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  15 May 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Nuncio Nugent: "We cannot change the world but we can create fraternity and a climate of trust" by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in Kuwait in the middle of the Covid period, in February 2021, and presented my Letters of Credence in May of the same year although the obligation to wear ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - When the death of the poor does not appear in the news by Mauro Armanino Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - They were killed on Monday May 6th. They made the mistake of trusting the military and the "Volunteers of the Fatherland" who accompanied them. They thought their ID ca ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapping of students: over 1,680 kidnappings in the last 10 years Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nine students are still in the hands of the kidnappers who on May 9 attacked the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH) in Osara, Kogi state, northern Nigeria. An unknown number ...
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  14 May 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians in prayer and on pilgrimage for the beatification of Akash Bashir Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The life of the Servant of God Akash Bashir is an inspiration and a ray of light in Pakistan and in the world plagued by terrorism and unrest," says Father Lazar Aslam OFMCap, a Capuchin priest ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Peace negotiations in Kenya: Not everyone is convinced of the initiative Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A new round of peace negotiations between the South Sudanese government and the Non-Signatory Opposition Group (NSOG) began on May 3 in Nairobi (Kenya). Since the civil war in South Sudan erupted i ...
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  14 May 2024
  VATICAN - The 'Concilium Sinense' of Shanghai "between history and present": International Conference at the Pontifical Urbaniana University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Shanghai, May 15, 1924: the “Primum Concilium Sinense”, the First Council of the Catholic Church in China, begins in the Cathedral of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Bishops, Vicars General, religiou ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North and South Kivu: More clashes between army and M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two people died yesterday, May 13, in the bombing of the village of Minova, in the Kalehe region, in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According ...
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  13 May 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The grateful memory of Father Carlos Múgica remains in the hearts of his people, 50 years after his assassination by Stefano Lodigiani Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Father Carlos still urges us today to strengthen in each neighborhood a community that organizes itself to accompany the life of our people, and he challenges us ...
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  13 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Tensions in Manipur affect voter turnout: Christians pray for reconciliation and peace Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - In Christian churches in Manipur, believers are praying "for real reconciliation and peace", while in the north-east Indian state the tensions following the inter-ethnic violence that broke out a ...
• 13 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Verapoly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Antony Valumkal, until now rector and parish priest of the National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom in Vallarpadom, Kochi, as auxilia ...
• 13 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Jhansi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Wilfred Gregory Moras, of the clergy of Lucknow, until now rector of Saint Joseph’s Regional Seminary in the diocese of Allahabad, as coa ...
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  13 May 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - In the north of the Country: Two jihadist attacks within two days Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadists fighters linked to the Islamic State carried out two major attacks within two days in the Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique. The attack on Macomia (capital of the district of t ...
• 13 May 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop with special faculties of Conakry Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend François Sylla, of the clergy of Conakry, Guinea, until now rector of the Benoit XVI Major Seminary of Kendoumayah, as coadjutor archbisho ...
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  13 May 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catholic community in Katchari: Faith, joy, resilience and courage despite violence and hunger Kantchari (Agenzia Fides) - The two Redemptorist missionaries, Father Maxime and Father Clément, live and work in the Burkinabe town of Kantchari, on the border with Niger, which has been hit by terrorist attacks that h ...
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  11 May 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The civil conflict causes more than three million displaced people Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In the last six months, the number of displaced people in Myanmar has doubled, reaching a total number of more than 3 million, according to Stephen Anderson, UN Humanitarian Coordinator and resid ...