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  14 April 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nazareno Lanciotti, missionary and martyr, will be proclaimed Blessed São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – "We have come to kill you because you bother us too much." These were the last words Father Nazareno Lanciotti heard before he was shot dead in his rectory in Jauru, in the Brazilian state ...
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  14 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Assault on the Zamzam camp hosting more than 500,000 displaced people Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – “We have taken control of Zamzam to protect civilians and medical personnel and we are ready to receive convoys of humanitarian aid,” the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said ...
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  14 April 2025
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Medical support for people with disabilities or in situations of extreme poverty Foya (Agenzia Fides) - For some years now, the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, a remote strip of land in Liberia, with the formation of a charitable group, has begun to support the medical expenses of those who are u ...
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  14 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Palm Sunday and Holy Week among the rubble: “Christ is among the displaced” Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - In Mandalay, Palm Sunday was celebrated among the rubble “as a sign of resilience and Christian joy in the midst of devastation and suffering,” says Fr. John Kyaw Thu Ya, parish priest of O ...
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  14 April 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In war-torn Kivu the Bishop of Butembo-Beni urges the faithful not to lose faith Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We must never lose faith, whatever happens to us. Even when everything seems dark, God never abandons us,” urged Msgr. Melchisédech Sikuli Paluku, Bishop of Butembo-Beni, during Palm Su ...
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  13 April 2025
  VATICAN - Palm Sunday, the Pope: like Simon of Cyrene, he who carries the cross of Christ shares his redemptive love Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "Faced with the appalling injustice of evil, we never carry the cross of Christ in vain; on the contrary, it is the most tangible way for us to share in his redemptive love." Under a gray ...
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  12 April 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A journey of hope in the East of Bale Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "It all began when in Robe we saw how many people were fleeing the persistent drought in eastern Bale. Interested and concerned, we set out to find out what was happening there. We found an area wh ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India, and appointment of first metropolitan archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India, elevating the see of Calicut to a metropolitan Church and assigning to it as suffragans the diocese of Kannur and ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Dumka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Sonatan Kisku, until now vicar general of the diocese of Dumka and parish priest of Saint Mary’s, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Dumka, I ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Simla and Chandigarh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Simla and Chandigarh, India, presented by Bishop Ignatius Loyola Ivan Mascarenhas. The Holy Father has ...
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  12 April 2025
  Cardinal Parolin: A Christian perspective on the encounter between the Gospel and China by Cardinal Pietro Parolin* Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish Cardinal Pietro Parolin's preface to the book by the missionary and priest Antonio Sergianni, "The journey of the Gospel in China. In the footsteps ...
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  11 April 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Farewell to Bishop René Dupont. 71 years on mission "With joy and without shame" by Pascale Rizk Andong (Agenzia Fides) – René-Marie Albert Dupont, Bishop Emeritus of Andong and missionary of the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris for 71 years in South Korea, has died at the age of 96. His p ...
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  11 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - First hearing before the International Criminal Court on allegations of genocide in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The government of the United Arab Emirates described as a "campaign of lies and slander" the accusations made yesterday, April 10, by the Sudanese government at the first hearing before the I ...
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  11 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic Church in Chin State destroyed by airstrike Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - Airstrikes by the Burmese army have destroyed the Catholic Church of Christ the King in the town of Falam, in the Diocese of Hakha, part of the Burmese state of Chin, in northwestern Myanmar. Acco ...
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  10 April 2025
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - “We have to be a bit like children”: Sister Irena’s mission in the villages around Almaty Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "First saints, then missionaries," Saint Giuseppe Allamano, founder of the Congregations of the Consolata Missionaries and Missionary Sisters, used to say. And that is the first gift we should as ...