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  22 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Afina, kidnapped on June 1, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Father Alphonsus Afina, who was kidnapped on June 1 (see Fides, 5/6/2025), has been released thanks to an operation by security forces. The priest was rescued yesterday, July 21, along with te ...
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  22 July 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Dialogue as a means of conflict resolution: solidarity of the Aboriginal Pastoral Care with the Mapuche communities Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) – “Let all forms of violence and, above all, the criminalization of the ongoing protest cease immediately. Social peace is only possible through dialogue as a tool to address different social ...
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  22 July 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - New St. Joseph Church inaugurated for the Bunong Montagnards Kompong Cham (Agenzia Fides) – The Keo Seima area, in the province of Mondulkiri, in eastern Cambodia, is known as a "wildlife sanctuary," as it is a natural forest reserve that extends over 290,000 hectares. An ideal ...
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  22 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Like a hidden treasure. Korean Catholics treasure the memory of their martyrs
  by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Fides Agency) - “If we follow the example of the martyrs and believe in the word of the Lord, then we will understand the sublime freedom and joy with whi ...
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  21 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A declaration of principles was signed in Doha between the Congolese government and the M23 to end the war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23/Congo River Alliance (AFC) guerrillas signed a declaration of principles on July 19 in Doha, Qatar, to end the war in the ea ...
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  21 July 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Gaza: Southern African bishops reaffirm their support for the South African government's genocide complaint Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Southern African bishops re-affirmed their full support of South Africa’s legal case against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICJ), which accuses Israel of genocide again ...
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  21 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A thousand young Koreans in Rome for the Jubilee Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – More than a thousand young Koreans have departed for Rome to participate in the Jubilee of Youth. The Catholic community of Seoul greeted the young pilgrims with the Mass for “1004 Project,” ...
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  21 July 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Jubilee of the Youth: more than just a trip, it is a journey of faith Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – A group of 90 faithful from across the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia (AVOSA) are traveling to Italy for a two-week pilgrimage that includes several spiritual stops before arriving i ...
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  20 July 2025
  Pope Leo XIV: "Profound sadness" for the "Israeli army attack" against the Gaza parish Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - "I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City". Pope Leo expressed his clear and explicit w ...
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  19 July 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - School, vegetable gardens, and livestock farming: the Consolata Missionaries teach a trade to young girls in difficult situations Iringa (Agenzia Fides) - Learning to care for animals on a farm to create a livestock farm and cultivate vegetable gardens to sell the produce at the market. This is the new objective of the "House of Joy," a facility ru ...
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  19 July 2025
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Political and social tensions as the country heads toward general elections Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes between supporters of political parties have once again created social instability in Bangladesh. Tensions have flared in recent days in the city of Gopalganj, south of Dhaka, where member ...
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  18 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - "Vincentian Tea," relief for the body and soul for those who work in Zhejiang's scorching summer Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) – Saint Vincent de Paul bore witness to Christ's charity by offering food to the hungry and care for the sick in 17th-century France. Today, following in his footsteps, the parishioners of the Lo ...
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  18 July 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Following the Israeli attack on the parish, Pope Leo telephones the Patriarchs of Jerusalem during their visit to Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - In the aftermath of the grievous strike on the Holy Family Church compound in Gaza, which left three dead and at least nine wounded (see Fides, 17/7/2025), His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista ...
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  18 July 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A commission of inquiry to stop the “blasphemy business” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – To curb the serious phenomenon of the “blasphemy business,” the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered the government to create a special commission to investigate the growing number of ...
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  18 July 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The fires of war will not kill learning for young Sudanese Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Prolonged conflict and mass displacement have denied young Sudanese even the most basic tools for self-development. The criticality also emerged on the occasion of the recently celebrated W ...