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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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  1 October 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Mariamabad, the memory of Capuchin missionary Father Frank Van Butsele, who gave his life for the Gospel Lahore (Fides News Agency) – As the feast of St. Francis of Assisi approaches, during the eighth centenary of his death (1226–2026), the Catholic community of Mariamabad village, in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, is l ...
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  1 October 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Franciscan family marks the 800th anniversary of the Transitus of St. Francis in a spirit of dialogue and peace Islamabad (Fides News Agency) – Franciscan fraternities in Pakistan are marking the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi (1226–2026), ahead of the liturgical feast of St Francis on October 4, renewi ...
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  1 October 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray, the Eparch of Adigrat raises alarm: “We are completely isolated; humanitarian access is urgently needed” Adigrat (Fides News Agency) – “It is extremely urgent to facilitate humanitarian access, dialogue for peace and every form of dialogue. We are completely isolated, communications are blocked, and we have no contact w ...
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  30 September 2026
  “Wecare” missionary experiences/II - When mission becomes a journey of faith by Laura Gómez Ruiz Rome (Fides News Agency) – A missionary experience can begin with a concrete gesture: building something, offering help, sharing daily life with a community. But the questions that arise during ...
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  30 September 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tensions return to Tigray: fears of a new civil war Mekelle (Fides News Agency) – Fears of a new escalation in Ethiopia are growing following the resumption of fighting in the north of the country and an offensive by Tigrayan fighters in the neighboring regions of Afar ...
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  30 September 2026
  AFRICA/BENIN - Families forming missionary seminarians: small, concrete steps to overcome conflict and build peace Calavi (Fides News Agency) – On Thursday, 1 October, the international year of spirituality for 42 seminarians of the Society of African Missions (SMA) will begin at the Brésillac Centre in Abomey-Calavi, in the Archd ...
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  30 September 2026
  The Gospel bears fruit among mountainous ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Păc Năm (Fides News Agency) – Rather than waiting for the local people to come, the priest actively entered their lives. Initially, he went to the local market to converse, build up the ...
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  30 September 2026
  The Heaven opened, the Bishop’s Mission, and the Grace of being a little flock by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo* Rome (Fides news Agency) – On September 29, Anthony James Corcoran, SJ, was ordained a bishop beneath the vaults of Rome’s Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls. Cardinal Giorgio Mar ...
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  30 September 2026
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - In the tribal area of Joypurhat, Bishop Gomes: “the new diocese between poverty and hope” by Paolo Affatato Joypurhat (Fides News Agency) – “In poverty and weakness, there is God’s Providence; there is his Spirit accompanying us and bringing us gifts that surprise us. We experience this every day in ...
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  29 September 2026
  Bishop Martinelli at the Inter-Christian Symposium in Thessaloniki: Migrants have made the Arabian Peninsula a “Laboratory of an Intercultural Church” Thessaloniki (Fides News Agency) – The global migration flows that characterize the present age intersect, in surprising and mysterious ways, with the paths of apostolic ministry. In recent decades, the large number ...
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  29 September 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “How can we be Church where there is not yet a Church?” New missionary presence in Ghinnir, in East Bale Ghinnir (Fides News Agency) – After seven years of presence in Robe, the fraternity of the Villaregia Missionary Community has taken a new step in its missionary journey by moving to Ghinnir, in the heart of East Bale. ...
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  29 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/XI - Leo XIV in Metz: Europe seeks peace in the "Lantern of the Good Lord" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Metz (Fides News Agency) – “An American Pope speaking from Metz, on the border with Germany, about “De Gasperi” with a French accent,” journalist Iacopo Scaramuzzi wrote on the social ...
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  29 September 2026
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - “The fate of the flock is my fate”: Bishop Anthony Corcoran’s missionary road by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Biškek (Fides News Agency) – On September 29, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo will lay his hands on the head of Father Anthony Corcoran, an American-born Jesuit, who will become a bishop that day. ...