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  30 June 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Forty new priests in Vietnam during the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Vietnam continues to flourish in priestly vocations. In June 2025, the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and traditionally reserved for priestly ordi ...
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  30 June 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The People of God in China accompany the priests in their “Jubilee of Hope” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – With a 24-hour Eucharistic adoration and prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Chinese Catholics celebrated the days before and after the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the spirit of po ...
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  30 June 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Let us continue the dialogue with young people instead of blaming the bishops" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We want to ask everybody — the government, the leaders, and the political spheres — to look at the fact that we are taking care of the dignity of the young people,” said Archbishop Ph ...
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  30 June 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh: "An important step for the Catholic Church in Cambodia" Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - In 1975, the young Cambodian priest Joseph Chmar Salas was appointed coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh by Pope Paul VI. He was the first Cambodian bishop in history. Cambodia and ...
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  30 June 2025
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - New Bishop of Bafatà: Listening, dialogue, and walking with the people are among his priorities Bafatà (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to be a pastor present in the villages, in our most remote communities, in our wounded hearts," said Victor Luís Quematcha (OFM) in his homily at the first Holy Mass he celebrated as th ...
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  29 June 2025
  VATICAN - The unity of the Church "is nourished by forgiveness". Pope Leo celebrates the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Patrons of Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Rome “was born of the witness of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and made fruitful by the outpouring of their blood and that of many martyrs.” They too were poor sinners, wit ...
• 28 June 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Appointment of coadjutor vicar apostolic of Phnom-Penh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Pierre Suon Hangly, of the clergy of the apostolic vicariate of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia, until now prefect apostolic of Kompong-Cham, as coadjutor vi ...
• 28 June 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Calcutta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Elias Frank of Asansol as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Calcutta, India. (Agenzia Fides, 28/6/2025) ...
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  28 June 2025
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Jubilee for Children in Tetere: “On their way to Jesus” Tetere (Agenzia Fides) – Salesian missionaries working in the Solomon Islands have chosen to explain to children what the Jubilee is, the rites associated with the Holy Year, and how to make a pilgrimage to obtain the ...
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  28 June 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Luigi Buccarello, Superior General of the Trinitarians, confirms: "Where there is dialogue, there is no violence" by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We work in problematic, difficult, and complex contexts where persecution exists. Where violence and persecution prevail, there is no dialogue, there is no respect for other ...
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  27 June 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - University and solidarity: the choice to be present Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Another year of social responsibility activities, promoted by the university's Center for Integral Formation, has come to an end at the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma, UER ...
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  27 June 2025
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Archbishop of Smyrna: "We are awaiting Pope Leo XIV's visit to Nicaea Smyrna (Agenzia Fides) - "Pilgrimages to Nicaea are being organized from Smyrna, Istanbul, and other Turkish dioceses. And from abroad, representatives of parishes from all over the world are coming to what is now Iznik, ...
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  27 June 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo sign a peace agreement in Washington Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A peace agreement to end the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is scheduled to be signed today, June 27, between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. ...
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  27 June 2025
  ASIA - Central Asian countries seek to preserve water resources by Cosimo Graziani Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of May, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan signed a trilateral agreement regarding the allocation of water from the Bahri Tochik reservoir in Tajikistan duri ...
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  26 June 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo embraces Eastern Christians, struck by violence “with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” Vatican City – (Agenzia Fides) – Today, violent conflict seems to be raging in the Christian East "with a diabolical intensity previously unknown". And precisely in those lands, now covered “by a cloud of hatred t ...