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  18 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese academics and clergy discuss the “Historical legacy of the 2024 Concilium Sinense and the Guidelines of China-Vatican Relations” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – “The Historical Legacy of the 2024 Concilium Sinense and the Guidelines of China-Vatican Relations”, is the title of the academic seminar organized in Beijing as part of the celebrations f ...
• 18 November 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - With the death of “Untaani” Compaoré, the Catholic Church loses a true spiritual guide Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – “Untaani” the man who creates unity in the name of God, this is the name given by the diocesan community of Fada N'Gourma to Jean Marie Untaani Compaoré, the first African bishop of t ...
• 18 November 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA- Bishops: "The President should sign the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We urge the President to give his assent to this Bill, which we believe aligns with the moral convictions of almost all Ghanaians." With these words, the Bishops of Ghana have called on President ...
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  18 November 2024
  EUROPE/POLAND - Szczytno mourns Lech Lachowicz, the elderly Polish priest murdered with an axe Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - A community in mourning gathered yesterday in the church of Saint Brother Albert in Szczytno, a city in northern Poland shocked by the death of Father Lech Lachowicz. The 72-year-old priest was a ...
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  18 November 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - "They do not leave us in peace." The story of Sister Hanane, who takes care of Shiites and Christians under the bombs by Pascale Rizk Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "We go out in the morning without knowing if we will return in the evening. And this is our daily reality." This is how Sister Hanane Youssef describes her daily life today in ...
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  17 November 2024
  AMERICA/USA - Archbishop Nappa to the representatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the USA: May gratitude be the source of your contribution to the mission of the Universal Church San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "We must begin by recognizing the extraordinary generosity of the universal Church towards the Church in the United States. Until 1908 the United States was considered a mission territory and t ...
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  16 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Chow: 'Sinicization' is an open game that also concerns the Church by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the current historical phase, the Catholic Church is called to confront the instances of "sinicization" supported by Xi Jinping's China, drawing inspiration also from the mi ...
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  16 November 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - President of the Bishops, CELAM expelled, regrets "the events that afflict the pilgrim Church in Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Sadness for "the events that afflict the pilgrim Church in Nicaragua". This is the message that CELAM, the Episcopal Council of Latin America and the Caribbean, addressed to Cardinal Leopoldo Jo ...
• 16 November 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - New Bishop of Embu: "Even in prison it is possible to meet the Lord" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Today, November 16, Peter Kimani Ndung'u, appointed Bishop of Embu on August 15 (see Fides 15/8/2024), will receive episcopal ordination in his diocese and thus take up his episcopal office. Bi ...
• 15 November 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Awasa, Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma, currently Vicar Delegate of the Apostolic Vicariate of Meki and Executive Director of the Diocesan Caritas, as Apostolic Vicar of ...
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  15 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Parolin at the conference on Matteo Ricci: "There is no contradiction between being Christian and authentically Chinese" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no contradiction between being Christian and authentically Chinese," said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, this morning at the conference "Matteo Ricci – A heritage of frien ...
• 15 November 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "People are losing trust in the government; we need to restore hope in Kenya" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are compelled to express our deep concern about the disturbing political climate in our country," say the Bishops of Kenya in a statement entitled "Let Us Restore Hope in Kenya", presented y ...
• 15 November 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops of Korea and Japan have been walking a common "synodal" path since 1996 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of a "synodal path" that responds to the needs of the people has united the Catholic bishops of Korea and Japan for almost thirty years. The bilateral meetings of the bishops of bot ...
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  15 November 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Our Lady of the Consolata: a missionary parish in Bogota Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Six African theology students of the Consolata Missionaries, the parish priest Fr. Naftaly Matogi (IMC) and the assistant parish priest Fr. José Lorenzo Gómez Sánchez (IMC) form the "Apostoli ...
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  14 November 2024
  EUROPE/SPAIN - In Cehegín, the funeral of Juan Antonio Llorente, the friar killed in the attack on the monastery of Santo Espíritu Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - In Cehegín, a city in the province of Murcia (Spain), the funeral of Brother Juan Antonio Llorente, a Franciscan of the Immaculate, was celebrated. He was killed in the monastery where he live ...