News Analysis

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  9 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The mission ad gentes today Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization in Poland, the new challenges of the mission ad gentes, young people, the conflict in Ukraine and the Jubilee Year on the occasion of the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New "men of the peripheries" in the Church of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh city (Agenzia Fides) - Deacons are "gatherers in the Lord's rice field", Samaritans, prophets, pastors at the service of the ecclesial community in the Asian country. The gift of 61 new deacons revitalizes th ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A new beginning for the Catholic Church: Father Christian Carlassare is ordained bishop in Rumbek Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) - Almost a year after the dramatic attack in which he suffered serious injuries (armed men broke into his bishop's house on the night of April 25-26, 2021), Bishop Christian Carlassare returns to R ...
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  5 March 2022
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Tibhirine's spiritual heritage Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Involve the university community and widen the circle of people who can learn about the spiritual heritage of the monks of Tibhirine, martyrs in Algeria in 1996, their writings; and promote the des ...
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  30 October 2021
  VATICAN - For a Church which is always and entirely missionary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If the month of October, which the Church defines as "missionary month" is a special time during which the Catholic faithful all over the world are called to rediscover and renew their miss ...
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  9 October 2021
  EUROPE/SWEDEN - Life of Faith and Mission of Chaldean Catholics in Northern Europe Götheborg (Agenzia Fides) - What does it mean to be Catholic in a Scandinavian Country, in a context with a Lutheran majority, but also of widespread atheism? And what are the missionary challenges of a "minority within ...
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  26 June 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Among poverty and instability, the prophetic voice of the Church in Congo Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "Whether it is foreign powers (France, Belgium, USA, or others), neighboring countries (Uganda, Rwanda, etc.) or some Congolese leaders, warlords, multinationals, NGOs, or even some members of the ...
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  24 April 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Vocation Day: In Bangladesh Catholic families foster priesthood vocation Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangladesh, as many as 26 deacons were ordained AS priests in 2020. It is the highest number ever recorded in the history of the country. There is an important role of Catholic families in orde ...
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  17 April 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Growing religious extremism in Asia and Church response Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, Palm Sunday, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, witnessed the bomb attacks, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people injur ...
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  16 January 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - For a "new economy": tax havens must be abolished Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The abolition of tax havens is an absolute priority as they are an inequality tool that the weakest countries always pay for. In 2013, the Credit Suisse bank released a chart known as the 'Pyramid ...
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  28 November 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Cardinal Ambongo: in Congo amidst the crisis and risks of balkanization, the Church alongside the people Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – With the elevation of Fridolin Ambongo Besungu as Cardinal, Archbishop of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), Pope Francis - who created 12 Cardinals from this continent, more than any o ...
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  17 October 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Challenges to the evangelizing mission in Africa, at the time of Covid-19 Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The fundamental dynamic of the mission, which is to announce the Good News of salvation: starting from this awareness, the Catholic communities in Africa will have to rethink some great perspectiv ...
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  10 October 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Evangelization in Asia in the midst of the pandemic Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The Covid-19 pandemic and the prolonged lockdown imposed in many countries have added difficulties and suffering to the populations in many States of Asia. With the health crisis affecting larg ...
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  19 September 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Africa, the sisters of the Good Shepherd alongside the exploited of cobalt Lualaba (Agenzia Fides) - "It was the bishop of Kolwezi who asked us to come here in 2012, worried about the living conditions of the population, especially children. When we first arrived, there were very few people aro ...
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  11 July 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Environmental disasters and the Church's commitment: the path of safeguarding creation in Central Asia Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Integral ecology and the protection of creation are issues that are still little felt in the five Countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), strongl ...