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• 5 January 2024
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The unknown plague of kidnappings in northern Cameroon Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) – Farmers, breeders, merchants and humanitarian workers. These are the preferred victims of kidnappings in northern Cameroon, where a true kidnapping economy has developed. Victims are selected ...
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  4 January 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to the Fraternité missionnaire des Cités: revive the missionary zeal of the early Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel of Christ is announced to the poor first, and the Nativity scene itself is the sign of this predilection. Pope Francis recalled this in the speech prepared for the meeting with a ...
• 4 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Manifesto" in view of the elections: Christians and Muslims for a society without discrimination Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - To promote and build a society in which cultural, ethnic and religious discrimination is eliminated both in the general mentality and - as is still the case - in the legislation and practice of s ...
• 4 January 2024
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Failed coup: After being indicted, former President Koroma receives political asylum in Nigeria Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - The former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, was indicted yesterday, January 3, on four counts, including treason, in connection with the failed coup of November 26 (see Fides, 28/1 ...
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  4 January 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite bishops sound the alarm: escalation of war has already affected Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The escalation of the war in the Middle East has hit Lebanon, exacerbating the risks of worsening a situation that has already become a kind of "time bomb" due to the presence of more than a mill ...
• 4 January 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Is the regional tour of the leader of the Rapid Support Forces a hope for peace? Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemeti or Hemedti), commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said he is ready for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire through talks with the Sudanese arm ...
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  4 January 2024
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - A Samizdat for the Council: Story of Sister Eliška and her “secret printing press” by Chiara Dommarco Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "He who does not know how to speak with love to his neighbor shows that he has not learned to speak to God in prayer". With these words, Sister Eliška Pretschnerová describes ...
• 3 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Peace and reconciliation invoked for the 1,400th time Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was March 7, 1995, when Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922 - 2009), then Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, launched the initiative to celebrate a special "Mass for ...
• 3 January 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Will the agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland cause a geopolitical earthquake? Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Will there be a geopolitical earthquake in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea? This is what one wonders after the historic agreement signed on January 1st between Ethiopian Prime Minister, A ...
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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Marriage “without dowry” and birth support: Chinese Catholic communities face new challenges for families Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the People's Republic of China, complex social processes linked to modernity call into question the reality of everyday family life and leading to worrying consequences such as low birth ...
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  3 January 2024
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Kenyan missionary found dead; Warao indigenous people call for "serious and credible" investigation Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A "serious and credible" investigation into the death of the missionary "with a big smile". This is what the Warao community from the Delta Amacuro state in eastern Venezuela is demanding in ord ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Mission in the villages of the Mentawai Islands: traveling by canoe and on foot along dangerous paths Padang (Agenzia Fides) - "Love your neighbor as yourself, together we will enjoy what he has given us" sing the young people of the indigenous communities in the remote areas of the Mentawai Islands, west of Sumatra, one ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The first Apostolic Prefecture entrusted to the Chinese clergy celebrates its 100th anniversary Puqi (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred years ago, thanks to the persistent efforts of Archbishop Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate to China, the Apostolic Prefecture of Puqi in Hubei Province was founded with the ...
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  2 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tshisekedi re-elected President but the opposition denounces irregularities in the election Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The outgoing President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Félix Tshisekedi, was re-elected, with 73.34% of the vote. This emerges from the official results announced by the Independent Electo ...
• 2 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Sokoto: "The Christmas massacres aim to destabilize Nigeria" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " Can we continue to believe that there is no long-term plan to take over the reins of power of the Nigerian state?" asks Matthew Hassan-Kukah, bishop of Sokoto in the aftermath of the massacres t ...