Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Emilio Nappa as the new Secretary General of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, with effect from 1 March 2025. This was ...

Harare (Agenzia Fides) - With the abolition of the death penalty, Zimbabwe has taken a fundamental step towards aligning its laws with the fundamental Christian principle of "love your neighbour as ...

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 ...

San Carlos (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago the seventh edition of the "Asian Mission" initiative ended, which this year had the motto "Made for a mission. Made for peace". The event brought together ...

Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the Holy Year of the Archdiocese of Jakarta coincide with the launch of the “Kabar Baik” (“Good News”) initiative. The newly created Catholic web platform ...

Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two priests were kidnapped in the early hours of Saturday, February 22. Father Matthew David Dutsemi, of the diocese of Yola, and Father Abraham Saummam, of the diocese of ...

Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful of the Rakhine State (or Arakan), in western Myanmar, have welcomed their new Bishop, Peter Tin Wai, a "Good Shepherd" called to lead the Catholic faithful ...

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The riots that precede the capture of the cities by the M23 are a constant", explains a local source in Bukavu to Fides, referring to what happened to Bishop Sébastien ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...