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  20 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Chaplain and nuns prevent Bukavu prison from burning down completely Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is thanks to the chaplain and some nuns that the prison was not completely burned down," reports a source from the local Church in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese province of South Kiv ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem back Armenian Patriarchate in the face of threat of confiscation of Church property Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - " If one member suffers, all suffer together", say the Patriarchs and Heads of the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, quoting St. Paul from the First Letter to the Corinthians, in order to maint ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - BJP woman as Delhi Chief Minister: raising expectations among Catholics New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Rekha Gupta (50) is the new Prime Minister of the Capital Territory of Delhi. The Indian People's Party (Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP), which also leads the federal government with Narendra Mod ...
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  20 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Damulak escapes after his kidnapping on February 6 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Cornelius Manzak Damulak, kidnapped on February 6 (see Fides, 7/2/2025), managed to escape from the hands of his kidnappers. According to the police in the State of Niger (central Nigeria) ...
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  19 February 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - From Gemelli Hospital the Pope continues his Magisterium: "The the poor and foreigners are invited among the first to meet God made child" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – While Pope Francis is being treated for bilateral pneumonia at the Agostino Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the Holy See Press Office has released the text of the catechism prepared by the Holy ...
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  19 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The M23 advance continues and now threatens Uvira Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 advance in the Congolese province of South Kivu continues after the capture of Bukavu, the capital of this province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (see Fides, 17/2/2025 ...
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  19 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "I only kneel before God": the last words of Father Martin Ye Naing Win by Paolo Affatato Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - When on the evening of February 14 a commando of ten armed men arrived at the rectory of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in the village of Kangyi Taw (in the Shwe Bo dist ...
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  19 February 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Crisis between Sudan and Kenya after the signing in Nairobi of the constitutive act of an alternative Sudanese government Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – A violation of "international law, the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." ...
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  19 February 2025
  EUROPE/POLAND - The murderer of Father Grzegorz Dymek confesses Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - It was a traumatic awakening for the faithful of the parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Kłobuck, a small town in northern Poland on the outskirts of Czestochowa: the 58-year-old parish priest ...
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  18 February 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The first training course on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue at the Abrahamic Family House inspired by the Document on Human Fraternity Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – A week of meetings, dialogues and visits to symbolic places in the Arabian Peninsula to experience and understand how different religions can really live together peacefully in the same plac ...
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  18 February 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Jubilee Year: in the diocese of Multan there is hope for education Multan (Agenzia Fides) - Among the Catholic population of southern Punjab, in the diocese of Multan, the hope that is nurtured in the Jubilee Year is to have concrete educational opportunities, says Father Jamshed Gill ( ...
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  18 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Kinshasa: Police thwart threats by supporters of the ruling party against Catholic and Protestant churches Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The religious services in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), both in the Catholic parishes and in the Protestant communities of the Church of Christ in Congo (Église ...
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  18 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Behind names like AFDL or M23 lies the Rwandan intervention in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Sometimes you have the feeling that the poor are hopelessly lost," reports a Church source from Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese province of South Kivu, which was taken by the M23 troops s ...
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  18 February 2025
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies awarded the Cross of Officer of the Order of Merit Pro Lithuania Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, February 16, Lithuania celebrated the National Day commemorating the proclamation of the Republic of Lithuania in 1918. Following the Act of Restoration of the Lithuanian State, ado ...
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  17 February 2025
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Mourning in the diocese of Dédougou: two catechists murdered on their way back from a training course Dédougou (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Dédougou in Burkina Faso mourns the death of two catechists who were murdered on their way back from a training course. The crime occurred on Saturday, January 25. As the di ...