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  21 October 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Voices from eastern DRC where a people are dying in silence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A predatory system hidden behind political motivations. This is how various missionary sources from North and South Kivu, the two eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, la ...
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  21 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Day for Chinese Catholic communities: "Help the mission with generosity" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Prayers, liturgies, exhortations to embrace the missionary vocation of every baptized person. And also concerts, cultural events, and many other initiatives to gather resources and energy for ...
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  20 October 2025
  ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - Cardinal Tagle in Baku: "The Church in Azerbaijan is alive" Baku (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the Lord once again for this day, for the missionaries, for Bishop Vladimir Fekete, and for the first local priest, Father Beibud Mustafaev. All this means that the Church is alive in Aze ...
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  20 October 2025
  KOREAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WORLD/2 - Father Peter Hong Jeongsu and the path of the "nascent Church"
  by Pascale Rizk Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) – "If we lose love, we can do almost nothing as missionaries. If we work with love, we can reap many rewards even in an environmen ...
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  20 October 2025
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Archbishop Tatamai: "Saint To Rot gave his life to defend Christian marriage: a key to the mission of the Church today" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – " Since I was a child, I understood that my life was linked to Peter To Rot. When I enrolled in first grade of the parish school in the 1960s, the parish priest, a German religious of the Mission ...
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  20 October 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Sharing the Gospel following the example of Carlo Acutis: Children and young people celebrate World Mission Sunday Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – They want to be "missionaries of hope" in a country torn by civil war, drawing inspiration from Saint Carlo Acutis. Burmese children and young people celebrated World Mission Sunday with a gath ...
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  20 October 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian delegation in Indonesia celebrates the second priestly ordination of the year in Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) – A significant milestone in the 16-year history of the Camillian mission in Indonesia was the recent ordination of four new priests at the St. Camillus Seminary in Maumere. The ceremony took pl ...
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  20 October 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Arms traffickers thrive while the population is in despair Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – While the humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to deteriorate, arms trafficking with the warring parties is thriving. A report published today, October 20, by the Global Initiative Again ...
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  19 October 2025
  Pope Leo XIV: “Without faith we cannot hope for salvation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” The words of Jesus, with which the passage from Sunday's Gospel ends, were repeatedly reiterated in the homily of his Holiness Po ...
• 18 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and succession of bishop of Neyyattinkara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Neyyattinkara, India, presented by Bishop Vincent Samuel. He is succeeded by Bishop Selvarajan Dasan, h ...
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  18 October 2025
  Russian pilgrims in Rome, "precious stones for the local and universal Church" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Ninety-seven pilgrims from the four Catholic dioceses of the Russian Federation had the joy, on the morning of Friday, October 17, of meeting Pope Leo XIV, during their Jubilee pilgrimage "ad lim ...
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  18 October 2025
  VATICAN - Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood to children and young people around the world: "Be missionaries of hope and peace" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In July, the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI), Sister Inês Paulo Albino, addressed an appeal to all National Directions of the Pontifical Mission ...
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  17 October 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Murder of a researcher: "Justice for Kyle, justice for the truth" Cagayan de Oro (Agenzia Fides) – "The story of Niruh Kyle Antatico is a symbolic case that will inspire many young people in the fight against corruption," Jesuit Antonio Ledesma, Archbishop Emeritus of Cagayan de Oro, ...
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  17 October 2025
  VATICAN - Sister Maria Troncatti: “Called to be a missionary” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 19, 2025, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, Blessed Maria Troncatti will be proclaimed a saint by Pope Leo XIV. Sister Troncatti's holiness is demonstrated by the ...
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  17 October 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Seminary formation in the Diocese of Wamba suspended Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The refusal of the clergy and some lay people to recognize Emmanuel Ngona Ngotsi as Bishop of the Diocese of Wamba (in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo) has led to the decision to su ...