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  12 August 2026
  Papua New Guinea, the miracle of ecclesial unity in the Country of 800 languages by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Port Moresby (Fides News Agency) - As the Diocese of Bougainville marks a historic 125 years of the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries, the three-week jubilee celebrations will culminat ...
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  11 August 2026
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Earthquake in Chocó: Church community comes to the aid of displaced people. Bishops: “Recognize ourselves as one family” Bogotá (Fides News Agency) – A devastating magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on the morning of Monday, August 10, 2026, with its epicenter identified in the municipality of San José del Palmar, in the departme ...
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  11 August 2026
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Two attacks in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica raise tensions Tripoli (Fides News Agency) – Two attacks in the past 24 hours in the two areas along which Libya is politically divided have heightened tensions in the North African country. In Tripolitania, explosions and a fire ...
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  11 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminarian and lay faithful kidnapped in attack on St. Joseph’s Church released Abuja (Fides News Agency) – The last two hostages abducted on Sunday, August 2, during the attack on St. Joseph’s Church in Inoyi-Affa, Udi District, Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, have been released (see Fides, ...
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  11 August 2026
  Hope can rise again amid the rubble: The mission of Catholic Schools in the peripheries of Latin America by Laura Gómez Ruiz Portoviejo (Fides News Agency) – In Latin America, education remains one of the fields in which the Church’s vital and concrete mission encounters and embraces the real aspirations and needs o ...
• 10 August 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Karaganda Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, presented by Bishop Adelio Dell’Oro. The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. ...
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  10 August 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The life of the Missionaries of Mary Queen of Heaven: restoring dignity to women victims of exploitation Cebu (Fides News Agency) – Over the past 30 years, the Missionaries of Mary Queen of Heaven (MQHM), a religious community of nuns founded in 1996 in the Archdiocese of Cebu, have rescued and rehabilitated hundreds of w ...
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  10 August 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - Edgard Rimaycuna, secretary to Pope Leo XIV, brings the Pope's blessing to Chiclayo Chiclayo (Fides News Agency) – On Sunday, 9 August, Monsignor Edgard Rimaycuna, personal secretary to Pope Leo XIV, presided over Mass in his hometown in Chiclayo, on Peru’s northern coast, specifically in La Victori ...
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  10 August 2026
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Archdiocese of Lusaka confirms candlelight prayers (not to be politicized) for peace on the eve of the vote Lusaka (Fides News Agency) – “We wish to state unequivocally and without ambiguity that the Candlelight Prayers for Peace will take place as scheduled in all parishes of the Archdiocese of Lusaka on 12 August.” Thi ...
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  9 August 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Culture Fair in Seoul serves as a “trial run” ahead of World Youth Day 2027 by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Fides News Agency) – Despite temperatures reaching 40°C, the highest recorded in South Korea in eight years, numerous religious congregations and associations helped bring the “Catholic Cul ...
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  9 August 2026
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Government task force to tackle illegal mining Harare (Fides News Agency) – The Zimbabwean government has decided to establish a task force to tackle illegal mining, which the authorities consider to be at the root of many of the problems affecting the country. ...
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  8 August 2026
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Radio Veritas Asia Mandarin Service marks 50 Years with Malaysian concert tour celebrating Chinese sacred music Ayer Salak (Fides News Agency) – A concert tour across three cities in Malaysia brought together Chinese Catholic hymn composers, musicians and parish groups to celebrate the faith through sacred music. With this origi ...
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  8 August 2026
  Litoměřice: New commemorations for victims of anti-German massacres of 1945 during the “Jubilee of Reconciliation” by Bohumil Petrík Litoměřice – On July 31, 1945, shortly after the surrender of Nazi Germany, an ammunition depot exploded in Ústí nad Labem, in what was then Czechoslovakia, killing 27 people. The incident was ...
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  7 August 2026
  Archbishop Nwachukwu’s “compass” for Catholic communicators: “You are disciples before being influencers” Kigali (Fides News Agency) – When Jesus "gave the final command, 'Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,' Go therefore and make disciples of all nations", he was not addressing only, or even primarily, special ...
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  7 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Missionary Childhood: Sister Inês Paulo Albino to diocesan directors: mission is born from an encounter with Christ and expressed through service Lagos (Fides News Agency) – “God created each of us unique, but no one is more important than another. The same is true in the Church. God did not create us all alike. He made us different because each of us has a sp ...