News

• 21 February 2025
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 9, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization - Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches - appointed Msgr. Carlos ...
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  21 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Beheaded bodies of 70 people found in a Protestant church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70 bodies, including women, children and the elderly, were discovered on February 14 in a church of the Evangelical and Baptist Center of Congo and Africa (CEBCEA) in Kasanga, near th ...
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  21 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rwandan soldiers and M23 militiamen disguised as Congolese soldiers Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The riots that precede the capture of the cities by the M23 are a constant", explains a local source in Bukavu to Fides, referring to what happened to Bishop Sébastien Joseph Muyengo Mulombe ...
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  21 February 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - In the Holy Year, the new “Good News” website launched in Bahasa Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the Holy Year of the Archdiocese of Jakarta coincide with the launch of the “Kabar Baik” (“Good News”) initiative. The newly created Catholic web platform is dedicate ...
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  21 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Uvira robbed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Uvira was robbed yesterday, February 20, according to a statement issued by the diocese of the city in South Kivu currently being conquered by the M23. "Together with Bishop Séb ...
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  20 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Chaplain and nuns prevent Bukavu prison from burning down completely Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is thanks to the chaplain and some nuns that the prison was not completely burned down," reports a source from the local Church in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese province of South Kiv ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem back Armenian Patriarchate in the face of threat of confiscation of Church property Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - " If one member suffers, all suffer together", say the Patriarchs and Heads of the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, quoting St. Paul from the First Letter to the Corinthians, in order to maint ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - BJP woman as Delhi Chief Minister: raising expectations among Catholics New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Rekha Gupta (50) is the new Prime Minister of the Capital Territory of Delhi. The Indian People's Party (Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP), which also leads the federal government with Narendra Mod ...
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  20 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Damulak escapes after his kidnapping on February 6 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Cornelius Manzak Damulak, kidnapped on February 6 (see Fides, 7/2/2025), managed to escape from the hands of his kidnappers. According to the police in the State of Niger (central Nigeria) ...
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  19 February 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - From Gemelli Hospital the Pope continues his Magisterium: "The the poor and foreigners are invited among the first to meet God made child" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – While Pope Francis is being treated for bilateral pneumonia at the Agostino Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the Holy See Press Office has released the text of the catechism prepared by the Holy ...
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  19 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The M23 advance continues and now threatens Uvira Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 advance in the Congolese province of South Kivu continues after the capture of Bukavu, the capital of this province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (see Fides, 17/2/2025 ...
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  19 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "I only kneel before God": the last words of Father Martin Ye Naing Win by Paolo Affatato Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - When on the evening of February 14 a commando of ten armed men arrived at the rectory of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in the village of Kangyi Taw (in the Shwe Bo dist ...
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  19 February 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Crisis between Sudan and Kenya after the signing in Nairobi of the constitutive act of an alternative Sudanese government Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – A violation of "international law, the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." ...
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  19 February 2025
  EUROPE/POLAND - The murderer of Father Grzegorz Dymek confesses Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - It was a traumatic awakening for the faithful of the parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Kłobuck, a small town in northern Poland on the outskirts of Czestochowa: the 58-year-old parish priest ...
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  18 February 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The first training course on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue at the Abrahamic Family House inspired by the Document on Human Fraternity Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – A week of meetings, dialogues and visits to symbolic places in the Arabian Peninsula to experience and understand how different religions can really live together peacefully in the same plac ...