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• 17 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Désiré Lenge Mukwenye as bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Msgr. Désiré Lenge Mukwenye has hitherto served as diocesa ...
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  17 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the shores of Lake Chad: Dozens dead in fighting between Boko Haram and the Islamic State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Violent clashes broke out between Boko Haram and militants from the Islamic State - West Africa Province (ISWAP) on the shores of Lake Chad, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The fightin ...
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  17 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The service of the missionaries of Saint Columban in Pakistan for more than forty years Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than forty years, the missionaries of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban - priests, nuns and lay missionaries - have been at the service of the people of Pakistan. Father John Boles, ...
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  17 January 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, Explains Japanese Leader by Victor Gaetan * “Jesus and Buddha were peacemakers and promoters of non-violence,” Pope Francis, May 28, 2022 Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third f ...
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  16 January 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Suicide bombing in Mogadishu near the Cathedral Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed and two injured in a suicide attack carried out this morning, January 16, 2024, in front of the mayor's office in Mogadishu. Authorities report that the explosion caus ...
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  16 January 2024
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Assembly of the Bishops of North Africa comes to an end Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference dealt with the synodal process, a theological reflection on the life of the Churches of the Maghreb and the reception and implementation of the Dec ...
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  16 January 2024
  AFRICA/ANGOLA: Farewell to Father Jorge Luis Rodríguez CM: he led the Vincentian mission in Angola Lombe (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jorge Luis Rodríguez Baquero CM, Colombian (from Medellin), of the Congregation of the Mission, founded by Saint Vincent de Paul in 1625, died in a car accident at the age of 57. The accid ...
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  16 January 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A missionary: "After the looting, the people return what they had stolen: a collective repentance" Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - "These days a curious phenomenon is taking place: the people who participated in the looting of recent days in Port Moresby are returning the looted goods. The appeals from the police and al ...
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  15 January 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Release of bishops, priests and seminarians detained by the Nicaraguan government Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan government has released 19 bishops, priests and Catholic seminarians detained, in some cases for more than a year. Among them are bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro del Carmen M ...
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  15 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Security forces regain control of prisons and free hostages Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In Ecuador, eleven police officers and a total of 201 prison officers have been released in seven prisons in the country, where they had been taken hostage by revolting prisoners (see Fides 12/1/2 ...
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  15 January 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims greet the "bishop of dialogue" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, January 15, in Davao, city on the Philippine island of Mindanao, the Filipino Catholic community - with a large assembly of bishops, priests, consecrated people and lay people - paid ...
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  15 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Episcopal Conference: "Corruption is now out of control" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is a worrisome vice in our public life. It has gone beyond scale and measure", said the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorj ...
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  15 January 2024
  ASIA/QATAR - Ecumenical prayer for peace in the Holy Land: The only antidote for hatred is love Doha (Agenzia Fides) - "Revenge is not an answer and there is no real satisfaction in believing that one is implementing the expression 'an eye for an eye'", said Bishop Aldo Berardi, Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia, ...
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  15 January 2024
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - The betrayed hopes of the "open-air prisoners" of Pournara by Roberto Morozzo della Rocca* Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 27 countries of the European Union, the Republic of Cyprus is the most eccentric and marginal. Both in geographical terms (it exists on the Asian contine ...
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  13 January 2024
  VATICAN - Blessed Paolo Manna: an evening of prayer and missionary reflection on the occasion of the liturgical commemoration Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 14, at the “Collegio Urbano” the spiritual and missionary witness and legacy of Blessed Paolo Manna, founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), will be rememb ...