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  6 August 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Serious damage caused by deforestation of teak plantations for illicit trafficking by armed groups Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Are wars fought to gain control over resources, or is control over resources used to finance fighting? This is a question that arises when observing the various conflicts in Africa, in which the op ...
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  6 August 2025
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: Eleven years after the expulsion of Christians from the Nineveh Plain, they bear witness to their fidelity to Christ in the midst of tribulations Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven years ago, Christians "were forced by the Islamic State, to leave Mosul and towns of Nineveh Plain, accompanied by looting and burning their properties, homes and Churches. The anxiety of ...
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  6 August 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Growth in faith, renewal towards a mission increasingly rooted in the Lord: the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians have been in the Country for 25 years Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) – “Together we generate life” is an invitation to look to the past with gratitude, to live the present with joy and openness, and to await the future with lively hope. This is the theme ...
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  6 August 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean bishops on abortion law changes: An amendment that "obscures the essence of life" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The proposed amendment to South Korea's abortion law "obscures the very essence of life," the Korean Bishops' Conference said in a statement issued following the "partial amendment to the maternal ...
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  6 August 2025
  Coups, Chaos and Haiti’s Tragic Collapse By Victor Gaetan Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “Hell in Haiti” declares a headline in the British Daily Mail last week. It recounts how dead bodies litter streets, typically murdered by gangs controlling over 9 ...
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  5 August 2025
  AFRICA/RWANDA - "Hope is at the heart of our lives": Closing Message of the 20th Plenary Assembly of SECAM Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is the heart of our lives," under this motto, the Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) (see Fides, 1/8/2025) urges the continent's ...
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  5 August 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A lay missionary and a three-year-old boy among the 9 people kidnapped during the armed attack on an orphanage Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A lay missionary and a three-year-old child with a disability are among the nine people kidnapped by an armed group that attacked an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on the mor ...
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  5 August 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ituri youth peace demonstration marked by Komanda church massacre Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "You do not build a nation with a Kalashnikov," said Bishop Sosthène Ayikuli Udjuwa of Mahagi-Nioka in Ituri in his address to young people, urging them not to join one of the many armed group ...
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  5 August 2025
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Young Russian Catholics as pilgrims of hope between Moscow and Rome by Chiara Dommarco Moscow/Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There are places from which young people have not been able to come, for reasons known to us," Pope Leo said at the end of the Youth Jubilee in Tor Vergata. This also ...
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  5 August 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on the El Teniente tragedy: "Work should be a source of dignity and human development, not death" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "We join in the days of national mourning for the tragic deaths of Paulo, Gonzalo, Jean, Álex, Carlos, and Moisés in prayer and the celebration of Masses," said Cardinal Fernando Gar ...
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  4 August 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Forgotten conflict in northeastern Ghana flares up again Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Donatus Akamugri Atanga, Minister for the Upper East Region, praised the role of the Catholic Church in assisting refugees and its commitment to ongoing peace efforts in the region during a visit ...
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  4 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Arrested nuns in Durg released on bail: Bishops express their gratitude to the government New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - After several days in jail, Sister Preeti Mary and Sister Vandana Francis of the Green Garden Sisters were released on bail. They were arrested in July at the train station in Durg (Chhattisga ...
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  4 August 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Laying of the foundation stone of the St. Camillus House of Charity in Nita Nita (Agenzia Fides) - "A historic event, simple and full of meaning, that testifies to how the seeds of St. Camillus's charism, planted in this country about fifteen years ago, are beginning to bear concrete fruits of l ...
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  4 August 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Sister Inês Paulo Albino to children and young people at the First Congress on Childhood: "You are already missionaries, your prayer illuminates the world" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear children and young people, you are already missionaries. You are young, but you have a heart as big as the sky. You are the light that illuminates the whole world with the prayers you off ...
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  3 August 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pascale, joy overcome by pain and the Resurrection of Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Pasco”, as she was affectionately known, was 18 years old and attended the church of St. Cyril in Korba Heliopolis, a neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. On Friday evening, while returning by bus ...