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  24 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - May it be real peace, and not a fragile "armistice". 73 years after the start of the war, Korean Catholics pray for reconciliation and national unity by Paolo Affatato Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the mid-1990s, the Swiss Kathi Zellweger, then director of international cooperation programs at Caritas Hong Kong, began to take an interest in North Korea, where a severe ...
• 24 June 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The history of the emergence of the terrorist AFD militias: Between opportunism and "change of label" by Luca Mainoldi Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The group responsible for the massacre at the school in Lhubiriha (Kasese district, western Uganda) on the night of June 17-18 (see Fides, 19/6/2023), has a complex history and ...
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  23 June 2023
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Building communities of faith also means providing them with a place of worship Foya (Agenzia Fides) - To make a church-family you need cement and closeness of heart. This was said by Father Walter Maccalli, a missionary involved in building churches and communities in northern Liberia. The priest ...
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  23 June 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The country goes to the polls. Father Peter Konteh (Caritas): there will also be Catholics in the next government Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone is preparing for a new round of elections. The country, ravaged by an atrocious decade-long conflict (1991-2002) between the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front supported by s ...
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  23 June 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - At least 43 arms exhibitions have been held around the world since the start of the war in Ukraine by Luca Mainoldi Paris (Agenzia Fides) - This week the most prestigious aeronautical exhibition in the world opened at the Parisian airport of Le Bourget, together with the British exhibition in Fanborough. The two ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New Chinese studies on the valuable role of missionary congregations and institutes in the apostolic work of the Church in China in the first half of the 20th century Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The first half of the 20th century represented a crucial historical phase for contemporary China, and also for the apostolic work of the Catholic Church in "Middle-earth". Those decades were mar ...
• 22 June 2023
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the Bishop of Palmerston North Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 22, the Holy Father appointed Rev. John Lewis Adams, of the clergy of Christchurch, currently parish priest of St. Peter Chanel, as bishop of the diocese of Palmerston North (New Ze ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Catholic community remembers and honors those who gave their lives for faith in Christ Taing Kok (Agenzia Fides) - At least once a year, Cambodian Catholics stop to commemorate those who gave their lives for faith in Christ and are "seeds and fathers" of today's Cambodian faith community: more than 3,000 C ...
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  22 June 2023
  EURASIA/RUSSIA - Siberia, a new Catholic Church dedicated and named after Saint Joseph in Berdsk Berdsk (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic Church in the heart of Siberia is named after Saint Joseph. Members of the small Catholic community in Berdsk, a town of 95,000 people 40 kilometers from Novosibirsk, are delight ...
• 22 June 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnappings: Police free Catholic priest and Muslim believers collect donations to free Christian citizens Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The scourge of kidnappings in Nigeria does not stop, but there are also cases that are resolved positively with the intervention of the police or that show that there are forms of solidarity that ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Nuns or guerrillas? The missionary adventures of the Salesian nuns in the mountains of East Timor Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "I really wanted to bring Jesus to the people, but then it was they who brought me to him" is how Sister Maria Fe Silva sums up her whole life in one sentence. The Catholic nun was born in the Phil ...
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  21 June 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Congolese re-elected at the head of the Missionary Congregation of Scheut Nemi (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM), known as "Scheut missionaries", gathered in their General Chapter in Nemi (Rome), from June 4 to 30, re-elected the Cong ...
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  21 June 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Child marriage: 4 million girls forced into marriage in 2022 Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of early marriages is tragically widespread in South Sudan. A recent study published by the organization Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) reports that more t ...
• 21 June 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Three students from the attacked school manage to escape; questions remain as to the motivation for the massacre Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Three students captured in the attack on Lhubiriha secondary school (Kasese district, western Uganda) on the night of June 17 to 18 managed to escape from the hands of their kidnappers (see Fide ...
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  21 June 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian parties raise new alarm over illegal land acquisitions in the Nineveh plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Five political groups led by Christian leaders and activists have issued a new alarm over large-scale real estate operations which, according to them, aim to change the balance of the demographic ...