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  31 July 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Negotiations between Addis Ababa and Somalia over sea access stalled by Cosimo Graziani Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - According to diplomatic sources familiar with the matter, diplomatic negotiations between Ethiopia and Somalia to resolve the issue of Addis Ababa's access to the sea a ...
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  31 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas Bunia: “In July alone, more than 100 people died in Ituri despite the state of siege in place for four years” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “In our province alone, in July, more than 100 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered in attacks of unspeakable brutality.” This was revealed by the diocesan Caritas ...
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  31 July 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Countering misinformation and spreading messages of love, tolerance, and courage: Cambodian and Thai youth united in harmony Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – “We ask every man and woman, every child and elderly person with a good heart, to overcome conflict and choose the path of humility, wisdom, and dialogue.” This is what was said in the ...
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  30 July 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian bishops appeal to government over attacks on nuns and promised "rewards" for those who attack priests New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The nation's constitutional rights must be protected and guaranteed. This is what the Indian bishops are asking for in an appeal to the government in the face of "the growing climate of host ...
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  30 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The adventure “accompanied by small prayers” of Junho Chu, “digital missionary”
  by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “Now I know. After all, even the Fathers of the Church, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, repeated this simple phrase: to be ha ...
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  30 July 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Augustinian priest released 40 days after his disappearance Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) – Forty days after his disappearance, Carlos Saúl Jaimes Guerrero, an Augustinian priest belonging to the Province of Our Lady of Grace, has been released. The priest's religious community anno ...
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  30 July 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - National Martyrs' Day: Bishop Hiiboro Kussala calls for peace in the country Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – “As a bishop, I pledge to speak out until the truth is heard. To walk with the victims and wounded families. To offer the Church as a space for reconciliation and dialogue. To pray un ...
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  30 July 2025
  Wars that annihilate peoples and the “Tranquillitas Ordinis” of Saint Augustine by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu OFMConv* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month has passed since the ceasefire came into effect, and we are still far from a peace agreement. Everything suggests that, instead ...
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  30 July 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - 1,400 children and adolescents, "missionaries of hope," will attend a congress with their leaders from all the country's dioceses Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - 1,400 children and adolescents, aged between 8 and 14, accompanied by 200 leaders from the country's eight dioceses, are expected to arrive in Lilongwe today. They will be the protagonists of t ...
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  29 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacre in the Church of Blessed Anuarite; Bishops: "It is paradoxical that in Ituri, where a state of siege has been in effect since 2021, massacres continue to occur" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A call to the faithful not to give in to panic and a strong exhortation to state authorities to assume their responsibility in protecting the population. This is how the National Episcopal Co ...
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  29 July 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Ceasefire violated: the Diocese of Ubon Ratchathani welcomes displaced people in emergency shelters Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Clashes on the border between Thailand and Cambodia continue, despite the ceasefire signed less than 24 hours ago. The Thai military has accused Cambodia of violating the agreement, claiming t ...
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  29 July 2025
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Archbishop Nácher and Evangelical Leaders call for a march for democracy and peace Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Amid a climate of growing electoral tension, Catholics and Evangelicals in Honduras have called for a march for peace to be held on August 16. “Hearing the cries of our brothers and s ...
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  29 July 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle to “Catholic Influencers”: Let us be “influenced” and changed by the Love of Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To offer salvation to the men and women of all times, God "did not send us a text message, an email, or a document." God "sent his Son, the Word of God who became man," who "became flesh and dwel ...
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  29 July 2025
  VATICAN/JUBILEE - The Pope to Catholic digital influencers: In online spaces, always look for the “suffering flesh of Christ” in every brother and sister Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "In online spaces, always look for the “suffering flesh of Christ” in every brother and sister." This is the mission that Pope Leo entrusted to the digital missionaries and Catholic i ...
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  28 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacre in a church in Komanda. Survivors flee Bunia (Agenzia Fides) – Dozens of Catholic faithful were killed with rifles and machetes while participating in a prayer vigil at the Parish of Blessed Anuarite. The massacre occurred during the night of Saturday, July ...