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  1 September 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Lay missionary kidnapped during armed attack on orphanage released after a month Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – After nearly a month of captivity, the Irish lay missionary Gena Heraty, who has been working in Haiti for thirty years, was freed along with the other hostages captured during the atta ...
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  22 August 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "I must be a missionary": Sister Maria Troncatti will be proclaimed a Saint during World Mission Sunday 2025 Quito (Agenzia Fides) – "I must be a missionary" is the promise that characterized the entire work of Italian nun Maria Troncatti, a missionary of the Salesian Sisters, who will be proclaimed a Saint by Pope Leo XIV on ...
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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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  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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  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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  12 August 2025
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Indigenous Pastoral Week 2025, one hundred years after the "Dule Revolution" by Laura Gómez Ruiz Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - From August 3 to 10, 2025, the Archdiocese of Panama celebrated Indigenous Pastoral Week under the motto "Rights must be defended." This edition commemorated the cent ...
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  9 August 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The synergy between the Archdiocese of Maracaibo and the Pontifical Mission Societies for the territory of La Guajira Riohacha (Agenzia Fides) – Strengthening indigenous pastoral care, training lay people, and promoting sustainable social projects that improve the quality of life of indigenous communities in terms of access to water, ...
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  8 August 2025
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops encourage catechists: "Let us remain anchored in hope" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – "You catechists are witnesses to the fact that, anchored in hope, you are committed to our reality, moving toward the goal: a life of eternal love," writes Bishop Pablo Jourdan in a letter ...
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  6 August 2025
  Coups, Chaos and Haiti’s Tragic Collapse By Victor Gaetan Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “Hell in Haiti” declares a headline in the British Daily Mail last week. It recounts how dead bodies litter streets, typically murdered by gangs controlling over 9 ...
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  5 August 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A lay missionary and a three-year-old boy among the 9 people kidnapped during the armed attack on an orphanage Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A lay missionary and a three-year-old child with a disability are among the nine people kidnapped by an armed group that attacked an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on the mor ...
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  5 August 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on the El Teniente tragedy: "Work should be a source of dignity and human development, not death" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "We join in the days of national mourning for the tragic deaths of Paulo, Gonzalo, Jean, Álex, Carlos, and Moisés in prayer and the celebration of Masses," said Cardinal Fernando Gar ...
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  30 July 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Augustinian priest released 40 days after his disappearance Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) – Forty days after his disappearance, Carlos Saúl Jaimes Guerrero, an Augustinian priest belonging to the Province of Our Lady of Grace, has been released. The priest's religious community anno ...
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  29 July 2025
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Archbishop Nácher and Evangelical Leaders call for a march for democracy and peace Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Amid a climate of growing electoral tension, Catholics and Evangelicals in Honduras have called for a march for peace to be held on August 16. “Hearing the cries of our brothers and s ...
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  28 July 2025
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - National Meeting of Basic Ecclesial Communities Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – After several years of suspension, the Basic Ecclesial Communities (CEB) in Guatemala held their national meeting. "We are CEB united in hope, to transform reality," reads a statemen ...