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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/CHAD - Doubts and many questions after the mysterious attack on the presidential palace N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "It is difficult to know exactly what happened last night," local sources in N'Djamena tell Fides. In the capital of Chad, an armed group attacked the presidential palace yesterday evening, Ja ...
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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angolan faithful pray for the Mozambican population: "The true battlefield is the human heart, from which evil and peace arise" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us pray for Mozambique caught in a spiral of violence that is not the remedy for our fractured world. Violence breeds more violence, causing suffering, anguish, and forced migration," Fr. C ...
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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two nuns kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two members of the Sisters’ Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mother of Christ (IHM) in Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria were abducted on the evening of Tuesday, January 7, 2025. ...
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  8 January 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: «In every part of the globe there are children who are exploited by an economy that does not respect life» Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - «I wish to dedicate this and the next catechesis to children, and to reflect in particular on the scourge of child labour», said Pope Francis, who interrupts the cycle of catecheses dedic ...
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  8 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Archbishop of Seoul celebrates Mass for Catholic parliamentarians in the chapel of the National Assembly: Focus on the common good Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focus on the common good is what Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul asks the Catholic parliamentarians of South Korea to do, a country where in the last four weeks the political elite has ...
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  8 January 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - More than 1,500 young volunteers on a mission to meet Christ at the service of the community Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - Young volunteers are currently visiting 55 areas of the country to bring a message of peace and hope to families. There are more than 1,500 students on mission to encounter Christ at t ...
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  8 January 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Concern in Kenya over missing persons in connection with youth protests Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Since June 2024, at least 80 people have disappeared in Kenya, and relatives and friends suspect the police in connection with these disappearances. During the Christmas period, the Kenyan Natio ...
• 8 January 2025
  AFRICA/INDIAN OCEAN - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 7, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Father ...
• 7 January 2025
  AMERICA/NETHERLANDS ANTILLES - Resignation of bishop of Willemstad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, presented by Bishop Luigi Antonio Secco, S.D.B. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, ...
• 7 January 2025
  EUROPE/GREECE - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - On December 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Father Lorenzo ...
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  7 January 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Further tensions: expectations for the return of the opposition candidate Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "If they kill my brothers, I will be there so they can do whatever they want with me". With these words, Venâncio Mondlane, the candidate of the opposition party who claims to have won the presi ...
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  6 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on the Solemnity of Epiphany: “God seeks us even before we ask” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us imitate the shepherds and the Magi and "recognize Jesus close by, in the poor, in the Eucharist, in the abandoned, in our brother, in our sister", said Pope Francis, during the Angel ...
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  6 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla, an Italian-born religious sister, as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the first woman ...
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  4 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Puntland: New leaders emerge as fight against violence by armed groups continues by Gianluca Frinchillucci Garowe (Agenzia Fides) - The semi-autonomous region of Puntland, in northeastern Somalia, is experiencing a critical phase due to the increase in violence linked to jihadist armed groups aff ...
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  3 January 2025
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers' visit to Rome and Mass with Pope Francis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Star Singers from Switzerland has concluded their visit to Rome. They represented more than 10,000 children and young people, together with about 2,000 adult volunteers, ...