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  30 September 2026
  AFRICA/BENIN - Families forming missionary seminarians: small, concrete steps to overcome conflict and build peace Calavi (Fides News Agency) – On Thursday, 1 October, the international year of spirituality for 42 seminarians of the Society of African Missions (SMA) will begin at the Brésillac Centre in Abomey-Calavi, in the Archd ...
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  30 September 2026
  The Gospel bears fruit among mountainous ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Păc Năm (Fides News Agency) – Rather than waiting for the local people to come, the priest actively entered their lives. Initially, he went to the local market to converse, build up the ...
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  30 September 2026
  The Heaven opened, the Bishop’s Mission, and the Grace of being a little flock by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo* Rome (Fides news Agency) – On September 29, Anthony James Corcoran, SJ, was ordained a bishop beneath the vaults of Rome’s Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls. Cardinal Giorgio Mar ...
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  30 September 2026
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - In the tribal area of Joypurhat, Bishop Gomes: “the new diocese between poverty and hope” by Paolo Affatato Joypurhat (Fides News Agency) – “In poverty and weakness, there is God’s Providence; there is his Spirit accompanying us and bringing us gifts that surprise us. We experience this every day in ...
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  29 September 2026
  Bishop Martinelli at the Inter-Christian Symposium in Thessaloniki: Migrants have made the Arabian Peninsula a “Laboratory of an Intercultural Church” Thessaloniki (Fides News Agency) – The global migration flows that characterize the present age intersect, in surprising and mysterious ways, with the paths of apostolic ministry. In recent decades, the large number ...
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  29 September 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “How can we be Church where there is not yet a Church?” New missionary presence in Ghinnir, in East Bale Ghinnir (Fides News Agency) – After seven years of presence in Robe, the fraternity of the Villaregia Missionary Community has taken a new step in its missionary journey by moving to Ghinnir, in the heart of East Bale. ...
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  29 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/XI - Leo XIV in Metz: Europe seeks peace in the "Lantern of the Good Lord" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Metz (Fides News Agency) – “An American Pope speaking from Metz, on the border with Germany, about “De Gasperi” with a French accent,” journalist Iacopo Scaramuzzi wrote on the social ...
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  29 September 2026
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - “The fate of the flock is my fate”: Bishop Anthony Corcoran’s missionary road by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Biškek (Fides News Agency) – On September 29, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo will lay his hands on the head of Father Anthony Corcoran, an American-born Jesuit, who will become a bishop that day. ...
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  28 September 2026
  EUROPE/POLAND - Funeral of Father Zbojnowicz, killed in attack on Jarosław monastery, to be held Tuesday, September 29 Warsaw (Fides News Agency) – The funeral of Father Stanisław Zbojnowicz, a Benedictine priest who was attacked on September 24, at the monastery of the Benedictine nuns in Jarosław, in south-eastern Poland, near the ...
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  28 September 2026
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Message of the annual gathering of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood: Different yet united in the love of Christ Budapest (Fides News Agency) – More than 100 children, accompanied by their animators and several parents, gathered in Budapest for the annual meeting organized by the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) in ...
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  28 September 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS/II - Bishop Melchior Sun Dezhen and the Diocese of Anguo One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is publishing a series of documentary profiles on these Successors of the Apostles ...
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  28 September 2026
  THE POPE IN FRANCE/X - In Lourdes, where the vulnerable bring light by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) – “O Mary, have mercy…” Eva’s crystal-clear voice, that of a 13-year-old girl, rises almost a cappella before Pope Leo XIV. She performs one of the songs from ...
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  28 September 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - In Mumbai, the Church’s mission at the heart of the megalopolis by Paolo Affatato Mumbai (Fides News Agency) – A Church called to carry out its mission in the heart of one of India’s largest, most dynamic and complex megalopolises: this is the daily reality of the Archdiocese ...
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  27 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/IX - The visit of Leo XIV, clichés and the surprises of grace by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) - A long ribbon of 800,000 people stretched along the Champs-Élysées on September 26 to attend the Pope’s Mass in Place de la Concorde. The turnout was exceptional ...
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  27 September 2026
  United States lifts sanctions on Eritrea by Cosimo Graziani Asmara (Fides News Agency) – The Trump administration has decided to lift sanctions against Eritrea, five years after they were imposed by President Biden. The decision, announced on Friday, 18 Se ...