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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Canonization process for Cardinal Kim begins Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul announced in a statement on July 5 that it had received the letter from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints regarding Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, which states that t ...
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  10 July 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Withdrawal of the Blue Helmets from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Paris and Washington take different positions Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is at the center of the geopolitical interests of the great powers due to its natural resources and its strategic location. On July 8, the UN Securi ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA - The gift of two Franciscan vocations that flourished among the ruins of war by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - For 800 years the Franciscans have been responsible for the care of the Holy Places and the "Living Stones" that inhabit them. The "Custody of the Holy Land" ope ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The Seminary of Sheshan awards diplomas to 35 lay people Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - The Seminary of Sheshan, in the diocese of Shanghai, celebrated the awarding of diplomas to 35 lay people on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. After a year of intensive study, they passed the ...
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  10 July 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Children and youth meeting “Awakening 2024”: Over a thousand participants from the Catholic community in Manama Manama (Agenzia Fides) - Four days of sharing, prayer, joy, music and celebration for the 1,155 participants of the "Awakening 2024" children and youth meeting. The event, organized in the Vicariate of Northern Arabi ...
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  9 July 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Humanitarian ceasefire in North Kivu: opportunity to provide aid or opportunity to rearm? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are two important new developments in the forgotten war in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: the first is the two-week humanitarian ceasefire that came into for ...
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  9 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Flourishing of vocations: Beijing seminary awards degrees to thirteen theology and seven philosophy students Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the 2023/2024 academic year, the Beijing seminary awarded degrees to thirteen theology and seven philosophy students. According to official information from the seminary, the 1 ...
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  9 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Mikah Suleiman released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank you for your prayers for my rescue", Father Mikah Suleiman thanked those who prayed for his release. In a video posted on social media, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on June 22 (see Fides ...
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  9 July 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "The Christian mission is a dynamic reality": Cardinal Tagle at the Centenary of the first National Missionary Congress Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a moment to give thanks to our merciful God, to listen again to the call to mission in our time and to respond with generosity, courage and creativity". This i show Cardinal Luis Antoni ...
• 8 July 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Surat Thani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Surat Thani, Thailand, presented by Bishop Joseph Prathan Sridarunsil. The Holy Father has appointed t ...
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  8 July 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Resilience is the best definition to describe the people in Tigray": the voice of the eparch of Adigrat by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Healing from the traumas of war, recovery on a human and physical level, building peace, are the salient points on which we are focusing to deal with the devastation and vi ...
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  8 July 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane Beryl devastates plantations: “People in Pourcine lose their only source of income” by Antonella Prenna Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "The hurricane has only hit us marginally, but the situation here in Pourcine is very difficult," said the Italian missionary Father Massimo Miraglio, directly from Port ...
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  8 July 2024
  VATICAN - A precious tool: The Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the Propaganda Fide Historical Archives Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A precious and invaluable historical resource for everyone, the Church, academics, scholars included, is what the Catalogue of Chinese documents in the Propaganda Fide Historical Archives ( ...
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  6 July 2024
  AFRICA - Sahel and beyond: the war of the mercenaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Russians are coming," Western observers have been repeating for some time, referring to the arrival of mercenaries from the former "Wagner Group" in the Sahel, particularly in the states where ...
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  6 July 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops recognize the commitment of the founder of the Shilsilah movement: "In the heart of every person there is always a corner of peace" Cagayan de Oro (Agenzia Fides) - On July 7, in Cagayan de Oro, the highest award of the Philippine Episcopal Conference, the "Golden Cross of Bishop Jorge Barlin", will be awarded to Father Sebastiano D'Ambra, an Italian ...