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  20 December 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Advent of charity from Bangladeshi Catholics, to share the joy of Christmas Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "I have received a gift from the Catholic community. I am grateful. I will share it at Christmas with my grandchildren," says Maria Gomes, a 65-year-old widow, one of the beneficiaries of the Holy ...
• 20 December 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Thailand Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the first Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed, Father Pe ...
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  20 December 2024
  In Rome, in the Holy Land and throughout the World. Vademecum to obtain Indulgences in the Jubilee Year 2025 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In 2025, the Catholic Church will once again celebrate the Jubilee Year, a special time of remission and forgiveness, designed as an opportunity to intensely experience heali ...
• 19 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fear and displacement: Christmas marked by conflict by Paolo Affatato Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are preparing for Christmas, we are preparing for the Holy Year, but the joy among the faithful is no longer the same as in the past. The wounds of the civil war, the su ...
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  19 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Supporting the missionary works of the universal Church is an expression of the encounter with Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting the missionary and charitable works of the universal Church is a concrete expression" of the "authentic and personal encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we must proclaim ...
• 19 December 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The DRC's complaint against Apple raises the issue of ethics in international trade Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Kinshasa has filed a lawsuit against Apple in France and Belgium, accusing the company of using components derived from minerals illegally mined in the Democratic Republic of ...
• 19 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), on November 13, 2024, appointed Fr. Stephen C ...
• 19 December 2024
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fire in the Parliament after weeks of tension Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, December 18, a fire broke out in the Parliament building in Monrovia. The flames, whose origin is currently unclear, were only extinguished with difficulty by the firefighters. The P ...
• 19 December 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Illegality, corruption and abuse: gender-based violence is on the rise Port-au- Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The current security crisis in the country is leading to a dramatic increase in violence against women on the Caribbean island. According to a recent United Nations report, several l ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN - Beatification process for Eduard Profittlich: Pope Francis recognizes his death as martyrdom Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the beatification process for the German-born Jesuit missionary and titular archbishop of Hadrianopolis, Eduard Profittlich, who died in 1942 in the Soviet detention camp in Kiro ...
• 18 December 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND SOLOMON ISLANDS - Appointment of the New National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), has appointed Rev. Fr. Christian Siel ...
• 18 December 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso Vaticano City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, presented by Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouédraogo. The ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: sinners and "foreign" women among the ancestors of Jesus, because Christ's mission is for everyone Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world of the Gentiles ... ...
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  18 December 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Expansion of the Catholic Hospital in Hyderabad: at the service of the unborn and the terminally ill Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Faithful to its mission of serving the unborn and the terminally ill through palliative care and pain relief, the Catholic Hospital of St. Elizabeth, which legally belongs to the Catholic Dioc ...
• 18 December 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: M23 continues to advance Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 rebel movement continues to advance in the Lubero area, in the province of North Kivu (in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo) (see Fides, 16/12/2024). The guerrilla movement ...