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  21 August 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presidential vote and environmental referendum: No to drilling in the Amazon; two candidates for the second round Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador still in shock over the assassination of candidate Fernando Villavicencio (see Fides, 10/8/2023) voted yesterday, Sunday August 20, for the first round of presidential elections and for th ...
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  21 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Niger is a mirror of the international community" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Even a military coup still in progress can highlight, as in a mirror, the roles and characters of the drama taking place in Niamey and elsewhere", writes to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary ...
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  21 August 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prayer and solidarity with the displaced persons of Jaranwala Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer, solidarity with the displaced, demand for justice: this is how the Christian community in Pakistan lives in the days following the events of August 16 in the town of Jaranwala, where ...
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  21 August 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - On mission in Arvajhėėr. The strategies of men, the surprises of God by Gianni Valente Arvajhėėr (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest census, there are fewer than 20,000 inhabitants in Arvajhėėr. In was in this small town in Mongolia, 400 kilometers sout ...
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  19 August 2023
  AFRICA - The rush for African lithium: an opportunity for the continent? Rome (Fides News Agency) - Africa holds 30-75% of the world's reserves of lithium, phosphate, copper, chromium, manganese, gold, platinum, diamonds and aluminum. Some of these are minerals, such as lithium, which are i ...
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  18 August 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Day of prayer after attacks on churches Lahore (Fides News Agency) – On Sunday, August 20, a special Day of Prayer will be held in Pakistan, in all the nation's Catholic communities: with this announcement, the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference entrusts ...
• 17 August 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - Erection of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu and appointment of the first Metropolitan Archbishop Osaka (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis, on the 15th of August 2023, erected the new Metropolitan Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu, to merge the Archdiocese of Osaka and the Diocese of Takamatsu. The Holy F ...
• 17 August 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Inhambane Inhambane (Fides News Agency) - On the 11th of August 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed H.E. Mons. Hilário Da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M. - the Bishop of Quelimane until now - Auxiliary Bishop of Inhambane, assigning hi ...
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  17 August 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Presidential elections, the country heading to polls amid tensions and social emergencies Harare (Fides News Agency) - Zimbabwe is approaching the August 23rd presidential elections amid fears and socio-economic crisis. The southern African country, liberated in 2017 from President-Master Robert Mugabe, who, ...
• 12 August 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - Erection of the Diocese of Koumra and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis has erected the new Diocese of Koumra, with territory taken from the Diocese of Sarh, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of N'Djaména. The ...
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  12 August 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - "When you're hungry, it's difficult to hear others scream". The stream of Sudanese refugees is jeopardizing coexistence in frontier areas N’Djamena (Fides News Agency) - "Although in Europe they don't discuss it much, since April 15, 2023, Sudan has been experiencing a dramatic armed conflict between rivaling factions, headed by two generals that for ye ...
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  12 August 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Chinese Pilgrims at World Youth Day: Faith is a “Joy and a grace” by Victor Gaetan Lisbon (Fides News Agency) - The five-star red flag of China flew big and bold, near ones from Argentina and Portugal, close to the front of World Youth Day’s stage as Via Crucis was about to beg ...
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  11 August 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Slaying of presidential candidate brings to light criminal underworld connected with international cocaine trade Quito (Fides News Agency) - Six Columbians were arrested yesterday, August 10, in connection with the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio (see Fides 10/8/2023). During a police raid on an establishmen ...
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  11 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Chronicles from the military coup capital Niamey (Fides News Agency) - While the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided yesterday, at the summit in Abuja (Nigeria), to activate the "standby force" - tasked with intervening "as soon as possibl ...
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  10 August 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - President of Israel visits Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa, object of vandalistic acts Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) - The President of Israel Isaac Herzog, along with his wife and a delegation, paid a private solidarity visit to the Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa, which - like other Christian places of w ...