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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 ...
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  31 December 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest and pharmacist shot dead in the street Nnewi (Agenzia Fides) - The Christmas season for the Catholic community in the Nigerian Diocese of Nnewi is marked by the murder of Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo, a Catholic priest and pharmacist, who was shot dead i ...
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  31 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - "Let the doors of all churches be open to all": Chinese Catholic communities begin the Jubilee of Hope with enthusiasm by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The evening of Saturday 28 December marked the official beginning of the Jubilee Year in the Diocese of Beijing. Priests, nuns and numerous lay people gathered in front of the p ...
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  30 December 2024
  Lives broken, lives donated. For the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Another year comes to an end. And this year too, the stories of Catholic missionaries and pastoral workers killed in the last 12 months, gathered and published by Fides Agency, give a glimpse of the ...
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  30 December 2024
  MISSIONARIES AND PASTORAL WORKERS KILLED IN 2024 Dossier by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – «We can ask them: “How did you manage to survive such trials?” And they will tell us what we heard in this passage from the Second Letter to the Corinthia ...
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  29 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - The Pope: Never remain with your head turned to your mobile phone, a family is happy only if it communicates Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Do you know why the Family of Nazareth is a model? Because it is a family that converses, that listens, that talks". This is what Pope Francis said this morning at St. Peter's Square fo ...
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  29 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The Jubilee of Hope has also begun in Shanghai Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn procession behind the Cross, the public reading of the papal Bull proclaiming the Jubilee, and the community recitation of the Jubilee prayer, the Chinese Catholic communities hav ...
• 28 December 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and succession of bishop of Jhansi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Jhansi, India, presented by Bishop Peter Parapullil. He is succeeded by Bishop Wilfred Gregory Moras, ...
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  28 December 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three missionaries of St. Columban among Korea's "heroes of independence" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean Ministry of Patriotic and Veterans Affairs has recognized three missionaries of the Society of St. Columban as "heroes of independence", highlighting them as examples of life and models ...
• 27 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Yangon, Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Raymond Wai Lin Htun, of the clergy of the diocese of Hpa-An, until now professor of canon law and economics and Saint Joseph’s Major Seminary i ...
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  27 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Christmas in a cave for refugees from Loikaw Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of Christmas took place this year in an extraordinary setting for the faithful Catholic refugees in the diocese of Loikaw, in eastern Myanmar. Gathered in the shelter of a cave in ...
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  27 December 2024
  AFRICA - “Collateral” effects: how African wars sabotage access to education for the new generations by Cosimo Graziani Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian emergency faced by millions of refugees and displaced people in Africa, resulting from the numerous conflicts on the continent, is becoming even more critic ...