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  21 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - New church in Yiwu named after Saint Joseph: Home to the world's largest wholesale market by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The new church, recently inaugurated in Yiwu, in the diocese of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, is named after Saint Joseph, Patron Saint of missions in China. And the ...
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  21 March 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Army recaptures presidential palace in Khartoum: a symbolic turning point, but no end to the war in sight Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - After two days of fighting, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) today, March 21, recaptured control of the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias. ...
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  21 March 2025
  ASIA - Ten Years of "Laudato Si'": Bishops call for action against "ecological debt" and "ecological conversion" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The upcoming tenth anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis's encyclical "Laudato Si'" on Care for Our Common Home coincides with the Jubilee Year of Hope: therefore, the pastoral letter p ...
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  21 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Home of the Missionary Sisters of Santo Domingo in the municipality of Kimbanseke, in Kinshasa, attacked Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The home of the Missionary Sisters of Santo Domingo in the municipality of Kimbanseke in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was attacked. The events date back to the nig ...
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  21 March 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Camillians in the Philippines for 50 years: witnesses of hope in a world that often experiences desperation and suffering Cubao (Agenzia Fides) - "I have just returned from the Philippines, where the Camillians celebrated their 50th anniversary. I myself spent more than 30 years there, and my experience was beautiful and rich in many initia ...
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  20 March 2025
  AFRICA/EGYPT - On a mission between Ramadan and Lent Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – "Ramadan Karim" and "Som Mubarak": these are the two expressions used to wish a good fast, the first for Muslims, the second for Christians. "March 1st marked the beginning of the Muslim fast of ...
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  20 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “To have come out of hell, and to proclaim that Christ is risen”. The Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo network and the new mission of Father Charly
  by Monica Poletto Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A great celebration accompanied the seventeenth ‘anniversary’ of the Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo in Buenos Aires, which ...
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  20 March 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In the war zone, among the Kachin, a life of suffering, displacement and faith Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - "There is crying and despair in the diocese of Banmaw folloowing the destruction of St. Patrick's Cathedral, set on fire by the Myanmar army (see Fides, 17/3/2025). I have seen many faithful cry ...
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  20 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Despite peace declarations, the war continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Although a possible peace negotiation has been initiated, the war continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where yesterday, March 19, the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels captured ...
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  19 March 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle consecrates Bishops Sangalli and Sarrió Cucarella: Like Saint Joseph, be 'silent' heralds of the Word of God Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops are called to be "silent" heralds of the Word of God. They do their work well when, without being protagonists, they become humble "guardians of the active presence of God in his Ch ...
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  19 March 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A network of paths for human and economic development in Pourcine Pic Makaya Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - In Pourcine Pic Makaya, the sowing season is coming to an end. The next two months will be difficult for the people awaiting the harvest. They have "put everything they have in the form of mone ...
• 18 March 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation and succession of metropolitan archbishop of Mount Hagen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, presented by Archbishop Douglas William Young, S.V.D. ...
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  18 March 2025
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Appeal by Butembo university students: “Enough 30 years of war imposed on us to plunder our country's resources” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We have been living in war for more than 30 years. The war was born before our generation. It has produced misery, millions of internally displaced people, millions of dead” say the univ ...
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  18 March 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A ‘common vision’ for humanity and peace: Interview with the Indonesian Ambassador to the Holy See on the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations by Paolo Affatato Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Pope Francis' visit to Indonesia and the signing of the Istiqlal Declaration last September were a crowning achievement of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and the ...
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  17 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Two churches dedicated to Saint Joseph reconsecrated and reopened in the diocese of Shanghai Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) – “Since the visible temple has been rebuilt, we must now also make the interior temple of our heart more spiritually alive”. This is the exhortation addressed by Joseph Shen Bin, Bishop of ...