News

• 19 December 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Illegality, corruption and abuse: gender-based violence is on the rise Port-au- Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The current security crisis in the country is leading to a dramatic increase in violence against women on the Caribbean island. According to a recent United Nations report, several l ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN - Beatification process for Eduard Profittlich: Pope Francis recognizes his death as martyrdom Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the beatification process for the German-born Jesuit missionary and titular archbishop of Hadrianopolis, Eduard Profittlich, who died in 1942 in the Soviet detention camp in Kiro ...
• 18 December 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND SOLOMON ISLANDS - Appointment of the New National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), has appointed Rev. Fr. Christian Siel ...
• 18 December 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso Vaticano City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, presented by Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouédraogo. The ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: sinners and "foreign" women among the ancestors of Jesus, because Christ's mission is for everyone Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world of the Gentiles ... ...
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  18 December 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Expansion of the Catholic Hospital in Hyderabad: at the service of the unborn and the terminally ill Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Faithful to its mission of serving the unborn and the terminally ill through palliative care and pain relief, the Catholic Hospital of St. Elizabeth, which legally belongs to the Catholic Dioc ...
• 18 December 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: M23 continues to advance Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 rebel movement continues to advance in the Lubero area, in the province of North Kivu (in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo) (see Fides, 16/12/2024). The guerrilla movement ...
• 18 December 2024
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops reject the reintroduction of mining San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the government's announcement of the reintroduction of mining in our country and therefore reiterate our position that we firmly reject the repeal of the law ba ...
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  17 December 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Papua: Bishop of Jayapura calls for displaced people to return for Christmas Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the Christmas celebrations on December 25, the Bishop of Jayapura, Yanuarius Teofilus Matopai You, calls for an end to the measures that prevent displaced Papuans from returning home ...
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  17 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese academics deepen their studies on the history of local Catholic dioceses Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - The "Primum Concilium Sinense", the fundamental assembly of the Catholic Church in China, held in Shanghai in 1924 under the leadership of the Pontifical Delegate Costantini (see Fides, 21/5/2 ...
• 17 December 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After Cyclone Chido: opposition suspends protests Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "If we know the truth about the election, we will move towards peace. If it is an electoral lie, we will plunge the country into the abyss, chaos and disorder," warned Venancio Mondlane, candidat ...
• 17 December 2024
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Research, reception, socialization and accompaniment: a beacon of hope and development for thousands of minors Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - “If everyone works together, it is possible to change the lives of the youngest for the better and create a better future for future generations, following the dream of Don Bosco”, is ...
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  16 December 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Yohanna X and the new Syria: "We Christians are not ‘guests’ in this land" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We are here in Damascus, on the street of Al-Marymiya, next to the Umayyad Mosque, and we tell the world that we, as Christians, come from the land of the Levant and the cedars of Lebanon... f ...
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  16 December 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Metropolitan Antonij Sevryuk visits the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia: “Symbol of hospitality and love” Manama (Agenzia Fides) – “Dialogue and cooperation are essential to building a more harmonious and peaceful world,” said the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of ...
• 16 December 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Peace summit in Luanda cancelled: fighting in the east of the country has flared up again Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The peace summit between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, mediated by Angola and scheduled to take place yesterday, Sunday 15 December, in the Angolan capital Luanda, has been cance ...