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  21 October 2026
  COLOMBIA - "Mission remains urgent": the Colombian Church renews its missionary commitment on the centenary of DOMUND La Ceja (Fides News Agency) – “Mission is an urgent task for the whole Church.” These words, spoken by Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marín of Sonsón-Rionegro at the close of a missionary Congress marking the centena ...
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  21 October 2026
  Strait of Hormuz blockade: Millions of women at risk of acute food insecurity by Cosimo Graziani Bandar Abbas (Fides News Agency) – In times of crisis, the most vulnerable members of the population are always the first to feel the impact. According to a recently published United Nations anal ...
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  20 October 2026
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Abu Dhabi celebrates the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis. Bishop Martinelli: He became a man of peace from the horrors of war he experienced Abu Dhabi (Fides News Agency) – Saint Francis of Assisi “was not born a man of peace, but became one by learning from his failures, from the horror of war he experienced”. With these words, Bishop Paolo Martinelli, ...
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  20 October 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In a Country wounded by war, children are called to be “missionaries of hope” Yangon (Fides News Agency) – In a situation marked by suffering and hardship, amid countless difficulties, “you too can become a missionary of hope today”: this was the appeal made during a gathering of more than 1 ...
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  20 October 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 2027 Elections: Bishops announce national prayer and fasting program “As Nigeria approaches the 2027 elections, we are called to intensify our prayers so that the elections may be free, fair, credible and peaceful.” The Nigerian Bishops made the appeal as they announced a national pra ...
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  20 October 2026
  AFRICA/EGYPT - From Cairo, a daily mission alongside the most vulnerable Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “I arrived safely and, in the blink of an eye, I was immersed once again in this beautiful and demanding Arab life.” Two weeks after returning to Cairo, Deacon Anselmo Fabiano, of the Societ ...
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  20 October 2026
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Father Diouf: “Dialogue between Christians and Muslims is a daily reality” Rome (Fides News Agency) – “We are probably an exception in the world, because we live in a Muslim-majority country, with a small Catholic community alongside other religious denominations,” says Father Augustin S� ...
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  20 October 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Music that opens hearts to God: mission through beauty by Paolo Affatato Astana (Fides News Agency) – Some people enter a church out of curiosity, drawn by the sound of an organ or the voices of a choir. They sit down, listen and gaze at the icons and paintings, spendin ...
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  20 October 2026
  Archbishop Nwachukwu presents the “Church of the Sheaves”, an initiative born out of gratitude by Marie-Lucile Kubacki
  Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – Missionaries who once left their homes, unsure whether they would ever return, sowed seeds that have since borne fr ...
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  19 October 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATIONS OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS - Bishop Joseph Hu Ruoshan and the Diocese of Taizhou One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times, (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is dedicating a series of documentary profiles to these Successors of the Apostle ...
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  19 October 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - World Mission Sunday in Northeast India: prayer, animation, solidarity and peace Itanagar (Fides News Agency) – “As we celebrate the centenary of World Mission Sunday, the initiatives held throughout the Diocese of Miao have highlighted a central message: mission belongs to every baptized person. ...
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  19 October 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest kidnapped last week released Abuja (Fides News Agency) – Father John Inalegwu Otache, the priest abducted on 13 October along the Otobi Amejo–Ajegbe road, in the local government area of Ohimini in Benue State, north-central Nigeria, has been re ...
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  19 October 2026
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - First ever AVONA Mission Sunday Cup concludes: Sport, fraternity and mission in the Gulf Manama (Fides News Agency) – Sixteen teams from Bahrain and other Gulf countries gathered on 16 October at Gosi Ground in Hoora, Manama, for the first edition of the AVONA Mission Sunday Cup, a six-a-side football tour ...
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  18 October 2026
  100th WORLD MISSION SUNDAY - Pope Leo XIV: May the Church always remain faithful to the mandate of the Risen Lord Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – “Today we celebrate the 100th World Mission Day. Let us think of how much missionary history has unfolded over these one hundred years!” With these few words, spoken from the win ...
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  18 October 2026
  To use AI wisely, first know what you want to preserve, G20 Interfaith forum highlights by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Salt Lake City (Fides News Agency) - Before asking whether artificial intelligence will save humanity or endanger it, people need to answer a more intimate question: what, in their own lives, i ...