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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 ...
• 17 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of Bukavu Ecclesiastical Province: “Insecurity is endemic and the state is absent” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Insecurity has become endemic" say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu (comprising the dioceses of Bukavu, Butembo-Beni, Goma, Kasongo, Kindu and Uvira) at the end of their me ...
• 16 April 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Is there an attempt to destabilize a country shaken by the economic crisis and the conflict in the Middle East? Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Is there an attempt to destabilize Lebanon by reactivating sectarian conflicts? This is the question that is being asked in the Land of the Cedars following a series of events that have heightene ...
• 16 April 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - "No" to religious polarization on the eve of the elections: Catholic religious and lay people reject the film on "love jihad" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India, where an electoral marathon begins on April 19th - a long process in seven stages for the election of the Indian Parliament that will end on June 1st - there is no need for cultural, ...
• 16 April 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - Constitutional reform: situation tense after vote in parliament Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Togo remains tense. Opposition parties have joined forces to protest against the new Constitution adopted by the National Assembly on March 25, the text of which was drafted in se ...
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  16 April 2024
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Sydney, Bishop stabbed in church is not in danger. Clashes between parishioners and police Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The lives of Bishop Mari Emmanuel and Eastern Rite Christians - including a priest - are not in danger. They were attacked with a knife by a young sixteen-year-old in the Church of Christ the Goo ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Stop any form of revenge by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Land has been at war for almost seven months. I use the verb to live, even though war means death, suffering and destruction. It is a way of life, or ...
• 15 April 2024
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A man arrested for the attack on a Catholic nun; bishops "no to religious intolerance" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A man with psychiatric problems was arrested by the Blantyre police in relation to the violence committed against a Catholic nun in Zomba. According to the police, the arrested person is a pati ...
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  15 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Bouwen after Iranian attack: “Developments are unpredictable. We need a peace conference” by Gianni Valente Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the renewed outbreak of violence in Israel-Palestine on October 7, 2023, the region has been overwhelmed by a series of tragic events that seem to defy rational anal ...
• 15 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of Bishop of Buta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Martin Banga Ayanyaki, O.S.A., until now regional vicar of the Order of Saint Augustine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as bishop of ...