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  3 August 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Tor Vergata, Leo XIV to young people: Jesus is our hope. Let us remain united to him, let us remain in his friendship Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Human beings are not made "for a life where everything is taken for granted and static, but for an existence that is constantly renewed through gift of self in love." This is why "we continually as ...
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  2 August 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The President of the Episcopal Conference makes an appeal at the First Congress on Children: “Protect the faith of children now” Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Safeguarding and cultivating the faith of children today is urgent and a priority. This was stated by Bishop Martin Mtumbuka, President of the Malawi Bishops' Conference (MCCB), at the openin ...
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  2 August 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Nagasaki, the Cathedral bell destroyed by the atomic bomb will ring again: "It will ring to invoke peace" by Fabio Beretta Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) – Buildings razed to the ground, living beings disintegrated, people killed in seconds as a result of an energy so devastating that their shadows remain imprinted on the wal ...
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  1 August 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Request to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian Gaetano Nicosia, apostle among the lepers of Macau Macau (Agenzia Fides) – A request has been made to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian missionary Gaetano Nicosia, originally from Sicily and who died in Hong Kong at the age of 102. The announcement was mad ...
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  1 August 2025
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The 20th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opens Kigali (Agenzia Fides) – The 20th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opened yesterday, July 31, in the Rwandan capital. The opening ceremony took place after ...
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  1 August 2025
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Calm has returned, but union demands remain unanswered Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation has returned to calm, but there is great dismay at the lives lost in recent days,” a Church source in Luanda, the capital of Angola, told Fides, following the violent protest ...
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  1 August 2025
  ASIA/KUWAIT - The Church of Our Lady of Arabia in Ahmadi has been elevated to a Minor Basilica: the first of its kind in the Arabian Peninsula Ahmadi (Agenzia Fides) – “This historic recognition by the Holy See is not only a great honor for our Vicariate, but a profound affirmation of the living faith of our people in the Arabian Peninsula.” Bishop Aldo B ...
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  31 July 2025
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Saint John Henry Newman, from Propaganda Fide seminarian to Doctor of the Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Saint John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church. This was established by Pope Leo XIV, who confirmed the decision of the Plenary Session of Cardinals and Bishops, Members of the ...
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  31 July 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bishop Berardi to the young pilgrims from the Vicariate of Northern Arabia who have arrived in Rome for the Jubilee: “Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit.”
  Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We live because we have hope. Hope is a way of receiving what we believe in. It is a blessing that makes us know the meaning of our life, which is Jesus.� ...
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  31 July 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Negotiations between Addis Ababa and Somalia over sea access stalled by Cosimo Graziani Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - According to diplomatic sources familiar with the matter, diplomatic negotiations between Ethiopia and Somalia to resolve the issue of Addis Ababa's access to the sea a ...
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  31 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas Bunia: “In July alone, more than 100 people died in Ituri despite the state of siege in place for four years” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “In our province alone, in July, more than 100 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered in attacks of unspeakable brutality.” This was revealed by the diocesan Caritas ...
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  31 July 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Countering misinformation and spreading messages of love, tolerance, and courage: Cambodian and Thai youth united in harmony Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – “We ask every man and woman, every child and elderly person with a good heart, to overcome conflict and choose the path of humility, wisdom, and dialogue.” This is what was said in the ...
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  30 July 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian bishops appeal to government over attacks on nuns and promised "rewards" for those who attack priests New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The nation's constitutional rights must be protected and guaranteed. This is what the Indian bishops are asking for in an appeal to the government in the face of "the growing climate of host ...
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  30 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The adventure “accompanied by small prayers” of Junho Chu, “digital missionary”
  by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “Now I know. After all, even the Fathers of the Church, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, repeated this simple phrase: to be ha ...
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  30 July 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Augustinian priest released 40 days after his disappearance Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) – Forty days after his disappearance, Carlos Saúl Jaimes Guerrero, an Augustinian priest belonging to the Province of Our Lady of Grace, has been released. The priest's religious community anno ...