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  21 August 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Vicar General of Islamabad after floods: "Even relief efforts are difficult, Catholic churches and institutions offer shelter to displaced people" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – "High alert level remains in place in Rawalpindi. The torrential rains are continuing and, according to weather forecasts, will last at least another week. North of Islamabad, a storm brough ...
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  21 August 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - African Catholic Union of the Press: "Artificial intelligence should be at the service of accurate information " Accra (Agenzia Fides) – "We must establish ethical guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in the African media, avoiding any form of manipulation and disinformation," said the African Catholic Union of the P ...
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  21 August 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Religions for Peace: Interreligious commitment to lasting peace between Thailand and Cambodia Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – "The pain suffered by our brothers and sisters in this region weighs heavily on our hearts. We at Religions for Peace express our deepest condolences to all the victims of violence, those disp ...
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  20 August 2025
  VATICAN - Leo XIV: "August 22, day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine and the Holy Land" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of today's general audience, Pope Leo XIV announced a day of fasting and prayer to invoke from God the gift of "unarmed and disarming" peace in the "Holy Land, Ukraine, and man ...
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  20 August 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The elections scheduled by the military junta offer "a ray of hope for civilian participation in government" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The elections announced by the military junta in Myanmar, which are scheduled to begin on December 28, 2025, are controlled by the military, but "could ultimately lead to greater civilian partici ...
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  20 August 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bandits attack in Katsina State: A Catholic church and a mosque attacked within days Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – "The people of Katsina State deserve to live in security, not fear," said Farouk Lawal Jobe, acting governor of Katsina, in an appeal to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. He called for urgent meas ...
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  20 August 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - On the Feast of the Assumption: Ninety thousand pilgrims at the Marian Shrine in La Vang by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Huế (Agenzia Fides) – Millions of Vietnamese Catholics, both inside and outside the country, are turning their attention, also through the media, to the Marian Shrine of La Vang in the A ...
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  20 August 2025
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Farewell to Sister Ioanna Teterych, foundress and first prioress of the Carmel in Ozërnoe Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "On August 18, 2025, at 4:55 p.m., Mother Ioanna Teterych, foundress and first prioress of the Carmel in Ozërnoe, returned to the Lord." With these words, Archbishop Tomasz Peta of Astana, Kazak ...
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  19 August 2025
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - New Patron Saints for the Arabian Peninsula and prayers for the missionaries who died in the Gulf Region Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – The Arabian Peninsula has "new" Patron Saints. The Holy See, through a decree of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, has approved the Particular Calendar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern ...
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  19 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Buxar after floods in India: "The situation is improving, we are ensuring basic necessities for those most in need" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – "I am close to the peoples of Pakistan, India, and Nepal who have been struck by violent floods. I pray for the victims, for their families, and for all those who suffer because of this cala ...
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  19 August 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - No progress in Doha on the peace agreement between the Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - No progress has been made in the talks in Doha, Qatar, which were supposed to culminate in an agreement yesterday, August 18, between the government of the Democrat ...
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  19 August 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A truck with aid that had been blocked at the Camillian Hospital in Port-au-Prince for two years arrives in Jérémie Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – "After more than two years, a container of relief supplies from the capital, Port-au-Prince, has arrived, which had been stuck in our hospital in Port-au-Prince for a long time," w ...
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  18 August 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pope Leo XIV: May Jesus Christ be announced with clarity and immense charity among the inhabitants of the Amazon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "It is necessary that Jesus Christ, in whom all things are recapulated, be announced with clarity and immense charity among the inhabitants of the Amazon," said Pope Leo XIV in a telegram ...
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  18 August 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Khartoum Prime Minister's Appeal: "Stop Sending Colombian Mercenaries to Sudan" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "Stop sending Colombian mercenaries to fight in Sudan." Sudanese Prime Minister Kamal Idris addressed this appeal in a video message to the authorities and people of Colombia. "The Spanish- ...
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  18 August 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - In Darfur, siege and speculation force the population to eat animal feed by Cosimo Graziani El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) – In the tragedy of the conflict in Sudan, the Darfur region is one of the hardest hit. In particular, in North Darfur state, the siege of the capital, El Fasher, by the ...