News

• 
  28 October 2025
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Bishops' spokesman: "With East Timor's entry into ASEAN, there will be a give-and-take, also in matters of faith" Dili (Agenzia Fides) – “The Timorese population has celebrated and continues to celebrate East Timor’s entry into ASEAN. There is great expectation, great hope, especially among young people, who see accession as t ...
• 28 October 2025
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Appointment of bishop of Auki Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Jacob Aba, S.M., until now parish priest of the Holy Name of Mary in Tanaghai, Honiara. Msgr. Jacob Aba, S.M., was born on 6 January 1976 in Ma ...
• 
  27 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Priests in Beijing run "Synodal Half Marathon" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – In a synodal church, one can not only "walk together," but also "run a marathon together." This was demonstrated by the first edition of "Pegaso," the "Synodal Half Marathon," in which Catholi ...
• 
  27 October 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Event of historic importance": Programme for World Youth Day 2027 presented Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The 17th World Youth Day (WYD) to be held in Seoul in 2027 will be “of historic importance, as it will be the first to be held in a divided nation, the first in a non-Christian country, and th ...
• 
  27 October 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - RSF militiamen claim to have captured El Fasher, the city in North Darfur, under siege for 18 months Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The situation remains uncertain in El Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur, which has been under siege for 18 months by the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). They claime ...
• 
  26 October 2025
  VATICAN - Leo XIV: Ecclesial communion is "generated and preserved by the Holy Spirit" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ecclesial communion is "generated and preserved by the Holy Spirit." And this makes it possible at all times to invoke and encounter the miracle of a "humble Church," a Church that "does no ...
• 
  26 October 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - How Faith in Jesus flourishes in the "Pirate" Archipelago by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Ha Tien (Agenzia Fides) - "In the past, we longed for a Sunday Mass, sometimes it took a whole month for a priest to come and celebrate Mass. Now, we feel warm when there is a church, and t ...
• 
  25 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Rice production increases: "The problem of pesticides persists" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Global rice prices have fallen by 35% in one year and are at their lowest level since 2017 (around $360 per ton). This phenomenon was primarily triggered by the fact that India, the world's ...
• 25 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes, until now local collaborator with the apostolic nunciature in India, New Delhi, as auxiliary bishop of the metro ...
• 25 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Cochin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Antony Kattiparambil of the diocese of Cochin, India, until now judicial vicar, episcopal vicar for religious and parish priest of Saint Joseph Ch ...
• 25 October 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Fianarantsoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Jean Nicolas Rakotojaona, until now auxiliary of Morondava, as coadjutor archbishop of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, at the same time liberating him of the ...
• 
  24 October 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference: Peace, an essential good for the life and mission of the Church Iligan City (Agenzia Fides) – "The mission of the Church in the southern Philippines, on the large island of Mindanao and the neighboring Sulu Islands, is confronted with a fundamental question that forms the basis and ...
• 
  24 October 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - "Mother church" in Manama becomes a Shrine of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Aldo Berardi, O.SS.T., Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia, will celebrate the Pontifical Mass on November 8th, and will declare the Church of the Sacred Heart in Manama as "Vicarial Shri ...
• 
  24 October 2025
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - More than 8 million voters called to elect the President Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – More than 8.7 million voters in Ivory Coast are called to vote tomorrow, October 25, to elect a new president. A total of five candidates are running. Controversy has arisen over the exclusion ...
• 
  24 October 2025
  What do the Fathers and Doctors of the Church teach regarding the mission to proclaim the Gospel? by Marie Symington In the year 40 A.D. the number of Christians totaled to around a thousand. By the year 400, this figure had increased to nearly 40 million. How did Christianity grow so quickly in numbers in an empi ...