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  14 October 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack during Bible Conference: Catholic lay Association calls for an investigation Calcutta (Fides News Agency) – “We express our solidarity with the faithful of the Diocese of Krishnanagar, the Archdiocese of Calcutta and all Christian communities in West Bengal. We stand with the Santhal Christia ...
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  14 October 2026
  VATICAN - Ten years of Amoris Laetitia: Pope Leo XIV urges families to nurture love, prayer and welcome Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – Emotion was palpable among those attending Mass celebrated this morning in St Peter’s Square, as their thoughts turned to Pope Leo XIV, who underwent surgery yesterday at the Gemell ...
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  14 October 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Renewed conflict in Tigray raises fears of a new humanitarian emergency Adigrat (Fides News Agency) – Nearly a month has passed since fighting resumed in Ethiopia, where an alliance of rebel groups led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has launched a new offensive, reignitin ...
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  14 October 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Diocese of Gboko closes four facilities in Ihugh for security reasons Abuja (Fides News Agency) – St Winifred Secondary School, also known as St Winifred Girls’ Secondary School; St Winifred Nursery and Primary School; St Thomas Hospital, which includes the Salus Mind Care Centre and t ...
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  14 October 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Sowing the seeds of the future in the Steppe: the educational mission of the “Shepherd’s School” by Paolo Affatato Korneewka (Fides News Agency) – In a small village in northern Kazakhstan, a school continues to invest in the future: the St Lawrence School in Korneewka, an educational project launched thirty ye ...
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  14 October 2026
  Mission beyond the illusions of efficiency: following in the footsteps of Venerable Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus Algiers (Fides News Agency) – “The Lord took me by the hand and I followed him blindly.” With these words, which capture the essence of a life entirely devoted to the Gospel, Diego Sarrió Cucarella, Bishop of Lagh ...
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  13 October 2026
  AFRICA - African Churches express closeness to Pope Leo XIV: Prayers and best wishes for his surgery Rome (Fides News Agency) – The Churches of Africa express closeness to Pope Leo XIV as he prepares to undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule. On behalf of the African bishops, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop of ...
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  13 October 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Joseph Kabila at the helm of the new political-military movement, FRN Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – Former President Joseph Kabila is at the helm of a new political-military movement announced on 12 October in Goma, capital of North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic o ...
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  13 October 2026
  Leo XIV to the John Paul I Vatican Foundation Conference: peace is a daily Mission Rome (Fides News Agency) – “‘Safeguarding and promoting peace is a responsibility for each of us and, at the same time, a mission to be cultivated patiently in every sphere of our daily lives.” This was Pope Leo ...
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  13 October 2026
  WORLD MISSION SUNDAY - Father James Lengarin, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries: “It is God’s Love, not us, that saves the world” by Paolo Affatato Rome (Fides News Agency) – This year, Father James Bhola Lengarin, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries, will celebrate World Mission Sunday (WMS) in a place of profound symbolic value: E ...
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  13 October 2026
  ASIA - “In Christ’s love, pray for the Holy Father”: Faithful across Asia express their closeness to Pope Leo XIV New Delhi (Fides News Agency) – “In Christ’s love, pray for the Holy Father.” This is the appeal resounding across Catholic communities in Asia as Pope Leo XIV prepares to undergo surgery at Agostino Gemelli Univ ...
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  13 October 2026
  Rome, Sassari, the world: The birth of World Mission Sunday in five stages by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – A day dedicated to bringing the missionary dimension into the everyday life of parishes through prayer, awareness of distant communities and the sharing of ...
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  12 October 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: War Worsens Humanitarian and Health Crisis El Fasher (Fides News Agency) – Darfur remains one of the main epicentres of the war that has ravaged Sudan since 2023, pitting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). More than three ye ...
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  12 October 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATIONS OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS - Bishop Philip Zhao Huaiyi and the Diocese of Xuanhua One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times, (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is dedicating a series of documentary profiles to these Successors of the Apostle ...
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  12 October 2026
  From Sonsón-Rionegro to Mitú: “We set out thinking we had something to give. We returned having discovered how much we had received” by Laura Gómez Ruiz Sonsón (Fides News Agency) – Reaching some of the communities served by the Apostolic Vicariate of Mitú, in the Colombian Amazon, means travelling along rivers, crossing the forest and coverin ...