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  11 June 2026
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Tensions rise after clashes in Mogadishu Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) - The situation in Mogadishu is tense. Security forces opened fire on residents protesting the demolition of houses in the Abdiaziz district. Clashes broke out between demonstrators and secu ...
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  11 June 2026
  ASIA/NEPAL - Apostolic Administrator Bogati: "The Church is growing, amid hopes for change in the country" Kathmandu (Fides News Agency) - As Nepal undergoes a period of profound political and social renewal, the Catholic Church looks to the future with confidence. “We see God’s work in our country,” says Father Silas B ...
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  11 June 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “God is choosing the last”: baptisms and confirmations celebrated in the small community of Kokossa Kokossa (Fides News Agency) – On Sunday, June 7th, the Ethiopian Church celebrated the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. The Kokosa small community, belonging to the Apostolic Prefecture of Robe, celebrated the Sacraments ...
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  11 June 2026
  Cardinal Tagle at the memorial Mass for Bishop Osorio Afonso Citora: "Freely you have received, freely give" by Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle* We publish the full homily delivered by Cardinal Tagle during the memorial Mass for Bishop Osório Afonso Citora, celebrated today in Rome, in the Chapel of the Three Wise Men at the ...
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  10 June 2026
  The Las Raíces Center, between migrant reception and preparation for the Pope's visit to Tenerife Tenerife (Fides News Agency) – The Las Raíces reception center in Tenerife is preparing for the visit of Pope Leo XIV on June 12, when he will meet with migrants as part of his Apostolic Journey. The visit to the Cana ...
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  10 June 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Tightening on illegal immigration policies following a wave of xenophobia. Msgr. Sipuka states that "all domestic problems cannot be blamed on foreigners" Johannesburg (Fides News Agency) – On June 7, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation, stating, "Our country is neither xenophobic nor racist, but immigration laws must be respected, and it is sol ...
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  10 June 2026
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Cardinal Rugambwa remembers Bishop Osório Citora: “A friend who shared his views. A person endowed with many beautiful qualities” Dar es Salaam (Fides News Agency) – “I met Bishop Osorio in 2017, when he was called to serve in the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, now the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelizat ...
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  10 June 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Poverty Alleviation: cooperation between the State and the Catholic community Islamabad (Fides News Agency) – The partnership between the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and the Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, recently established in Islamabad, aims to create a foundation for ...
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  9 June 2026
  Barcelona: Pope Leo XIV follows in the footsteps of missionary architect Gaudí by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Barcelona (Fides News Agency) – “The new tower realizes the project of its architect, Gaudí, who was deeply inspired by faith. He was the first to understand art as a form of proclaiming ...
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  9 June 2026
  Study day on “Palazzo di Propaganda Fide”: Art, history and mission in the heart of baroque Rome Rome (Fides News Agency) – It houses the brilliant rivalry between the great artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his rival Francesco Borromini. It tells the story of the first seminarians who came to Rome from Asia, Africa ...
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  9 June 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - El Hierro, prayer for migrants who died in the Atlantic on the eve of the Pope's visit by Laura Gómez Ruiz La Restinga (Fides News Agency) - A memorial service was recently held on the island of El Hierro, one of the main arrival points on the Atlantic migration route to the Canary Islands, for the mig ...
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  9 June 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Ondo after the conviction of four jihadists for the Pentecost massacre: “There is a law in this country” Abuja (Fides News Agency) – Four people have been sentenced to death for the massacre that took place four years ago, on June 5, 2022, at St. Francis Xavier Church in Owo, Ondo State (see Fides, 6/6/2022). Idris Abdu ...
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  9 June 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The people demand answers, truth, security and justice for the murder of Bishop Osório Citóra Afonso Quelimane (Fides News Agency) – “It is a mortal sin and criminal complicity to know who committed this barbaric crime and not denounce it!” reads a message posted on numerous social media pages dedicated to the bru ...
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  9 June 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Solidarity and collection in churches to help communities affected by the earthquake in Mindanao General Santos (Fides News Agency) – Profound solidarity, immediate humanitarian aid, and unceasing prayer: this is how Catholic communities in the Philippines are showing their support for the populations devastated b ...
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  8 June 2026
  POPE LEON XIV IN SPAIN - The Pope to the Bishops of Spain: cherish ‘as a treasure’ whatever facilitates the journey of faith Madrid (Fides News Agency) – “I would like to propose the image of a journey whose destination is God, toward whom we lift our gaze.” In his address to the bishops of Spain on Monday, June 8, a significant moment o ...