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• 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 ...
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  5 February 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - A debate in Parliament revives the question of the incompatibility between the Catholic faith and membership in Freemasonry Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Since the end of January, various statements have been made by bodies of the Catholic Church in Ghana, aimed at reaffirming the incompatibility between the Catholic faith and membership in Freem ...
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  4 February 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Cardinal Tagle: Dialogue as an antidote to distrust and hostility towards the religious dimension Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In a world where secularization is advancing more and more, "the only antidote to this is encounter and dialogue marked by friendship and respect between persons of different religious traditi ...
• 4 February 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 2, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Sister Justina ...
• 4 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Goma: "The ceasefire is holding, but people are afraid. Hospitals and refugees are the most worrying situations" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The city is calm, but people are still afraid to leave their homes because security is not fully guaranteed," reports Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, Bishop of Goma, speaking to Fides from the capital ...
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  4 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Letter for the Jubilee period: "There is hope for the nation" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope gives us courage and freedom," says the Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, distributed and read in churches on February 2 at the conclusion of the Ple ...
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  3 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Jubilee in exile: Catholics in Loikaw do not want to lose hope Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Displacement, hunger, cold, the fatigue of a daily life in refugee camps or in makeshift settlements in the forests cannot stop the Catholic faithful of Loikaw, a diocese in the Burmese state of ...
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  3 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “In Bukavu, young people are joining self-defense militias” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Bukavu is calm at the moment, but young people are flocking en masse to the recruitment centers of the self-defense groups of the so-called 'Wazalendo' militias," report Fides ...
• 3 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Poverty, food insecurity, inadequate health care and high cost of living Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the serious waves of violence that are affecting the Nigerian population, including kidnappings, clashes, terrorist attacks and brutal murders, there is poverty, food insecurity, in ...
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  3 February 2025
  RUSSIA - Jesuit Stephan Lipke consecrated bishop in Novosibirsk: "To do the good that is possible here and now" by Chiara Dommarco Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 2 February, the German Jesuit Father Stephan Lipke was ordained bishop in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk. Pope Francis appointed the Jes ...
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  2 February 2025
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis on the day of the Presentation of the Lord: “In Jesus dwells all the fullness of God” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “This always leaves us astounded: universal salvation concentrated in just one! Yes, because in Jesus dwells the fullness of God, of His Love”, said Pope Francis during the Sunday Ang ...
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  1 February 2025
  ASIA/LAOS - Farewell to Father Titus Banchong: "It was Jesus who was interested in me, not me in him" by Paolo Affatato Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - "I am ready for Jesus and will be his martyr if I am worthy and if he wants me. I now believe that the time is very close," wrote the Laotian priest Titus Banchong Thopan ...