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  4 September 2026
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Government says it foiled coup attempt thanks to Russian help Malabo (Fides News Agency) – Authorities in Equatorial Guinea say they have foiled a coup attempt thanks to information received from Africa Corps, the Russian Defence Ministry-linked force operating in several African ...
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  4 September 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Thousands of pilgrims gather in Mariamabad for the 77th national pilgrimage in the rain Lahore (Fides News Agency) – The rain, the inconvenience and the forecasts of bad weather have not dampened the deep Marian devotion of the faithful in Pakistan. Today, September 4, celebrations begin at the Shrine of ...
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  4 September 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishop Kwak: Faith always begins with an encounter, even in the age of artificial intelligence by Pascale Rizk Rome (Fides News Agency) – Faith in Jesus can always arise from a real encounter, even in the age of artificial intelligence. This is the conviction of Germanus Kwak Jin-Sang, auxiliary bishop of the ...
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  3 September 2026
  VATICAN - Tribalism and the Church, Archbishop Nwachukwu to new bishops: “A bishop is not bishop of one group or another; he is bishop of all” Rome (Fides News Agency) – “He is not bishop of one group or another; he is bishop of all.” Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, addressed newly ordained bishops taking pa ...
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  3 September 2026
  AFRICA/GHANA - First parish dedicated to St Matthew Ayariga, the only Ghanaian among the 21 martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya, established in Texas Accra (Fides News Agency) –The first parish dedicated to St Matthew Ayariga, the Ghanaian Catholic who was martyred in Libya on 15 February 2015 together with the 20 Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christians killed by jihadi ...
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  3 September 2026
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Support for families to tackle demographic winter, “but money alone is not enough” Singapore (Fides News Agency) – The Singapore government has introduced a package of financial incentives aimed at encouraging families to have more children. In a country with one of the lowest fertility rates in the ...
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  3 September 2026
  Cardinal Tagle to the new Bishops of the new Churches: let us walk together in this time of “missionary conversion” Rome (Fides News Agency) – The Dicastery for Evangelization is called to accompany, support and collaborate with the new particular Churches, “whilst respecting their rightful autonomy”. This was emphasized by Card ...
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  2 September 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Season of Creation: from prayer to the defence of forests and indigenous peoples Manila (Agenzia Fides) – In the Philippines, the “Season of Creation” – the period from 1 September to 4 October, which in 2026 is centred on the theme “Living Water” – is not merely a liturgical observance ...
• 2 September 2026
  AFRICA/NIGER - Military uprising and accusations against “foreign powers” Niamey (Fides News Agency) – “Truth is the first victim of war.” This well-known aphorism can also apply to situations other than an open conflict, such as coups or military uprisings, like the one that took place ...
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  2 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/IV - A song to welcome the Successor of Peter by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – Dawn is breaking over the domes of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. On the Janiculum Hill, Grégory Turpin sings the opening notes a cappella of Pour que le monde ait ...
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  2 September 2026
  VATICAN - “September courses” in Rome for 147 newly appointed Bishops Rome (Fides News Agency) – This year, 147 newly appointed Bishops from the five continents will take part in formation courses in Rome from today, Wednesday 2 September, to Thursday 10 September. The courses are organi ...
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  2 September 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “I’ll be waiting for you in Seoul”: Fr. Bordo, from street children to WYD 2027, a Church that goes out to meet humanity Seoul (Fides News Agency) – “There are an estimated 250,000 street children in Korea. That is an enormous number. So we said to ourselves: if they do not come to us, we will go to them.” That was how “Azit” cam ...
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  1 September 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - The pastoral dynamism of the new Bishop of Chifeng Chifeng (Fides News Agency) – One month after his episcopal consecration, celebrated in full communion with Pope Leo XIV, Joseph Chang Yanfeng, Bishop of the Diocese of Chifeng, in the Chinese province of Inner Mongoli ...
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  1 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/I - Roger Landry (PMS USA): Fulton Sheen, Blessed, and the present of the mission
  by Pascale Rizk Rome (Fides News Agency) – The missionary zeal that permeated the entire life and work of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was neither an effort nor a strategy. It was ...
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  1 September 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Two religious sisters ambushed in South Sudan Juba (Fides News Agency) – On Sunday, 30 August, two Carmelite religious sisters, identified as Sr Helen and Sr Ansa, were attacked while travelling from Torit to Juba after attending morning Mass. Their vehicle was am ...