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• 26 June 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of Bishop of Gokwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 23, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Eusebius Jelous Nyathi, of the clergy of Hwange, currently Rector of the SS. John Fisher and Thomas More National Major Seminary of Chishawasha i ...
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  26 June 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hunger, violence, natural disasters, epidemics: the defenseless and terrified population Jeremie (Agenzia Fides) - Spirit of survival, precariousness, insecurity, this is the climate in which the population in Haiti lives. "People desperately need an end to violence and insecurity, both food and physical," s ...
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  26 June 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Perplexities of the Bishops on the constitutional referendum: "avoid new social and political unrest" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The process of socialization based on the family is in danger in our country", the Bishops of the Central African Republic complain in their closing message to the Plenary Assembly in Bangassou. ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Melkite Greek-Catholic Church prepares the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the re-establishment of full union with the Church of Rome Rabouè (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the three hundredth anniversary of the re-establishment of full communion of the Melkite Church with the Church of Rome will begin in Damascus on November 11, with a solemn ...
• 24 June 2023
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of Bishop of Kavieng Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Rev. Fr. Roland Vunuvung, of the clergy of Rabaul, currently parish priest of Vunadidir and deacon of Kokopo, as bishop of the diocese of Kavieng (Papua Ne ...
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  24 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - May it be real peace, and not a fragile "armistice". 73 years after the start of the war, Korean Catholics pray for reconciliation and national unity by Paolo Affatato Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the mid-1990s, the Swiss Kathi Zellweger, then director of international cooperation programs at Caritas Hong Kong, began to take an interest in North Korea, where a severe ...
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  24 June 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The history of the emergence of the terrorist AFD militias: Between opportunism and "change of label" by Luca Mainoldi Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The group responsible for the massacre at the school in Lhubiriha (Kasese district, western Uganda) on the night of June 17-18 (see Fides, 19/6/2023), has a complex history and ...
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  23 June 2023
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Building communities of faith also means providing them with a place of worship Foya (Agenzia Fides) - To make a church-family you need cement and closeness of heart. This was said by Father Walter Maccalli, a missionary involved in building churches and communities in northern Liberia. The priest ...
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  23 June 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The country goes to the polls. Father Peter Konteh (Caritas): there will also be Catholics in the next government Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone is preparing for a new round of elections. The country, ravaged by an atrocious decade-long conflict (1991-2002) between the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front supported by s ...
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  23 June 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - At least 43 arms exhibitions have been held around the world since the start of the war in Ukraine by Luca Mainoldi Paris (Agenzia Fides) - This week the most prestigious aeronautical exhibition in the world opened at the Parisian airport of Le Bourget, together with the British exhibition in Fanborough. The two ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New Chinese studies on the valuable role of missionary congregations and institutes in the apostolic work of the Church in China in the first half of the 20th century Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The first half of the 20th century represented a crucial historical phase for contemporary China, and also for the apostolic work of the Catholic Church in "Middle-earth". Those decades were mar ...
• 22 June 2023
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the Bishop of Palmerston North Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 22, the Holy Father appointed Rev. John Lewis Adams, of the clergy of Christchurch, currently parish priest of St. Peter Chanel, as bishop of the diocese of Palmerston North (New Ze ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Catholic community remembers and honors those who gave their lives for faith in Christ Taing Kok (Agenzia Fides) - At least once a year, Cambodian Catholics stop to commemorate those who gave their lives for faith in Christ and are "seeds and fathers" of today's Cambodian faith community: more than 3,000 C ...
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  22 June 2023
  EURASIA/RUSSIA - Siberia, a new Catholic Church dedicated and named after Saint Joseph in Berdsk Berdsk (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic Church in the heart of Siberia is named after Saint Joseph. Members of the small Catholic community in Berdsk, a town of 95,000 people 40 kilometers from Novosibirsk, are delight ...
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  22 June 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnappings: Police free Catholic priest and Muslim believers collect donations to free Christian citizens Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The scourge of kidnappings in Nigeria does not stop, but there are also cases that are resolved positively with the intervention of the police or that show that there are forms of solidarity that ...