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  3 July 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Chemical factory explosion: Catholic Church calls for transparency and protection of workers' dignity Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The explosion at a chemical factory in the state of Telangana once again raises the serious problem of exploitation and disregard for the dignity of workers. The victims are mostly poor peopl ...
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  3 July 2025
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "Training seminar" for judges and prosecutors canceled Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Under pressure from legal experts, lawyers, and members of civil society, an order requiring Zimbabwean judges to participate in a series of training courses at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideo ...
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  2 July 2025
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "disproportionate" violence Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the unacceptable and disproportionate violence, regardless of its origin, perpetrators, or justification," the bishops of Togo issued a joint statement ...
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  2 July 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Shots fired at dawn in the streets of Villahermosa: Priest seriously injured Villahermosa (Agenzia Fides) – The parish priest of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Father Héctor Alejandro Pérez, remains in critical condition at the Rovirosa Hospital in Villahermosa. The priest was shot seve ...
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  2 July 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholics on the island of Sulawesi: inspired by "Nostra Aetate" and the visit of Pope Francis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We walk together with the Muslim population on the paths of dialogue and mercy. As Catholics, we live in an area of Indonesia where we are a small minority in society. This does not discou ...
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  1 July 2025
  VATICAN - Climate crisis and ecological debt, the Bishops of Asia, Africa and Latin America: the “green Economy” risks being reduced to “modernization of capitalism” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Saying “enough” to “false solutions” and calling on rich countries to settle “with urgent action” the ecological debt owed to the poorest nations. This is the meaning of the d ...
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  1 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - On the 100th anniversary of the beatification of the Korean martyrs, a report on the persecutions of Gihae and Byeong-o Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – A report to learn about the data of the persecutions that struck Catholics on the Korean peninsula in the 19th century. The centenary of the Eucharistic liturgy celebrated on July 5, 1925, in St ...
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  1 July 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Insecurity and lack of services worsen the situation in the capital: teachers disagree in the reopening of schools Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Most areas of Khartoum are without electricity and water, exacerbating the country's already precarious security situation and the lack of other services such as internet and telecommunications ...
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  1 July 2025
  VATICAN - 14 priests ordained by Pope Leo from the Pontifical Urban College "de Propaganda Fide" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and on the occasion of the XXIX World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, instituted by John Paul II in 1995, Pope Leo XIV ordai ...
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  1 July 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies on the suspension of the Prime Minister: "We proceed according to the rule of law" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "The street protests lasted one day, and now calm has returned to Bangkok. I believe that the process of replacing the Prime Minister will continue in accordance with the rule of law and the rul ...
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  1 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Peace agreement between the Democratic Party and Rwanda: another mockery Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The impression created by the people of Bukavu, exhausted by more than four months of occupation, is one of perplexity and the feeling of being deceived again and again, even if they do not gi ...
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  1 July 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - A new time of uncertainty and martyrdom: Archbishop Tobji on the present situation of Syrian Christians by Gianni Valente Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Nine days have passed since the massacre of at least 25 Christians who were killed while attending Mass at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Elias, in Damascus. This massacre ...
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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 ...