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  8 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Zhan Silu on his participation in the Synod of Bishops: “The Pope was very benevolent towards us”
  Mindong (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope "wanted us two bishops to go to his private chapel to concelebrate. Halfway through the Mass, he asked me to read the Gospel of the day in Chinese" ...
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  8 November 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Another step towards the beatification of Akash Bashir: "spiritual miracles of conversion" are taking place Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Pakistan is delighted that the Vatican Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has confirmed the validity of the diocesan investigation for the beatification and canonization ...
• 7 November 2024
  VATICAN - Appointment of Head of Office of the Dicastery for Evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Sergio Bertocchi, of the clergy of the Diocese of Bergamo, as Head of the Office of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelization a ...
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  7 November 2024
  VATICAN - Appointment of the Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 7, 2024, the Holy Father, appointed as Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, in the Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches, the Rev. Msgr ...
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  7 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Rector of the minor Seminary is free: he had offered himself as a hostage in exchange for two students Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Thomas Oyode, the rector of the minor seminary in Agenegabode in the Etsako East district of Edo State in southern Nigeria, who was kidnapped on Sunday 27 October, is free. After eleven day ...
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  7 November 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Comboni community in the suburbs of Cali: between drugs, poverty and global warming Cali (Agenzia Fides) – “I think that, in an environment where everyone feels despised, it is good news to find a priest who is not ashamed to sit next to them and listen to them.” This is what Father Franco Nascimb ...
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  7 November 2024
  MIDDLE EAST/LEBANON - Maronite bishops call for an end to Israeli aggression Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite bishops gathered in Bkerké for their monthly meeting chaired by Patriarch Béchara Raï. The meeting discussed several topics, including the humanitarian consequences of the ongoin ...
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  7 November 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Air pollution: religious communities launch initiatives to protect the "common home" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Religious communities of all faiths want to actively contribute to combating the problem of air pollution and smog. With air pollution reaching extremely high levels (three times higher than the ...
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  6 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: “The Holy Spirit teaches us to pray” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - What is prayer? How should we pray? Pope Francis answers these questions during today's general audience in St. Peter's Square. First, however, Pope Francis paused in prayer before the ...
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  6 November 2024
  Cardinal Tagle: "Dilexit nos" makes the Christological sources of Pope Francis' social Encyclicals more explicit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We report the interview given to Vatican media by the Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization on the Encyclical Dilexit nos By Alessandro Gisotti "It could be said that I am m ...
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  6 November 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The population of Indonesian Papua opposes the new "Transmigrasi" Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous population of West Papua rejects the plan of the new Indonesian government to resume the program of internal migration of people from Indonesian islands (mainly Java) to Papua. T ...
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  6 November 2024
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops raise alarm over instability in the country: "The situation is chaotic and worrying" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we will always defend the life of all, especially that of the weakest," say the Bolivian bishops in light of the current national crisis between former President Evo Morales, who w ...
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  6 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped in Imo State, southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. He is Fr Emmanuel Azubuike. The priest, who works in the parish of St. Theresa, Obollo, Isiala Mbano, in the southern state of Imo, was kidnapped on ...
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  5 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Four soldiers sentenced to death for looting a parish Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Four Congolese soldiers were sentenced to death on October 31 by a military court in Butembo, North Kivu (east of the Democratic Republic of Congo). The four soldiers are accused of looting the ...
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  5 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Post-election tensions rise: opposition leader denounces assassination attempt Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Post-election tensions have risen in Mozambique following the controversial victory of FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), in power since 1975, in the elections of October 9 (see Fides, 24/10/ ...