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• 8 July 2025
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Seoul. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Matthew Kwang-Hee Choi, until now director of the Department of Culture and Communication and spokesperson for the metropolitan archdiocese of Seo ...
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  8 July 2025
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - St. Camillus Rehabilitation Center: A project that can change the lives of many people Kutaisi (Agenzia Fides) - A truly extraordinary project is currently taking shape in Kutaisi. The establishment of the "St. Camillus" Rehabilitation Center, whose initiatives also address autistic children and their fami ...
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  8 July 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The children of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní celebrate their Jubilee Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) – “Children and adolescents, you know Jesus, now go and invite other children.” With these simple words, Monsignor Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas, Apostolic Vicar of Caroní since Ap ...
• 7 July 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of the Bishop of Wabag Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Leo XIV appointed Justin Ain Soongie, the former Auxiliary Bishop and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Wabag, as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Wabag (Papua New Guinea) and ...
• 7 July 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation and appointment of the Bishop of Alotau-Sideia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Alotau-Sideia (Papua New Guinea), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Rolando Crisostomo Santos, C.M. The Holy ...
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  7 July 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Francesco Rapacioli elected Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Father Francesco Rapacioli, a missionary in Bangladesh, is the new Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME). He was elected today by the XVI General Assembly of the ...
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  7 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Beijing confers the missionary mandate to newly graduated seminarians Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Joseph Li Shan, Bishop of the diocese of Beijing, on Sunday, July 6, during the solemn closing ceremony of the 2024/2025 academic year, conferred the missionary mandate (for pastoral internshi ...
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  7 July 2025
  ASIA/NEPAL - New School Law: Catholics demand guarantee of the right to education Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – Nepal's new education law, currently being approved, has sparked intense public debate and protests by teachers. The Nepal Teachers’ Federation has threatened to launch a fresh protest if ...
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  7 July 2025
  AMERICA/USA - The religious connotations of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an organization responsible for distributing food to the population of Gaza, has been led since June 3 by evangelical preacher Johnnie Moore Jr., considered ...
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  6 July 2025
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Leo: we must ask the “Lord of the harvest” to send out “joyful laborers” to the “mission field” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church and the world “do not need people who fulfill their religious duties as if the faith were merely an external label”. Instead, we need “laborers who are eager to work in the ...
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  5 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We Women of Bukavu": A mother of four reports from the city occupied by the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "I am a mother of four children whom I send to school. I collect empty plastic bottles; after washing them, I fill them with water or fruit juice from a powdered preparation, put them in the fr ...
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  5 July 2025
  VATICAN - The testimony of the Bigard Memorial Seminary during the Jubilee of Priests with the Pope Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Among the seminaries directly dependent on the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), the Bigard Memorial Seminary in the Nigerian ...
• 5 July 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Wote Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe, auxiliary of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nairobi, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Wote, Kenya. Bishop Simon Peter Kamomo ...
• 5 July 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of archbishop of Madurai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Antonysamy Savarimuthu of Palayamkottai and apostolic administrator of Madurai, as archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Madurai, India. Bishop ...
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  3 July 2025
  VATICAN - The online missiology course in Spanish promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies begins in October Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the context of the Jubilee Year and the Jubilee of the Missionary World, scheduled for October 4 and 5, 2025,the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Missionary Union, in collab ...