News Analysis

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  15 June 2024
  AFRICA - Seoul is also targeting African countries in search of strategic minerals, new markets and UN support Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Shared growth, sustainability and solidarity". These are the three "pillars" of cooperation between African countries and South Korea, according to the joint statement issued at the end of the Af ...
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  8 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - 'Money, money, money'. The reasons for conflicts and the arms race according to missionary Archbishop, Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi by Victor Gaetan* Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, age 65, holds a startling number of key positions, yet he’s calm as a church usher. President of Caritas Internationalis, Secretary General of the Federation ...
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  27 February 2024
  BRICS+ Is A Polyhedron, Pope Francis’s Favorite Image by Victor Gaetan* Numerous multilateral organizations sprang up after World War II, all with one center—the United States. The World Bank and International Fund were created in 1944 to stabilize the postwar global e ...
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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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  8 January 2024
  Diplomacy and mission of the Church: This is why the Pope speaks to the Ambassadors by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The speech that the Bishop of Rome addresses every year to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See is not just an expression of the current Pope's "personal opinion" o ...
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  23 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war. At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...
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  1 December 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A Light Shining from Astana: How Kazakhstan Turned Tragedy into Positivity by Victor Gaetan The Republic of Kazakhstan, five times bigger than France, established diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 1992. It turned the catastrophe of 1.5 million victims of nuclear experiments into an ...
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  24 October 2023
  Time is Greater than Space. The Holy See diplomacy and the “Vietnamese lesson” by Victor Gaetan (In the decade 1965-1975, between 790,000 and 1.14 million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers died as a result of war while the US military suffered over 58,000 casualties. Between 1963-1973, the US d ...
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  21 September 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Against the ‘Managua Wall’, the Holy See Can Rely on Traditional Diplomatic Tactics by Victor Gaetan Nicaragua is a member of the Central American Common Market (CACM) including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. China is CACM's second largest global trade partner, after the United Sta ...
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  31 August 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Beijing prays for diplomatic ties between China and the Holy See to be established "as soon as possible" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Joseph Li Shan of Beijing said a prayer for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Holy See "as soon as possible" during the solemn Eucha ...
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  19 August 2023
  AFRICA - The rush for African lithium: an opportunity for the continent? Rome (Fides News Agency) - Africa holds 30-75% of the world's reserves of lithium, phosphate, copper, chromium, manganese, gold, platinum, diamonds and aluminum. Some of these are minerals, such as lithium, which are i ...
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  14 June 2023
  MIDDLE EAST - After the earthquake, the Arab countries re-embrace the "pariah nation": The end of Syria's isolation as seen by the Holy See by Victor Gaetan* Good news has been rare for Syria since 2011. Ravaged by over a decade of war, compounded by poverty and a pandemic, more persecution arrived on February 6 when earthquakes killed some 6,000 people ...
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  25 June 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Pastor who seeks peace and reconciliation in the midst of conflict Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not easy to be Archbishop of Bamenda in this time of conflict. People look at the Church with great expectations, but the crisis we have been experiencing since the clashes between the ar ...
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  11 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Insecurity jeopardizes the future of the country Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The massacre at the Catholic Church in Owo (Ondo State, south-west Nigeria) on Pentecost Sunday marks a new dramatic stage in terms of the deterioration of the security situation in Nigeria and th ...
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  7 May 2022
  VATICAN - "As long as Christ is announced". The missionary heart of Albino Luciani by Gianni Valente "Missionaries are those who pull the cart of the Church. Those who pull the cart are those who ask for the places of fatigue and risk". This is what Albino Luciani repeated to his sister Antonia, many ...