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  4 August 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian Bishops express their “Closeness and solidarity” Lima (Fides News Agency) – The Peruvian Bishops' Conference (CEP) has expressed its closeness and solidarity with the families of the victims of the plane crash that occurred on Saturday, August 1, in Nazca, in the Ica ...
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  4 August 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray on the brink of renewed conflict: fighting resumes as civilians flee Mekelle (Fides News Agency) – The truce reached with the 2022 Pretoria Agreement appears increasingly fragile. Heavy fighting has resumed in western Tigray, near the border with Sudan, between the Ethiopian National De ...
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  4 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Deep sorrow over the killing of Father Oyetoro; relief over the release of the seminarian kidnapped in Otukpo Abuja (Fides News Agency) – The killing of Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro (see Fides, 3/8/2026) has deeply affected both his home community and the one where he had been temporarily assigned to serve. The priest, whose ...
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  4 August 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - A thousand-kilometre journey from the Amazon to National Youth Day: “I left the jungle without knowing what awaited me” by Laura Gómez Ruiz Iquitos (Fides News Agency) – “I left the jungle without knowing what awaited me. I returned knowing that I belong to something much greater.” These are the words of Franco, a member of the ...
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  4 August 2026
  Bishop Pitchaimuthu at the First Franciscan Missionary Symposium: “Asia does not need missionaries who come with all the answers. It needs brothers and sisters who bring Christ” by Elena Grazini Chennai (Fides News Agency) – “Asia does not need missionaries who come with all the answers. It needs brothers and sisters who bring Christ, walk alongside the people, listen deeply, discern pati ...
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  3 August 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Official hymn for Seoul WYD 2027 unveiled: "Take courage; I have overcome the world" Seoul (Fides News Agency) – Martyrs and places of martyrdom take center stage in the videos released today to introduce the official hymn for the next World Youth Day (WYD), scheduled to take place in Seoul from August ...
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  3 August 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Drone warfare and humanitarian crisis deepen alarm in Darfur and Kordofan El Obeid (Fides News Agency) – El Obeid continues to be one of the main hotbeds of Sudan's conflict. The city continues to come under repeated drone attacks, while residents face severe water shortages, frequent power ...
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  3 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Church attacked during Sunday Mass, two people still held by kidnappers Abuja (Fides News Agency) – St. Joseph's Church in Inoyi, Affa, in Udi district of Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, was attacked during Sunday Mass on August 2. At least seven armed men stormed the church at around 8 ...
• 3 August 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Dindigul Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Dindigul, India, presented by Bishop Thomas Paulsamy. (EG) (Fides News Agency, 3/8/2026) ...
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  3 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest killed in roadside ambush Abuja (Fides news Agency) – A Catholic priest was killed in a roadside ambush in Nigeria. Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro was attacked with a machete on Church Road in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, in central Nigeria. The Dioce ...
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  3 August 2026
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Church's Mission among Khulna's Dalits. Bishop Boiragi: "In Christ they rediscover the dignity of children of God" Khulna (Fides News Agency) – Accompanying Dalit communities on their journey of human development and faith by providing education, social support and proclaiming the Gospel as an experience of liberation. This is one ...
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  2 August 2026
  ANGELUS - Pope Leo XIV: When we are with Christ, “our needs are abundantly met” Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The encounter with the Lord is “a nourishing experience.” And when we are with Him, the “bread of life,” “our needs are abundantly met.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV hig ...
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  2 August 2026
  TRINITARIANS IN MADAGASCAR/4 - One Hundred Years of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives. Bishop Berardi’s pilgrimage to the roots of his vocation by Antonella Prenna Cerfroid (Fides News Agency) – From his first encounter with Spanish missionaries to leading the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia, Bishop Aldo Berardi reflects on a journey shaped by memory ...
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  1 August 2026
  TRINITARIANS IN MADAGASCAR/3 - One hundred years of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives: Apostolic ‘tours’, catechists and the construction of facilities at the service of the Gospel by Antonella Prenna Moramanga (Fides News Agency) – After withdrawing from the Benadir Mission in what was then Somalia, the Trinitarians continued their redemptive mission on the island of Madagascar, where they se ...
• 1 August 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Jesuit Prakash: "Young people are awakening the country's democratic conscience" Ahmedabad (Fides News agency) – The large-scale student protests that have swept across India in recent weeks—organized by the newly formed Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the "People's Cockroach Party"—are far more t ...