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  20 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - “Salt of the earth, light of the world”. 11 new graduates at the Major Seminary of Shaanxi Province Xi'an (Agenzia Fides) - “Be aware of the sacred call of the Lord and have an ecclesial spirit”. It is with these recommendations that Antonio Dang Mingyan, Archbishop of Xi'an and rector of the Philosophical and Theo ...
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  20 July 2024
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Testimonies, reflections and prayers at the VIII Bolivian Missionary Congress, in preparation for CAM6 Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - Last week was a very intense week for the more than 400 participants of the VIII Bolivian National Missionary Congress, a fundamental stage of reflection and sharing in preparation for the America ...
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  19 July 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Legal age for Christian marriage at 18: a step forward to protect girls and abandon child marriage Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The updating of the law on Christian marriage in Pakistan is an important step forward to protect girls from early marriages, says Kamran Michael, Christian politician and former senator, who ...
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  19 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities care for “brides from far away”, women wounded by life by Marta Zhao Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They are called “brides from far away”. They mostly belong to ethnic minority groups and often live in conditions of extreme poverty. They suffer from abuse and forms ...
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  18 July 2024
  ASIA/JORDAN - 75 years of 'Pontifical Mission': "What Pius XII began continues today with Pope Francis" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "What Pius XII began continues today with Pope Francis." The Pontifical Mission for Palestine celebrates its Diamond Jubilee in Jordan, commemorating the 75th anniversary of its foundation, marked ...
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  18 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Yang of Hangzhou speaks about his experience at the October 2023 Synod of Bishops Assembly Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Msgr. Joseph Yang Yongquiang, new bishop of Hangzhou in the Chinese province of Zhejiang appointed by Pope Francis on June 12, 2024, recounted his experience during his participation in the XVI ...
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  18 July 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church addresses the young people who participated in Mission Day: “Be missionaries wherever you are” Agenzia Fides (Cairo) - More than 100 young people from 11 parishes together with their 30 animators participated, in the main church of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Cairo, in the Mission Day held at the beginning ...
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  17 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In Xi'an academics and scholars turn the spotlight back on the history of the ancient Church of the East in China by Gianni Valente Xi'an (Agenzia Fides) - The pagoda in Daqin, although in quite a state and unusable, still stands out in the mountains of Zhouzhi county, a few dozen kilometres from Xi'an. That pagoda – say a gro ...
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  16 July 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - After Africa, South Korea's international strategy focuses on Central Asia Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - After the summit with African countries on June 5, during which investments in the continent amounting to 24 billion dollars were announced, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol made a tour in Cen ...
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  16 July 2024
  EUROPE/BELARUS - Jesuits and Salesians celebrate the memory of Father Stanisław Michalski, murdered at Christmas 1950 Višnevo (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, July 13, in Višnevo, a Belarusian town near the border with Lithuania, the new tomb where the remains of Father Stanisław Michalski SJ, a Polish Jesuit who died as a martyr at Chri ...
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  16 July 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - 'Mobile Journalism': Training course for journalists from the local radio of the Salesian missionaries Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - For five days, journalists from the Radio Don Bosco station participated in a training course on basic photography and video techniques through the practice of 'MoJo' (Mobile Journalism). T ...
• 16 July 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Nekemte Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Getahun Fanta Shikune, C.M., until now spiritual director of the Lazarist School of Addis Ababa and spiritual director of the Daughters of Cha ...
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  16 July 2024
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Church in Guatemala celebrates 500 years of evangelization in the country Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Over 500 years the Church in all its communities has grown and expanded, the good news of Jesus has been welcomed by numerous peoples and has made us grow in dignity, aware of that divin ...
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  15 July 2024
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Presidential elections, Bishops appeal not to desert the polls Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The electoral appointment on July 28 "will mark the future" of the Venezuelan Republic. For this reason it is necessary to overcome the temptation of abstentionism and apathy, and take note that ...
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  15 July 2024
  AMERICA/CHILE - National Youth Day: encounter with a Catholic identity, open to all La Serena (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of young people from all over the country will gather accompanied by their pastors, assistants and animators who serve in the different youth pastoral environments, on the occasion o ...