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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 ...
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  29 April 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - The "Invisible" ones of the "Cottolengo" in Arequipa, loved like our own children by Domitia Caramazza
  Arequipa (Fides News Agency) – The “Cottolengo” in Arequipa – Hogarcito de Niños Especiales San Jose Benito Cottolengo – welcomes the “invis ...
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  28 April 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 23 Children kidnapped from an orphanage at Dahallukitab Group of Schools complex in Lokoja Lokoja (Fides News Agency) – No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack on a Nigerian orphanage in which a group of gunmen kidnapped 23 children. The gang took the children late on Sunday, April 26, from an ...
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  28 April 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: “The disappearance of Father Luke Yugue and his driver, Michael Gbeko, is a wound that refuses to heal” Juba (Agenzia Fides) – The “painful and unresolved disappearance of Father Luke Yugue and his driver, Michael Gbeko, on April 27, 2024, is a wound that refuses to heal.” This is how Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop ...
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  28 April 2026
  The silent massacre of humanitarian workers by Cosimo Graziani The crises of the international order and the weakening of multilateralism, on the margins of major humanitarian catastrophes, take the form of a silent massacre: that of humanitarian workers. ...
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  27 April 2026
  Urbaniana University hosts study day of the “Velasio de Paolis Chair” on Law in the life and mission of the Ecclesial Community Rome (Fides News Agency) – “We live in a time of separation between faith and science. It is a time of rift between faith and reason, between faith and culture,” said canon lawyer and Scalabrinian Cardinal Velasio ...
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  27 April 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - The Day of Prayer for Vocations celebrated with fervor by Chinese Catholic communities Shijiazhuang (Fides News Agency) – “All of us can become guardians and promoters of vocations, cultivating together the fertile ground of the call, so that more and more people may hear the invitation ‘Come and fol ...
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  27 April 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura Yambio: "Thank you, Pope Leo XIV! The true fruit of the visit will be seen in what we will become" Tombura Yambio (Fides News Agency) – From the heart of South Sudan, a nation still searching for the fullness of peace, the President of the Commission for the Promotion of Integral Human Development of the Catholic Bi ...
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  27 April 2026
  Free medical check-ups for all: Church community and health authorities are working together to safeguard the health of the Vietnamese people by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Ho Chi Minh City (Fides News Agency) – Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Southern Vietnam, aims to provide free annual health examinations for 15 million people betwe ...
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  26 April 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Pontifical Mission Societies celebrate the Day of Native Vocations Madrid (Fides News Agency) – “Missionaries do extraordinary work, but they do not just do their job; rather, they go to build the Church in the territories where they are, and therefore one of the most important frui ...
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  26 April 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Five “Patron Saints” for World Youth Day “Seoul 2027” Seoul (Fides News Agency) - Saint John Paul II (1920–2005), Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (1821–1846) and companions, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917), Saint Josephine Bakhita (1869–1947), and Saint Carlo Acuti ...
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  26 April 2026
  Keeping the threshold of the Mystery open. Leo XIV reveals to the new priests the "secrets" of their mission Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – Today more than ever, “especially when statistics seem to indicate a divide between people and the Church,” the primary mission of men called to the priesthood is to “keep the d ...
• 25 April 2026
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On April 25, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Sean ...
• 25 April 2026
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Bangui Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Father Joseph Samedi, S.J., until now director of the Pope Francis School Complex and superior of the Society of Jesus in Bangui, as coadjutor ...