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  5 August 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Sister Norma Carbonaro and the 'second expedition' to the Antsirabe high plain Ambanja (Fides News Agency) - Sister Norma Carbonaro has been in Madagascar for 35 years and is part of the "second expedition" of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians as she herself told, referring to the first one ...
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  4 August 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - State of emergency declared in the Amhara region Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) - "Declaring a state of emergency became necessary as the illegal activities of armed groups have become a menace to law and order in the region, and an obstacle to guaranteeing the rule o ...
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  4 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Military intervention on part of the CEDEAO/ECOWAS is no bluff, but would be the worst possible answer" Niamey (Fides News Agency) - "I don't believe it to be a bluff" stated Rahmane Idrissa, a Nigerien researcher at the University of Leiden, with regard to a possible military intervention on part of the Economic Community ...
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  4 August 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - From Slovenia to WYD through Madagascar, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kenya Lisbon (Fides News Agency) - Klemen, Špela and Zala, coming from Slovenia, are part of the over one million boys and girls who are meeting up in Lisbon in the coming days for World Youth Day (WYD) with the Holy Father. ...
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  3 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Demonstration in support of putschist junta Niamey (Fides News Agency) - A large demonstration in Niamey today, August 3, in support of the putschist military government on the day of the 63rd anniversary of Niger's independence from France. Some of the demonstra ...
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  3 August 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - Precarious truce in the Ain Al Hilweh refugee camp after a night of violent clashes Beirut (Fides News Agency) - At least 12 dead, 50 wounded, and 2,000 people forced to leave their homes. These are the - still temporary - figures of the clashes in the refugee camp in Ain Al Hilweh, on the outskirts of ...
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  3 August 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrant children: roughly one in every four travelers is an infant Mexico City (Fides News Agency) - Organized crime, human trafficking, abuse, these are just some of the phenomena in which migrant children travelling alone to escape Mexico face. "The issue of unaccompanied minors trav ...
• 2 August 2023
  AFRICA/ CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Molegbe Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On August 1 the Holy Father accepted the Bishop of Molegbe's resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Molegbe presented by Bishop Dominique Bulamatari. (EG) (Fides Ne ...
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  2 August 2023
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "We are still dealing with the spontaneous protests of a youth that's angry because they have no future" Dakar (Fides News Agency) – "These are spontaneous protests of a younger population with no future. At the moment there are no groups organizing the riots", Fides News Agency was told by Fr. Bruno Favero, with the Obla ...
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  2 August 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY "One heart, one mission, witnesses of God's Love in the world": XVIII General Chapter of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles Nemi (Fides News Agency) – On July 9, 2023, the XVIII General Chapter of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles (NSA) opened in Nemi, Rome. The opening Mass of the Chapter was presided over by Cardinal Luis Antonio Go ...
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  2 August 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - «Taking root to flourish». The faith, works and days of a small missionary Church by Gianni Valente Ulaanbaatar (Fides News Agency) - Putting down roots in the space and time of present and future Mongolia, to ask the Lord to continue flourishing. This is the unparalleled mome ...
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  2 August 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Turning protests into constructive dialogue: the Archbishop of Arequipa's plea Arequipa (Fides News Agency) – "Remaining united in our faith in Christ in the face of ideologies", with these words the Archbishop of Arequipa, Javier Del Río Alba, urged the people of Peru during the recently conclu ...
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  1 August 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - After the papal appointment, Bishop Shen Bin celebrates his first solemn liturgy in Shanghai for the patronal feast of St.Ignatius of Loyola Shanghai (Fides News Agency) – The cathedral of the Catholic diocese of Shanghai, built between 1905 and 1910 on the initiative of the Jesuits of the French province, is dedicated to St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of ...
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  1 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - A foretold coup? Amidst a stifled political system and the ambitions of the military, an initial analysis of the putsch Niamey (Fides News Agency). It is still too early to make an in-depth analysis of the military coup in Niger, but some considerations can be made with the help of Rahmane Idrissa, a Nigerien researcher with the Universit ...
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  1 August 2023
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Wyd 2023: "Travel with little baggage so that God may strengthen your lives" Panama City (Fides News Agency) - "Godspeed, and leave behind your heavy baggage so that God may strengthen your lives and Mary accompany you in this pilgrimage". With these words of encouragement the Archbishop of Panam ...