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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 ...
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  17 August 2025
  Pope Leo: "We are the Church of the Lord, a Church of the poor, all precious" Albano Laziale (Agenzia Fides) – The Church of Christ is "a Church of the poor, all precious, all active participants, each one bearing a unique word from God." And the charity of Christ, which animates the Church, doe ...
• 16 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Mysore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 15, 2025, the Holy Father Leo XIV appointed Bishop Francis Serrao, S.J., currently Bishop of Shimoga, as Bishop of the Diocese of Mysore. (Agenzia Fides, 16/8/2025) ...
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  16 August 2025
  The geopolitical implications of the Joint Declaration between Armenia and Azerbaijan by Cosimo Graziani Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "I congratulate Armenia and Azerbaijan, who have succeeded in signing the Joint Declaration of Peace." With these words, Pope Leo XIV addressed the faithful gathered in ...
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  16 August 2025
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Sailing from France to the Antilles: fundraising campaign for the Salesian missionaries in Guadeloupe Paris (Agenzia Fides) – 150 years after the first crossing of the Atlantic by the Salesian missionaries of Don Bosco to reach the archipelago of Guadeloupe (now part of the French Antilles, ed.), a sailboat named after ...
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  15 August 2025
  Pope Leo: The poor and persecuted Christian communities are the joy of the Church, the first fruits of the Kingdom to come Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Christ "lives in her fragile members, and she is renewed by their Magnificat. Even in our own day, the poor and persecuted Christian communities, the witnesses of tendernes ...
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  15 August 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - First National Eucharistic Congress: The Eucharist, "source and summit" of the Pilgrims of Hope Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – The central importance of the Blessed Sacrament in the life of Pilgrims of Hope in this Jubilee Year was the focus of the first National Eucharistic Congress, held last week in Lilongwe, whic ...
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  14 August 2025
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The 12th Regional Meeting on the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility in Costa Rica San José (Agenzia Fides) – The 12th Regional Meeting of Bishops and Pastoral Workers of Human Mobility from North, Central America, and the Caribbean will be held from August 18 to 22 in Costa Rica, at the Juan XXIII ...
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  13 August 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Apostolic Prefect of Battambang: "Respect the truce, for a genuine and lasting peace" Battambang (Agenzia Fides) – "The population had high hopes and was very happy and encouraged by the ceasefire agreement signed on August 7. Now the call is: respect it! We call on the governments to ensure that the mi ...
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  13 August 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A journey through the desert, towards unity and peace: message from the Archbishop of Seoul for the Feast of the Assumption Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The life of every Christian is what the Holy Scriptures describe as "a journey through the desert." "Even for those who believe in God and follow the Gospel, the Christian journey is rarely an e ...
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  13 August 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan, agriculture and pastoralism also affected by war Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The war in Sudan, which broke out in 2023, has led to one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time. The conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the regular army has impacted ...
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  12 August 2025
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Indigenous Pastoral Week 2025, one hundred years after the "Dule Revolution" by Laura Gómez Ruiz Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - From August 3 to 10, 2025, the Archdiocese of Panama celebrated Indigenous Pastoral Week under the motto "Rights must be defended." This edition commemorated the cent ...
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  12 August 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Massacre in Catholic Church in Owo in 2022: Five defendants go on trial on August 19 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Three years after their arrest, the trial of the five men accused of the Pentecost Sunday massacre in the Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Owo, Ondo State (see Fides, 6/6/2022), in which ...
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  12 August 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Madang: The Catholic community works to stem violence related to witchcraft accusations Megiar (Agenzia Fides) – In a social context where witchcraft practices and violence unleashed by superstition end up becoming two sides of the same coin, the Catholic community in Papua New Guinea is striving to help ...