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  9 August 2024
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - “Witnesses of Christ with the power of the Spirit”. The Pontifical Mission Societies towards CAM6 Comayagua (Agenzia Fides) - The American Missionary Congress (CAM6), scheduled for next November in Puerto Rico, is getting closer and closer and the direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Honduras has or ...
• 9 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Is South Africa a financial center for ISIS in Africa? Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The presence in South Africa of people linked to the Islamic State (IS) does not seem to worry the government. This was stated by the President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Con ...
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  8 August 2024
  VATICAN - Cancelation of debts to achieve peace: Pope Francis' dream for the Jubilee Year by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cancelation of debts as a path to peace. This is what Pope Francis, like his predecessors, had called for for the upcoming Jubilee Year. The Pontiff also formulates t ...
• 8 August 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "It is to be hoped that public order will be restored after the incidents that have affected mainly Hindus and Christians" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are waiting for the new government led by Muhammad Yunus" an source from the local Church in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, told Fides. Muhammad Yunus, 84, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 ...
• 8 August 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops: “The ceasefire signed in Luanda for eastern DRC must be implemented” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The ceasefire agreement must be fully implemented," the Congolese Bishops' Conference demands of the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. In a statement published on Aug ...
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  7 August 2024
  ASIA/QATAR - Syro-Malabar Community celebrates 25 years of existence under the sign of its "missionary character" Doha (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Qatar is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Syro-Malabar Community of St. Thomas in Doha with numerous activities. On July 3, the feast of St. Thomas, a procession of ...
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  7 August 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On the feast of Saint Cajetan: priests from working-class districts raise the alarm about unemployment Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Work is a "criterion of order" for individual and family life. But today in Argentina, work opportunities are falling "like the pieces in a game of dominoes". This is what the priests of th ...
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  7 August 2024
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Pope Francis: "One cannot invoke God’s name to foment contempt, hatred and violence towards others" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "One cannot invoke God’s name to foment contempt, hatred and violence towards others," said Pope Francis this morning before the General Audience in the Audience Hall during a meeting wit ...
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  7 August 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis at the Genreal Audience: "Without the Holy Spirit the Church cannot move forward" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Without the Holy Spirit the Church cannot move forward", said Pope Francis at the first general audience after the summer break in July. During the meeting with pilgrims from all over the ...
• 7 August 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Only 24 hours after his arrest: Father Madou is free N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Madou is fine, although he says he was mistreated during his arrest," an source from the local Church in the Chadian capital N'Djamena told Fides. The source, who requested anonymity, ...
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  6 August 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Vailankanni, the Indian Shrine where everyone experiences Mary's motherhood New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - India is preparing for the great Marian feast celebrated at the Shrine of Velankanni in the state of Tamil Nadu. Every year this Marian shrine is visited by millions of pilgrims, half of whom ...
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  6 August 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako on the expulsion of Christians from the Nineveh Plain ten years ago: "The collective tragedy is still ingrained in people's minds" by Fabio Beretta Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Although the black flag of the Islamic State no longer flies over the Nineveh Plains, "only 60 percent of Christians have returned". It is a collective tragedy, directed aga ...
• 6 August 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Priest arrested: "The prosecutor has not yet commented" N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not know where Father Madou is after his arrest yesterday. The prosecutor has not yet commented and therefore there is no formal charge against him," report local ecclesiastical sources ...
• 6 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The population traumatized after the attack on the beach in Mogadishu by Gianluca Frinchillucci Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Mogadishu and the whole of Somalia were shaken by a tragic act of terrorism last Friday, August 2, when members of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab attacke ...
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  5 August 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Missionaries paid a high price during World War II Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - They were mistaken for enemy spies and killed for this reason. This was the fate of several Catholic missionaries involved in the evangelization of Papua New Guinea during World War II, an ...