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  8 June 2024
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops launch digitization in the dioceses Pando (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Eugenio Coter, Apostolic Vicar of Pando in northern Bolivia, wants to initiate a process of digitization and modernization in the country's dioceses. "The introduction of special softwa ...
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  8 June 2024
  ASIA/CINA - Priests and nuns of Guizhou study to "adapt" catechism to new pastoral needs Guizhou (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-two priests and thirty-two nuns from the province of Guizhou took part in a "refresher" course to better adapt the transmission of Catholic doctrine through catechism to the needs of toda ...
• 7 June 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Forced recruitment pushes young people into the ranks of the resistance Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The military junta of Myanmar, engaged in the ongoing civil conflict, is trying to strengthen its ranks with the forced recruitment campaign announced last February and has now recruited 9,000 ne ...
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  7 June 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Víctor Auguste: “The situation is difficult to describe in words” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Life in Haiti, especially in the metropolitan area Port-au-Prince, is difficult to describe in words. We are in a state of almost total anarchy. People are generally unable to carry out ...
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  7 June 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Great participation at the funeral of Father Ramón Arturo Montejo, killed in a robbery Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of hundreds of priests from the Province of Ocaña and numerous faithful, the funeral of Father Ramón Arturo Montejo Peinado, parish priest of San José in Buenavista, who was b ...
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  7 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - The ordeal in the savannah by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - It happened last Wednesday, May 29, in the savannah, on the border with Burkina Faso. A group of Nigerien soldiers set fire to the granaries in the village of Nadouani, in t ...
• 6 June 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian crisis and education system on the verge of collapse: a permanent ceasefire is urgently needed Port Sudan (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the groups supporting them against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is causing a further increase in the flow of re ...
• 6 June 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Vasai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Vasai, India, presented by Bishop Felix Anthony Machado. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 6/6/2024) ...
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  6 June 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Sacred Heart Church in Ganjuran: pilgrimages and popular devotion in Javanese style Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - For a hundred years, the Sacred Heart Church in Ganjuran, south of Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java, has been one of the most visited. On the feast day, June 7, this place, with it ...
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  6 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Because of the grain harvest: Bishop Sun Jigeng celebrates the Feast of the Sacred Heart in the village of Chaizhuangcun "in advance" Handan (Agenzia Fides) - In Chaizhuangcun, a small village in the Chinese province of Hebei, the small Catholic community has already celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which according to the liturgical c ...
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  5 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage: Catholics of Tangshan make a pilgrimage to the place of work of the Blessed Franciscan missionary sister Maria Assunta Pallotta Tangshan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Tangshan (Hebei province) has been celebrating a special period since January 1, 2024, the "Year of Evangelization", with prayers, liturgies and catechesis aimed at aw ...
• 5 June 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - North Darfur: conflict takes on an ethnic dimension Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Sudan has taken on an ethnic dimension, especially in Darfur, where militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused of killing civilians based on their ethnicity. The latest ...
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  5 June 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Salesian oratory of Ankililoaka, a point of reference for 800 young Malagasy people from difficult backgrounds Ankililoaka (Agenzia Fides) - The town of Ankililoaka, in the Archdiocese of Toliara, is located in the south-west of Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, where 75% of the population lives in slums. To ...
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  5 June 2024
  ASIA/TURKEY - New hypotheses for the reopening of the Halki Theological School, the theological Academy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish government is once again considering the possible reopening of the Halki Theological School, the prestigious Theological Academy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, wh ...
• 5 June 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Narendra Modi's party loses votes: "Pluralism and democracy are guaranteed" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, won a majority in the parliamentary elections just concluded in India, but by a narrow margin compared to th ...