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  5 May 2026
  Leo XIV's Message for World Mission Day 2026 at the Center of an Online Missionary Formation Course in French Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The Pope's message for the upcoming 100th World Mission Day, which will be celebrated on October 18, 2026, is the focus of an online training program for missionary formation. The pro ...
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  5 May 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Bishops: "Even in the face of early motherhood, the right of unborn life must be protected" New Delhi (Fides News Agency) – The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), a body of more than 300 Indian bishops from three rites – the Latin, Syro-Malabar, and Syro-Malankara – is calling for a review of ...
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  4 May 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - Marian Month: Chinese Catholic Communities pray for world peace Beijing (Fides News Agency) – Prayer for peace is the focus of many processions, liturgical celebrations, and communal rosary prayers that are bringing together Catholic communities in all Chinese provinces these days. ...
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  4 May 2026
  AFRICA/MALI - A possible “Syrian scenario” for Mali? Bamako (Fides News Agency) – Is a scenario similar to Syria emerging in Mali? That is, the action of a jihadist actor capable of uniting other opposition groups around him to replace the current military junta. The que ...
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  4 May 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop Osório Citora: “Solidarity with the people, the bishop, and the missionaries of the Diocese of Pemba” Beira (Fides News Agency) – “The Diocese of Quelimane learned with profound sadness the news of the attack and arson that affected the parish of St. Louis de Montfort in Meza on Thursday, April 30. The situation is v ...
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  4 May 2026
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - A new church in Phnom Penh, a new Salesian priest and deacon Phnom Penh (Fides News Agency) – The Cambodian Catholic community celebrated the consecration of a new church in the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh: the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, consecrated and opened for wo ...
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  3 May 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "I fear nothing. You are with me": the documentary about the Carmelite martyrs of Guadalajara and their witness of faith Guadalajara (Fides News Agency) – “I fear nothing. You are with me” is the motto that gives the title to the documentary “You are with me: Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara,” presented on Saturday, May 2nd, on ...
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  2 May 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - Data on the generous participation of Chinese Catholic Communities in the 2026 national Collection Shijiazhuang (Fides News Agency) – According to data collected up to Thursday, April 30, 2026, the tenth annual National Collection Day of the Chinese Catholic community, held every year on Palm Sunday, raised a total ...
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  1 May 2026
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Embracing the world in prayer: World Mission Rosary initiative returns online Brisbane (Fides News Agency) – This year, Catholic Mission, the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia, is once again inviting everyone to participate in the daily online sessions of the World ...
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  1 May 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - For Chinese Catholic communities, the Marian month has already begun Wenzhou (Fides News Agency) – United with the Successor of Peter, Chinese Catholic faithful have launched numerous initiatives for Marian devotion in May, the month the universal Church dedicates to the veneration of t ...
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  30 April 2026
  "As one Body in Christ": Churches in the Emirates pray together for peace in Dubai Dubai (Fides News Agency) - Praying for peace "as one body in Christ," in a time and a region plagued by war and the bloodshed of women, men, and children. This was the experience shared on the evening of Wednesday, Apri ...
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  30 April 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - Zhengzhou Diocese Annual Assembly: Synodality on the common path of proclaiming the Gospel Zhengzhou (Fides News Agency) – “Synodality: working together for a better future for the Diocese”: Bishop Thaddeus Wang Yuesheng of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, addressed this theme during the annual diocesan assemb ...
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  30 April 2026
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Mission at the heart of the Jubilee Year dedicated to the first Rector of the "Russicum", Vendelín Javorka by Bohumil Petrík Žilina (Fides News Agency) - In the Diocese of Žilina, Slovakia, the jubilee year of the death of Jesuit Vendelín Javorka (1882-1966) has begun, under the motto "Be a missionary wherever you are ...
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  29 April 2026
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Drought, piracy, and political tensions: people need immediate assistance Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) – The situation in Somalia remains fragile, with increased piracy, a worsening humanitarian crisis, and political tensions as the main current challenges. More than six million Somalis ar ...
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  29 April 2026
  VATICAN - New online seminar on the use of artificial intelligence in missionary animation Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The third session of the online seminar on missionary animation and formation in times of artificial intelligence is scheduled for Thursday, April 30 (see Fides, 8/3/2026). The Inte ...