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  4 August 2026
  AMERICA/PERU - A thousand-kilometre journey from the Amazon to National Youth Day: “I left the jungle without knowing what awaited me” by Laura Gómez Ruiz Iquitos (Fides News Agency) – “I left the jungle without knowing what awaited me. I returned knowing that I belong to something much greater.” These are the words of Franco, a member of the ...
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  4 August 2026
  Bishop Pitchaimuthu at the First Franciscan Missionary Symposium: “Asia does not need missionaries who come with all the answers. It needs brothers and sisters who bring Christ” by Elena Grazini Chennai (Fides News Agency) – “Asia does not need missionaries who come with all the answers. It needs brothers and sisters who bring Christ, walk alongside the people, listen deeply, discern pati ...
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  3 August 2026
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Official hymn for Seoul WYD 2027 unveiled: "Take courage; I have overcome the world" Seoul (Fides News Agency) – Martyrs and places of martyrdom take center stage in the videos released today to introduce the official hymn for the next World Youth Day (WYD), scheduled to take place in Seoul from August ...
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  3 August 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Drone warfare and humanitarian crisis deepen alarm in Darfur and Kordofan El Obeid (Fides News Agency) – El Obeid continues to be one of the main hotbeds of Sudan's conflict. The city continues to come under repeated drone attacks, while residents face severe water shortages, frequent power ...
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  3 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Church attacked during Sunday Mass, two people still held by kidnappers Abuja (Fides News Agency) – St. Joseph's Church in Inoyi, Affa, in Udi district of Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, was attacked during Sunday Mass on August 2. At least seven armed men stormed the church at around 8 ...
• 3 August 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Dindigul Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Dindigul, India, presented by Bishop Thomas Paulsamy. (EG) (Fides News Agency, 3/8/2026) ...
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  3 August 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest killed in roadside ambush Abuja (Fides news Agency) – A Catholic priest was killed in a roadside ambush in Nigeria. Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro was attacked with a machete on Church Road in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, in central Nigeria. The Dioce ...
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  3 August 2026
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Church's Mission among Khulna's Dalits. Bishop Boiragi: "In Christ they rediscover the dignity of children of God" Khulna (Fides News Agency) – Accompanying Dalit communities on their journey of human development and faith by providing education, social support and proclaiming the Gospel as an experience of liberation. This is one ...
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  2 August 2026
  ANGELUS - Pope Leo XIV: When we are with Christ, “our needs are abundantly met” Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The encounter with the Lord is “a nourishing experience.” And when we are with Him, the “bread of life,” “our needs are abundantly met.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV hig ...
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  2 August 2026
  TRINITARIANS IN MADAGASCAR/4 - One Hundred Years of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives. Bishop Berardi’s pilgrimage to the roots of his vocation by Antonella Prenna Cerfroid (Fides News Agency) – From his first encounter with Spanish missionaries to leading the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia, Bishop Aldo Berardi reflects on a journey shaped by memory ...
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  1 August 2026
  TRINITARIANS IN MADAGASCAR/3 - One hundred years of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives: Apostolic ‘tours’, catechists and the construction of facilities at the service of the Gospel by Antonella Prenna Moramanga (Fides News Agency) – After withdrawing from the Benadir Mission in what was then Somalia, the Trinitarians continued their redemptive mission on the island of Madagascar, where they se ...
• 1 August 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Jesuit Prakash: "Young people are awakening the country's democratic conscience" Ahmedabad (Fides News agency) – The large-scale student protests that have swept across India in recent weeks—organized by the newly formed Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the "People's Cockroach Party"—are far more t ...
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  31 July 2026
  12 theatre Companies at the XXXIV Slovak Christian Theatre Festival inspired by Saint Francis by Bohumil Petrík Bratislava (Fides News Agency) – Three bishops inaugurated the XXXIV edition of the Gorazdov Močenok 2026 National Christian Theatre Festival. The event is renewed every year with the aim of exp ...
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  31 July 2026
  XV CONAJUM: Archbishop Nwachukwu to 6,000 Mexican young people: “Your heart is made to sail the open sea, not to remain closed in an aquarium” San Luis Potosí (Fides News Agency) – “Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. This call is for you. The mission is not small. It is not comfortable. It is not safe. It is universal. Whereve ...
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  31 July 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Attack on the ancient monastery of Saint Arsema: “Buildings may be destroyed and lives broken, but our faith in Christ remains” Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – The ancient monastery of Saint Arsema, in South Wollo, in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, was severely damaged in a drone attack on July 22, 2026. Numerous casualties were reported among m ...