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  30 August 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: The Pontifical Urban University "has an identity of its own" and should not be "blended" with other universities Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "We do not live in a Christian society, but we are called to live as Christians in today’s pluralistic society." And a historical and prestigious institution such as the Pontifical Ur ...
• 30 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Egypt and Somalia's military agreement alarms Ethiopia Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) – "The region is entering uncharted waters" a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia warned, in reference to the new situation developing ...
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  29 August 2024
  VATICAN - The future of the Pontifical Urbaniana University at the center of the Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the Missionary Dicastery by Gianni Valente Rome (Fides News Agency) - The Pontifical Urbaniana University is approaching an important crossroads in its long and unparalleled history. Today and tomorrow, August 29 and 30, the members of the ...
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  28 August 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "Systematically turning migrants away is a grave sin" Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "This must be said clearly: there are people who work systematically and with every means to turn migrants away. And this, when done with cognizance and responsibility, is a grave sin. ...
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  28 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Those priests born of Muslim mothers: interreligious families, the Indonesian figure by Paolo Affatato Jakarta (Fides News Agency) – Recounting the feast for his episcopal ordination, Ciprianus Hormat, bishop of Ruteng - on the Indonesian island of Flores - mentions, almost en passant, the wide and ...
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  27 August 2024
  Cardinal Tagle: the Pope's journey to Asia and Oceania is an "act of humility and obedience to the mission" by Gianni Valente and Fabio Beretta Rome (Fides News Agency) - Four nations in two continents, for a total of almost 40 thousand kilometers to cover. The papal plane will take off from Fiumicino airport on September ...
• 26 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The 20 students kidnapped on August 15 have been freed Abuja (Fides News Agency) – "After an 8-day ordeal, our 20 colleagues are back with us and their families" said a statement by FECAMDS (Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students) which announced the release of ...
• 26 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb" says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abuja (Fides News Agency) – "Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb". This was the alarm raised by Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri, President of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in his opening address t ...
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  26 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Moscow-linked Orthodox Church "banned" in Ukraine: reactions and developments by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Fides News Agency) - Following the approval by Kiev's Verkhovna Rada of Bill 8371 "On the protection of the constitutional order within the purview of the activities of religious organizatio ...
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  26 August 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "Gratitude and sacrifice". 30,000 people in Antsiranana for the third National Eucharistic Congress by Father Angelo Michel Helpa Randrianarisoa Antsiranana (Fides News Agency) – In these days, the Diocese of Antsiranana hosted the third National Eucharistic Congress of Madagascar, held in the city in the north o ...
• 26 August 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A year from the violence against Christians in Jaranwala, the urgency for justice Lahore (Fides News Agency) - Government officials, civil society organizations and members of the Christian community remembered and celebrated the first anniversary of the violence that took place in Jaranwala, a town ...
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  25 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Interview with the Director for the Government's relations with the Church: this is how we support Catholic schools and parishes by Paolo Affatato Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - In the office where he receives guests, on the 12th floor of the imposing building of the Ministry for Religious Affairs, in the center of Jakarta, Director Suparman - a 5 ...
• 24 August 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Xuân Lôc Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Dominic Nguyên Tuan Anh S.A.C., hitherto Vicar General of the same Diocese and Professor of St. Joseph Major Seminary, assigning him ...
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  24 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - State and religion in Indonesia: the role of faith in public life Jakarta (Fides News Agency) – Indonesia is not a theocracy but it is a secular state either: as Indonesians like to say, it is "a middle ground", a nation that recognizes religion has a crucial role in public life, an ...
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  24 August 2024
  VATICAN - Sister Inês Paulo Albino new Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Reverend Sister Inês Paulo Albino, A.S.C., Counsellor of the Institute of Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ, as Secretary General of the Pont ...