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  8 August 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Caritas Vietnam joins hands to prevent human trafficking by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Human trafficking is increasing complexly and unpredictably in Vietnam and all over the world, in which social networks are a "fertile ground" for criminals to exploi ...
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  7 August 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Attacks on Christian churches and schools: Catholic bishops and representatives of other religious communities appeal to the government Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – "We must take decisive action against anyone who adopts intolerant behavior, even more so when it is accompanied by violent acts that constitute criminal offenses. No one should go unpunished ...
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  7 August 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Defamation, discrimination, and exclusion of women: a culture of tolerance, respect, and equality is urgently needed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Women in Sudan, especially activists and protagonists in politics, the media, and civil society, are facing defamatory campaigns and demands for the withdrawal of full citizenship rights for sp ...
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  7 August 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Two ministers die in helicopter crash: Bishops express condolences and ask for prayers Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Shocking news that we could not believe," said Msgr. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ghana (GCBC), in response to the news of the helicop ...
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  7 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian and Muslim Dalits excluded from benefits granted by the state of Maharashtra Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Dalits (so-called "outcastes") who convert to Christianity or Islam will lose the privileges and prerogatives granted by law to the "scheduled castes," the official definition of various histori ...
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  7 August 2025
  VATICAN - World Mission Day 2025: three-Webinar series in Vietnamese returns Rome (Agenzia Fides) – This year, the series of three webinars in Vietnamese on the Pope's message for World Mission Day 2025 returns. The series of three online seminars is organized by the National Direction of the P ...
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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 ...