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  26 October 2024
  AMERICA/USA - Presidential election: migration issue at the heart of the electoral campaign Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Sending away migrants, not giving them the opportunity to work, not welcoming migrants is a sin, it is grave," said Pope Francis at the press conference on the return flight to Rome on Septe ...
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  25 October 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Being witnesses of God and his beauty: thousands of faithful at the closing of the Holy Door of Awali Awali (Agenzia Fides) – “We celebrate Saint Aretha and Companions, we celebrate the conclusion of this jubilee year but above all we celebrate Jesus, the Risen One who opens the doors of Paradise revealing to us the ...
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  25 October 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Internal migrants: Catholic communities intervene for their material and spiritual needs New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - With over 450 million internal migrants (out of a population of 1.4 billion inhabitants), India is the scene of a phenomenon that has no equal in the world. Migrants, who move to other Indian ...
• 25 October 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of Coadjutor Bishop of Beijing Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Friday 25 October 2024, the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Matthew Zhen Zuebin, appointed by the Holy Father as coadjutor bishop of Beijing (Municipality of Beijing, China) on ...
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  25 October 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - “I do all things for the sake of the Gospel”: Matthew Zhen Xuebin new Coadjutor Bishop of Beijing by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – “I do all things for the sake of the Gospel”. With these words, Matthew Zhen Xuebin, the new Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Beijing, who was ordained today, Friday, O ...
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  25 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Legalizing abortion goes against the right to life enshrined in the Constitution” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “Rather than expanding access to safe termination of pregnancy by destroying life, the government should amplify its efforts towards educating the people on the imperatives of the values and d ...
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  24 October 2024
  VATICAN - New Encyclical by Pope Francis: “Dilexit nos” and Mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Dilexit nos". He loved us. Pope Francis’ Encyclical, published today, follows the golden thread of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in order to enter into the Mystery of divine love ...
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  24 October 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Presidential and parliamentary elections: Bishops denounce irregularities and violence Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "The post-election period was marked by a cowardly attack to silence, if not the truth, then at least democracy". With these words, the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique condemned the murder of ...
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  24 October 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Parishes welcome displaced people, hit by Typhoon Kristine Naga (Agenzia Fides) - More than 25 parishes and church facilities, such as the Basilica of Our Lady of Peñafrancia and the Ateneo de Naga University of the Archdiocese of Caceres, managed by the Jesuit Order, have open ...
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  24 October 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Violence spreads: hundreds killed in an armed attack in the village of Manni Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – For some time now, Burkina Faso has been confronted with several violence attacks by armed groups. In recent months the situation seems to be out of control. According to what was repo ...
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  23 October 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - National Human Rights Commission wants to mediate in the civil war Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The process of dialogue and mediation in the civil conflict in Myanmar is important and urgent for many reasons: to stop the violence against the civilian population, which is before everyone's ...
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  23 October 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The shooting down of a cargo plane sheds light on the international alliances that fuel the war Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The shooting down of a Russian cargo plane over Darfur (western Sudan) sheds light on the international alliances that are fueling the Sudanese civil war that broke out in April 2023. The plan ...
• 23 October 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Appointment of vicar apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Moacir Goulart de Figueredo, M.S.C., until now superior of the order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the province of Curitiba, as vicar ...
• 23 October 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Napo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Celmo Lazzari, C.S.I., until now vicar apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos, as vicar apostolic of the apostolic vicariate of Napo, Ecuador. Bishop Ce ...
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  23 October 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: marriage needs the support of the Holy Spirit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Never place a finger, never intervene, between husband and wife, says an Italian proverb. Yet, there is in fact a 'finger' to be placed between husband and wife, the 'finger of God': the H ...