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  13 July 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - 300 young people from Hong Kong leave for WYD in Lisbon. Bishop Chow: participate in the meeting with an open and grateful heart Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 boys and girls from the diocese of Hong Kong will participate in the next World Youth Day in Lisbon. The Hong Kong youth preparing to leave are organized into 14 groups from pari ...
• 13 July 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Augustine" Interdiocesan Philosophical Major Seminary in Matola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 24, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Nito Chatulica, C.S.Sp. as Rector of the "Saint Augustine" Interdiocesan ...
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  13 July 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian students' appeal: "Save Manipur" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the media and political attention seems to be waning on the social situation in Manipur, the scene of inter-ethnic violence, students from various Indian schools scattered throughout the ...
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  12 July 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Waiting for Pope Francis. History, friends and hopes in the "House of Mercy" Ulaanbataar (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is sscheduled for Monday, September 4: at 9.30 a.m. Pope Francis will meet with the workers of charity in the last public event of his apostolic journey in Mongolia before th ...
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  12 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Al Shabaab continues to claim victims among civilians: yet another attack in the north of the capital Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks on civilians continue in Somalia against a background of political instability, famine and floods. Another group of civilians lost their lives when they were blown up by a landmine ope ...
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  12 July 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - Contaminated water in the ocean, can we say that there is no danger? Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - By releasing contaminated radioactive water into the ocean, can we say that there is no danger for human beings and the ecosystem? It is by asking this simple question that Japanese and Korean sch ...
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  12 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped on Monday released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priest Joseph Azubuike, kidnapped in Nigeria on July 10, is free again. The priest and three other people were abducted by unidentified gunmen in Isu, in Onicha Local Government Area ...
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  12 July 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Everything is possible with the power of prayer: the solidarity of the Camillians towards the missionaries in Haiti Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - This year the celebrations for the feast of Saint Camillus on the island of Flores will be full of small events. On July 14, the feast of the founder of the Order of Ministers of the Sick, MI, t ...
• 12 July 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of Mary Queen of the Apostles Seminary in the Archdiocese of Yaoundé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 4, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the Rev. Gaetan Bissa of the clergy in Ebolowa, as Rector of Mary Queen of the Apo ...
• 12 July 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Marco Pagani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 2, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Marco Pagani, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Nati ...
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  11 July 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - Jubilee Year: Melkite Greek Catholic Church celebrates 300 years of union with the Church of Rome Raboué (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2024 will be for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church a "Jubilee year, celebrated under the sign of unity among all Christians. A special time in which we are called to commemorate the 300 ...
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  11 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - At the end of the academic year, 37 new theology graduates in 5 Chinese Catholic Seminaries Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, 37 future Chinese Catholic priests graduated in theology in five seminaries in mainland China. Among the 37 new graduates, 13 graduated from the Nati ...
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  11 July 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - G9 gangs continue to threaten, loot and fuel insecurity: No one is spared from rising violence Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is very difficult, the bandits continue to arrive. Yesterday they came in force and it was really bad because they were not peaceful. While other times they come to talk, t ...
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  11 July 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Floods in the capital, 20,000 people displaced, resilience programs in place Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the heavy rains that continue to hit the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, since July 3, the rising waters of the Selbe and Tuul rivers have caused extensive flooding that has affecte ...
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  11 July 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "Let us remain united: the elections are not a fight between friends and enemies" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The forthcoming elections, described as "critical, decisive and decisive", "must not divide us as a nation", write the bishops of Zimbabwe in their pastoral letter dedicated to the elections of A ...