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  1 November 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The "forgotten" war in Sudan and its external sponsors Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There are recent developments in one of the many "forgotten conflicts" in Sudan between the Regular Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unde ...
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  31 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Minna: "We live in difficult times, but we remain strong in prayer. Nobody wants a bloody revolution" Minna (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country continues to experience situations of conflict, both in the Church and in society in general", writes the Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, Luka Sylvester Gopep, to Fides regarding the escal ...
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  31 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped on Sunday, October 29 released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Thaddeus Tarhembe, the priest kidnapped in the rectory of the parish of Saint Anne in the State of Taraba (north-eastern Nigeria) in the early hours of Sunday 29 October (see Fides, 30/10/2 ...
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  31 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Hamas and the Christians by Gianni Valente Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - In the Gaza Strip, before the atrocities committed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on October 7 and before the Israeli bombing began, there were just over a thousand Christians liv ...
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  31 October 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Political unrest and blockades: Catholic cathedral damaged Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Government and opposition politicians should engage in dialogue and not fuel political instability. Conflict and violence are not good for the country. We want peace. Our people have the right to ...
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  30 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "The importance to recognize and see the other as a human being": Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam, where Israelis and Palestinians live together Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in traumatic times of war. Everyone at our School for Peace is shocked and saddened by the incomprehensible atrocities committed by Hamas and the lethal and vengeful response tha ...
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  30 October 2023
  AFRICA/MAROCCO - A bell tower next to a minaret: Marrakech, workshop of fraternity Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - "Imam, rabbi, Franciscan, Muslim and Christian friends, all gathered in moments of sharing about peace, prayer and long silences: moments full of responsibility. And mystery..." This is the de ...
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  30 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bandits attack rectory and kidnap parish priest in north-east Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) -Kidnappings of priests in Nigeria do not stop. The priest, Rev. Fr. Thaddeus Tarhembe, was abducted from his parish in Ibi Local Council of Taraba State (north-eastern Nigeria) in the early hours o ...
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  29 October 2023
  VATICAN - “The Church is mission”. The Synod Report reaffirms the missionary dynamism of the synodal Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Rather than saying that the Church has a mission, we affirm that the Church is mission. ‘As the Father has sent me, so I send you’ (Jn 20:21)". Thus begins the eighth Chapter of the "Synthesis ...
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  28 October 2023
  ASIA/LAOS - "Now that I am Bishop, I still have a lot to learn". The 'on the move' mission of the Vicar Apostolic of Paksè by Paolo Affatato Paksè (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary spirit, the missionary practice of going to the villages and visiting Catholic families, or talking about Jesus to those who do not know him, with joy in the he ...
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  28 October 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - "The catastrophic security situation in Libya opens the door to terrorism in the Sahel region" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The increasing spread of armed groups that are causing fear and terror throughout the Sahel region is a consequence of the catastrophic security situation in Libya. And the label 'jihadists' sh ...
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  27 October 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Caritas Freetown calls for “immediate action” against the spread of synthetic marijuana Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "Immediate action" against the spread of Kush, a synthetic marijuana that has dangerous health effects among young people. This is what Caritas Freetown in Sierra Leone is asking for. “The wi ...
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  27 October 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The pastoral service of three new priests in Taunggyi, a territory where life is in danger due to the civil war Taunggyi (Agenzia Fides) - For the three new Burmese Jesuit priests of the archdiocese of Taunggyi, a city in central Myanmar, which is part of the territory of Shan State, the task of serving the community and caring fo ...
• 27 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Khrist Premalaya" Regional Philosophate Seminary in the archdiocese of Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 11, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the rev. Father Thomam Peringalloor, SVD, 68 (2/11/1955) and 39 years of pries ...
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  27 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Sister Giovanna, Comboni missionary in the land of Jesus: "join us in prayer" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "You know very well the reality we are experiencing. The war has been going on since October 7: bombings by Israel on Gaza following Hamas attacks (see Fides, 8/10/2023). Here in Jerusalem, th ...