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• 14 November 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Peaceful elections in Somaliland await final count Hargheisa (Agenzia Fides) - The counting of votes is underway for the presidential elections held yesterday, November 13, 2024, in Somaliland. A significant event for this region that declared itself independent from Som ...
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  14 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: The charity and patience of the martyrs in Christ unites the churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To be a saint does not only require human effort or personal commitment to sacrifice and renunciation. First of all, we must allow ourselves to be transformed by the power of God's love, w ...
• 14 November 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Schools at risk due to natural disasters: the commitment of Catholic institutions in education Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Up to 35 school days have been cancelled in some areas of the Philippines due to the effects of storms and other natural disasters in recent months, according to the Philippine Ministry of Educat ...
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  14 November 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In January, the process for the canonization of Sister Clare Crockett will begin Quito (Agenzia Fides) - On January 25, the cause for the Canonization of Sister Clare Crockett, an Irish missionary of the Congregation of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother (‘Siervas del Hogar de la Madre-S ...
• 14 November 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The war in Sudan continues amid general indifference Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There is a war on the ground and a media war. As in many conflicts today, even in El Fasher, the capital of the Sudanese region of North Darfur, the media plays a significant role in the events ...
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  13 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - November 14, 1877 - November 14, 2027: 150th anniversary of the 1st Missionary Expedition of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, November 14, 2024, the three-year preparation for the 150th anniversary of the 1st Missionary Expedition of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) begins. On this day, the many de ...
• 13 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence returns to Manipur Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - The outbreak of violence has flared up again in Manipur, the state in northeastern India that has been shaken for a year by inter-ethnic violence between indigenous groups of the Kuki ethnic gro ...
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  13 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - "Ad Iesum per Mariam". Pope Francis proposes Marian piety as a path to sanctification Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of the endless profusion of words said and written about God, the Church and holiness (that very few, or no-one, is able to read and understand fully) ", Our Lady "suggests a ...
• 13 November 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Catholic priests can no longer enter public hospitals for the Anointing of the Sick Managua (Agenzia Fides) - According to local press reports, Catholic priests will no longer be able to enter public hospitals to administer the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. After the expulsion of about a quart ...
• 13 November 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Instability and violence: "Missionaries literally risk their lives every day" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Continuing to work, to keep the hospital in Port-au-Prince open and to continue with all the activities we have in Haiti is becoming more and more difficult and the Missionaries literall ...
• 13 November 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appointment of the New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On October 25, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the first Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Rev. Fr. ...
• 13 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fourteen unarmed widows challenge armed groups and win by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Their husbands and even some of their children have been killed by armed groups who are terrorizing and emptying the villages in the Three Borders area, which includes Burki ...
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  12 November 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Strengthening ties between the Syro-Malabar Church and the Latin Church in the Arabian Peninsula Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia welcomes the visit of the Head of the Syro-Malabar Church, Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, who arrived in Kuwait on November 8, where he was rec ...
• 12 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Post-election protests continue and the number of dead rises Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims of clashes between demonstrators and police in Mozambique has risen to 30 since protests broke out three weeks ago over alleged fraud in the October 9 elections (see Fides, ...
• 12 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike is free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike, kidnapped on November 5 (see Fides, 6/11/2024), is free. According to the Diocese of Okigwe, Father Azubuike was "released in the early hours of November 11 ...