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  30 June 2025
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - New Bishop of Bafatà: Listening, dialogue, and walking with the people are among his priorities Bafatà (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to be a pastor present in the villages, in our most remote communities, in our wounded hearts," said Victor Luís Quematcha (OFM) in his homily at the first Holy Mass he celebrated as th ...
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  29 June 2025
  VATICAN - The unity of the Church "is nourished by forgiveness". Pope Leo celebrates the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Patrons of Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Rome “was born of the witness of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and made fruitful by the outpouring of their blood and that of many martyrs.” They too were poor sinners, wit ...
• 28 June 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Appointment of coadjutor vicar apostolic of Phnom-Penh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Pierre Suon Hangly, of the clergy of the apostolic vicariate of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia, until now prefect apostolic of Kompong-Cham, as coadjutor vi ...
• 28 June 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Calcutta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Elias Frank of Asansol as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Calcutta, India. (Agenzia Fides, 28/6/2025) ...
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  28 June 2025
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Jubilee for Children in Tetere: “On their way to Jesus” Tetere (Agenzia Fides) – Salesian missionaries working in the Solomon Islands have chosen to explain to children what the Jubilee is, the rites associated with the Holy Year, and how to make a pilgrimage to obtain the ...
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  28 June 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Luigi Buccarello, Superior General of the Trinitarians, confirms: "Where there is dialogue, there is no violence" by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We work in problematic, difficult, and complex contexts where persecution exists. Where violence and persecution prevail, there is no dialogue, there is no respect for other ...
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  27 June 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - University and solidarity: the choice to be present Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Another year of social responsibility activities, promoted by the university's Center for Integral Formation, has come to an end at the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma, UER ...
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  27 June 2025
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Archbishop of Smyrna: "We are awaiting Pope Leo XIV's visit to Nicaea Smyrna (Agenzia Fides) - "Pilgrimages to Nicaea are being organized from Smyrna, Istanbul, and other Turkish dioceses. And from abroad, representatives of parishes from all over the world are coming to what is now Iznik, ...
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  27 June 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo sign a peace agreement in Washington Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A peace agreement to end the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is scheduled to be signed today, June 27, between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. ...
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  27 June 2025
  ASIA - Central Asian countries seek to preserve water resources by Cosimo Graziani Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of May, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan signed a trilateral agreement regarding the allocation of water from the Bahri Tochik reservoir in Tajikistan duri ...
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  26 June 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo embraces Eastern Christians, struck by violence “with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” Vatican City – (Agenzia Fides) – Today, violent conflict seems to be raging in the Christian East "with a diabolical intensity previously unknown". And precisely in those lands, now covered “by a cloud of hatred t ...
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  26 June 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Deaths and injuries during a demonstration commemorating the victims of last year's clashes Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 16 people were killed in clashes between protesters and police in Kenya yesterday, June 25. This figure was released this morning by Amnesty Kenya, which stated that most of the victi ...
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  26 June 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Capital punishment abolished for eight crimes: for Catholics it is "a step that gives hope" Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes, including bribery, embezzlement, and activities to overthrow the government. As reported by the official Vietnam News Agency, t ...
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  26 June 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Memorial Park to the 41 victims of the attack on the church in Owo demolished Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Diocese of Ondo unequivocally condemns and finds unacceptable the sudden and unannounced demolition of the Memorial Park in Owo," said Msgr. Jude Ayodeji Arogundade, Bishop of Ondo i ...
• 26 June 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Antananarivo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Mamiarisoa Modeste Randrianifahanana, until now vicar general of the metropolitan archdiocese of Antananarivo, Madagascar, as auxiliary bishop of ...