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• 11 January 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Battaglia appointed Member of the Dicastery for Evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples, as Member of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the first Evangelization and the New Part ...
• 11 January 2025
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of bishop of Yokadouma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Justin Georges Ebengue, of the clergy of Batouri, until now rector of the Notre Dame de l’Espérance Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Bertoua, as ...
• 11 January 2025
  ASIA/THAILANDIA - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Bangkok Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana, until now bishop of Chiang Mai and apostolic administrator of Bangkok, as metropolitan archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand ...
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  11 January 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Blessed Father Giovanni Merlini, the missionary who spoke to the Pope and the bandits (of the Papal State) by Fabio Beretta Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is someone who loves you even before you deserve it." Disobeying the orders of the papal legate, Father Giovanni Merlini did not condemn or attack anyone in his homilies. ...
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  11 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Jubilee with the inmates of the vocational training center, in the name of Saint Joseph and Mary Suwon (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee of 2025 is also celebrated in prisons. The Detention Center for Vocational Training in the city of Hwaseong celebrated the beginning of the Jubilee in recent days with a blessing cerem ...
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  11 January 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Massimo Miraglio: “We too want to be pilgrims of hope” by Antonella Prenna Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Haiti has become really difficult, not only in the capital but also in the surrounding areas, where gangs dictate the law. Even in the provinces t ...
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  10 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis at the “Congrès Mission”: our hope is Christ, and it does not belong to us Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Christ is our hope”. And “this hope – it is curious – does not belong to us,” because “hope is not a possession you can put in your pocket. No, it does not belong to us. It ...
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  10 January 2025
  ASIA/LEBANON - General Aoun elected President. Father Zgheib: "positive neutrality" is now the key formula Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - General Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese army since 2017, has been elected President of the Republic, a position that had been vacant for more than two years. He succeeds Michel Aoun, who a ...
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  10 January 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Bringing hope to the poor": the Jubilee of Hope among brick kiln workers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A place of suffering and death can become a place of life and hope. In this spirit, the Jubilee Year 2025 began for the people of Kot Radha Kishan, in the Pakistani province of Punjab, a place wh ...
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  10 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In North Kivu: heavy fighting between the army and the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 290,000 people were forced to flee in December due to fighting in the Lubero region of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is what the latest report of t ...
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  10 January 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Churches chosen for Jubilee 2025: a shrine for pilgrims of hope Manama (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee churches and Cathedrals of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia (AVONA) are ready to welcome all those who seek inspiration, healing and a new sense of belonging: the Cathedral ...
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  9 January 2025
  VATICAN - The Pope to ambassadors: a "Diplomacy of hope" is needed to overcome the logic of conflict Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To be "heralds" of a "diplomacy of hope" that gives all the nations of the planet the opportunity to "overcome the logic of conflict" and "embrace" that of "encounter", thus realizing the p ...
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  9 January 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities help the earthquake-stricken populations of Tibet, in the spirit of the “Jubilee of Hope” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - More than 120 dead, almost 200 injured, 50 thousand displaced, tens of thousands of homes destroyed or damaged. This is the preliminary toll of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri co ...
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  9 January 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle, on the occasion of the patronal feast of the Pontifical Urban College: "The pilgrimage of hope indicates the initiative of God that leads us to Jesus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was in a joyful atmosphere, between prayers and convivial moments, that the patronal feast of the Pontifical Urban College took place on the evening of Tuesday, January 7. Founded at the ...
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  9 January 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "May the Jubilee Year be a year of reconciliation and resettlement of displaced persons" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Over 600 members of the various Christian denominations in Myanmar gathered in Yangon for a celebration and dinner to celebrate Christmas and to express their best wishes for the New Year, togeth ...