the agencies that organiz ...
23 May 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Launch of an "online" identity verification system for Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From today, May 23, 2023, the "online" verification system for the identity of Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious has also been launched. The same system, as Agenzia Fides reports (see Fi ...
23 May 2023
VATICAN - Catechists, "irreplaceable" missionaries. "Antiquum ministerium" and the apostolic work of the catechist in the orientations of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
by Stefano Lodigiani
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (today Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for the First Evangelization and New Particular Churches) has always ...
22 May 2023
AMERICA/HAITI - Corruption, kidnappings, insecurity:"the situation is unsustainable. The Church urges better living conditions for all"
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – There is chaos in Haiti. Its capital, Port-au-Prince in particular, has long been held hostage by armed gangs, all involved in criminal activities ranging from extortion to drug traffic ...
22 May 2023
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Jubilee Year in Karachi to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Archdiocese
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Spirit has accompanied the life of Christians in the territory of Karachi, a city in southern Pakistan, for 75 years. It has been 75 years in which the seed of the Gospel has been plant ...
22 May 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The kidnapping of a priest of the diocese of Okigwe is just the latest in a long line
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - On May 19, Father Kingsley Maduka, parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in Imo State, southeast Nigeria, was kidnapped. According to the chance ...
22 May 2023
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Laudato Sì Week: "share skills and creativity"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mass celebrated yesterday in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, the opening ceremony of "Laudato Sì Week" will take place today, May 22, at 10 am (local time), at the Dom Helder Câma ...
22 May 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - New ceasefire in the country, but the population is in desperate need of humanitarian aid
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy air raids that have hit the city of Omdurman and the northern part of Khartoum, which are located on the other side of the Nile from Khartoum, have further accelerated the need for a ...
22 May 2023
VATICAN - Among the new Venerables also the first Cameroonian "fidei donum" and a lay catechist from the Roman periphery
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 20, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to publish some Decrees, including those concerning the recognition of the heroic virtues of the Camer ...
20 May 2023
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessed Martin Benedict, "true priest and true doctor"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "True priest and true doctor". This is how Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, wanted to highlight the salvific mission of Venerable Martin Benedict, duri ...
20 May 2023
EUROPE/BELARUS - The new church of St. Francis of Assisi consecrated in Minsk
Minsk (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the consecration of the new parish church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Minsk, capital of Belarus, ended today, Saturday May 20, at the end of the morning. The solemn liturgical ...
20 May 2023
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian teenagers in prison for alleged blasphemy, a Muslim religious killed
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian teenagers from Lahore, Adil Baber, 18, and Simon Nadeem, 12, were arrested and charged with "blasphemy" under article 295-C of the Penal Code yesterday, May 19 , by order of the cou ...
20 May 2023
AFRICA/CHAD - "Where do the weapons come from?". The unsettling questions of Catholic associations and movements on the recent massacres in southern Chad
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand an immediate end to the massacres and greater security for the populations of the whole country", says the Union of Catholic Lay Movements and Associations of Chad (Umalect, which b ...
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