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  5 January 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Apostolic Vicar of Phom Penh: "Pope Benedict XVI encourages us to continue our mission" Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "Benedict XVI was a passionate seeker of God who worked to create harmony of religions and to build a more just world, in truth and with passion. We give thanks for the fruitful life of our b ...
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  5 January 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The ceasefire decree with ELN is suspended, talks will resume on January 23 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government has decided to suspend throughout the country the decree of December 31 regarding the bilateral ceasefire with the National Liberation Army (ELN). According to informatio ...
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  5 January 2023
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Star Singers' 2023 Campaign: "Supporting children, protecting children" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting children, protecting children - in Indonesia and in the world" is the motto with which the Star Singers, as part of their 65th awareness campaign, draw attention to girls and boys fro ...
• 5 January 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The population flees the Boucle du Mouhoun region, where Father Zerbo was murdered Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - In the area where Fr. Jacques Yaro Zerbo was assassinated on January 2 (see Fides, 3/1/2023), the local population is fleeing. In particular, since January 3, the inhabitants of the rural m ...
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  5 January 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Doctors with Africa Cuamm alongside refugees: "Tigray is in great need of aid but also many opportunities to change things" Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - It is still difficult to translate into concrete facts the conditions defined by the peace agreement and signed by Addis Ababa and Tigray (see Fides, 3/11/2022). The clashes have exhausted the p ...
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  5 January 2023
  VATICAN - Funeral of Benedict XVI: "we too have come with the fragrance of gratitude and the balm of hope" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of the Supreme Pontiff Emeritus Benedict XVI took place this morning in St. Peter's Square. Below is the complete text of the homily of Pope Francis, who presided over the funer ...
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  4 January 2023
  Joseph Ratzinger's gifts to Chinese Catholics by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - For the past 15 years, Catholics from all over the world have been invited to pray for their brothers and sisters in the Church in China once a year. Since then, the World Day of ...
• 4 January 2023
  AFRICA - The memory of Pope Benedict XVI of some African Bishops: "A great theologian of profound humanity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in different parts of Africa remembers Benedict XVI with masses and suffrage prayers. The Bishops of Uganda, who said they had a close relationship with Pope Benedict XVI, reme ...
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  4 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Al-Shabaab violence continues: "apostate militias and soldiers" in the crosshairs Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Violence is rampant in Somalia. The terrorist group Al-Shabaab has been leading a bloody insurrection against the federal government for 15 years. The rebel group claims responsibility for the ...
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  4 January 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A special "Year of the Family", with young people in mind Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2023, in the diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi will be a "Year of the Family": this was announced by Archbishop Joseh Arshad, inviting all the parishes, associations, movements and eccl ...
• 4 January 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Baroda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 31, 2022, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Sebastião Mascarenhas, S.F.X., former superior general of the Society of the Missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier ...
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  4 January 2023
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Benedict XVI to Missionary Childhood: "I see in you little collaborators at the service that the Pope provides to the Church and to the world" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - From September 7 to 9, 2007, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made an Apostolic Journey to Austria, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Mariazel Shrine. The national dir ...
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  4 January 2023
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Benedict XVI, "a Good Shepherd who takes care of a small distant flock" Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "We carry in our hearts a grateful memory of the interest and care of a Good Shepherd towards his small distant flock". This is the image of Benedict XVI that the Apostolic Administrator of Uzb ...
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  3 January 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catholic priest murdered in north-west of the country Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest has been killed in Burkina Faso. Father Jacques Yaro Zerbo was assassinated by unidentified armed men on Monday, January 2. According to a statement sent to Fides signed by ...
• 3 January 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The absence of war is not real peace. The country needs a real dialogue between the social and political partners" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe is experiencing a situation of "negative peace" says the Episcopal Commission for "Justice and Peace" of Zimbabwe, in its commentary on the message of Pope Francis for the World Day of P ...