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• 2 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two other Catholic priests kidnapped in southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two Catholic priests have been kidnapped in the state of Delta, in southern Nigeria. They are Father Chochos Kunav, who belongs to the congregation of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fath ...
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  2 May 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Iraqi government launches data collection to create a digital "database" on Christian communities Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – in order to create a digital "database" on Iraqi Christians, which photographs their distribution in areas of the country, their level of education, professional skills, marital status, the nu ...
• 29 April 2023
  OCEANIA/AMERICAN SAMOA - Resignation and succession of bishop of Samoa-Pago Pago, (American Samoa) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago, American Samoa, presented by Bishop Peter Hugh Brown, C.SS.R. He is succeeded by the ...
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  29 April 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Stephen Chow: love for our country is part of the Catholic Church’s teachings Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Love for our country "is part of the Catholic Church’s teachings", and in the current situation experienced by Catholics in mainland China and Hong Kong it is proper and convenient to pray ...
• 29 April 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Appointment of the Bishop of the Diocese of Kasana-Luweero Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Lawrence Mukasa, of the clergy of the diocese of Kiyinda-Mityana, until now vicar general, as bishop of the diocese of Kasana-Luweero, Ugand ...
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  28 April 2023
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Pope Francis to Hungarian Catholics: in the age of secularism, look to the faces of your Saints Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - "Answers come from the Lord and not from the world, from the tabernacle and not from the computer". In Budapest, in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Pope Francis shows the Church of Hungary the compass ...
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  28 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - On the 10th anniversary of his death: Diocese of Shanghai commemorates Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - More than a thousand people filled the cathedral of the diocese of Shanghai yesterday to commemorate Jesuit bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, who died ten years ago, on April 27, 2013. During the s ...
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  28 April 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A common project of national reconciliation: "hope is our courage!" Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask all of Brazilian society to build a vast project of reconciliation and peace, based on frank and open dialogue, which allows us to overcome what separates us, with the aim of guarantee ...
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  27 April 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - A possible permanent truce is expected in Juba after two weeks heavy gunfire and airstrikes Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The 72-hour truce established on April 21 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries to mark the end of Ramadan should expire tonight, April 27. H ...
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  27 April 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We continue to trust in the democratic path" exhort the Bishops, who announce a mission among the most abandoned Pilar (Agenzia Fides) - "What have we done with our homeland? Forty years after the recovery of democracy, we see with pain how many chances we have lost to build a flourishing and happy Argentina". The bitter observatio ...
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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New priestly ordinations for Chinese dioceses on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From the diocese of Beijing to the dioceses of Wanxian (now Wanzhou), Sanyuan (in Shaanxi Province) and Jilin, Chinese Catholic communities welcomed six new priests ordained, as is customary, on ...
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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Vietnamese Catholics, engaged in the mission in Korea for twenty years Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese Catholic faithful present in the Archdiocese of Seoul are migrants who have settled in Korea and are fully integrated into the local Church. In recent days they participated in a Eu ...
• 26 April 2023
  ASIA/TIMOR - Appointment of Bishop of Baucau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Leandro Maria Alves, of the clergy of Díli, until now parish priest of the Cathedral and executive secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Timor ...
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  26 April 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Mission Kumasi: meeting point of religion, royalty and diplomacy Kumasi (Agenzia Fides) - In 1880 Father Auguste Moreau, of the Society of African Missions (SMA), together with Father Eugene Murat, arrived in Elmina, the oldest European settlement in West Africa. According to chronol ...
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  26 April 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Election campaign: A country in search of peace, stability and development Dili (Agenzia Fides) - With a view to the general elections scheduled for May 21 in East Timor, the electoral campaign has begun in the youngest nation in Asia. The President of the Bishops' Conference of East Timor, Bis ...