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• 7 January 2025
  AMERICA/NETHERLANDS ANTILLES - Resignation of bishop of Willemstad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, presented by Bishop Luigi Antonio Secco, S.D.B. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, ...
• 7 January 2025
  EUROPE/GREECE - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - On December 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Father Lorenzo ...
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  7 January 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Further tensions: expectations for the return of the opposition candidate Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "If they kill my brothers, I will be there so they can do whatever they want with me". With these words, Venâncio Mondlane, the candidate of the opposition party who claims to have won the presi ...
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  6 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on the Solemnity of Epiphany: “God seeks us even before we ask” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us imitate the shepherds and the Magi and "recognize Jesus close by, in the poor, in the Eucharist, in the abandoned, in our brother, in our sister", said Pope Francis, during the Angel ...
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  6 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla, an Italian-born religious sister, as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the first woman ...
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  4 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Puntland: New leaders emerge as fight against violence by armed groups continues by Gianluca Frinchillucci Garowe (Agenzia Fides) - The semi-autonomous region of Puntland, in northeastern Somalia, is experiencing a critical phase due to the increase in violence linked to jihadist armed groups aff ...
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  3 January 2025
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers' visit to Rome and Mass with Pope Francis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Star Singers from Switzerland has concluded their visit to Rome. They represented more than 10,000 children and young people, together with about 2,000 adult volunteers, ...
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  3 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Sister Esther, North Korean youth and the (silent) work for reconciliation by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was a "December horribilis” for South Korea. Amidst political turmoil and lives lost in the latest plane crash, the clouds of sadness and pain do not seem to leave the sky ...
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  3 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Pain and dismay in the Archdiocese of Owerri after the shooting in a church that caused the death of a young man Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri highly regrets the shooting incident that took place on the eve of the New Year at the premises of St. Columba's Catholic Church Amaimo, leading to the death of ...
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  2 January 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Patriarch Yohanna X extends his hand to Syria's new political leaders: "our Cross will remain embracing the Crescent of tolerance" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We extend our hand to work with you to build the new Syria, and we are waiting for Mr. Al-Sharaa and his new administration to stretch out their hand to us in turn", said Yohanna X, Greek-Orth ...
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  2 January 2025
  AFRICA/MALI - Bamako accuses Algeria of complicity with terrorist groups active on its territory Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Malian government has expressed “its deep concern at the persistence, on the part of some Algerian authorities, of continuous acts of interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of ...
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  2 January 2025
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Zambian President thanks the Church for supporting his country's debt restructuring efforts Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Forgive us our trespasses and grant us your peace". This is the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 58th World Day of Peace celebrated yesterday, January 1, 2025. And it is precisely to the rol ...
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  1 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Christ was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christ Jesus "was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us". On the day when the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, Pope F ...
• 1 January 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation and succession of the Bishop of Cân Tho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Cân Tho (Vietnam), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Stephanus Tri Buu Thiên. He is succeeded by His Exc ...
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  1 January 2025
  WORLD DAY OF PEACE - Disarming words by Mauro Armanino* Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - In the conclusion of his captivity diary "Chains of Freedom", his friend and confrere Pier Luigi Maccalli invites us to "disarm words". Two years of captivity in the desert ...