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  4 November 2025
  VATICAN- “Watershed moment for a glocal world”: International Conference on the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exhibition Rome (Agenzia Fides) – One hundred years ago, pilgrims who came to Rome for the 1925 Jubilee could encounter the entire world. At the request of Pope Pius XI, the pavilions of the "Vatican Missionary Exhibition" were s ...
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  4 November 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Calm returns, but there is a war of numbers over the victims of recent clashes Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation is calming down, and internet connections have been restored since yesterday,” local sources in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, told Fides following the violen ...
• 4 November 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of bishop vicar apostolic coadjutor of San Ramón Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Pedro Orlando Castro Castro, O.F.M., until now provincial vicar of the Franciscan Province of the Twelve Apostles and parish vicar of Santa Ma ...
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  4 November 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Disarmament pact on the border with Thailand. Fr. Figaredo: “A step forward of hope” Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Cambodia and Thailand have signed a disarmament agreement under the auspices of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) to remove heavy weapons from their border. This follows the ce ...
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  4 November 2025
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - "Night of the Arts 2025": Moscow's Catholic Cathedral opens to thousands of visitors by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) – On the evening of November 3, Moscow’s Catholic Cathedral opened its doors to thousands of visitors for the “Night of the Arts,” offering three free concerts. As e ...
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  4 November 2025
  Julius Jia Zhiguo, the witness (1935-2025) by Gianni Valente Jinzhou (Agenzia Fides) – “There is much to be done. China is a vast field where we must sow the Gospel of Jesus,” said Julius Jia Zhiguo in February 2016, when he was already 81 years old. And ...
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  3 November 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Concern for thousands of civilians missing in El Fasher Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Tens of thousands of civilians who fled El Fasher are currently considered missing. Humanitarian organizations operating in the Tawila refugee camp, about 50 km from the city, which was captu ...
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  3 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - The initiative of Christians in Kolkata: to give dignified burials to the outcasts Kolkata (Agenzia Fides) – Giving dignity to people even at the moment of death, through the work of mercy of “burying the dead,” has been the spirit that has inspired the Christian community of Kolkata in the comme ...
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  3 November 2025
  Cardinal Tagle: Saint John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church, is also a "Doctor of Mission" by Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle* We publish the address given by the Cardinal Tagle at the opening of the academic event organized by the Pontifical Urbaniana University to commemorate the proclamation of Saint John Henr ...
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  3 November 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV proclaims Saint John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church, Patron of the Pontifical Urbaniana University by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The English saint John Henry Newman, proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV on the Solemnity of All Saints, is now the Patron Saint of the Pontifical Urban ...
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  2 November 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV: Let us pray for Sudan and Tanzania. “Indiscriminate violence” in El Fasher Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “With great sorrow I am following the tragic news coming from Sudan, especially from the city of El Fasher in the war-torn region of North Darfur.” With these words, spoken after the ...
• 1 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Poona Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Leo XIV, has appointed the Most Reverend Father Simon Almeida, of the clergy of the same diocese, as Bishop of the Diocese of Poona and former Assistant Secretary of the We ...
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  1 November 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Missionary October and the fight against malnutrition Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – The Missionary month of October in Indonesia's vast archipelago was marked by two initiatives for young people and young adults, both coordinated by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS): the ...
• 1 November 2025
  AFRICA - October was a difficult election month in Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Recent elections in Africa have triggered a series of protests in the countries where they were held. In two cases, outgoing leaders, both over eighty years old, were re-elected amid allegations ...
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  31 October 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Provincial elections in Punjab: Christian community calls for politics to be viewed as a mission Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Punjab government and the Pakistan Election Commission "should defend the democratic principles and ensure that every citizen – regardless of their ethnicity, culture, or religious group � ...