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  16 August 2026
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The “Extended Sanctuary,” a missionary pilgrimage in the footsteps of Saint John Eudes by Pascale Rizk Caen (Fides News Agency) – To ensure that the ancient “Mission of Caen” does not remain merely a historic building but becomes a place of living memory, the Eudist Fathers and Mary, together with ...
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  16 August 2026
  ASIA/VIETNAM - 160,000 people flock to the 32nd Marian Congress-Pilgrimage of La Vang by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Hue (Fides News Agency) - Regardless of travelling for a long distance and no matter when residing in the difficult condition into uncomfortable tents being temporarily erected under hot t ...
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  15 August 2026
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake in Flores: fear, damage and faith in the face of adversity Maumere (Fides News Agency) – This morning, August 15, 2026, the island of Flores was struck by a violent magnitude 7.7 earthquake shortly before 6 a.m. The tremor, whose epicenter was located in the Nagekeo area, was ...
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  15 August 2026
  What lies behind the diplomatic clash between Argentina and Brazil by Cosimo Graziani Brasilia/Buenos Aires (Fides News Agency) – In recent days, a diplomatic crisis has strained relations between Argentina and Brazil. It all began when Argentine President Javier Milei described h ...
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  14 August 2026
  In Dar es Salaam, African Liturgists call for an end to the “folklorization” and “theatricalization” of inculturation by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Dar es Salaam (Fides News Agency) – Liturgical inculturation is neither about “canonizing” personal pratices nor about indiscriminately adding cultural elements to the Roman rite. Rather, ...
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  13 August 2026
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The commitment of the Pontifical Mission Societies after the earthquake: Amid destruction and suffering, mission becomes closeness, comfort and fraternal service Bogotá (Fides News Agency) – “The Pontifical Mission Societies of Colombia invite their entire national and international network to remain united in prayer and to express their solidarity with the affected populati ...
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  13 August 2026
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Country goes to the polls; Caritas denounces arrests and detention of opposition figures in undisclosed locations Lusaka (Fides News Agency) – Arrests and detention of political opponents in undisclosed locations. This is the concern raised by Caritas Zambia in a statement signed by its executive director, Father Gabriel Mapulanga ...
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  13 August 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/I - Bishop Guillet: This is how the “Acts of the Apostles” is coming alive in Saint-Denis by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Saint-Denis (Fides news Agency) – As the Diocese of Saint-Denis prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV during his visit to France (September 25–28) for a prayer vigil with youth and catechumens ...
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  12 August 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - War enters a new phase as front shifts towards Kordofan and Blue Nile Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – The war in Sudan continues amid drone strikes and tensions with Ethiopia and South Sudan, increasingly taking the shape of a fragmented, technologically driven conflict. As the Sudan Arm ...
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  12 August 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian leaders: "The 2026 elections must not fuel insecurity and violence" Juba (Fides News Agency) – “Care must be taken to ensure that the general elections scheduled for December 2026 do not fuel insecurity and violence.” This is the warning contained in the Limuru Pastoral Statement, ...
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  12 August 2026
  Papua New Guinea, the miracle of ecclesial unity in the Country of 800 languages by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Port Moresby (Fides News Agency) - As the Diocese of Bougainville marks a historic 125 years of the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries, the three-week jubilee celebrations will culminat ...
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  11 August 2026
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Earthquake in Chocó: Church community comes to the aid of displaced people. Bishops: “Recognize ourselves as one family” Bogotá (Fides News Agency) – A devastating magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on the morning of Monday, August 10, 2026, with its epicenter identified in the municipality of San José del Palmar, in the departme ...
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  11 August 2026
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Two attacks in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica raise tensions Tripoli (Fides News Agency) – Two attacks in the past 24 hours in the two areas along which Libya is politically divided have heightened tensions in the North African country. In Tripolitania, explosions and a fire ...
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  11 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminarian and lay faithful kidnapped in attack on St. Joseph’s Church released Abuja (Fides News Agency) – The last two hostages abducted on Sunday, August 2, during the attack on St. Joseph’s Church in Inoyi-Affa, Udi District, Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, have been released (see Fides, ...
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  11 August 2026
  Hope can rise again amid the rubble: The mission of Catholic Schools in the peripheries of Latin America by Laura Gómez Ruiz Portoviejo (Fides News Agency) – In Latin America, education remains one of the fields in which the Church’s vital and concrete mission encounters and embraces the real aspirations and needs o ...