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• 1 June 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resolve local conflicts to eliminate fertile ground for jihadist groups present on the borders Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Attention must be paid to terrorist threats from neighboring states such as Burkina Faso, Togo and the Ivory Coast, as requested by the Ghana Bishops' Conference (GCBC). The appeal was launched o ...
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  1 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - No "truce" really stops weapons. Bombings also block humanitarian aid Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese army has suspended negotiations, under the aegis of the United States and Saudi Arabia, aimed at guaranteeing a truce that should have allowed the delivery of humanitarian aid in t ...
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  1 June 2023
  VATICAN - Archbishop Nappa: "Charism, evangelization, synodality" the "traits" of the path of the Pontifical Mission Societies Ciampino (Agenzia Fides) - Charism, evangelization and synodality. These are, according to Archbishop Emilio Nappa, Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  31 May 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis proposes again the apostolic passion of Matteo Ricci: mission consists in witnessing with one's life what one proclaims Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, who left Macerata and arrived in China in 1582 "to free - as he himself wrote - unhappy souls from eternal perdition", still represents "a great example of ...
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  31 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The "Marian month" ends with pilgrimages and visits to shrines Ende (Agenzia Fides) - More than 15,000 pilgrims have visited the cave dedicated to Mary, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in Mbay, in the Archdiocese of Ende, on the island of Flores, considered "the Catholic heart of Indone ...
• 31 May 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "Peace is a gift from God, but it is also the fruit of human effort", recalls Cardinal Ouédraogo, in the country devastated by violence Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 40 people died last weekend in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso. This was announced by the local authorities, according to which 20 members of the voluntary militias supporting the ...
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  31 May 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nuns who ran an educational center expelled. "the Church is in the hands of the Holy Spirit" Jinotega (Agenzia Fides) - The sisters of the Hijas de Santa Luisa de Marillac Congregation had recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Santa Luisa de Marillac Technical Institute, in Yalí, Jinot ...
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  30 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young Christian sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy through WhatsApp Bahawalpur (Agenzia Fides) - Nouman Asghar, a 24-year-old Christian from the city of Bahawalpur, in Punjab, was sentenced to death for blasphemy today, May 30, by a court of first instance in Bahawalpur. The young man ha ...
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  30 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Ceasefire extended for another five days: Numerous violations across the country Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into force on May 22nd and was scheduled to last for seven days, has been extended for anoth ...
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  30 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Freeing "modern slaves" from their chains: the mission of a parish priest in Punjab by Paolo Affatato Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian families are trapped in the web of "slave labour" in the clay factories scattered in the countryside of Pakistani Punjab. Each of them includes young people, ...
• 30 May 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - The Episcopal Conference: "Enough of the blood and tears of Chadians" N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The blood and tears of Chadians have shed enough and must stop" warn the Bishops of Chad in a memorandum addressed to the President of the Transition, Acting Head of State, Mahamat Idriss Dé ...
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  30 May 2023
  VATICAN - From May 31 to June 6, the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Ciampino (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) opens tomorrow, Wednesday, May 31, and its work will continue until June 6. The National Directors of the PMS from all c ...
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  29 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Tense situation in Papua: Catholics are trying to resolve the conflict Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - "The conflict in the Indonesian Papua region is destined to increase in intensity, due to the growing deployment of members of the Indonesian security forces, after the case of the kidnapping o ...
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  29 May 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan remains in power. Bishop Bizzeti: the inadequacy of certain Western analyzes emerges Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The final results of the elections in Turkey, with the victory of the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also highlight "the inadequacy of Western media tools in presenting the Turkish sit ...
• 29 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Precarious security situation: Another Catholic priest kidnapped in Imo State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the kidnapping of Father Kingsley Maduka and his subsequent release (see Fides, 22/5/2023), the kidnapping of another Catholic priest in Imo State (south-eastern Nigeria) is causing c ...