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  6 August 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Vailankanni, the Indian Shrine where everyone experiences Mary's motherhood New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - India is preparing for the great Marian feast celebrated at the Shrine of Velankanni in the state of Tamil Nadu. Every year this Marian shrine is visited by millions of pilgrims, half of whom ...
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  6 August 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako on the expulsion of Christians from the Nineveh Plain ten years ago: "The collective tragedy is still ingrained in people's minds" by Fabio Beretta Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Although the black flag of the Islamic State no longer flies over the Nineveh Plains, "only 60 percent of Christians have returned". It is a collective tragedy, directed aga ...
• 6 August 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Priest arrested: "The prosecutor has not yet commented" N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not know where Father Madou is after his arrest yesterday. The prosecutor has not yet commented and therefore there is no formal charge against him," report local ecclesiastical sources ...
• 6 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The population traumatized after the attack on the beach in Mogadishu by Gianluca Frinchillucci Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Mogadishu and the whole of Somalia were shaken by a tragic act of terrorism last Friday, August 2, when members of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab attacke ...
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  5 August 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Missionaries paid a high price during World War II Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - They were mistaken for enemy spies and killed for this reason. This was the fate of several Catholic missionaries involved in the evangelization of Papua New Guinea during World War II, an ...
• 5 August 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - After the Prime Minister's resignation, the army takes power Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Now that the protesters have got what they wanted, we hope that the situation will calm down," a local source in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where today, August 5, Prime Minister Sheikh Has ...
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  5 August 2024
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - "As the day approaches, we are very excited and we are preparing to welcome the successor of Peter with great devotion": the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians await Pope Francis Comoro (Agenzia Fides) - "As coordinators, we do not work alone, two parishes are involved in the area of Comoro: the Parish of Aimutin of the Claretian religious and that of Mary Help of Christians, of the Salesians. We ...
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  5 August 2024
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - The Katekita and the fundamental role of the laity for the proclamation of the Gospel in the daily life of the "Church overseas" Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 2 August, at 6 p.m. local time, the large church of "Maria No Te Hau" (Mary, Our Lady of Peace) in the heart of Papeete was packed to celebrate one of the most important events in the ...
• 5 August 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - Tinzaouaten massacre: military government breaks off diplomatic relations with Ukraine Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We immediately break off diplomatic relations with Ukraine," said the military junta of Mali yesterday, August 4, in view of the alleged involvement of the Ukrainian military intelligence in the ...
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  5 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Towards the Holy Year: young Catholics from the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow met in Kaliningrad by Chiara Dommarco Kaliningrad (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not just the expectation of something longed for and far away: it is a foretaste in which we can already find what we want," said Father Denis Malov (CMF) to ...
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  3 August 2024
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Tong Papal Envoy to the Fifth Eucharistic Congress of Taiwan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal John Tong Hon, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, as his special envoy to preside at the concluding celebration of the Fifth Eucharistic Congr ...
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  3 August 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - "The righteous will grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Patriarch Stephen Douayhy proclaimed blessed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The righteous will flourish like the palm tree, will grow like the cedar of Lebanon". This is how Cardinal Marcello Semeraro began his homily during the solemn liturgical celebration of the beat ...
• 3 August 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - The attack on the Russian Wagner group by Tuaregs and jihadists shows the complexity of the situation in Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - On July 27, a mixed convoy of soldiers of the Malian army and mercenaries of the Russian private military company "Wagner Group" was the victim of a series of deadly attacks in north-western Mali ...
• 2 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The first day of protests against the government's economic policies leaves more than a dozen dead Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least a dozen dead in various areas of Nigeria is the result of the first day of protests called yesterday, August 1 (see Fides, 1/8/2024), against the economic policies of President Bola Ahmed ...
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  2 August 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - From tribes to seminaries: vocations in rural areas are on the rise Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - This young Church has no vocations crisis. The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea is expecting the visit of Pope Francis in a few weeks. The Bishop of Rome will stop in the country for jus ...