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  3 September 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Scholars of different religions: "We must urge unity and parliamentary reform" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "Strengthen the commitment to maintaining the integrity of the State," by stigmatizing violent actions that "create new wounds" and "misleading statements that widen the gap between politics and ...
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  3 September 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The will to resist, to continue living even in the most difficult situations
  Pourcine-Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – "I spent three days visiting the Chapel of St. Bernard on the occasion of the patron saint's day. A difficult and tiring journey, which, on ...
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  3 September 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Landslide in Tarasin is not only a natural disaster but a tragedy caused by war and the world's indifference towards Sudan" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "I share the grief, but also the courage and desire for justice, dignity, and healing for the survivors," wrote Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio in South Sudan in his condolen ...
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  3 September 2025
  EUROPE/ESTONIA - Beatification of Missionary Bishop Eduard Profittlich: Remaining in the light of Christ in the face of darkness Tallinn (Agenzia Fides) – Eduard Profittlich (1890-1942), a Jesuit missionary from Germany and Archbishop of Tallinn, will be the first Estonian Catholic to be beatified, during a ceremony presided over by Cardinal Chr ...
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  2 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Parish priest encourages flood victims: "You are not alone in this difficult time" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "The flood victims are in shock: panic and suffering are spreading among the survivors, who still remember 2022 and are traumatized by these ongoing natural disasters. As the parish community o ...
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  2 September 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - 80 years ago the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was founded: Vietnamese Catholics and the country's development by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – "It is better to be a citizen of a free country than a king of a slave country," was a famous saying of King Bao Dai, the last king of the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty ...
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  2 September 2025
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Parish priest of the Immaculate Conception Church in Kenema murdered in his home Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – The parish priest of the Immaculate Conception Church in Kenema (Sierra Leone) has been murdered. Father Augustine Dauda Amadu was robbed in his home in the Burma 3 neighborhood on the outski ...
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  2 September 2025
  VATICAN - The "September Courses" for the formation of newly ordained bishops begin in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) – This year, a total of 192 newly ordained bishops from all five continents (almost all of whom were ordained last year) will participate in the formation courses organized by various Dicasteries o ...
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  1 September 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Lay missionary kidnapped during armed attack on orphanage released after a month Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – After nearly a month of captivity, the Irish lay missionary Gena Heraty, who has been working in Haiti for thirty years, was freed along with the other hostages captured during the atta ...
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  1 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA- Numerous priestly and religious vocations among Chinese Catholic communities in the first six months of 2025 Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) – In the first six months of 2025, the "harvest in the Lord's vineyard" was abundant in many Chinese Catholic communities. The Catholic news portal "xinde.org" recalls that from January 1 ...
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  1 September 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Archbishop of Makassar on protests: "People demand justice and good governance" Makassar (Agenzia Fides) – "Now the situation on the streets of Makassar has normalized and is calm again, but until yesterday the protests agitated the population, especially the students. And violent groups have take ...
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  1 September 2025
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Bishops: "Environmental damage caused by the uncontrolled exploitation of mineral wealth is a social injustice" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – "We are deeply concerned about pollution and environmental degradation, which cause suffering to vulnerable populations due to the predominance of political and economic interests that do not p ...
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  31 August 2025
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda's immigrant integration model confronts US administration plans by Cosimo Graziani Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – Uganda announced in recent days that it has reached an agreement with the United States to accept refugees who are denied asylum in the US. The measure is aimed at those ...
• 30 August 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Pontianak and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Leo XIV has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pontianak presented by His Exc. Msgr. Agustinus Agus and appointed His Exc. Ms ...
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  30 August 2025
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - At the school of prayer and fraternity with Blessed Carlo Acutis Odorheiu Secuiesc (Agenzia Fides) – From August 18 to 23, more than 80 children and young people participated in a summer camp organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Romania in Odorheiu Secuiesc, hosted ...