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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 ...
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  11 August 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Northeast Nigeria affected by food insecurity Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – According to the International Red Cross, more than 3.3 million people in northeast Nigeria are affected by food insecurity. Most of these people are farmers who suffer from the insecurity in th ...
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  11 August 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The identity of the Pontifical Mission Societies is at the center of the General Assembly of Indonesian Diocesan Directors Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – A total of 38 dioceses were represented at the General Assembly of Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Indonesia. The meeting, held for the tenth time from August 4 ...
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  10 August 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV: "The Works of mercy are the most secure and profitable bank where we can entrust the treasure of our existence" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The gestures that the Church defines as corporal and spiritual Works of mercy "are the most secure and profitable bank where we can entrust the treasure of our existence," because if we pra ...
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  9 August 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishops: 80 years after the division, let us not silence the desire to live together in the "common home" of the Korean people Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “We will support and actively participate in exchanges with North Korea based on cooperation and reciprocity. We will join forces to work together with those who wish for North and South to li ...
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  9 August 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The synergy between the Archdiocese of Maracaibo and the Pontifical Mission Societies for the territory of La Guajira Riohacha (Agenzia Fides) – Strengthening indigenous pastoral care, training lay people, and promoting sustainable social projects that improve the quality of life of indigenous communities in terms of access to water, ...
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  8 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Accused of religious conversions: Priests, nuns, and a catechist attacked at the Gangadhar mission station Odisha (Agenzia Fides) - In an attack that the Latin Rite Catholic bishops of India described as "disturbing and out of place," some 70 members of the Bajrang Dal (literally "Bajrangbali Brigade," a militant Hindutva org ...
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  8 August 2025
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops encourage catechists: "Let us remain anchored in hope" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – "You catechists are witnesses to the fact that, anchored in hope, you are committed to our reality, moving toward the goal: a life of eternal love," writes Bishop Pablo Jourdan in a letter ...
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  8 August 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Uncertainty over the continuation of talks between the DRC and M23, while the civilian population continues to suffer Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Despite the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, as well as the agreements reached with the M23 rebel movement, the civilian population in North and South Kivu ...
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  8 August 2025
  ASIA - Thailand-Cambodia border agreement signed. Apostolic Nuncio Wells: "Let us now focus our efforts on helping the displaced" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all very pleased that the path of dialogue undertaken by Cambodia and Thailand has led to numerous agreements that will hopefully lead to reconciliation and a stable and lasting peace be ...