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  22 October 2025
  VATICAN - Pontifical Missionary Union - PMU: In the Jubilee Year, online courses in missiological studies in French, Spanish and English begin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The International Secretariat of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) launches its online training program in missiological studies on October 24th. The courses, offered in French, Spani ...
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  22 October 2025
  ASIA/IRAN - ‘Maryam-e Moghadass’. What the Tehran underground station dedicated to Mary tells us by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu OfmConv* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - One of the city's public transport systems is the underground. Tehran's underground has seven lines, with 160 stations covering a total length of ...
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  22 October 2025
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Illegal drugs are a national problem Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – A major international drug trafficker has found refuge in the country, diplomats from Sierra Leone suspected of collaborating with traffickers, and the spread of drugs among young people: ha ...
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  21 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - When everything plunges into hatred and violence, the people of Pic-Makaya move forward with faith and resilience
  Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis that continues to shake the Haitian people threatens to worsen due to gang violence that displaces entire families, destroys agricu ...
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  21 October 2025
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Father Sánchez at the National Missionary Jubilee: "Mission, the vocation of every baptized person" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – United to renew the missionary vocation and rediscover the beauty of being missionaries. This was the atmosphere on Saturday, October 18, at the National Missionary Jubilee, organized by th ...
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  21 October 2025
  EUROPE/FRANCE - A film about the priests of the Paris Foreign Missions, "adventurers of Christ" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The adventure of faith is alive in the 21st century. The mission of Christ and the Church is alive. This is attested by the documentary “Adventurers of Christ,” presented and sponsored by the ...
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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 ...