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• 5 July 2024
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Confirmation of the Director of the PMS, Fr. Alessandro Barelli SDB Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Alessandro Barelli, of the Society of Francis de Sales, Salesians of Don Bo ...
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  5 July 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - First Catholic Church in Tokyo celebrates 150 years of foundation Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "As 150 years ago, we face many challenges today, but our hope is as strong as it was then, as that of the missionaries who built this church, as that of the Catholic community of that time," sai ...
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  5 July 2024
  AFRICA//ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Souraphiel: “If you want to help us, train our young people so that they can work” Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Ethiopia there are several conflicts, but we must never lose hope", says Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa, who gave an interview to Fides. ...
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  5 July 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Camillians after Hurricane Beryl: "We are still alive, thank God!" Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "We have survived the first hurricane of the season and despite significant damage to crops and the most fragile houses... but we are still alive, thank God," said Father Massimo Miraglio, a Ca ...
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  4 July 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Not only cocaine: priests call for the fight against drug trafficking Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we are concerned about the damage caused by drugs because they destabilize the country, ruin the economy and their trafficking is seen as an easy way to enrich themselves," say the ...
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  4 July 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Protection of the dignity and sacredness of all human life: the diocese of Kasese against human trafficking Kasese (Agenzia Fides) - Each human being is precious and worth much more than any material good, and since each life is a gift from God and is sacred, it deserves to be protected and cared for; each of us has the respon ...
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  4 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The father of three priest sons has returned to the Father's house: the praise of the three bishops of the respective dioceses in which the three brothers are engaged Changzhi (Agenzia Fides) - "I have always advised all the faithful to remain discreet and humble. But today I would like to praise out loud and with pride, in front of everyone, this Catholic father who not only consecra ...
• 4 July 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Establishment of the Diocese of Bentiu and appointment of His Exc. Msgr Christian Carlassare as first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, the Holy Father established the Catholic Diocese of Bentiu (South Sudan), with territory dismembered from the Diocese of Malakal, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdi ...
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  3 July 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - No glimmer of peace seems to be in sight while the humanitarian situation is increasingly dramatic Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We are continuing in this battle until victory, and I repeat once again that we will not negotiate with an enemy who attacks us and occupies our lands." This is how General Abdel Fattah al-Bur ...
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  3 July 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Parliamentary investigation into former President Duterte's 'war on drugs' Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Representatives of the Philippines has opened an investigation into the "war on drugs", the state campaign launched and implemented by former President Rodrigo Duterte during the yea ...
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  3 July 2024
  AFRICA/BENIN - A missionary from the Society of African Missions: “To proclaim the Gospel to the most abandoned peoples, especially in Africa” Calavi (Agenzia Fides) - "After ten months at the International Center for Spirituality in Calavi, together with 40 seminarians and five formators from fifteen different nations, we have reached the culmination of our pa ...
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  2 July 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Turkey mediates between Somalia and Ethiopia over Somaliland naval deal crisis Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey plays a mediating role in the crisis between Somalia and Ethiopia over the naval agreement that the latter signed at the beginning of the year with the breakaway region of Somaliland (s ...
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  2 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Suicide bombings in Gwoza: is it a rivalry between jihadists for control of the area? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims of the quadruple bombings carried out on June 29 in Gwoza, in Borno state, in north-eastern Nigeria, has risen to 32. Some of the 50 or so wounded died in hospital, where the ...
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  2 July 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In connection with the violence in Jaranwala: young Christian sentenced to death Sahiwal (Agenzia Fides) - In a controversial decision, the Anti-Terrorism Court in Sahiwal has sentenced the young Christian Ehsan Shan to death for allegedly sharing a blasphemous post on social media, considered the ca ...
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  2 July 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - The parish priest of Abbasiya after a serious fire: “We will hold on to our faith, despite all the daily difficulties and hardships” Mangaf (Agenzia Fides) - "We will hold on to our faith, despite all the daily difficulties and hardships. We will never give up even in difficult moments. Our Catholic faith will be an instrument that will strengthen us ...