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  27 July 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - On August 15, the closing celebrations of the Altagracian Jubilee Year Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED) has announced the celebrations planned for the closing of the Altagracian Jubilee Year, convened on the occasion of the centenary of the canonical ...
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  27 July 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appeal by religious leaders: justice and security for religious minorities Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – More than 100 leaders of religious minority communities in Bangladesh, a country with a large Muslim majority, demonstrate and express disappointment at the violence against their places of wors ...
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  27 July 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Formation and missionary awareness of priests, crucial for the life of the Church, looking at the treasures of the past Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of seminarians and priests and their missionary awareness are crucial for the life of the Church in Vietnam: according to information from Agenzia Fides, Fr. Anton Nguyen Van Thang, ...
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  26 July 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The siege in Tigray continues, the heparch of Adigrat calls for immediate action Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Understand that this continuous situation of silent genocide is consuming every day, minute and hour, an immense number of innocent lives of children, women and men of all ages; stop supporting ...
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  26 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Animation tools available in view of World Mission Sunday Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Theological insights and handouts for the missionary vigil, the rosary and Eucharistic adoration. These are the tools designed by the Missio Foundation, which can now be downloaded, on the occasion ...
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  26 July 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A digital photography contest to value the elderly in the Church and in society Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Recognizing and valuing the elderly in the Church and in Korean society, helping grandparents to bear fruit according to God's will, in line with Pope Francis' message for the World Day of Grandpa ...
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  26 July 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian sentenced to death on false accusations of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Lahore court sentenced to death a Christian accused of blasphemy in 2017. On July 4, 2022, at Lahore in the province of Punjab, Session Court sentenced to death by hanging Ashfaq Masih, now 3 ...
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  26 July 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - International Seminar: reflections and proposals to achieve "Comprehensive Disarmament in Latin America and the Caribbean" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Today, July 26, the International Seminar "Comprehensive Disarmament in Latin America and the Caribbean" is being held at the Santo Tomás University of Bogota, whose objective is to inform about ...
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  26 July 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - "One cannot proclaim God in a way contrary to God himself". Pope Francis asks native peoples for forgiveness Edmonton (Agenzia Fides) - Faith in Christ can only be announced "in freedom and charity", as Christ himself wishes. When one renounces this trait of gratuitousness, and wants to "inculcate God in people" by imposing him ...
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  25 July 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops ask for "informed discernment and vote in conscience" for the new Constitution Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - On September 4, Chileans are called to approve or reject the text of the new political Constitution for the country, marking the last stage of a long process that began with street protests and ...
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  25 July 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Attack on the inauguration of the church of Saint Sofia, wanted by the Russians Hama (Agenzia Fides) – Two people were killed and 12 injured on Sunday, July 24 by bombardment of a church as it was being inaugurated in the Syrian village of al-Suqaylabiyah, not far from the city of Hama. The small ...
• 25 July 2022
  AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of Bishop of Franceville, Msgr. Ephrem Ndjoni Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Ephrem Ndjoni of the clergy of Franceville, Gabon, until now parish priest of the Cathedral of Saint Hilaire, as bishop of the same diocese. Msgr ...
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  25 July 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Desolation is one of the new names for many areas of the Sahel: space between two shores Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "July 2019 to July 2022 is three full years of absence. This is the time that has passed, also of sand, since my last stay in Italy, mother and country according to the best traditions of the pas ...
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  25 July 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Catholics celebrate the Jubilees of "Propaganda Fide" and of the Pontifical Mission Societies Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Bangladesh celebrates the 400th anniversary of the founding of the dicastery of "Propaganda Fide" (1622-2022) and the 200th anniversary of the creation of the Pontifical Mis ...
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  25 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sister Luisa Dall’Orto: "Her dedicated life speaks with facts, with an echo that generates hope and spreads charity" Lecco (Agenzia Fides) - "She was murdered, 'the Angel of children', poor among the poor, without thinking of herself, but giving herself for the little ones, the most fragile, the weakest, the last on earth, in which Jes ...