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  28 September 2026
  EUROPE/POLAND - Funeral of Father Zbojnowicz, killed in attack on Jarosław monastery, to be held Tuesday, September 29 Warsaw (Fides News Agency) – The funeral of Father Stanisław Zbojnowicz, a Benedictine priest who was attacked on September 24, at the monastery of the Benedictine nuns in Jarosław, in south-eastern Poland, near the ...
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  28 September 2026
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Message of the annual gathering of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood: Different yet united in the love of Christ Budapest (Fides News Agency) – More than 100 children, accompanied by their animators and several parents, gathered in Budapest for the annual meeting organized by the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) in ...
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  28 September 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS/II - Bishop Melchior Sun Dezhen and the Diocese of Anguo One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is publishing a series of documentary profiles on these Successors of the Apostles ...
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  28 September 2026
  THE POPE IN FRANCE/X - In Lourdes, where the vulnerable bring light by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) – “O Mary, have mercy…” Eva’s crystal-clear voice, that of a 13-year-old girl, rises almost a cappella before Pope Leo XIV. She performs one of the songs from ...
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  28 September 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - In Mumbai, the Church’s mission at the heart of the megalopolis by Paolo Affatato Mumbai (Fides News Agency) – A Church called to carry out its mission in the heart of one of India’s largest, most dynamic and complex megalopolises: this is the daily reality of the Archdiocese ...
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  27 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/IX - The visit of Leo XIV, clichés and the surprises of grace by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) - A long ribbon of 800,000 people stretched along the Champs-Élysées on September 26 to attend the Pope’s Mass in Place de la Concorde. The turnout was exceptional ...
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  27 September 2026
  United States lifts sanctions on Eritrea by Cosimo Graziani Asmara (Fides News Agency) – The Trump administration has decided to lift sanctions against Eritrea, five years after they were imposed by President Biden. The decision, announced on Friday, 18 Se ...
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  26 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VIII - The journey of Leo XIV celebrates the intertwining of popular Christianity and the understanding of faith by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) - The Pope’s visit to France was eagerly awaited, and Leo XIV’s first day in the country has already been a success. One needed only to hear the 80,000 young peopl ...
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  25 September 2026
  AFRICA/NIGER - Canadians, Australians and Americans relaunch Niger’s uranium industry Niamey (Fides News Agency) – Niger’s military junta is seeking to relaunch the country’s uranium mining industry with the signing of an agreement with Australian company Atomic Eagle, through which the State of Nig ...
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  25 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VII - Historian Dumont: Leo XIV’s visit comes amid expectations of a “new missionary impetus” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) – Historian Martin Dumont has just published a book on the long history of relations between the popes and France (La France dans la pensée des papes, Éditions du ...
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  25 September 2026
  EUROPE/NORTHERN IRELAND - Dromantine: 100 years of people, stories and missionary history woven into one very special place Dromantine (Fides News Agency) – A century of formation, prayer and missionary life. This is the story of Dromantine, the house of the Society of African Missions (SMA) which, in Northern Ireland, it has accompanied ge ...
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  25 September 2026
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Auxiliary Bishop of Saigon: “We stand alongside migrants and families, bringing the Gospel to the complexities of the metropolis” Ho Chi Minh City (Fides News Agency) – A metropolis in constant transformation, Vietnam’s economic centre and a destination for millions of people from every part of the country. It is in this context that the Cathol ...
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  25 September 2026
  Fulton J. Sheen proclaimed Blessed. Cardinal Tagle: “Blessed is the earthen vessel that draws power from Jesus” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki St. Louis (Fides News Agency) – ST LOUIS, Missouri, Sept. 24 — For many pilgrims, the day began early. Some hurried towards the entrances of America’s Center, the vast complex in downtown ...
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  24 September 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN — Kiir dissolves government ahead of December 22 elections Juba (Fides News Agency) — South Sudan is heading toward elections scheduled for December 22 after President Salva Kiir, on September 22, dissolved the Transitional Government of National Unity and appointed an interim ...
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  24 September 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR — Bishop among displaced people in Kachin State: “You are not forgotten” Myitkyina (Fides News Agency) — They brought hope and spiritual consolation to more than 1,000 internally displaced people living in the St. Teresa refugee camp, described as “the most vulnerable faithful of the Dioc ...