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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Young people take to the streets against the draft finance law Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tuko wengi", "We are many" in Swahili. This is the slogan of the protests taking place in various Kenyan cities against the government's draft budget law, which provides for the introduction o ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - President of the Episcopal Conference. "We are a young and dynamic Church" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Guinea is a young but at the same time dynamic Church" says Raphaël Balla Guilavogui, Bishop of N'Zérékoré, President of the Episcopal Conference of Guinea, who granted an int ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Father Erminio De Santis: "We provide all-round care for hundreds of street children, orphans and young people in need" Ivato (Agenzia Fides) - On June 24, two days before the Malagasy National Day, the school year ends for the students of the "Notre Dame de Clairvaux" center of the Salesian missionaries (SDB). Agenzia Fides spoke to the ...
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  20 June 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Through creation we reach the Creator": Caring for the common home on the island of Flores Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - Promoting respect, protection and love for creation is a way of getting in touch with the Creator, in the spirit of Francis of Assisi, in the spirit of the encyclical "Laudato Sì", said the Pres ...
• 20 June 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of bishop of Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jean Baptiste Valter Manga, of the clergy of Ziguinchor, until now vice rector of the Notre Dame Major Seminary in Brin and vicar of the parish of ...
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  20 June 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - After explosion in ammunition depot: official report speaks of nine dead and 46 injured N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The official report speaks of 9 dead and 46 injured, but the number of victims is probably much higher," an observer from N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, where a large arms and ammunition dep ...
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  20 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Emmanuel's long journey: 33 years of loneliness and hope by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Emmanuel, originally from Maryland County, Liberia, began his long journey when he was only 17 years old. It is 2008, during the first term of President Ellen Johnson Sirlea ...
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  19 June 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Analysis and comments by the Lebanese media on the imminent visit of Cardinal Parolin Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A pastoral visit to a country marked by a stagnant institutional and economic crisis and threatened by the growing risk of an expansion of the conflict that is tearing the Middle East, is how the ...
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  19 June 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Tensions between North and South Korea: Catholics pray for reconciliation and national unity Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1965, the Korean Church has celebrated June 25 as the Day of Prayer for Reconciliation and National Unity. It is a special moment in which the entire Korean Catholic community gathers in pra ...
• 19 June 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Soddo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Dejene Hidoto Gamo, O.F.M. Cap., until now provincial viar of Kidane Meheret of the Capuchin Friars of Ethiopia, guardian of the fraternity of ...
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  19 June 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Five hundred parishioners, associations and community groups in Salmiya welcome Saint Aretha Salmiya (Agenzia Fides) - "It was one of the most beautiful events in the Church of Salmiya, involving all faith communities," a parishioner of the Church of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, in the heart of the Indian ...
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  19 June 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Explosion in the capital's largest weapons depot: number of victims still unknown N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "We were awakened yesterday evening around 11 p.m. by a huge explosion," an observer from church circles in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, told Fides. "The first loud explosion was followed b ...
• 19 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY AACHEN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 14, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Fr. Dirk Bingener as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
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  19 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - New church dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua has been consecrated, and is the result of the commitment of the entire community Xilin Gol League (Agenzia Fides) - Today "we have inaugurated a place of worship, but we must also build a spiritual temple in our hearts," said the Archbishop of Hohhot, Paul Meng Qinglu, in the Chinese province of Inn ...
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  18 June 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Indiscriminate bombing of hospitals and refugee camps in North Darfur Al-Fashir (Agenzia Fides) - Patients and staff at the Southern Hospital in Al-Fashir, in the Darfur region, in north-western Sudan, were wounded and shot by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The rebels also attacked the ne ...