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  19 June 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Pain and questions after the massacre at the Lhubiriha school Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The group that committed the massacre at the Lhubiriha secondary school (Kasese district, western Uganda) on the night of June 17-18 had been in the area for at least two days. This was stated b ...
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  19 June 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new "last mile" of Doctors with Africa Cuamm in favor of the population of Bossongoa Bossongoa (Agenzia Fides) - A new 'last mile' where some 180,000 people live, a single 130-bed hospital with two general practitioners, without specialists, who do a little of everything. This is Bossongoa, a remote and ...
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  19 June 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Murders, violence, kidnappings: the population lives in conditions of total insecurity Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We recognize their dedication and sacrifice and we pay tribute to them for the noble work carried out with courage". This is what we read in a statement from the Mexican episcopate, the Con ...
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  18 June 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis, first Angelus after surgery: If we want to be good apostles, we must be like children Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "If we want to be good apostles, we must be like children". This is the evocative "program" proposed by Pope Francis to all those who are called to proclaim the Gospel of Christ, imitating his firs ...
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  17 June 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Pope's Apostolic Letter "Desiderio Desideravi" is in Bengali, in a work by Cardinal D'Rozario Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter 'Desiderio desideravi' has been translated into Bengali and been illustrated and commented for the benefit of the faithful in a book written by Cardinal Patrick D'Ro ...
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  17 June 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Antiquum ministerium" and the dream come true of the Uncanha Catechetical Center, the "citadel of catechists" by Stefano Lodigiani Tete (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2017, when I arrived in Uncanha, the dream of a formation center for catechists began to take shape, a 'Catequistado', which would include the whole family, and not just ...
• 16 June 2023
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Gizo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Gizo, Solomon Islands, presented by Bishop Luciano Capelli, S.D.B. The Holy Father has appointed Bisho ...
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  16 June 2023
  OCEANIA/FIJI - A movement to apply Laudato Sì to the context of Fiji: initiative of the missionaries of Saint Columban Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission "Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation" of the Missionary Society of St. Columban wants to work within a new movement for the implementation of the principles of the encyclical "L ...
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  16 June 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Consolata Missionaries have elected the X Superior General: the first of African origin Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fr James Bhola Lengarin IMC is the new Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries. A missionary born in Kenya, he was elected on June 12 as the tenth Superior General in the history of the Cons ...
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  16 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Governor of West Darfur State assassinated after asking for international protection Geneima (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of West Darfur state and head of the Sudanese Alliance, Khamis Abdallah Abkar, was killed on Wednesday, 14 June, two months after the start of the armed conflict between the Sudanes ...
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  15 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - A precious (and useful) "database" on the historical evolution of Catholic dioceses in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A complete overview of the history of Catholic dioceses in China, which traces the history and the historical stages passed through by each ecclesiastical circumscription from its foundation to ...
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  15 June 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Economy is recovering: Catholic communities remain in solidarity even after the crisis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka is on the way out of the worst economic crisis in decades that hit the country last year when its foreign exchange reserves ran out and the country went into default. The drastic measu ...
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  15 June 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - People flee Las Anod: "We have nothing to eat, the only thing we get is water" Las Anod (Agenzia Fides) - The clashes between the security forces of separatist Somaliland, who have been occupying the city of Las Anod in the north of the country since 2007, and the militias of the local clans, who a ...
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  15 June 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentina is one of the largest lithium producers in the world: the intensive mining poses risks for the country's sensitive ecosystem Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy to be in Argentina, a valuable partner. There are so many opportunities waiting for us in the trade, energy or digital areas", wrote the President of the European Commissio ...
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  14 June 2023
  MIDDLE EAST - After the earthquake, the Arab countries re-embrace the "pariah nation": The end of Syria's isolation as seen by the Holy See by Victor Gaetan* Good news has been rare for Syria since 2011. Ravaged by over a decade of war, compounded by poverty and a pandemic, more persecution arrived on February 6 when earthquakes killed some 6,000 people ...