News

• 22 April 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Gebremariam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Father Abraham Gebremariama as National Director of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  22 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Update after the reactions sparked by a publication by Fides Agency on Cardinal Ambongo Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The latest publication of our Agency on Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (see Fides, 18/4/2024) has sparked strong and partly negative reactions. In certain cases, the Cardinal has been attributed ...
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  20 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A theatre, a swimming pool, a football field to educate about peace by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm * Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans opened their first school in the Middle East in 1598, in Bethlehem, in the Holy Land. Since then, many more schools have opened, providing ed ...
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  20 April 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The journey towards World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul: Opportunity for fruitful cooperation under the sign of synodality Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The preparation for World Youth Day 2027 is an opportunity for fruitful collaboration between bishops, priests, religious and laity on a path of communion and synodality. The Organizing Committee ...
• 19 April 2024
  EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Claude Bache Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, , appointed the Rev. Father Claude Bache as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
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  19 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - World Day of Prayer for Spiritual Vocations: “Mission means following Christ” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A cloth bag with the "Our Father" printed on it and an invitation to everyone to always carry the Word of God with them "to be nourished by it every day". This is the unique gift distributed at ...
• 19 April 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - After the release of the main suspect, Bishops call for a “thorough investigation” into the attack on Bishop Carlassare Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask the authorities to ensure a thorough investigation into this incident and to bring those responsible to justice", say the Catholic Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan, who have jointly called ...
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  19 April 2024
  VATICAN - The Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization to the diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “'The mission is mine, not yours,' said the Lord to Saint Francis” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If we do not have a deep awareness of the meaning and importance of mission in the Church, we would reduce the Pontifical Mission Societies to an organization for collecting and distributi ...
• 19 April 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Stop the spread of gambling in Negros Oriental: civil society protects the lives of young people Dumaguete City (Agenzia Fides) - Gambling is a scourge in the Philippines. Present in society and culture for centuries, it has also taken on illegal forms and is widespread throughout the archipelago. The Philippine gov ...
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  18 April 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Mission in the Confessional: The Story of Father Dominic Santamaria by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - More than eighteen thousand masses, eight thousand one hundred and forty baptisms and seven hundred and forty-eight marriages. The number of liturgies and sacraments ce ...
• 18 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Ambongo: “The situation in Goma is serious. We fear widespread insecurity in the east of the DRC” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in and around Goma is worsening day by day," says Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa, to Fides. He refers to the capital of North Kivu in the ...
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  18 April 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Catholic women from the diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga bring gifts to the refugees of Tarikom on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The National Council of Catholic Women, in collaboration with the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, has collected food and other donations for the asylum seekers at the re ...
• 17 April 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Punjab Province: Catholic lawyer is human rights minister Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu is Minister of Human Rights in the government of Pakistan's Punjab province, an area that is the economic, social and cultural heart of the nation and where th ...
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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 ...