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  17 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - 100th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic parish in Lanniquing: Yi ethnic group pays tribute to the French missionary Paul Vial Kunming (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 Catholics, most of whom belong to ethnic minorities in Yunnan province (southwest China), celebrated the 100th anniversary of the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lanniqing, whose ...
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  17 April 2024
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Participants in the Conference of Childhood Missionaries in Europe meet and thank Roma ethnic missionary children Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - From 25 European countries, forty-three delegates participated in the Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe (CEME), which began on 7 April in Bucharest and ended on April 13th, with a f ...
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  17 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of Bukavu Ecclesiastical Province: “Insecurity is endemic and the state is absent” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Insecurity has become endemic" say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu (comprising the dioceses of Bukavu, Butembo-Beni, Goma, Kasongo, Kindu and Uvira) at the end of their me ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Is there an attempt to destabilize a country shaken by the economic crisis and the conflict in the Middle East? Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Is there an attempt to destabilize Lebanon by reactivating sectarian conflicts? This is the question that is being asked in the Land of the Cedars following a series of events that have heightene ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - "No" to religious polarization on the eve of the elections: Catholic religious and lay people reject the film on "love jihad" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India, where an electoral marathon begins on April 19th - a long process in seven stages for the election of the Indian Parliament that will end on June 1st - there is no need for cultural, ...
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  16 April 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - Constitutional reform: situation tense after vote in parliament Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Togo remains tense. Opposition parties have joined forces to protest against the new Constitution adopted by the National Assembly on March 25, the text of which was drafted in se ...
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  16 April 2024
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Sydney, Bishop stabbed in church is not in danger. Clashes between parishioners and police Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The lives of Bishop Mari Emmanuel and Eastern Rite Christians - including a priest - are not in danger. They were attacked with a knife by a young sixteen-year-old in the Church of Christ the Goo ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Stop any form of revenge by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Land has been at war for almost seven months. I use the verb to live, even though war means death, suffering and destruction. It is a way of life, or ...
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  15 April 2024
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A man arrested for the attack on a Catholic nun; bishops "no to religious intolerance" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A man with psychiatric problems was arrested by the Blantyre police in relation to the violence committed against a Catholic nun in Zomba. According to the police, the arrested person is a pati ...
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  15 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Bouwen after Iranian attack: “Developments are unpredictable. We need a peace conference” by Gianni Valente Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the renewed outbreak of violence in Israel-Palestine on October 7, 2023, the region has been overwhelmed by a series of tragic events that seem to defy rational anal ...
• 15 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of Bishop of Buta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Martin Banga Ayanyaki, O.S.A., until now regional vicar of the Order of Saint Augustine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as bishop of ...
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  15 April 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The civil war began a year ago and does not seem to want to end Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Around 16,000 dead and over 8 million displaced and refugees: the worst displacement crisis in the world. These figures illustrate the humanitarian tragedy of Sudan's forgotten war, which broke ...
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  15 April 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop of Loikaw: "There is light in the faces of the suffering people, but a dawn of new hope for the nation is urgently needed" Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "I am in the parish of Soudu, a village in the diocese of Loikaw. It is one of the parishes where pastoral life is still possible. Our cathedral in Loikaw is still occupied by the Burmese army. M ...
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  15 April 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Floods in Rufiji: Hundreds displaced, crops destroyed, population at risk of epidemics and malnutrition Muhoro (Agenzia Fides) - The Rufiji region in western Tanzania is facing enormous difficulties and the district is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises. Thousands of people need immediate humanitarian assistance i ...
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  13 April 2024
  VATICAN - A new training course for the diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Around 30 representatives of the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya, Cameroon, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain and Bahrain will take pa ...