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• 4 October 2025
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Tensions due to demonstrations organized by the opposition ahead of the presidential elections on October 25 Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Demonstrations are planned for today, Saturday, October 4, in all cities in Ivory Coast. These demonstrations are organized by the "Fronte Comune," the alliance of the two main opposition part ...
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  3 October 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - A missionary reports: "God surprises me every day by accompanying adults to baptism" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "What particularly strikes me about my missionary work in Thailand is that God surprises me every day, allowing me to witness the blossoming of faith in adults and to accompany adults to baptism ...
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  3 October 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Protests continue despite government resignation Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – Anti-government protests in Madagascar continue. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets yesterday (October 2) in various cities to demand the resignation of President Andry Rajoel ...
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  3 October 2025
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Food, drinking water, medical care, and psychosocial support for a group of 220 juvenile prisoners Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – Supporting the most vulnerable juvenile prisoners on their path to social rehabilitation and reducing the risk of recidivism after serving their sentences – this is the goal of the non-gove ...
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  2 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Patron Saint of the Missions: Catholic communities celebrate Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) – With rosary prayers, processions, testimonies of faith, liturgies, and theatrical performances, Chinese Catholics celebrated the feast of the Patron Saint of the Missions, Saint Thérèse of th ...
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  2 October 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New archbishop of Cebu visits earthquake victims Cebu (Agenzia Fides) – The new Archbishop of Cebu, Msgr. Alberto Uy, celebrated his inauguration on the morning of September 30th in the Cathedral of Cebu City, a city in the center of the Philippine archipelago, thus ...
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  2 October 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Violent clashes in Nagero County: injured, displaced, and missing. Homes, health centers, schools, and various infrastructures destroyed Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – "To all those engaged in fighting, I raise my voice as a shepherd: Cease hostilities! Respect human life! Protect civilians!" said the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, Barani Eduardo Hiiboro K ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The new school year begins at the parish school in Pourcine-Pic-Macaya Pourcine Pic-Macaya (Agenzia Fides) – "Without quality education, there is no future for Haiti and for our small but resilient mountain community," said missionary Father Massimo Miraglio of the Order of the Ministers ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the Barrio San Bernardo in Bogotà there is a new beginning among the "broken people" by Monica Poletto Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – In the south of Bogotá, in a former middle-class neighborhood, lies the "Barrio San Bernardo," where the parish of "Nuestra Señora de los Dolores" is located. The young ...
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  1 October 2025
  VATICAN - World Mission Month: Hope at the center of the Pontifical Mission Societies' video Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – With the beginning of the month of October dedicated to mission, numerous initiatives have been launched in all National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to raise awar ...
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  1 October 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Catholics' aid to families affected by Typhoon Bualoi: material goods and a heart full of love by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Thanh Hoa (Agenzia Fides) – Despite the danger posed by the severe floods that submerged entire communities in Thanh Hoa province, on the morning of September 30, 2025, a group of Catholi ...
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  1 October 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal from South Kivu civil society: "Territorial integrity must be respected and the local population must be included in the peace talks" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The populations in war-torn areas must not be ignored by not being invited to negotiations to resolve the conflicts that affect them. This is what a group of personalities and traditional lea ...
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  1 October 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Missionary witness in the “Land of the Rising Sun” by Pascale Rizk Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - It was the year 1549 when Francis Xavier landed in Kagoshima. Although he was not the first European to set foot on Japanese soil, which had already been reached by traders, ...
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  30 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - A missionary story: The Diocese of Sanyuan celebrates 400 years of apostolic work in Shaanxi Province Sanyuan (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Sanyuan, in the northwestern Chinese province of Shaanxi, is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the new beginning of the proclamation of the Gospel in Shaanxi Province, as part ...
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  30 September 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon: "national dialogue is the only path to peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – "Our goal is to promote a national dialogue everywhere to find a way out of the conflict that has been going on for four years and is causing great suffering for the entire nation, for people's ...