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  13 August 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/I - Bishop Guillet: This is how the “Acts of the Apostles” is coming alive in Saint-Denis by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Saint-Denis (Fides news Agency) – As the Diocese of Saint-Denis prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV during his visit to France (September 25–28) for a prayer vigil with youth and catechumens ...
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  12 August 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - War enters a new phase as front shifts towards Kordofan and Blue Nile Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – The war in Sudan continues amid drone strikes and tensions with Ethiopia and South Sudan, increasingly taking the shape of a fragmented, technologically driven conflict. As the Sudan Arm ...
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  12 August 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian leaders: "The 2026 elections must not fuel insecurity and violence" Juba (Fides News Agency) – “Care must be taken to ensure that the general elections scheduled for December 2026 do not fuel insecurity and violence.” This is the warning contained in the Limuru Pastoral Statement, ...
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  12 August 2026
  Papua New Guinea, the miracle of ecclesial unity in the Country of 800 languages by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Port Moresby (Fides News Agency) - As the Diocese of Bougainville marks a historic 125 years of the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries, the three-week jubilee celebrations will culminat ...
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  11 August 2026
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Earthquake in Chocó: Church community comes to the aid of displaced people. Bishops: “Recognize ourselves as one family” Bogotá (Fides News Agency) – A devastating magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on the morning of Monday, August 10, 2026, with its epicenter identified in the municipality of San José del Palmar, in the departme ...
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  11 August 2026
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Two attacks in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica raise tensions Tripoli (Fides News Agency) – Two attacks in the past 24 hours in the two areas along which Libya is politically divided have heightened tensions in the North African country. In Tripolitania, explosions and a fire ...
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  11 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminarian and lay faithful kidnapped in attack on St. Joseph’s Church released Abuja (Fides News Agency) – The last two hostages abducted on Sunday, August 2, during the attack on St. Joseph’s Church in Inoyi-Affa, Udi District, Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, have been released (see Fides, ...
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  11 August 2026
  Hope can rise again amid the rubble: The mission of Catholic Schools in the peripheries of Latin America by Laura Gómez Ruiz Portoviejo (Fides News Agency) – In Latin America, education remains one of the fields in which the Church’s vital and concrete mission encounters and embraces the real aspirations and needs o ...
• 10 August 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Karaganda Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, presented by Bishop Adelio Dell’Oro. The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. ...
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  10 August 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The life of the Missionaries of Mary Queen of Heaven: restoring dignity to women victims of exploitation Cebu (Fides News Agency) – Over the past 30 years, the Missionaries of Mary Queen of Heaven (MQHM), a religious community of nuns founded in 1996 in the Archdiocese of Cebu, have rescued and rehabilitated hundreds of w ...
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  10 August 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - Edgard Rimaycuna, secretary to Pope Leo XIV, brings the Pope's blessing to Chiclayo Chiclayo (Fides News Agency) – On Sunday, 9 August, Monsignor Edgard Rimaycuna, personal secretary to Pope Leo XIV, presided over Mass in his hometown in Chiclayo, on Peru’s northern coast, specifically in La Victori ...
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  10 August 2026
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Archdiocese of Lusaka confirms candlelight prayers (not to be politicized) for peace on the eve of the vote Lusaka (Fides News Agency) – “We wish to state unequivocally and without ambiguity that the Candlelight Prayers for Peace will take place as scheduled in all parishes of the Archdiocese of Lusaka on 12 August.” Thi ...
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  9 August 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Culture Fair in Seoul serves as a “trial run” ahead of World Youth Day 2027 by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Fides News Agency) – Despite temperatures reaching 40°C, the highest recorded in South Korea in eight years, numerous religious congregations and associations helped bring the “Catholic Cul ...
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  9 August 2026
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Government task force to tackle illegal mining Harare (Fides News Agency) – The Zimbabwean government has decided to establish a task force to tackle illegal mining, which the authorities consider to be at the root of many of the problems affecting the country. ...
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  8 August 2026
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Radio Veritas Asia Mandarin Service marks 50 Years with Malaysian concert tour celebrating Chinese sacred music Ayer Salak (Fides News Agency) – A concert tour across three cities in Malaysia brought together Chinese Catholic hymn composers, musicians and parish groups to celebrate the faith through sacred music. With this origi ...