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  14 November 2026
  “Alma Misionera”: The Song of those who find a new home (and moves the Pope to tears) by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lima (Fides News Agency) – In Buenos Aires, as in Lima, Pope Leo XIV was visibly moved as he sang “Alma Misionera” together the young people gathered in prayer. “Oh Lord take my new ...
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  14 November 2026
  LEO XIV IN PERU/V - Pucallpa prepares to welcome the Pope: Amazonian symbols take centre stage at historic papal Mass by Laura Gómez Ruiz Pucallpa (Fides News Agency) – A chalice shaped like a traditional Amazonian vessel, a paten evoking the rivers of the region, and liturgical vestments inspired by the art of the Shipibo people ...
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  13 November 2026
  POPE LEO XIV IN PERU/IV - “Jesus, I trust in you”: The Pope embraces Peru’s young people Lima (Fides News Agency) – Joao Meza an 18-year-old medical student from Lima's Lince district, shared his personal testimony of faith with Pope Leo XIV during a youth vigil at the National Stadium of Peru. He spoke op ...
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  12 November 2026
  LEO XIV IN PERU: "I return as the Successor of Peter" and "also to my homeland." A shared history, listening to the people, and peace in everyday life Lima (Fides News Agency) – “Today I understand how much of this land remains with me and how much of my own story also belongs to you.” In his address to the authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps, del ...
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  12 November 2026
  LEO XIV IN PERU: Mission, Augustinian fraternity and the bond with his people, as recounted by Father Lam
  by Domitia Caramazza Rome (Fides News Agency) – “People are looking forward to welcoming the Pope from Rome, but they are also eager to see the man they know and remember, t ...
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  11 November 2026
  LEO XIV IN ARGENTINA - From Devoto to Luján: Grace enables our limitations to blossom, opens the way to reconciliation and mission Buenos Aires/Luján (Fides News Agency) – The final day in Argentina of the apostolic journey to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru (November 6–17) brought together two places that bear witness to the same mystery: the Buen ...
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  11 November 2026
  Pope Leo XIV to young people in Argentina: “No one has fallen so low that Christ cannot raise them up” Buenos Aires (Fides News Agency) – “No one has fallen so low that Christ cannot raise them up.” With these simple, direct words, Pope Leo XIV placed the mystery of healing and redemption proclaimed by Jesus at the ...
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  10 November 2026
  Charity, family, work and saints: the treasures of the Argentine people blessed by Leo XIV by Laura Gómez Ruiz Buenos Aires (Fides News Agency) – “Your lives are not a burden on society; they are a blessing.” With these words, addressed to people with disabilities and those who care for them at the P ...
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  10 November 2026
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Families camp at the Shrine of Luján to welcome the Pope and pray for their country by Ana Paula Morales Buenos Aires (Fides News Agency) – The apostolic visit of Pope Leo XIV to Argentina will conclude with a Eucharistic celebration dedicated to charity and social inclusion, to be celebrated with ...
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  9 November 2026
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Cardinal Martínez: “Profound changes are needed to overcome the crisis triggered by the liquidation of Ueno Bank” Asunción (Fides News Agency) – “Outrage, frustration and pain felt by society cannot be ignored or downplayed,” Cardinal Adalberto Martínez Flores, Archbishop of Asunción, warned in a statement issued on 7 Novem ...
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  9 November 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - Pope Leo XIV returns to the land that shaped him as a missionary: a people’s wounds and hopes as they await his return by Domitia Caramazza Lima (Fides News Agency) – For many Peruvians, this will be far more than the arrival of a Pope. It will be the return, as Successor of Peter, of the “Father Robert” who shared their hardshi ...
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  8 November 2026
  AMAZONIA - UN Special Rapporteur Arrojo denounces river pollution and its devastating impact on indigenous communities: “Water cannot be a business” Rome (Fides News Agency) – “No one explained to us that the water we were drinking was a way of poisoning our children.” Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinkin ...
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  1 November 2026
  Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King: “Jesus did not ask us to feel sympathy for our enemies, but to love them” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Salt Lake City (Fides News Agency) -On the sidelines of the G20 Interfaith Forum, taking place in Salt Lake City from October 15 to 17, 2026, Fides news agency spoke with Martin Luther King I ...
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  24 October 2026
  From a French pioneer of the American frontier to Pope Leo XIV: Sister Lyn Osiek's long missionary journey by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Saint Louis (Fides News Agency) - A pioneer of Catholic education on the American frontier, Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852) established the Society of the Sacred Heart in the United States in ...
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  21 October 2026
  COLOMBIA - "Mission remains urgent": the Colombian Church renews its missionary commitment on the centenary of DOMUND La Ceja (Fides News Agency) – “Mission is an urgent task for the whole Church.” These words, spoken by Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marín of Sonsón-Rionegro at the close of a missionary Congress marking the centena ...