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  24 June 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest killed: He tried to mediate a family dispute Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was killed in Nigeria while attempting to mediate a family dispute. Father Godfrey Oparaekwe, parish priest of St. Ambrose Church in Ubakala (Umuahia South LGA), in Abia State (s ...
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  23 June 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - A valuable study on health care for Chinese Bishops, nuns and priests by Marta Zhao Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On June 10, 2025, Father Peter Li Yu of the Diocese of Qiqihar, in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, died at the age of 56. On May 3, 2025, Father Joseph Xu Cheng of the Dioce ...
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  23 June 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer for peace and reconciliation in Korea in the face of an “emotional civil war” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “Let us walk together on the pilgrimage toward peace with eternal hope,” said Bishop Simon Kim Joo-young, Bishop of Chuncheon and president of the Reconciliation Committee of the South Korea ...
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  23 June 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Massacre of Christians in Damascus. Greek Orthodox Patriarchate: "they are our new martyrs" by Pascale Rizk Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "On the day our Church of Antioch commemorates all the Antiochian saints, the treacherous hand of injustice has risen this evening and reaped our souls along with the souls ...
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  23 June 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - The appeal of the Archbishops of Nyeri and Nairobi for the march in memory of last year's victims: "Let dialogue prevail" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Let dialogue prevail between the government and young people. This is the appeal for the march in memory of the victims of last year's protests against the budget law (see Fides, June 21, 25, ...
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  22 June 2025
  Pope Leo celebrates Corpus Christi: “It is wonderful to be in the presence of Jesus” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Dear brothers and sisters, it is wonderful to be in the presence of Jesus.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV began his homily this afternoon as he celebrated the Eucharistic Liturgy for the So ...
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  21 June 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Salesians distribute work kits to fishermen in difficulty after the environmental disaster in Esmeraldas Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) – On March 13, 2025, a pipeline rupture in the province of Esmeraldas, northwest Ecuador, caused a huge amount of oil to spill into the river of the same name, which gives the region its name ...
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  21 June 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - An association for the promotion of faith in Vietnam is born in the parish of Trang Quan Hai Phong (Agenzia Fides) – To accompany adults who have recently received baptism on their journey of faith: with this objective, the Association for the Promotion of Faith was born in the parish of Trang Quan, in the ...
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  20 June 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Accusations of witchcraft and violence in society: Caritas' commitment to combating them Kundiawa (Agenzia Fides) – In the province of Simbu, in Papua New Guinea, so-called violence related to accusations of witchcraft represents one of the most serious and horrific forms of aggression between families and ...
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  20 June 2025
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Voices of Peace”: campaign by Sudanese youth to launch a sustainable peace process Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “Stopping the war has become a national demand”. This is the goal of a group of Sudanese youth who have launched the “Voices of Peace” campaign in Kampala, Uganda. Inaugurated on Satur ...
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  19 June 2025
  From Mongolia to the Apostolic memory of Rome: The "ad limina Petri" pilgrimage of a small missionary Church by Gianni Valente Less than three years ago, Peter's successor came to visit them in Ulaanbaatar, even traveling in a wheelchair. Now, some of them have come from there to visit Peter, venerate his memory, and also g ...
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  19 June 2025
  The challenges of vaccine production in Africa by Cosimo Graziani Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In recent weeks, a Lassa fever vaccine developed by local researchers in Nigeria has shown initial signs of effectiveness in combating the disease, which recorded 747 new ca ...
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  19 June 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - With the onset of the rainy season, the situation of earthquake victims in Mandalay is becoming increasingly critical Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - Three months after the devastating earthquake of March 28, 2025, the area around Mandalay in north-central Myanmar has been hit by heavy rains and thunderstorms for more than three weeks. Due t ...
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  18 June 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Is Sudan moving toward partition? Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Is Sudan heading toward a de facto partition? This is the question several regional analysts are asking following the takeover of the so-called "border triangle" between Sudan, Libya, and Egypt ...
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  18 June 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Minna: "It is inexplicable that such cruelty was inflicted on hundreds of people" Minna (Agenzia Fides) - "What happened in Makurdi is truly horrible," said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Minna, Luka Sylvester Gopep, to Fides, in a commentary on the massacre that occurred on the night of June ...