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  13 September 2026
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood: Jesus’ “torch” at the heart of missionary summer Camps Bucharest (Fides News Agency) – Accompanying children and young people in discovering that mission does not begin with what we do, but with the One who lives within us. This is the educational aim of two missionary sum ...
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  13 September 2026
  “Servants of communion in the Church”: New formation course for Bishops at the Ad Gentes Centre in Nemi, promoted by the Dicastery for Evangelization Nemi (Fides News Agency) – Following the formation courses organized by the Dicasteries of the Holy See for newly appointed Bishops (see Fides, 2/9/2026), the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelizat ...
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  12 September 2026
  U.S. Secretary of State Rubio’s South American tour: the fight against drug trafficking and the implementation of the “Donroe Doctrine” by Cosimo Graziani Washington (Fides News Agency) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded his three-day tour of South America on Thursday, September 10, during which he met with the heads of State of Colombi ...
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  12 September 2026
  EUROPE/GREECE - Orthodox and Catholic bishops make joint pilgrimage to Mount Athos, a holy place for all Christians by Father Sliman Hifawi Ouranoupolis (Fides News Agency) – The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Kuwait and Baghdad, Archbishop Ghattas Hazim (of the Patriarchate of Antioch), made a pilgrimage to Mount Athos from Sept ...
• 12 September 2026
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Appointment of Coadjutor Archbishop of Rabat Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. León Dorado, O.M.I., until now apostolic prefect of the Western Sahara, as coadjutor archbishop of Rabat, Morocco. Msgr. Mario León Dor ...
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  11 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/V - The (silent) mission of Lourdes: “God’s charity does not heal those who have no wounds” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Fides News Agency) – Just a few weeks ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, scheduled for September 26 and 27, excitement is palpable in the Marian ci ...
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  11 September 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bukavu: at least 27 students killed in a massive fire that destroyed two schools Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – At least two fires broke out yesterday, September 10, in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is currently occupied by M23 rebels backed by Rw ...
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  11 September 2026
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Course for minor and major seminary formators promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies Zomba (Fides News Agency) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malawi, in collaboration with the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Society of St Peter the Apostle (POSPA), are organizing a formation co ...
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  11 September 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - New “anti-conversion law” in Maharashtra: impact on the lives of Christians Poona (Fides News Agency) – In the Indian state of Maharashtra, in west-central India, the local Catholic community is having to carry out its pastoral life and its evangelizing mission while dealing with the "Maharash ...
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  10 September 2026
  Cardinal Tagle celebrates his father’s funeral Mass in Imus: “Eternal Life is to remain close to Jesus” Imus (Fides News Agency) – This morning, at ten o’clock, the bells of the Cathedral of Imus rang for a funeral and for a family. In the first diocese entrusted to the episcopal ministry of Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim ...
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  10 September 2026
  ASIA/NEPAL - Father Bogati: “Humanitarian aid and consolation for the displaced” Kathmandu (Fides News Agency) – “I have just visited one of the main areas where many people were swept away by the water; among them was a school with 300 students. We are still shocked, and people are traumatized. ...
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  10 September 2026
  Leo XIV to the new Bishops: Remain with Jesus, the “Good Shepherd,” to keep a missionary heart Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – A heart “completely turned toward the Father and, precisely for that reason, totally given to the brothers”: this is the central image chosen by Pope Leo XIV to describe the ident ...
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  10 September 2026
  Letter from the Dicastery for Evangelization to Cardinal Tagle “on the occasion of the death of his beloved father” We publish below the letter of condolence addressed by the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches) to Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the same missionary ...
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  10 September 2026
  One hundred years later. The long journey of China’s first Bishops to receive Episcopal Ordination from the Successor of Peter by Peter Zhao Jianmin* Shanghai (Fides News Agency) – Exactly one hundred years ago today, on September 10, 1926, the long blast of the ship’s sirens in the port of Shanghai announced the departure of the ship car ...
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  9 September 2026
  At the Course for Newly Appointed Bishops, practical tools for missionary communion with the Successor of Peter were presented Rome (Fides News Agency) – Newly appointed bishops who have gathered in Rome to take part in formation courses organized for them by the Dicasteries of the Holy See have had the opportunity to receive detailed informat ...