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  9 July 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Humanitarian ceasefire in North Kivu: opportunity to provide aid or opportunity to rearm? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are two important new developments in the forgotten war in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: the first is the two-week humanitarian ceasefire that came into for ...
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  9 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Flourishing of vocations: Beijing seminary awards degrees to thirteen theology and seven philosophy students Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the 2023/2024 academic year, the Beijing seminary awarded degrees to thirteen theology and seven philosophy students. According to official information from the seminary, the 1 ...
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  9 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Mikah Suleiman released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank you for your prayers for my rescue", Father Mikah Suleiman thanked those who prayed for his release. In a video posted on social media, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on June 22 (see Fides ...
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  9 July 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "The Christian mission is a dynamic reality": Cardinal Tagle at the Centenary of the first National Missionary Congress Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a moment to give thanks to our merciful God, to listen again to the call to mission in our time and to respond with generosity, courage and creativity". This i show Cardinal Luis Antoni ...
• 8 July 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Surat Thani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Surat Thani, Thailand, presented by Bishop Joseph Prathan Sridarunsil. The Holy Father has appointed t ...
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  8 July 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Resilience is the best definition to describe the people in Tigray": the voice of the eparch of Adigrat by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Healing from the traumas of war, recovery on a human and physical level, building peace, are the salient points on which we are focusing to deal with the devastation and vi ...
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  8 July 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane Beryl devastates plantations: “People in Pourcine lose their only source of income” by Antonella Prenna Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "The hurricane has only hit us marginally, but the situation here in Pourcine is very difficult," said the Italian missionary Father Massimo Miraglio, directly from Port ...
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  8 July 2024
  VATICAN - A precious tool: The Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the Propaganda Fide Historical Archives Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A precious and invaluable historical resource for everyone, the Church, academics, scholars included, is what the Catalogue of Chinese documents in the Propaganda Fide Historical Archives ( ...
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  6 July 2024
  AFRICA - Sahel and beyond: the war of the mercenaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Russians are coming," Western observers have been repeating for some time, referring to the arrival of mercenaries from the former "Wagner Group" in the Sahel, particularly in the states where ...
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  6 July 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops recognize the commitment of the founder of the Shilsilah movement: "In the heart of every person there is always a corner of peace" Cagayan de Oro (Agenzia Fides) - On July 7, in Cagayan de Oro, the highest award of the Philippine Episcopal Conference, the "Golden Cross of Bishop Jorge Barlin", will be awarded to Father Sebastiano D'Ambra, an Italian ...
• 5 July 2024
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Confirmation of the Director of the PMS, Fr. Alessandro Barelli SDB Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Alessandro Barelli, of the Society of Francis de Sales, Salesians of Don Bo ...
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  5 July 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - First Catholic Church in Tokyo celebrates 150 years of foundation Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "As 150 years ago, we face many challenges today, but our hope is as strong as it was then, as that of the missionaries who built this church, as that of the Catholic community of that time," sai ...
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  5 July 2024
  AFRICA//ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Souraphiel: “If you want to help us, train our young people so that they can work” Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Ethiopia there are several conflicts, but we must never lose hope", says Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa, who gave an interview to Fides. ...
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  5 July 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Camillians after Hurricane Beryl: "We are still alive, thank God!" Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "We have survived the first hurricane of the season and despite significant damage to crops and the most fragile houses... but we are still alive, thank God," said Father Massimo Miraglio, a Ca ...
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  4 July 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Not only cocaine: priests call for the fight against drug trafficking Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we are concerned about the damage caused by drugs because they destabilize the country, ruin the economy and their trafficking is seen as an easy way to enrich themselves," say the ...