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  21 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - This is how the Orthodox Church connected with the Moscow Patriarchate has been banned from Ukraine by Chiara Dommarco Kiev (Fides News Agency) – On Tuesday, August 20, the Verkhovna Rada, the unicameral Parliament of Ukraine, approved, in its second reading, Bill 8371, entitled "On the protection of the constitut ...
• 20 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Concern for the fate of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15 Abuja (Fides News Agency) - Still no news of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15th in Benue State, in east-central Nigeria. The students were en route to the annual national congress held by the Federation of C ...
• 19 August 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The crisis in North Kivu is not just neglected but tolerated" says the UN Humanitarian Coordinator to the DRC Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) - "6 humanitarian operators were killed and 11 kidnapped between January and June of this year, with upwards of 200 incidents which directly targeted humanitarian operators on the field", sai ...
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  19 August 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Eln proclaims an "armed strike". The bishops: "Violence is never the answer" Bogota (Fides News Agency) - The stalemate in peace negotiations and the dialogue crisis between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the government have plunged Colombia into an increasingly tightening spiral of viole ...
• 19 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The governor of Unity State bans forced marriages Juba (Fides News Agency) - Enough with forced marriages for women and girls. This is what Riek Biem, governor of Unity State in South Sudan, has established. "I am the governor of this State and I declare today: let us s ...
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  18 August 2024
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Sixty years after martyrdom, the missionaries of Uvira proclaimed Blessed Uvira (Fides News Agency) – Blessed are the Xaverian missionaries killed out of an odium fidei during the Mulelist uprising against the Congolese Government. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, r ...
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  18 August 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS Pope Francis: "The Eucharist is necessary, Jesus saves us by nourishing our lives with His" Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – "The Eucharist is necessary, for everyone. Jesus takes care of our greatest need: he saves us, nourishing our lives with his, and does it forever". These are the words of Pope Francis ...
• 15 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of Military Ordinary for Kenya Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed H.E. Msgr. Wallace Ng'ang'a Gachihi - titular Bishop of Thucca di Mauritania and Auxiliary of Nairobi - as Ordinary of the Military Ordinariate of Kenya. ...
• 15 August 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Kannur Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Rev. Msgr. Dennis Kuruppassery, of the clergy of Kottapuram - hitherto Nunciature Counselor in service at the Pontifical Representation in Malta - as A ...
• 15 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of the Diocese of Embu Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Peter Kimani Ndung 'u S.A.C. - of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Nairobi, hitherto National Chaplain of the Prison Service of Kenya - Bishop ...
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  15 August 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - The Pope: our destination is Heaven, "Mary precedes us on this journey" by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The goal of every Christian is Heaven. And Mary "precedes" us on this "journey". Pope Francis said it this morning overlooking a sweltering St. Peter's Square for t ...
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  15 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Zuppi-Li Hui phone call: China and the Holy See working to promote dialogue Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "On the morning of August 14, 2024, a cordial conversation was held between Mr. Li Hui, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs, and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, ...
• 14 August 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Ambatondrazaka Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Orthasie Marcellin Herivonjilalaina, S.A.C - thus far the Rector of the Major Philosophical Seminary of Toamasina - Bishop of the Dioc ...
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  14 August 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - At the site of Mary's Assumption, where Christians and Muslims pray by Fabio Beretta Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) – For Christians, the date of August 15th is not a feast like the others. In fact, it celebrates the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, one of the four Marian dogmas of th ...
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  14 August 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Patton: "Negotiations resuming on Assumption Day a sign of hope, let us pray for peace" Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) – "Resuming talks for a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of hostages and political prisoners on the day we celebrate the assumption of Mary into Heaven in body and soul, is a sure sign of ho ...