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  19 August 2025
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - New Patron Saints for the Arabian Peninsula and prayers for the missionaries who died in the Gulf Region Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – The Arabian Peninsula has "new" Patron Saints. The Holy See, through a decree of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, has approved the Particular Calendar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern ...
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  19 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Buxar after floods in India: "The situation is improving, we are ensuring basic necessities for those most in need" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – "I am close to the peoples of Pakistan, India, and Nepal who have been struck by violent floods. I pray for the victims, for their families, and for all those who suffer because of this cala ...
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  19 August 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - No progress in Doha on the peace agreement between the Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - No progress has been made in the talks in Doha, Qatar, which were supposed to culminate in an agreement yesterday, August 18, between the government of the Democrat ...
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  19 August 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A truck with aid that had been blocked at the Camillian Hospital in Port-au-Prince for two years arrives in Jérémie Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – "After more than two years, a container of relief supplies from the capital, Port-au-Prince, has arrived, which had been stuck in our hospital in Port-au-Prince for a long time," w ...
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  18 August 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pope Leo XIV: May Jesus Christ be announced with clarity and immense charity among the inhabitants of the Amazon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "It is necessary that Jesus Christ, in whom all things are recapulated, be announced with clarity and immense charity among the inhabitants of the Amazon," said Pope Leo XIV in a telegram ...
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  18 August 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Khartoum Prime Minister's Appeal: "Stop Sending Colombian Mercenaries to Sudan" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "Stop sending Colombian mercenaries to fight in Sudan." Sudanese Prime Minister Kamal Idris addressed this appeal in a video message to the authorities and people of Colombia. "The Spanish- ...
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  18 August 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - In Darfur, siege and speculation force the population to eat animal feed by Cosimo Graziani El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) – In the tragedy of the conflict in Sudan, the Darfur region is one of the hardest hit. In particular, in North Darfur state, the siege of the capital, El Fasher, by the ...
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  17 August 2025
  Pope Leo: "We are the Church of the Lord, a Church of the poor, all precious" Albano Laziale (Agenzia Fides) – The Church of Christ is "a Church of the poor, all precious, all active participants, each one bearing a unique word from God." And the charity of Christ, which animates the Church, doe ...
• 16 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Mysore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 15, 2025, the Holy Father Leo XIV appointed Bishop Francis Serrao, S.J., currently Bishop of Shimoga, as Bishop of the Diocese of Mysore. (Agenzia Fides, 16/8/2025) ...
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  16 August 2025
  The geopolitical implications of the Joint Declaration between Armenia and Azerbaijan by Cosimo Graziani Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "I congratulate Armenia and Azerbaijan, who have succeeded in signing the Joint Declaration of Peace." With these words, Pope Leo XIV addressed the faithful gathered in ...
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  16 August 2025
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Sailing from France to the Antilles: fundraising campaign for the Salesian missionaries in Guadeloupe Paris (Agenzia Fides) – 150 years after the first crossing of the Atlantic by the Salesian missionaries of Don Bosco to reach the archipelago of Guadeloupe (now part of the French Antilles, ed.), a sailboat named after ...
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  15 August 2025
  Pope Leo: The poor and persecuted Christian communities are the joy of the Church, the first fruits of the Kingdom to come Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Christ "lives in her fragile members, and she is renewed by their Magnificat. Even in our own day, the poor and persecuted Christian communities, the witnesses of tendernes ...
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  15 August 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - First National Eucharistic Congress: The Eucharist, "source and summit" of the Pilgrims of Hope Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – The central importance of the Blessed Sacrament in the life of Pilgrims of Hope in this Jubilee Year was the focus of the first National Eucharistic Congress, held last week in Lilongwe, whic ...
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  14 August 2025
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The 12th Regional Meeting on the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility in Costa Rica San José (Agenzia Fides) – The 12th Regional Meeting of Bishops and Pastoral Workers of Human Mobility from North, Central America, and the Caribbean will be held from August 18 to 22 in Costa Rica, at the Juan XXIII ...
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  13 August 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Apostolic Prefect of Battambang: "Respect the truce, for a genuine and lasting peace" Battambang (Agenzia Fides) – "The population had high hopes and was very happy and encouraged by the ceasefire agreement signed on August 7. Now the call is: respect it! We call on the governments to ensure that the mi ...