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  13 October 2026
  AFRICA - African Churches express closeness to Pope Leo XIV: Prayers and best wishes for his surgery Rome (Fides News Agency) – The Churches of Africa express closeness to Pope Leo XIV as he prepares to undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule. On behalf of the African bishops, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop of ...
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  13 October 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Joseph Kabila at the helm of the new political-military movement, FRN Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – Former President Joseph Kabila is at the helm of a new political-military movement announced on 12 October in Goma, capital of North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic o ...
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  13 October 2026
  Leo XIV to the John Paul I Vatican Foundation Conference: peace is a daily Mission Rome (Fides News Agency) – “‘Safeguarding and promoting peace is a responsibility for each of us and, at the same time, a mission to be cultivated patiently in every sphere of our daily lives.” This was Pope Leo ...
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  13 October 2026
  WORLD MISSION SUNDAY - Father James Lengarin, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries: “It is God’s Love, not us, that saves the world” by Paolo Affatato Rome (Fides News Agency) – This year, Father James Bhola Lengarin, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries, will celebrate World Mission Sunday (WMS) in a place of profound symbolic value: E ...
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  13 October 2026
  ASIA - “In Christ’s love, pray for the Holy Father”: Faithful across Asia express their closeness to Pope Leo XIV New Delhi (Fides News Agency) – “In Christ’s love, pray for the Holy Father.” This is the appeal resounding across Catholic communities in Asia as Pope Leo XIV prepares to undergo surgery at Agostino Gemelli Univ ...
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  13 October 2026
  Rome, Sassari, the world: The birth of World Mission Sunday in five stages by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – A day dedicated to bringing the missionary dimension into the everyday life of parishes through prayer, awareness of distant communities and the sharing of ...
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  12 October 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: War Worsens Humanitarian and Health Crisis El Fasher (Fides News Agency) – Darfur remains one of the main epicentres of the war that has ravaged Sudan since 2023, pitting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). More than three ye ...
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  12 October 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATIONS OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS - Bishop Philip Zhao Huaiyi and the Diocese of Xuanhua One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times, (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is dedicating a series of documentary profiles to these Successors of the Apostle ...
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  12 October 2026
  From Sonsón-Rionegro to Mitú: “We set out thinking we had something to give. We returned having discovered how much we had received” by Laura Gómez Ruiz Sonsón (Fides News Agency) – Reaching some of the communities served by the Apostolic Vicariate of Mitú, in the Colombian Amazon, means travelling along rivers, crossing the forest and coverin ...
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  11 October 2026
  Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia meet to discuss tensions and unresolved issues in the Horn of Africa El Alamein (Fides News Agency) – As geopolitical tensions and internal conflicts continue to shake the Horn of Africa, the presidents of Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea, together with the head of Sudan’s Transitional Coun ...
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  10 October 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - New Bishop of Karaganda: “Mission means reaching out to those who have yet to encounter Christ or whose faith has faded away” by Paolo Affatato Karaganda (Fides News Agency) – “Mission does not mean organizing an ever-increasing number of events. Sometimes, mission takes this form: a priest travels many kilometres to celebrate Holy Mass, ...
• 9 October 2026
  VATICAN - Resignation of the dean and approval of the election of the new dean of the College of Cardinals Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of the dean of the College of Cardinals presented by His Eminence Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who will assume the title o ...
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  9 October 2026
  VATICAN - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is the new Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization of the Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches, is the new Dean of the College of ...
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  9 October 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Hiiboro Kussala ahead of the General Elections: “Contest the election, but protect the family. Serve the people, but do not destroy one another” Tombura Yambio (Fides News Agency) – “Contest the election, but protect the family. Serve the people, but do not destroy one another.” This is the appeal made by Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura Yambio ahe ...
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  9 October 2026
  Brazil - October 4 elections could shape the Country’s future by Cosimo Graziani Brasilia (Fides News Agency) – The first round of Brazil’s presidential election on October 4 confirmed analysts’ expectations. The two leading candidates – Flavio Bolsonaro of the Liberal P ...