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  11 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/V - The (silent) mission of Lourdes: “God’s charity does not heal those who have no wounds” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Fides News Agency) – Just a few weeks ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, scheduled for September 26 and 27, excitement is palpable in the Marian ci ...
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  11 September 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bukavu: at least 27 students killed in a massive fire that destroyed two schools Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – At least two fires broke out yesterday, September 10, in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is currently occupied by M23 rebels backed by Rw ...
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  11 September 2026
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Course for minor and major seminary formators promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies Zomba (Fides News Agency) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malawi, in collaboration with the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Society of St Peter the Apostle (POSPA), are organizing a formation co ...
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  11 September 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - New “anti-conversion law” in Maharashtra: impact on the lives of Christians Poona (Fides News Agency) – In the Indian state of Maharashtra, in west-central India, the local Catholic community is having to carry out its pastoral life and its evangelizing mission while dealing with the "Maharash ...
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  10 September 2026
  Cardinal Tagle celebrates his father’s funeral Mass in Imus: “Eternal Life is to remain close to Jesus” Imus (Fides News Agency) – This morning, at ten o’clock, the bells of the Cathedral of Imus rang for a funeral and for a family. In the first diocese entrusted to the episcopal ministry of Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim ...
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  10 September 2026
  ASIA/NEPAL - Father Bogati: “Humanitarian aid and consolation for the displaced” Kathmandu (Fides News Agency) – “I have just visited one of the main areas where many people were swept away by the water; among them was a school with 300 students. We are still shocked, and people are traumatized. ...
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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 ...
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  10 September 2026
  Letter from the Dicastery for Evangelization to Cardinal Tagle “on the occasion of the death of his beloved father” We publish below the letter of condolence addressed by the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches) to Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the same missionary ...
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  10 September 2026
  One hundred years later. The long journey of China’s first Bishops to receive Episcopal Ordination from the Successor of Peter by Peter Zhao Jianmin* Shanghai (Fides News Agency) – Exactly one hundred years ago today, on September 10, 1926, the long blast of the ship’s sirens in the port of Shanghai announced the departure of the ship car ...
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  9 September 2026
  At the Course for Newly Appointed Bishops, practical tools for missionary communion with the Successor of Peter were presented Rome (Fides News Agency) – Newly appointed bishops who have gathered in Rome to take part in formation courses organized for them by the Dicasteries of the Holy See have had the opportunity to receive detailed informat ...
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  9 September 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - From water-treatment agent to chemical weapon: chlorine raises the risk of an embargo on an essential substance for civilians Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – A conflict increasingly shaped by external actors is now under suspicion of involving the use of chemical weapons by at least one of the parties. It is Sudan’s largely forgotten interna ...
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  9 September 2026
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - National Pastoral Convention: “Walking together in unity, despite diversity” Sibu (Fides News Agency) – “I hope that the 2026 Malaysia Pastoral Convention will be a time of reflection, filled with grace, on what it means to be Church in Malaysia. The hope is that it will unite us in celebrati ...
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  9 September 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - From vocation to mission: Anselmo Fabiano makes perpetual oath of commitment to the Society of African Missions Feriole (Fides News Agency) – “...called by the Lord to proclaim the Gospel to the nations, particularly in Africa, and knowing the aim of the Society of African Missions, I swear to remain a member of this Society f ...
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  9 September 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishops call for clarity over the death of Bishop Osório Citora Afonso Quelimane (Fides News Agency) – Just over three months have passed since the violent death of Osório Citora Afonso, Bishop of Quelimane and Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Beira. In a statement issued ...
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  8 September 2026
  The Church of the Sheaves: a missionary perspective presented to Newly Ordained Bishops Rome (Fides News Agency) – Bishops ordained in the last two years gathered in Rome on 8 September 2026, in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, for a formation course, hearing addresses from two dicas ...