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  23 September 2026
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops raise the alarm: Ghana is becoming a cocaine hub: Accra (Fides News Agency) – “The seizure in France of a large shipment of cocaine from Ghana must not be treated as an isolated incident, but as part of a wider problem,” the Bishops of Ghana said following the sei ...
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  23 September 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter bombings: “Towards Truth and Justice” Colombo (Fides News Agency) – “It is a wound that is slowly healing. The healing process is underway. With this verdict, we can say that we are moving in the direction of truth and justice, since those who carried ou ...
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  23 September 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New rebel alliance reignites the struggle over the Red Sea Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – The rebel coalition announced a few days ago has gone on the offensive, and one of its main components, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has captured Mekelle airport. ...
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  23 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/V - Peoria: Cardinal Tagle in the future Blessed’s hometown: He shows us the way to missionary conversion by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Peoria (Fides News Agency) – In the stillness of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, the revival-gothic-style church that rises above Peoria’s streets, Cardinal Luis Ant ...
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  23 September 2026
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - San Francesco 800: Music and fraternity at the Cathedral in Awali to celebrate the Poverello of Assisi

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  Awali (Fides News Agency) – Music as a language of faith, the memory of St Francis as an opportunity for encounter, and dialogue as a path towards building peace. These were the ...
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  23 September 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Archbishop of Nampula to Catholic university graduates: “Science without conscience is simply the ruin of the soul” Nampula (Fides News Agency) – “Seeing young people who are well-educated and full of hope facing an uncertain future, precisely at a time when the country needs their skills, energy and talent most, is one of the mos ...
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  23 September 2026
  The good seed of “Wecare” Missionary Experiences/I - Young hearts and the encounter with reality by Laura Gómez Ruiz Rome (Fides News Agency) – Leaving home and one’s “comfort zones” for several weeks, venturing to another country and sharing time and work with people whose lives are very different. For ...
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  22 September 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter attacks verdict: 15 of 24 defendants convicted Colombo (Fides News Agency) – Fifteen of the 24 defendants have been convicted in the trial concerning the attacks of 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, which targeted three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, ki ...
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  22 September 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Auxiliary Bishop of Juba: “How do you conduct elections without a census and a constitution?” Juba (Fides News Agency) – “How can elections be held if there is no population census and no permanent Constitution?” asked Msgr. Santo Loku Pio Doggale, Auxiliary Bishop of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, speak ...
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  22 September 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS/1 - Odorico Cheng Hede and the Diocese of Puchi One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops of the modern era (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is dedicating a series of documentary profiles on these Successors of the Apostles and the d ...
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  22 September 2026
  EUROPE/POLAND - Mission seeks new paths: the message that emerged from the autumn meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies Warsaw (Fides News Agency) – Mission cannot remain tied only to forms that belong to a bygone era. It needs new energy to involve the entire Church community. This was one of the messages that emerged from the autumn m ...
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  22 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/IV - Sons and Daughters of the same Father. Fulton Sheen and racial segregation by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rochester (Fides News Agency) – “All around us there are people who never stop hating someone or something, shouting: 'Down with capitalism! Down with labor unions! Down with religion! Down ...
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  21 September 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - International Day of Peace. Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: “Our wounds belong to our history; peace is the legacy we must leave to our children” Tombura-Yambio (Fides News Agency) – “Invest in peace: for everyone, everywhere, every day.” This is the heart of the message addressed to the peoples of Sudan and South Sudan by Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussa ...
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  21 September 2026
  The seed of the Gospel and mission: Archbishop Sangalli concludes the formation Course for bishops in Nemi with a meditation on St Charles de Foucauld Nemi (Fides News Agency) – The permanent formation of bishops as a time of communion, spiritual renewal and personal and pastoral conversion: this was the perspective outlined by Archbishop Samuele Sangalli in his homi ...
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  21 September 2026
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Humanitarian crisis compounded by political and institutional instability Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) – “With great concern, I am following the humanitarian crisis unfolding in certain areas of Somalia, where acts of violence and extreme weather events are exacerbating the already precar ...