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  21 July 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Church is speaking more and more Kazakh. Frather Jocher: "The Future of the Church lies with Kazakhs seeking Christ" by Paolo Affatato Astana (Fides News Agency) – The Catholic Church in Kazakhstan is experiencing a phase of profound transformation: it is no longer simply the Church of former Polish, German or Ukrainian deportees, ...
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  20 July 2026
  "You will see greater things": FABC opens its 12th Plenary Assembly in Jakarta Jakarta (Fides News Agency) – The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) today opened its 12th Plenary Assembly in Jakarta, describing the gathering as a significant step forward in the Church's synodal and mi ...
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  20 July 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - Following devastating tornadoes and floods, Catholic Community provides timely and generous relief to hardest-hit areas Shijiazhuang (Fides News Agency) – In the wake of the devastating tornadoes and floods that struck southeastern Chinese provinces in July, particularly Guangxi and Hubei, China's Catholic community has responded prompt ...
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  20 July 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - Earthquake strikes Andean region of Junín; the ecclesial community involved in relief efforts Huancayo (Fides News Agency) – The Peruvian Bishops' Conference has expressed its "deepest sorrow" over the loss of lives and the extensive damage caused by the earthquake that struck the central Andean region of Juní ...
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  20 July 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas Nigeria calls for state of emergency in the northwest to assist displaced persons Abuja (Fides news Agency) – Caritas Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in northwestern Nigeria, where insecurity fuelled by armed banditry and jihadist terrorism has forced tho ...
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  20 July 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Diocese suspends festive celebrations in memory of Father Osório Citora Afonso Quelimane (Fides News Agency) – In an official statement addressed to the clergy, delegates of the Conference of Religious Institutes of Mozambique (CIRMO) in Quelimane, religious institutes, and apostolic movements, t ...
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  19 July 2026
  ANGELUS - Pope Leo XIV: The Kingdom of God "is not imposed by force" but grows "like a small seed that sprouts" Castel Gandolfo (Fides News Agency) – The mystery of salvation with which God works "in our lives and in history" does not "impose itself by force" or "arrives triumphantly." Instead, His Kingdom grows "like a small se ...
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  19 July 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - 900,000 people in Cabo Delgado need humanitarian assistance Quelimane (Fides News Agency) – A new alarm has been raised over the humanitarian situation in Mozambique, particularly in the province of Cabo Delgado. According to the German non-governmental organization Johannit ...
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  18 July 2026
  President-elect Keiko Fujimori visits the Presidency of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference Lima (Fides News Agency) –President-elect, Keiko Fujimori Higuchi, visited the Presidency of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference as civil and Church authorities continue preparations for a possible apostolic visit by P ...
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  17 July 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - No one convicted: defendants acquitted in lynching of Christian couple Islamabad (Fides News Agency) – No one has been held responsible. The 2014 murder of a Christian couple in Pakistan's Punjab Province will remain unpunished after the country's Supreme Court brought the case to a close ...
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  17 July 2026
  South Sudan's post-independence ordeal: fifteen years of conflict, political instability and humanitarian crises Juba (Fides News Agency) – South Sudan is the world's youngest State. It is also one of the most troubled. These days mark the fifteenth anniversary of its independence, achieved in 2011 following a referendum. Indepe ...
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  17 July 2026
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Apostolic Prefect Figaredo: "The new slaves of the scam cities and the displaced are the hidden face of the crisis" by Paolo Affatato Phnom Penh (Fides News Agency) – "Cambodia is facing a dual humanitarian emergency. On the one hand, there are the people displaced by the conflict along the border with Thailand; on the other, the ...
• 16 July 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Guwahati Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Albert Hemrom, hitherto of Dibrugarh, as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Guwahati, India. Bishop Albert Hemrom was born on ...
• 16 July 2026
  AFRICA/CHAD - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Sarh Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Sarh, Chad, presented by Bishop Miguel Angel Sebastián Martínez, M.C.C.J. The Holy Father has ap ...
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  16 July 2026
  AMERICA/CHILE - Chilean Church celebrates Our Lady of Carmel, Queen and Mother of Chile, on the centenary of her coronation by Laura Gómez Ruiz Santiago de Chile (Fides News Agency) – Today, Thursday, July 16, the Church in Chile celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Carmel, one of the Marian devotions most deeply rooted in the country's ...