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THE CHURCH OF THE SHEAVES CONFERENCE - Listening the Continents: Gifts, Challenges and New Missionary Pathways

From mission territories to missionary Churches”: the title of one of the sessions sums up the second day of the first ...
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"Gift exchange between the Churches requires conversion": Fr. Stan Chu Ilo on the "Church of the Sheaves"

The new catechumens and the first Christians. Archbishop of Reims: "The Pope will encounter a Church in France undergoing profound transformation" ...
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ASIA/INDIA - Young people march for democracy: for Jesuit Prakash: “A journey to preserve India’s soul”

A march for democracy, calling for respect for voting rights and institutional reforms, is taking place today, 23 October, at ...
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AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Fifty years after independence, education remains a decisive challenge

Fifty years after independence, Mozambique has made significant progress in expanding access to education, extending its ...
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AFRICA/CAMEROON - “There are no differences between French-speaking and English-speaking Catholics in the Church”

As St Paul said, ‘There is neither Greek nor Jew’; likewise, in the Church in Cameroon, there are no differences between ...
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AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Sylvester Okechukwu killed on Ash Wednesday, a few hours after his kidnapping

Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A Catholic priest was kidnapped and then killed in northern Nigeria. He is Father Sylvester Okechukwu, parish priest of the church of St Mary Tachira, Kaura Local Government ...
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POPE IN FRANCE/IV - A song to welcome the Successor of Peter

Rome (Fides News Agency) – Dawn is breaking over the domes of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. On the Janiculum Hill, Grégory Turpin sings the opening notes a cappella of Pour que le monde ait la vie, a ...
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ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Online gambling is a "public health crisis that destroys society": Bishops call for it to be declared illegal

Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the gambling addiction treatment centers run by Caritas, Catholic organizations, and communities in the Philippines, the number of cases of online gambling addiction is ...
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VATICAN - New “Donum Missionis” Foundation brings the missionary colleges in Rome under one institution

Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – From 1 November 2026, the “Domus Missionalis” and “Domus Urbaniana” Foundations will cease to exist as separate entities and will be brought together under a single ...
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VATICAN - On January 6, 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Congregation “de Propaganda Fide” for the reunification of Christians and the spread of the faith

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Four hundred years ago, on the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, on January 6, 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Sacred Congregation "de Propaganda Fide" as the ...
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The Church of the Sheaves: a missionary perspective presented to Newly Ordained Bishops

Rome (Fides News Agency) – Bishops ordained in the last two years gathered in Rome on 8 September 2026, in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, for a formation course, hearing ...
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In Dar es Salaam, African Liturgists call for an end to the “folklorization” and “theatricalization” of inculturation

Dar es Salaam (Fides News Agency) – Liturgical inculturation is neither about “canonizing” personal pratices nor about indiscriminately adding cultural elements to the Roman rite. Rather, it seeks to ...