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  3 April 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lights and shadows on respect for human rights and the life of non-Muslim religious communities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sunil Masih was a 14-year-old Christian boy who lived with his family in the Mandiala Warraich area, in the district of Gujranwala, a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Four men armed with ...
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  3 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The bishop of Sokoto: "Let us develop agriculture to give dignity to our people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No one should queue for help when we are not at war" says Matthew Hassan Kukah, bishop of Sokoto, in his Easter message, entitled "It is time to heal". In the message Msgr. Kukah lists what he be ...
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  3 April 2024
  Genocide in Rwanda, 30 years later. When fratricidal hatred lacerated even the heart of the Church by Stefano Lodigiani Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Will it ever be possible to give an exact figure for the massacres, the wounded, the refugees, the orphans that the Rwandan drama has sown on African soil? The dimensions ...
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  30 March 2024
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - "Living stones" of the Cambodian Church: 185 baptisms of young people at the Easter vigil Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Adult baptisms are a blessing for the Cambodian Church and represent a sign of hope for the small Catholic community of about 20,000 people in a nation of 17 million inhabitants. At the Easte ...
• 27 March 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Revrend John Kiplimo Lelei, of the clergy of Eldoret, Kenya, until now vicar general, as auxiliary bishop of the same diocese, assigning him the titular se ...
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  27 March 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Catholics in the Holy Land: in these bleak times, participate in the Passion of Christ and bear witness that "the crucified Lord rose from the dead" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian community of the Holy Land, over the centuries, "has constantly witnessed, through its own sufferings, to the mystery of the Lord’s Passion". Thanks to this singular proximity to th ...
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  27 March 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Archbishop of Seoul: at Easter "our lives are intertwined with the Eternal" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the profound testimony of the fact that our mortal existence transcends the temporal limits of this world but is linked to eternal life. Its meaning transcends ...
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  27 March 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Document of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate in response to the Declaration "Fiducia supplicans" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25 the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate published a document entitled "On the Orthodox attitude towards the new practice of blessing 'couples in an irregular situation and sam ...
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  27 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The situation remains blocked in Haiti while the population continues to suffer Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The situation remains blocked in Haiti, where the nine members of the Transitional Presidential Council have not yet agreed on the name of the new Prime Minister. The Transitional Council ...
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  26 March 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Faye's victory confirmed: "Victory of democracy, but the future remains incertain" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a great proof of democracy on the part of the Senegalese", says Father Bruno Favero, OMI missionary in Senegal for 30 years, commenting on the electoral victory of the opposition Bassirou D ...
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  26 March 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Towards Easter, with faith and charity Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangladesh, Catholics are living Holy Week with deep spirituality and as a special time of conversion and reception of divine grace. "Although Easter is not a national holiday in Bangladesh, a ...
• 26 March 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Francis Than Htun, until now parish priest of Saint John’s Catholic Church, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Yangon, Myanmar, assigning ...
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  26 March 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Inauguration of the "Point Mission" in the heart of Lourdes Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - The "Point Mission" of the French Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), was inaugurated last week with the blessing of Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio to France. It is located on o ...
• 25 March 2024
  ASIA/MYANMR - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Pekhon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Felice Ba Htoo of the clergy of the diocese of Pekhon, Myanmar, until now diocesan chancellor, parish priest of the Mother of God parish in Mobye ...
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  25 March 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Presidential elections: while awaiting official data, the Senegalese press affirms the victory of opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The result is not yet official but the Senegalese press considers as certain the victory in the first round of the presidential elections of the opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The vote took place ...