News

• 
  24 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Fuzhou: Bishops Cai and Lin celebrate diaconal ordination together Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Joseph Cai Bingrui of Fuzhou and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan jointly celebrated a Mass during which Peter Ni Pengyu received diaconal ordination. The Mass was celebrated on Nove ...
• 
  24 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 265 pupils kidnapped from St. Mary's School are still in the hands of kidnappers; Bishop tells Fides: “This is the work of criminals” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “The kidnappers are almost certainly criminals seeking illicit gain by demanding a ransom for the release of the young people they have captured,” Msgr. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna of Kontagora, the ...
• 
  23 November 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Gratitude for a missionary experience that changed one's vision on life Canaima (Agenzia Fides) – On December 25, Carlos Bobillo (known as “Bobi”), a lay missionary of the Hakuna movement, will return home to Barcelona, Spain, after a three-month missionary experience in the vast terri ...
• 
  23 November 2025
  VATICAN - Leo XIV: “great pain” and “deeply saddened” to learn of the kidnapping of priests, faithful, and students in Nigeria and Cameroon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I was deeply saddened to learn of the kidnapping of priests, faithful, and students in Nigeria and Cameroon. I feel great pain, above all for the many young men and women who have been ...
• 
  22 November 2025
  Concert in the Roman Church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami to support the iniatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A classical guitar concert was organized in a church in the heart of Rome to raise funds for projects supported by the Pontifical Mission Societies. The event took place on Saturday, November 22, ...
• 
  22 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Violence increases after Donald Trump announces military action to “protect Christians” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “It appears that there are people deliberately trying to plunge this country into chaos,” wrote Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos in an article published in the diocesan weekly news ...
• 22 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Rabindra Kumar Ranasingh, of the clergy of the metropolitan archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India, until now dean of the Khristo Jyoti Mahavid ...
• 22 November 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Larantuka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Larantuka, Indonesia, presented by Bishop Fransiskus Kopong Kung. The Holy Father has appointed the Re ...
• 
  22 November 2025
  ASIA - Pilgrims of Hope in Asia: the Missionary Congress of the Churches of the Continent Penang (Agenzia Fides) - An Asian missionary congress entitled “The Great Pilgrimage of Hope” will take place in Penang, Malaysia, from November 27 to 30. It is organized by the Office for Evangelization of the Feder ...
• 
  21 November 2025
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Katharina Zellweger: "Sanctions against North Korea need to be reconsidered and peace diplomacy is needed" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “North Korea is subject to extremely strict sanctions due to its missile and nuclear programs. The sanctions are having an effect, but instead of harming the regime, they are primarily affecti ...
• 
  21 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities celebrate the memory of witnesses to the faith, in the month in which the deceased are commemorated Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Father Paul Wang, a Lazarist, served between Beijing and Hebei Province during difficult times in the 1970s and 1990s. He traveled on foot from village to village, wearing hand-me-down clothes ...
• 
  21 November 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian Crisis: Millions displaced without food, drinking water, sanitation, and shelter El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) – With the intensification of fighting that led to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) taking control of El Fasher and the withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Joint Operations Com ...
• 
  21 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - About a hundred students kidnapped in the attack on a Catholic school Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A Catholic school in Nigeria was attacked, and around 100 students were kidnapped. In the early hours of November 21, an armed group on 60 motorcycles and in cars stormed St. Mary’s Catholic P ...
• 
  20 November 2025
  "Apostolic Cinema": Missionary cinema, a resource for today's mission by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Hidden in the archives of many religious congregations and ecclesiastical institutions around the world lies a treasure that deserves to be rediscovered and shared. This is t ...
• 
  20 November 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Myanmar's army raids and arrests people in "Scam cities" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's military government has launched an operation to combat online criminal activity in so-called "scam cities" located on the border between Myanmar and Thailand: on November 18, the army ...