Vatican

• 9 October 2026
  VATICAN - Resignation of the dean and approval of the election of the new dean of the College of Cardinals Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of the dean of the College of Cardinals presented by His Eminence Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who will assume the title o ...
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  9 October 2026
  VATICAN - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is the new Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization of the Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches, is the new Dean of the College of ...
• 8 October 2026
  VATICAN - Appointment of adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches, with the office of president of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Sr. Mary Teresa Barron, N.S.A., superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, as adjunct secretary of the Dicastery ...
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  8 October 2026
  VATICAN - Sister Mary Teresa Barron appointed adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization and president of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Reverend Sr. Mary Teresa Barron, N.S.A., superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, as adjunct secretary of the Dicastery f ...
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  8 October 2026
  Missions in upheaval: World Mission Sunday during the years of war by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – “Our missionaries are there, standing firm in the trenches of faith, like watchful sentinels at the outposts.” On 19 October 1940, as the war was also devast ...
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  7 October 2026
  Pope Leo XIV: Let us celebrate the 100th anniversary of World Mission Sunday with gratitude and generosity
  Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – We publish below the text of the video message delivered by Pope Leo XIV in preparation for World Mission Sunday, established 100 ye ...
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  6 October 2026
  The Popes and World Mission Sunday Rome (Fides News Agency) – From Pius XII’s appeal during wartime to the annual papal messages of Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis (while in the early years the texts were often drafted by the Cardinal ...
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  5 October 2026
  Bible and cultures: Christian identity as encounter by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) — “Very often, our identity is: ‘I am because you are not.’” For Nicoletta Gatti, a lecturer in biblical studies at the University of Ghana, it is precisely i ...
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  1 October 2026
  VATICAN - New “Donum Missionis” Foundation brings the missionary colleges in Rome under one institution Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – From 1 November 2026, the “Domus Missionalis” and “Domus Urbaniana” Foundations will cease to exist as separate entities and will be brought together under a single institutio ...
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  1 October 2026
  Refugee & Migrant Education Emergency. Conference at the Pontifical Urbaniana University Rome (Fides News Agency) – The international conference “Refugee & Migrant Education: Voices in Action: Transformative Collaboration and Educational Solidarity with Refugees & Migrants” opened on September 30 at th ...
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  17 September 2026
  The Course in Nemi: an open laboratory on the Bishops’ “missionary mandate” Nemi (Fides News Agency) – There is a “missionary mandate” inherent in Jesus’ call to his disciples, a mandate that continues to challenge every new “Successor of the Apostles” today. A mandate that must be f ...
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  16 September 2026
  Leo XIV: in the lives of new martyrs and witnesses, the reflection of Christ’s victory over death Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The martyrs and witnesses of our time represent “one of the Church’s greatest resources for proclaiming the Gospel in today’s world”. This was one of the key points in the add ...
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  15 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/III - An American at the Second Vatican Council: Archbishop Sheen’s contribution to the Decree “Ad gentes” on the Church’s missionary activity by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – It is a little-known episode of the Second Vatican Council, but its decree on the missions owes much to a single American bishop: Fulton J. Sheen. Among ...
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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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  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 ...