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  6 November 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 600 participants at the First National Congress of the Union of the Sick and Elderly Missionaries Abancay (Agenzia Fides) – Over 600 participants from various ecclesiastical jurisdictions in Peru gathered in the Diocese of Abancay for the first “National Congress of the Union of Sick and Elderly Missionaries,” ...
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  6 November 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The conflict moves to Kordofan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – At least 40 people died in a drone attack on a funeral in the city of El Obeid, the capital of the Sudanese region of North Kordofan. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humani ...
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  6 November 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishop of Moramanga: Corruption and personal interest at the expense of the common good. The role of the Church as a mother who welcomes and educates her children Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The Church is the only refuge, the only safe haven where people come. When they need medical care, when they cannot afford to study or have nothing to eat, when there is famine, it is always t ...
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  6 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - “Dalit Liberation Sunday”: The Jubilee of Hope begins at the margins New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The “Dalit Liberation Sunday,” which the Catholic Church in India celebrates on November 9 under the auspices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), in which the bishops ...
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  6 November 2025
  VATICAN - John Henry Newman and the Church Mission by Marie Symington Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Saint John Henry Newman has recently been proclaimed a Doctor of the Church and subsequently been named the Patron Saint of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, part of the Di ...
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  5 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminarian dies at the hands of kidnappers, another freed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – One of the three seminarians, aged 15 to 16, who were kidnapped on July 10 in an attack on the Minor Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Ivianokpodi, in the Diocese of Auchi, Edo State (sou ...
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  5 November 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - “Life is stronger! Hurricane Melissa is moving away from the coast” Jerémie (Agenzia Fides) – “Hurricane Melissa is moving away from our coasts, leaving behind a trail of death, suffering, and devastation, especially in Jamaica and Cuba. In the coming days, weather conditions here s ...
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  5 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic Parishes begin November with a spirit of charity for the elderly and the sick Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – From Beijing and Shanghai to rural villages, Catholic communities across China have devoutly begun the month of November, which the Church dedicates to the commemoration of the dead, inviting ...
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  5 November 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Victims and displaced after the typhoon in Cebu. Archbishop Uy: "Corruption mocks the cry of the poor" Cebu (Agenzia Fides) – Typhoon Kalmaegi (known as Tino in the Philippines) has claimed more than 90 lives on the island of Cebu and has battered the central Philippines in recent days. It is the twentieth storm to hit ...
• 4 November 2025
  ASIA/LEBANON - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Georges El Ters (M.L.) as ...
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  4 November 2025
  VATICAN- “Watershed moment for a glocal world”: International Conference on the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exhibition Rome (Agenzia Fides) – One hundred years ago, pilgrims who came to Rome for the 1925 Jubilee could encounter the entire world. At the request of Pope Pius XI, the pavilions of the "Vatican Missionary Exhibition" were s ...
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  4 November 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Calm returns, but there is a war of numbers over the victims of recent clashes Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation is calming down, and internet connections have been restored since yesterday,” local sources in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, told Fides following the violen ...
• 4 November 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of bishop vicar apostolic coadjutor of San Ramón Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Pedro Orlando Castro Castro, O.F.M., until now provincial vicar of the Franciscan Province of the Twelve Apostles and parish vicar of Santa Ma ...
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  4 November 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Disarmament pact on the border with Thailand. Fr. Figaredo: “A step forward of hope” Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Cambodia and Thailand have signed a disarmament agreement under the auspices of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) to remove heavy weapons from their border. This follows the ce ...
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  4 November 2025
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - "Night of the Arts 2025": Moscow's Catholic Cathedral opens to thousands of visitors by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) – On the evening of November 3, Moscow’s Catholic Cathedral opened its doors to thousands of visitors for the “Night of the Arts,” offering three free concerts. As e ...