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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 ...
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  3 August 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Tor Vergata, Leo XIV to young people: Jesus is our hope. Let us remain united to him, let us remain in his friendship Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Human beings are not made "for a life where everything is taken for granted and static, but for an existence that is constantly renewed through gift of self in love." This is why "we continually as ...
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  2 August 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The President of the Episcopal Conference makes an appeal at the First Congress on Children: “Protect the faith of children now” Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Safeguarding and cultivating the faith of children today is urgent and a priority. This was stated by Bishop Martin Mtumbuka, President of the Malawi Bishops' Conference (MCCB), at the openin ...
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  2 August 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Nagasaki, the Cathedral bell destroyed by the atomic bomb will ring again: "It will ring to invoke peace" by Fabio Beretta Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) – Buildings razed to the ground, living beings disintegrated, people killed in seconds as a result of an energy so devastating that their shadows remain imprinted on the wal ...
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  1 August 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Request to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian Gaetano Nicosia, apostle among the lepers of Macau Macau (Agenzia Fides) – A request has been made to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian missionary Gaetano Nicosia, originally from Sicily and who died in Hong Kong at the age of 102. The announcement was mad ...
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  1 August 2025
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The 20th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opens Kigali (Agenzia Fides) – The 20th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opened yesterday, July 31, in the Rwandan capital. The opening ceremony took place after ...
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  1 August 2025
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Calm has returned, but union demands remain unanswered Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation has returned to calm, but there is great dismay at the lives lost in recent days,” a Church source in Luanda, the capital of Angola, told Fides, following the violent protest ...
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  1 August 2025
  ASIA/KUWAIT - The Church of Our Lady of Arabia in Ahmadi has been elevated to a Minor Basilica: the first of its kind in the Arabian Peninsula Ahmadi (Agenzia Fides) – “This historic recognition by the Holy See is not only a great honor for our Vicariate, but a profound affirmation of the living faith of our people in the Arabian Peninsula.” Bishop Aldo B ...
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  31 July 2025
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Saint John Henry Newman, from Propaganda Fide seminarian to Doctor of the Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Saint John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church. This was established by Pope Leo XIV, who confirmed the decision of the Plenary Session of Cardinals and Bishops, Members of the ...
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  31 July 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bishop Berardi to the young pilgrims from the Vicariate of Northern Arabia who have arrived in Rome for the Jubilee: “Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit.”
  Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We live because we have hope. Hope is a way of receiving what we believe in. It is a blessing that makes us know the meaning of our life, which is Jesus.� ...