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  16 July 2025
  The BRICS + summit in Brazil raises the banner of multilateralism by Cosimo Graziani Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - On July 6 and 7, the annual summit of the so-called BRICS countries took place in Rio de Janeiro. This forum of states was founded in 2009 and has grown in recent y ...
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  16 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 10th World Youth Peace Pilgrimage in the Demilitarized Zone: "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula". This is the slogan that young Koreans launched, who gathered in the Demilitarized Zone (a strip of land created in 1953 after t ...
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  15 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - "Wedding without a dowry": the Chinese Catholic community promotes the gratuitousness of married life in a secularized society Taiyuan (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Meng Ningyou of Taiyuan, in the Chinese province of Shanxi, recommended in his homily at a church wedding last Sunday, July 13, that marriage, in the spirit of faith, be seen as a g ...
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  15 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped seminarians: Bishop of Auchi confirms contact from kidnappers Auchi (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the armed attack on the "Immaculate Conception" diocesan minor seminary in Ivhianokpodi, in Edo State, Nigeria (see Fides, 12/7/2025), the attackers who kidnapped three young semi ...
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  15 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Supreme Court declares large-scale mining legal: civil society promotes "environmental justice" Mamburao (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court's recent decision to declare null and void the ordinances and resolutions of provincial governments that imposed a 25-year moratorium on mining activities in the province of W ...
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  15 July 2025
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - In the footsteps of Bishop Brésillac Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - "When I was preparing to go to Africa, I was warned of the difficulties I would encounter… Not only due to the problems of adaptation: climate, food, or other minor issues, but also due to ...
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  15 July 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - The Argentine Church's missionary contribution in the Peruvian Amazon Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation from the Argentine Bishops' Conference, sent to Peru on behalf of the National Team of the Amazon Project, aims to support the proclamation of the Gospel, provide assistance in addre ...
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  14 July 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians accused of blasphemy continue to seek justice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asif Pervaiz, a 42-year-old Pakistani Christian, has been in prison for 12 years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy by a Lahore court in 2020. This is just one of many cases in which th ...
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  14 July 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Camillians celebrate their founder by dreaming of a clinic for the people of Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast day of Saint Camillus of Lellis, founder of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick (MI), Father Massimo Miraglio, parish priest of the small community of Pourcine Pic-Makaya, sha ...
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  14 July 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Jacques Mourad: Jesus wants His Church to remain in Syria by Gianni Valente Homs (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Jacques Mourad returned just a few days ago from participating in the Synod of Bishops of the Syriac Catholic Church in Rome. And he had a lot to do after his retur ...
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  13 July 2025
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Young people happy to follow their vocation: the Major Seminary in Dili celebrates its first 25 years Dili (Agenzia Fides) – Young people happy to live their vocation by following Christ and serving the Church every day. This is the reality that is lived at the Saints Peter and Paul Major Seminary in Dili in East Timor ...
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  13 July 2025
  Pope Leo in Castel Gandolfo: Jesus makes us witnesses of His love in the depths of evil and suffering Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - Today too, as in every age, humanity has to confront "the darkness of evil, suffering, poverty and the riddle of death." And we can recognize and embrace the pain of the world not out o ...
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  12 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Armed attack on the Seminary in Ivhianokpodi: three young seminarians kidnapped Auchi (Agenzia Fides) – An armed attack took place at the "Immaculate Conception" diocesan minor seminary in Ivhianokpodi, Edo State, Nigeria. Three young seminarians were kidnapped by an armed group. A security office ...
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  12 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God at the center of the formation meetings of 168 lay people from four dioceses Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Reading and deepening one's understanding of Sacred Scripture "is the source of our faith": this was the theme of Father Lv Shoude, lecturer at the Sheshan Seminary of the Diocese of Shanghai a ...
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  12 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Online gambling is a "public health crisis that destroys society": Bishops call for it to be declared illegal Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the gambling addiction treatment centers run by Caritas, Catholic organizations, and communities in the Philippines, the number of cases of online gambling addiction is increasing, a trend fue ...