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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/TURKEY - Reparation Mass in Istanbul church desecrated by the attack Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, Thursday, February 1st, at 7 p.m., a mass of reparation will be celebrated in the church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Büyükdere, in the Sariyer district, north of Istanbul, wher ...
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  31 January 2024
  VATICAN - Vatican News: Every Sunday Angelus and Wednesday catechesis on the Vatican portal pages will now also be in Mongolian Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Magisterium of the Successor of Peter will now be available in Mongolian. A new tool at the service of evangelization that, we hope, will develop its full potential through today's com ...
• 31 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of Bishop of Shaowu (Minbei) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Wednesday 31 January 2024, the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Pietro Wu Yishan took place. The Reverend Wu Yishan was appointed by the Holy Father on 16 December 2023 as bishop ...
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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Peter Wu Yishun consecrated Bishop of Shaowu (Minbei) By Marta Zhao Nanping (Agenzia Fides) - A new Catholic Bishop - the third in less than a week - was consecrated today in the People's Republic of China. Peter Wu Yishun, 59, was ordained Bishop of the Apostolic Prefect ...
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  31 January 2024
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The Bishops of the Great Lakes: "Saddened by the closure of the border between Burundi and Rwanda" Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent decision to close the land border between Burundi and Rwanda has deeply saddened us given the impact it has on the lives of vulnerable people". This is how the bishops who are members ...
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  30 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - “Catholic Connect”: New app from the Catholic Church in India is all about synodality Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Creating networks, connecting to walk together, work together, evangelize together" is how Father Cyril Victor Joseph, Indian priest, coordinator of the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolat ...
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  30 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Kaaryan ma dumi: light to live, grow, love and prepare for the future Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "There are more and more, almost a hundred in Gaya and Dosso, with ever better prospects for their education and ophthalmological care," writes Father Rafael Casamayor, who works as a missionary i ...
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  30 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Massacres and kidnappings: Civil society alliance calls for a state of emergency to be declared Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The declaration of a state of emergency to combat growing insecurity in the country is the appeal launched on January 29 by a coalition of 48 civil society organizations to the President of Nige ...
• 29 January 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation of Auxiliary Bishop of Bukoba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 27, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of Bukoba, Tanzania, presented by Bishop Method Kilaini, titular of Tamalluma. (EG) (Agen ...
• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of first Bishop of Weifang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Monday 29 January 2024, the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Antonio Sun Wenjun took place. The Reverend Sun Wenjun was appointed by the Holy Father on 20 April 2023 as bishop of ...
• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the apostolic prefecture of Yiduxian and erection of the diocese of Weifang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of Lord’s flock, and to attend better to its spiritual welfare, on 20 April 2023, the Supreme Pontiff Francis decided to suppress in Continent ...
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  29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Pope Francis erects the diocese of Weifang. New Bishop consecrated today Weifang (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank the Lord, everything went very well"! That was the first reaction of many Catholic faithful in the diocese of Weifang, the new diocese erected by Pope Francis. Today, Monday, January 29, ...
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  29 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese, Rwandan and Burundian bishops united in calling for an end to the war in eastern DRC Goma (Agenzia Fides) - "When we speak of the violence of insecurity in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Rwanda and Burundi, we speak of 5 to 12 million victims," said the Bishop of Idiofa, President of th ...
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  29 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Balochistan: Foreign Ministers meeting to ease tensions between Iran and Pakistan Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, is visiting Pakistan to ease tensions following the air strikes that took place in January between Iran and Pakistan in the Balochistan borde ...
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  27 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A biography in Korean of the Servant of God Barthelemy Bruguière Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The biography of the "servant of God" Barthelemy Bruguière, published in France in 1938, is being translated into Korean for the benefit of the entire Catholic community, which shares the deep ex ...