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  27 May 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ebola: The Diocese of Tombura-Yambio raises surveillance and emergency preparedness Juba (Fides News Agency) - The Diocese of Tombura-Yambio in South Sudan is under heightened epidemic surveillance following the spread of the Ebola virus in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. “Although no c ...
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  27 May 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - An ethical framework for Artificial Intelligence: the Indian Church welcomes "Magnifica Humanitas" as a guide for the faithful New Delhi (Fides News Agency) - Establishing an ethical framework for artificial intelligence and disarming it, placing it at the service of human dignity, and the protection of the poor and vulnerable: these are some of ...
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  26 May 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Radio Veritas speaks two new languages: the "Good News" for ethnic minorities, amid displacement and uncertainty Yangon (Fides News Agency) - “Radio Veritas Asia” (RVA), the radio station of the Catholic communities on the Asian continent, is expanding its language coverage in Myanmar and launching broadcasts in Akha and Kayan ...
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  26 May 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Instability, roadblocks, and protests in Manipur: high tensions and hostage crisis continues Imphal (Fides News Agency) - There is no peace in Manipur. According to local Fides sources, the state is experiencing a new escalation of instability and protests demanding the release of 14 Kuki and 6 Naga hostages, ab ...
• 26 May 2026
  ASIA/LAOS AND CAMBODIA - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 4, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), confirmed Father Paul ...
• 26 May 2026
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On August 1, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), confirmed Msgr. Nicola ...
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  26 May 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nine dead and 25 kidnapped in three months in attacks against parish communities in Kaduna State Abuja (Fides News Agency) – At least nine people have been killed and another 25 kidnapped in the last three months in various attacks against parish communities in Kurmin Dangana, Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeri ...
• 26 May 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Taungngu Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Bernardino Ne Ne, of the clergy of the diocese of Loikaw, until now parish priest of Mother of God in Sondu, as coadjutor bishop of the dioces ...
• 26 May 2026
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Daegu Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Simon Jong-Gang Kim, until now bishop of Cheongju, as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Daegu, Korea. Archbishop-elect Simon ...
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  26 May 2026
  "Why are you here?": the legacy of a Korean missionary in Mongolia by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Ulaanbaatar (Fides News Agency) - Three years after his death on May 26, 2023, the figure of Father Stephen Kim SeongHueon remains very much alive in the memory of the Church in Mongolia. A ...
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  25 May 2026
  ASIA/BRUNEI - The life of Catholics in the Islamic monarchy: "With faith and benevolence, praying for local vocations, we are happy" Bandar Seri Begawan (Fides News Agency) – In the small Sultanate of Brunei, located in the northwest of the island of Borneo, there are three Catholic churches and three priests in total, all born there, because only n ...
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  25 May 2026
  ENCYCLICAL - “Magnifica humanitas” and the risk of the digital age becoming “colonial in another form” Vatican City (Fides News Agency) — By dating his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 15, Pope Leo XIV deliberately places himself within a well-defined tradition: that of the great social encyclicals, and in ...
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  25 May 2026
  VATICAN - Archbishop Nugent appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - “I receive my appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic on the day we celebrate the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, to whom I entrust this new mission, this new stage ...
• 25 May 2026
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Elevation to the Episcopal Dignity of the Apostolic Administrator of Kyrgyzstan Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has elevated to episcopal dignity, assigning him the titular see of Aeto, the Reverend Father Anthony James Corcoran, S.J., apostolic administrator of Kyrgyzstan. H.E. ...
• 25 May 2026
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – On April 27, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Alf ...