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  12 September 2025
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishop N'Dali: "Jihadists have announced further attacks" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) – "The jihadists have announced further attacks. The population is very worried," says His Exc MSgr. Martin Adjou Moumouni, Bishop of N'Dali, the diocese in Benin, whose territory includes the v ...
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  12 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic killed during pilgrimage: Christians demand justice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened by the murder of Afzal Masih. He was a devout Catholic who was participating in a Marian pilgrimage to venerate and pray to the Virgin Mary. Today, we express our deepest ...
• 12 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Zhangjiakou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Friday 12 September 2025, the civil recognition and inauguration of Bishop Joseph Ma Yan'en, formerly of Xiwanzi, took place. The Holy Father, within the framework of the dialogue on ...
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  11 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods worsen, Caritas Executive Director: "The human and economic costs are enormous" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "It can be said that the entire country is flooded. No province has been spared by the heavy rains and flooding. There are approximately four million displaced people, and the need for assistan ...
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  11 September 2025
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishop after jihadist attack on a village on the border with Nigeria: "A constant threat to our pastoral activities" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Jihadists attacked the police station, looted houses, stole motorcycles and cars, and then fled with at least six civilians," reports His Exc. Msgr. Martin Adjou Moumouni Martin Adjou Moumouni, ...
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  11 September 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo to the new Bishops: You are the servants of the people's faith by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "We have two hundred bishops, only one Pope, and not a whole lot of time, so we’ll take the best advantage of it," said Pope Leo XIV himself, with a touch of humor, ...
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  10 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the dioceses of Xiwanzi and Xuanhua with the erection of the diocese of Zhangjiakou, China, and consecration of the first bishop of Zhangjiakou, China Zhangjiakou (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend more effectively to its spiritual good, on 8 July 2025 the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV decided to suppress the di ...
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  10 September 2025
  HOLY LAND/JORDAN - Bombing in Doha, Bishop Iyad Twal: "If there is a desire to live in peace, the only solution is that of two States" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The solution of two peoples and two states in the Holy Land is "the only solution, if there is a desire to live in peace and justice." This is what Iyad Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal ...
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  10 September 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - First church dedicated to Carlo Acutis to remind young people: “Holiness is possible today” Verapoly (Agenzia Fides) – While on Sunday, September 7, in St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV canonized Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis, in India, the Archbishop of Verapoly, Joseph Kalathiparambil, consecrated a ...
• 10 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the dioceses of Xiwanzi and Xuanhua with the erection of the diocese of Zhangjiakou and consecration of the first bishop of Zhangjiakou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend more effectively to its spiritual good, on 8 July 2025 the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV decided to suppress the d ...
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  10 September 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - High-ranking military officer forced to leave Uvira due to popular protests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – General Olivier Gasita, the deputy commander of the 33rd Military Region, in charge of operations and intelligence, was forced to leave Uvira due to protests against him. He left the city in ...
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  10 September 2025
  VATICAN - From the Peter's Pence to the Pontifical Mission Societies: The Course for new Bishops deals with money, mission and communion with the Successor of Peter by Gianni Valente "For the love of money is the root of all evils," writes the Apostle Saint Paul to Timothy. This is the same realism with which the Church has always collected and distributed money and material good ...
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  9 September 2025
  ASIA/NEPAL - Apostolic Administrator: "Young people demonstrate for good governance and for their future" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – "I see many people on the streets, young people and students, protesting against corruption and a political class that only thinks about its own interests. Their ideals are good, they demand ...
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  9 September 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Civil society in South Kivu is asking how far are the peace negotiations Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – "What is happening in the ongoing talks in Doha on the future of our region?" asks the South Kivu Civil Society Coordination Office in a statement sent to Fides. After almost two weeks of ta ...
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  8 September 2025
  VATICAN - Ecumenical Commemoration of Martyrs and Witnesses of the Faith: celebration in St. Paul Outside the Walls in the sign of communion between the churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a strong bond that already unites us which goes beyond all divisions: it is the testimony of Christians from different Churches and traditions, victims of persecution and violence ...