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  1 August 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - "For the love of Jesus and for the savior of Muslims". Archbishop Jacques Mourad recounts Father Dall'Oglio's missionary heart, 10 years from his disappearance Rome (Fides News Agency) - «This is our biggest cross to bear: having committed ourselves to perfection, as we drag our shortcomings throughout the days». With these evocative words Jacques Mourad, a Syriac monk from t ...
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  31 July 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Voting held to modify the constitution to allow the President to run for third term Bangui (Fides News Agency) - Voting was held yesterday, Sunday July 30th, in the Central African Republic for the constitutional referendum to allow the president, Faustin Archange Touadéra, to run for a third term. Ac ...
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  31 July 2023
  AFRICA/ CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Youths from ten of the country's dioceses ready for WYD Yopougon (Fides News Agency) - Father Régis Akpess is the diocesan director of The Pontifical Mission Societies in Yopougon, one of the ten dioceses in Côte d'Ivoire taking part in World Youth Day in Lisbon. "When my b ...
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  29 July 2023
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Daidirri, "deep listening" that the Aboriginal people offer to the Church by Paolo Affatato Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In the Aboriginal communities in Australia, every assembly, meeting, ecclesial gathering is lived starting from a style of relationship with others which is typical of the Ab ...
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  29 July 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Proclaiming Jesus in the midst of the new miseries of the world, on the Antsirabe plateau Ambanja (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Germana Boschetti is one of the five pioneers of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Madagascar. "We arrived in Ambanja on October 15, 1985, at the beginning we studied the Malaga ...
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  28 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Coup: Situation in Niamey still uncertain Niamey (Fides News Agency) - The situation is still uncertain in Niamey, Niger's capital city, where a military coup is taking place (see Fides 27/7/2023). President Mohamed Bazoum is still being held in his residence, s ...
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  28 July 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The Pontifical Mission Societies at World Youth Day, as from today an online web page dedicated to the event Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) will be present at the XXXVII World Youth Day in the City of Joy, within the Vocational Fair, where young people will come into contact with different movem ...
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  28 July 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Stop the show of contempt towards Christians in Jerusalem and Haifa". Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months, attacks on Christian clergy, churches and holy places have roused the anxiety of many of our Christian faithful, particularly in Jerusalem and Haifa", says a statement sent ...
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  28 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - So much suffering, but also deep humanity due to the dramatic situation of the population of Las Anod Las Anod (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Las Anod, in the Somali region of Sool, is always more dramatic. Efforts to reach a ceasefire have failed. The local authorities of the Dhulbahante clan demand the withdrawal o ...
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  27 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Works of charity in Hebei: St. Anne's Association celebrates the patronal feast Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the Chinese province of Hebei, several Catholic associations dedicated to Saint Anne celebrated their patronal feast yesterday, Wednesday July 26, witnessing to their faith and devotion ...
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  27 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary to Fides: Coup d'état - "In Niamey the situation is calm at the moment" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the announcement of the "coup" during the night, everything is calm in the streets. Some wounded have been transferred to the national hospital, probably as a result of the shots fired ...
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  27 July 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - There is a lack of financial resources to welcome the many candidates for priestly life Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On August 15, the Catholic Church in Burundi will celebrate the final events of the Jubilee for 125 years of Evangelization, which began on October 1, 2022 (see Fides, 17/3/2023). Despite th ...
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  27 July 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE: From Lyon to the heart of Asia, discovering the little flock of Christ Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Anne Robesson and Diane Angleys, aged 26 and 27 respectively, recently returned to Lyon, the city where they live, after a pilgrimage in Central Asia which lasted about nine months, which began in ...
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  26 July 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "You choose the future": 50 years of the Association of Catholic Women in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "You have to choose the Malawi you want. Currently, things are not okay and we cannot continue with the way things are. You have that responsibility and power to choose the future", exhorted Ms ...
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  26 July 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The family is the main formation center for young people: Bishop Wanok urges unity in the fight against corruption Lira (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop of the diocese of Lira, Sanctus Lino Wanok said "corruption in the current world is becoming a setback to human progress and is destroying the society and its values". The bishop implore ...