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• 13 July 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - John Baptist Nguyen Huy Bac appointed Bishop of Ban Mê Thuôt Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. John Baptist Nguyen Huy Bac, of the clergy of Ban Mê Thuôt, until now director of the Pastoral Centre and chair of the Regional Commission f ...
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  12 July 2024
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Leeward Islands: Catholic community offers first training event for catechists Raiatea (Fides) - The first training event for catechists and committed lay people of the Catholic Church in the Leeward Islands, the islands under the wind in the western part of the Society Islands archipelago, is unde ...
• 12 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Catholic Bishops and the Islamic Forum of Nigeria contrary to the Samoa Agreement: “A threat to the sovereignty and values of Nigeria” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "A threat to the sovereignty and values of Nigeria". This is how the Bishops of Nigeria defined the Samoa Agreement, agreed on 15 November 2023, in Apia (Samoa Islands) by the European Union and i ...
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  12 July 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Will India’s foreign policy change after the last elections? by Cosimo Graziani New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The unfortunate outcome of the elections in the world's most populous democracy for the Indian government has raised the suspicion among more than one observer that Prim ...
• 11 July 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Raising awareness for aid and health care: nuns serving in rural areas of the country Kasese (Agenzia Fides) - Due to poverty and the resulting inability to pay for medical services, in rural areas of the country access to health facilities and doctors is very limited and residents end up dying easily tre ...
• 11 July 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan celebrates the anniversary of independence in hope, but the situation remains difficult Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Between light (little) and shadow (a lot), South Sudan celebrated the anniversary of independence on July 9. On the one hand, there are the timid hopes of a peace agreement with the armed groups ...
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  11 July 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Representatives of the Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches participate in the Christian Youth Forum on the theme of the family by Chiara Dommarco Konevec (Agenzia Fides) - The third edition of the Christian Youth Forum, which was also attended by two Catholic women representing the Catholic Church in Russia, ended today on the island of Kone ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Canonization process for Cardinal Kim begins Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul announced in a statement on July 5 that it had received the letter from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints regarding Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, which states that t ...
• 10 July 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Withdrawal of the Blue Helmets from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Paris and Washington take different positions Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is at the center of the geopolitical interests of the great powers due to its natural resources and its strategic location. On July 8, the UN Securi ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA - The gift of two Franciscan vocations that flourished among the ruins of war by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - For 800 years the Franciscans have been responsible for the care of the Holy Places and the "Living Stones" that inhabit them. The "Custody of the Holy Land" ope ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The Seminary of Sheshan awards diplomas to 35 lay people Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - The Seminary of Sheshan, in the diocese of Shanghai, celebrated the awarding of diplomas to 35 lay people on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. After a year of intensive study, they passed the ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Children and youth meeting “Awakening 2024”: Over a thousand participants from the Catholic community in Manama Manama (Agenzia Fides) - Four days of sharing, prayer, joy, music and celebration for the 1,155 participants of the "Awakening 2024" children and youth meeting. The event, organized in the Vicariate of Northern Arabi ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...