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  21 November 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - 2024 Year of the Eucharist: No “big celebrations” but a personal decision of faith and charity Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2024 will be the year of the Eucharist for the Catholic Church in Turkey. This was stated by the President of the Turkish Bishops' Conference and Archbishop of Izmir, Martin Kmetec, in a ...
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  21 November 2023
  EUROPE/POLAND: Archbishop Nappa thanks the Polish Church for its cooperation with the Pontifical Mission Societies in supporting world mission Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Having evangelization at heart, concrete commitment to missions through collaboration with the Pontifical Mission Societies are the focus of the speeches of the President of the Pontifical Missio ...
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  21 November 2023
  Hell in the Holy Land - a different perspective We receive and publish the following: by Raphael Schutz* The article "Hell in the Holy Land" by the Archbishop of Horms, Hama and Nabek (see Fides, 15/11/2023), focuses, as indicated in its title, on the current w ...
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  20 November 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese representative to the UN: religions can play a positive role in promoting peace and resolving conflicts New York (Agenzia Fides) - The People's Republic of China hopes that "religions can play a positive role in promoting peace and strengthening solidarity", in particular by taking an "active role" in the "political soluti ...
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  20 November 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Dancing "the tango of peace": an invitation to the youth of North Korea for WYD 2027 in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Building bridges for peace from youth was the focus of a special forum organized by the Reconciliation Committee of the Archdiocese of Seoul. More than 100 religious leaders, diplomats, academics ...
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  20 November 2023
  AFRICA/CONGO - President of the Bishops' Conference: "To climb the social ladder, you must join Freemasonry" Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "We are poor people living in a rich country," says the President of the Episcopal Conference of the Republic of Congo and Archbishop of Brazzaville, Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou, in an i ...
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  20 November 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - New Archbishop of Tabora, Rugambwa, thanks and honors outgoing Pastor in special ceremony Tabora (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the good God for His Providence and ask Him to keep us strong and faithful to the mission entrusted to us. May the Holy Spirit continue to guide and enlighten us in everything we plan t ...
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  18 November 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Bishop of Kandy: "Our Catholics are poor in material means but rich in faith" Kandy (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the difficulties that people are experiencing and the challenges that our country is facing, the strength that comes from above, the only one that gives true hope, sustains us and ...
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  18 November 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Missionary Congress calls for the canonization of those killed in odium fidei" and protection strategies from the violence affecting the ecclesial community Owerri (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful from the nine Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Nigerian Church took part in the V National Missionary Congress (NAMICON V) organized by t ...
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  17 November 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Archbishop of Beijing Li Shan: "Grateful to the Lord" for the visit to the Catholic community of Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Beijing, Joseph Li Shan, thanks the Lord for the intense days of meetings in the Diocese of Hong Kong, which he visited together with a delegation of collaborators from the ...
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  17 November 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Supreme Court returns historic college to Christian owners Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Gordon College in Rawalpindi, a prestigious and originally Christian educational institution founded in 1893, returns to the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan. The Supreme Court of ...
• 17 November 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Low voter turnout in the presidential election: “The population no longer knows what to do” Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Low voter turnout is the first important aspect of the first round of presidential elections that took place yesterday, November 16, in Madagascar. And there has also been controversy betwe ...
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  17 November 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Maccalli: “The World Day of the Poor reminds us of the presence of Christ in the victims of wars” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The World Day of the Poor 2023 is framed today by a truly disturbing scenario of wars. From my missionary vision, the relationship between war and poverty appears immediate," emphasizes Father Pi ...
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  17 November 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Celebration of the sacraments and blessings of couples: missionaries keep going despite the war Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Ukraine and the serious conflicts currently taking place in Gaza have overshadowed in all international media the equally bloody crisis that has devastated Sudan since April 15 (see ...
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  16 November 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Yang, "honored" to have participated in the Synod, quotes Confucius: "It is a pleasure to have friends coming from afar" by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao Rome (Agenzia Fides) - He feels "truly honored" to have been invited to take part in the October meeting of the Synod of Bishops in Rome and to have had "the opportunity to speak about ...