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• 8 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Jalpaiguri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Jalpaiguri, India, presented by Bishop Clement Tirkey. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fabi ...
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  8 February 2025
  Cardinal Bernardin Gantin and his Roman and missionary heart by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The main airport in Benin, his homeland, is named after Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, who died in 2008. Seventeen years after his death, it was the Bishops of the Episcopal Con ...
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  7 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "State of food emergency" while the country is in electoral campaign Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The state of “food emergency” declared by the Philippine government to counter the “rice crisis” - due to an “extraordinary” increase in the price of the country's staple food - “is ...
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  7 February 2025
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Jubilee in the Vicariate of Southern Arabia, Bishop Martinelli: our being a "Church of migrants" helps us to place all our hope in Christ Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Vicariate of Southern Arabia is a "Church of migrants", where the common experience of being migrant is to feel that there is always "something missing or lacking", starting ...
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  7 February 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops on the serious crisis in the country: "We must not let ourselves be deprived of hope" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We are seriously concerned about the requests for help and the needs of the populations and communities that are seriously affected," write the Colombian Bishops gathered in Bogota for the Plena ...
• 7 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped. Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was kidnapped yesterday morning, February 6. He is Fr. Cornellus Manzak Damulak, who studies at Veritas University in Abuja, the federal capital. According to the diocese of Shen ...
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  6 February 2025
  VATICAN - Appointment of Monsignor Sangalli, Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Most Reverend Monsignor Samuele Sangalli, Adjunct Secretary and Administrator of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New ...
• 6 February 2025
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Bishop of Tenkodogo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. David Koudougou, of the clergy of Tenkodogo, until now Diocesan Administrator of the same Diocese, as Bishop of the Diocese of Tenkodogo. His Exc. M ...
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  6 February 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Possible amnesty for political prisoners in Papua: Franciscans call for "initiative for a in-depth dialogue" Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) – In order to manage the armed conflict that has plagued the Indonesian region of West Papua for decades, the Indonesian government, led by the new President Prabowo Subianto, is considering an ...
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  6 February 2025
  VATICAN - Pope's Message for World Mission Day 2025: The Church prolongs the mission of Christ by offering life for all Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church, a community of Christ's missionary disciples", is today "sent to revive hope in a world over which dark shadows". "Despite facing persecutions, tribulations and difficulties, a ...
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  6 February 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Turning point in the Sudanese conflict? The Sudanese Armed Forces advance in Khartoum Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The advance of the SAF (Sudan Armed Forces) soldiers continues to regain control of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital disputed with the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) militiamen. The offensive of Ge ...
• 5 February 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Local health authorities forced to suspend HIV & AIDS program in Yambio: thousands of lives at risk Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – The suspension of the HIV & AIDS program in Yambio has placed thousands of lives at risk. Healthcare workers, patients, and local authorities are now calling for urgent intervention to restore ...
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  5 February 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: memory, mercy and promise are key words for the action of God in history Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Memory, mercy, promise: these are the three key words for those who, like the Virgin Mary, recognize the action of God the Father in the history of humanity, said Pope Francis during today' ...
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  5 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Food and “certain hope” for the poor, in the spirit of the Jubilee: the Capuchin mission in Tamil Nadu Dindigul (Agenzia Fides) – The “Assisi Free Food Support” initiative aims to offer food to the neediest students in rural areas, those who cannot afford even one meal a day, as well as to those who share this situa ...
• 5 February 2025
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Taipei Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Peter Chao Yung-Chi, of the clergy of the diocese of Chiayi, until now episcopal chancellor and parish priest of the Cathedral of Saint John in Chi ...