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  22 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - The Salesians against child marriage: Every boy and girl has the right to grow, learn, and dream Gandhinagar (Agenzia Fides) – With an awareness-raising campaign scheduled to run from November 1, 2025, to January 26, 2026, the Salesians in the Indian state of Gujarat aim to raise awareness among the population abo ...
• 22 October 2025
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Youlo Alexis Touabli as bishop of the diocese of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire, Côte d’Ivoire, transferring him from the see of Agboville. Bishop You ...
• 22 October 2025
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Abengourou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire, presented by Bishop Boniface Ziri Gbaya. The Holy Father has appointed t ...
• 22 October 2025
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Resignation of vicar apostolic of Tripoli Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Tripoli, Libya, presented by Bishop George Bugeja, O.F.M. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 22/10/2025) ...
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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 ...