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Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Sign Historic Peace Agreement in the White House
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After decades of conflict For the Ethnically Armenian-Christian enclave of Nagorno-Karabaj, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed a peace agreement on Friday, August 8.
Pashinyan He described the moment as “the opening of a peace chapter” and “the establishment of the bases for a better story than we had in the past.” Aliyev added that the nations were “writing a great new story.”
The peace agreement, consolidated by US President Donald Trump, includes a commercial agreement that will create a transit corridor between the two countries, which will be called the “Trump route for peace and international prosperity.”
The USCIRF publishes report on religious freedom in areas controlled by hutis in Yemen
The United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has published a report on religious freedom in the areas of Northern Yemen controlled by the hutis, stating that attacks on religious groups, including Bahaíes, Christians, Jews and Muslims Ahmadíes, have intensified since the attacks of October 7, 2023 in Israel.
“The hutis have intensified their systematic and atrocious violations of religious freedom that affect various groups,” said the USCirf In a press release of August 6. “By promoting their religious ideology in all sectors … Hutis are seriously restricting religious freedom in a country with an ancient history of religious diversity.” The statement said that the “remaining few members of minority religious communities” have been hidden to avoid threats and intimidation of the hutis.
Almost 100 Russian Catholics gather in solidarity with the pilgrims of Rome for the Jubilee of Young
A group of 90 young Russian Catholics who could not travel to Rome for the jubilee of young FIDES news agency report.
“We could also feel pilgrims of hope and part of the Universal Church. When returning home, we will take this spark of hope with us, to our communities and the whole country,” said Roman Andreev, responsible for the youth pastoral of the Archdiocese of Moscow.
Young people from cities around the archdiocese, as well as the suffragan dioceses of San Clemente and San José, participated accompanied by the auxiliary bishop of Moscow, Mons. Nikolaj Dubinin. The young Russian pilgrims processed the city, visiting their various Catholic churches, and gathered at night in the Immaculate Conception Cathedral.
Austrian bishop criticizes Trump’s sculpture: “Simply abnormal”
Bishop Hermann Glettler of Innsbruck (Austria), in an interview with the Swiss environment kath.ch On Wednesday, he criticized a sculpture that represents the US president Donald Trump crucified, As reported by CNA Deutsch, Ewtn News German agency.
The bishop condemned the work for portraying Trump, whom he described as “an egotist negotiator of Washington”, on the cross, which is a “central symbol of Christianity.”
Real -size sculpture shows Trump With prison orange clothes Tied to a white cross, and its estimated price is about 20,000 euros (approximately $ 23,300).
“It seems to me that the work of the British (artist) Mason Storm, which was supposedly already shown in Vienna, is simply abnormal,” said Glettler. “There is simply nothing in this that makes any sense.”
Third Pan -African Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life begins in Ivory Coast
Participants in the third Pan -African Catholic Congress on theology, society and pastoral life have requested a “spiritual and structural awakening” in Africa, along with their commitment to face the problems that affect the continent during the five -day event, According to Aci Africa, Ewtn News African agency.
Organized by the Pan -African Network of Catholic Theology and Pastoral (Pactpan) under the motto “Walking together in the hope as God of God”, the third Pan -African Catholic Congress has been described as a call for God’s people in Africa to rediscover their shared vocation as Christians and members of the universal body of Christ.
Pope Leo XIV encourages Malawi that his first Eucharistic Congress is a time of “deep grace”
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged the people of God in Malawi to make his first National Eucharistic Congress a time of “deep grace” and an opportunity to revive the missionary heat in his country, Aci Africa reported.
In a message read by the Apostolic Nuncio in Malawi and Zambia, Archbishop Gian Luca Perici, Leon expressed his solidarity with the faithful gathered for the official inauguration of the Congress and transmitted his prayer so that the event is “a time to deepen the love for the Blessed Eucharist, strengthen the bonds of communion between the people of God Parish and family ”.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Low Elhabbal
Madalaine Elhabbal is a CNA journalist based in the Washington DC office in EWTN. He has published articles in Catholicvote and has also worked as a foreign language assistant in France. She is a graduate of Benedictine College.