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  13 March 2024
  AMERICA/CHILE - XI anniversary of the Pope's Election: Pope Francis' teachings for Chile today Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope wants to lead us to make Jesus the center of our lives and the Gospel our calling card in personal, family, social and economic life", said Archbishop of Santiago Fernando Chomalì on ...
• 13 March 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Mbeya Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 9, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Godfrey Jackson Mwasekaga, of the clergy of the metropolitan archdiocese of Mbeya, Tanzania, until now vicar general of Mbeya and parish p ...
• 13 March 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Miarinarivo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 9, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Msgr. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa, of the clergy of the diocese of Tsiroanomandidy, until now vicar general and national director of the Pont ...
• 13 March 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Kupang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 9, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Kupang, Indonesia, presented by Archbishop Peter Turang. The Holy Father has ...
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  12 March 2024
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The ecclesial community of Malaysia welcomes and prepares for the baptism of more than 1,700 adults Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years, the Catholic community in Malaysia has registered an increasing number of adults requesting baptism. Adults wishing to be baptized undertake a path corresponding to the "Ri ...
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  12 March 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mass kidnappings widespread: a criminal and political phenomenon rather than “religious” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Safe Schools Initiative, a Nigerian organization founded after the kidnapping of 276 students from a secondary school in Chibok in 2014 (the fate of 100 of them is still unknown) and is commit ...
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  12 March 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Sacred Heart Parish celebrates church consecration: “We are the true body of Christ” Manama (Agenzia Fides) - Every year on March 3, the Sacred Heart Church in Manama celebrates the day of its consecration with a solemn ceremony in which all the parishioners take part. And again this year, on the LXXXIV ...
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  11 March 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Situation appears to be calm during the day: At night, opposition members are arrested N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - In N'Djamena, capital of Chad, where arrests took place during the night, the situation appears to be calm during the day, despite ongoing tensions. "During the day the situation seems calm, e ...
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  11 March 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shahbaz Bhatti: Remembering the murdered Catholic politician Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Every year in Pakistan, the Catholic politician Shahbaz Bhatti is remembered, killed by terrorists in Islamabad on March 2, 2011 at the age of 42. His personal story and his political commitme ...
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  11 March 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Accepting life as it comes". The "Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo" network celebrates at the Shrine of Luján by Gianni Valente Luján (Agenzia Fides) - They arrived by bus from the city and from the entire region of Buenos Aires, with drums, flags and colourful banners. Thousands of young people, adults and children who have ...
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  11 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The 3 nuns of the Madeleine community and 4 of the 6 religious of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart have been released Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The three nuns of the Saint Joseph of Cluny congregation kidnapped on Tuesday, March 5 from the La Madeleine orphanage have been released. According to the Conference of Haitian Religious ...
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  9 March 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The gift of music, "spiritual food" for orphaned children Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Dominic Nguyen Van Lam, a 39-year-old priest from the diocese of Bui Chu, in southern Vietnam, was convinced from the start. He firmly believed and advocated for a very special form of ...
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  9 March 2024
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The 'small domestic church' in Bengo: "Lent began with the washing of feet" Terreiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite all the rain, there is no shortage of people attending church services. And with the invitation to the path of prayer and meditation on the Word of God, the creation of a 'small domest ...
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  9 March 2024
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY- Paraguay at the center of an arms trafficking network for Brazilian organized crime Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The group was very well organized, had assault rifles and military pistols, but also machine guns and anti-aircraft ammunition, armored vehicles, hand grenades and bulletproof vests; everythi ...
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  8 March 2024
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Apostolic Vicariate of Caronì hosts Missionary Week Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Venezuela organized Missionary Week, a series of initiatives dedicated to missionary animation and formation that the PMS are carryi ...