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  22 June 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The city of Rii-Yubu, consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, proclaims to the nation and the world that faith, love, and hope are stronger than distance, hardship, and fear Rii-Yubu (Fides News Agency) – Thousands of faithful participated in a solemn procession stretching nearly three kilometres through the city of Rii-Yubu, known as Source-Yubu City, before culminating at the newly estab ...
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  21 June 2026
  Refugees and displaced persons, the figures of a “globalized suffering” that the Pope removes from the conspiracy of silence by Cosimo Graziani Geneva (Fides News Agency) – During his recent apostolic journey to Spain, especially during the final stop in the Canary Islands, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church's concern regarding ...
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  21 June 2026
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Leo XIV: "The strength of any apostolate, beyond techniques and tools, comes from the work of the Holy Spirit within us" Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The proclamation of the Gospel of Christ "is first and foremost a sharing of a personal encounter with him, which is unique to each of us." And "the strength of any apostolate, in fac ...
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  20 June 2026
  The Pontificate of Leo XIV and Global Politics: A lecture by Massimo Faggioli at the Gregorian University Rome (Fides News Agency) – On Monday, June 22, the inaugural session of the “Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics 2026,” an international academic initiative dedicated to the relationship between re ...
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  20 June 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Father Channan: "The Catholic Church is committed to interreligious dialogue, social formation, and the promotion of peace" Lahore (Fides News Agency) – "The Gospel calls us to be peacemakers. Pakistan's Christians are a people of hope: we continue to spread the message of peace, human dignity, and justice that Jesus Christ entrusted to us, ...
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  19 June 2026
  Cardinal Chow: "Sinicization" requires reflection based on knowledge, not rejection based on ignorance by Marta Zhao Chengdu (Fides News Agency) – Reflection based on an understanding of the “Sinicization of religions” is far more constructive than rejection based on ignorance. This is how Cardinal Stephen Chow ...
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  19 June 2026
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Diocese of La Rioja, one month away from the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of the 4 blesseds La Rioja (Fides News Agency) – With the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of the four blesseds of La Rioja just a month away, the entire population is preparing to commemorate Bishop Enrique Angelelli, priests Carlos d ...
• 19 June 2026
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Appointment of new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Zagreb (Fides News Agency) - On May 4, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Sister Ivana Gelo of ...
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  19 June 2026
  KOREAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WORLD/5 - Father Lim's 33 Bolivian chapels by Pascale Rizk
  Okinawa Uno (Fides News Agency) – Thirty-three chapels await, at least once a month, the arrival of Father Angel Lim Jaejong for the Eucharistic celebration. ...
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  19 June 2026
  AFRICA/NIGER - At least 35 dead in attack on Niamey airport Niamey (Fides News Agency) - The official toll from yesterday's jihadist attack, June 18, on Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, the capital of Niger, has risen. According to a statement released by the Nigerie ...
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  19 June 2026
  AFRICA/KENYA - 2027 elections: Kenyan politicians' presence in places of worship grows Nairobi (Fides News Agency) – In view of the 2027 general elections, Kenya's main political leaders have intensified their presence in churches of various Christian denominations. Despite bans imposed by the authorit ...
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  19 June 2026
  Leo XIV in Pavia: at the sources of an Augustinian missionary style by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Pavia on Saturday, June 20, takes on a symbolic meaning. It is like the return of an Augustinian Pontiff to his spiritual roots. In the B ...
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  19 June 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Day of prayer and a Memorandum to be submitted to the government for the protection of social works New Delhi (Fides News Agency) - At the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Indian Catholics will celebrate a national Day of prayer on June 28, 2026, to protect social and charitable works thr ...
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  18 June 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "The Church is a bridge of reconciliation after the wounds of war" by Paolo Affatato Colombo (Fides News Agency) – “Reconciliation among the various communities of Sri Lanka and the healing of the wounds left by almost thirty years of civil war are now an integral part of the Ch ...
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  18 June 2026
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem denounces the seizure of church property in Silwan Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) – The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the seizure of land adjacent to the Monastery of Saint Onuphrius in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, Jerusalem, by Israeli a ...