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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese bishops and the People of God pray for Pope Ratzinger: may he continue to intercede for the good of our Church from heaven Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude and joy, intertwined with an emotion full of consolation, prayers and grateful memory for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who left this earth on the last day of 2022. These are the sentim ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The faithful pray and remember Benedict XVI, "Pope of charity" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - As in many other Asian countries, the Catholics in the Philippines are praying for Benedict XVI, who died on the morning of December 31 at the age of 95. "I wish to thank all of you who accompani ...
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  2 January 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A new attack on a village in the north of the country claimed by ISIS-Mozambique Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – The attack on December 30 on the village of Namande, in the district of Muidumbe, province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, has been claimed by ISIS-Mozambique. The jihadists posted im ...
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  31 December 2022
  Like a beautiful sunny day. The "good life" of Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Now that the increasingly fragile figure of Joseph Ratzinger has left this earth, the Church is more alone on this earth. And Pope Francis is also more alone. The unparalleled p ...
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  31 December 2022
  Benedict XVI , "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" has returned to the Father’s House Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. His heart stopped beating at 9.34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Po ...
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  30 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - A special day of joy, faith and sharing in the Dosso mission Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Hand in hand we can achieve great things and bring joy to those around us". Beyond the clichés, Christmas is a difficult time in a Muslim country where Christians are a tiny minority. “However ...
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  30 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The re-birth of two of the three priests kidnapped before Christmas, in prayer for the third who is still kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two of the three priests kidnapped before Christmas, within five days, have been released within a day of each other. This is Father Mark Ojotu, from the diocese of Otukpo, in the eastern state of ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in the year 2022 by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 18 missionaries were killed in the world in 2022: 12 priests, 1 re ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - In grateful memory of the murdered missionaries. Witnesses, not "testimonial" by Gianni Valente This year, as at the end of each year, Fides Service remembers the names and lives of the missionaries and people involved in the pastoral work of the Catholic Church (priests, men and women religio ...
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  29 December 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - When the "Union of Chinese students" of the Pontifical Urbaniana University" paid tribute to Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate in China by Martha Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "This publication aims not only to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the arrival of Archbishop Celso Costantini as the first Apostolic Delegate in Beijing, but above all to rec ...
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  29 December 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - On January 1, 2023, all churches and places of worship in Beijing will be open Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Fides was recently informed that all churches and places of prayer in Beijing will be open on January 1, 2023. The faithful in Beijing are immensely grateful to the Lord for this decision. The ...
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  29 December 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Just as we have been united in sporting joy, we also face the different problems of society together Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope, for the coming year, to be able to renew attitudes and dispositions for democratic coexistence, leaving aside everything that increases divisions, endangers institutionalism and p ...
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  29 December 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - In prayer for the victims of the tragic accident of Ampasimanjeva: the Bishop of Farafangana immediately on the spot Moramanga (Agenzia Fides) - "It was Msgr. Fulgence Rabemahafaly who promptly communicated to me the news of the accident in which five people lost their lives", Msgr. Gaetano Di Pierro, bishop of Farafangana told Fides, ...
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  28 December 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Important agreement reached between the government and Tigrayan leaders Mekelle (Agenzia Fides) - The talks held in recent days between a delegation from Addis Ababa and the leadership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF) regarding the withdrawal of Eritrean forces from t ...
• 28 December 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the Bishop of Yamoussoukro, Joseph Kakou Aka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Joseph Kakou Aka, of the clergy of Grand-Bassam, currently Secretary General of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa as Bishop of the ...