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More than 400 people gathered at the Vatican on Wednesday to officially begin the Synod on Synodality. During the first full day of work October 5, participants met in small groups of about 12 people to discuss the first part of the Instrumentum Laboris, a document that will guide discussions over the nearly monthlong assembly.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255586/what-is-being-discussed-during-the-first-week-of-the-synod-on-synodality
Saint Alberto Hurtado Chapel in the Archdiocese of Concepción and Saint Joseph Church of the Diocese of Linares were set on fire over the weekend. Both churches are located in central Chile. According to a Facebook post by the Archdiocese of Concepción, the fire in the chapel was started around midnight on Sunday, October 1, and the building “was completely destroyed due to arson.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255589/two-churches-in-chile-struck-by-arson
Eleven people died and 60 were injured when the roof of Holy Cross Church in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, suddenly collapsed as baptisms were being performed there on October 1.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255578/update-11-dead-60-injured-from-collapse-of-church-roof-in-mexico-during-baptisms
Security officials in Nigeria’s Plateau State have reportedly arrested eight suspects in connection with a fire at a parish rectory in Nigeria’s Kafanchan Diocese that resulted in the death of a seminarian. Seminarian Na’aman Danlami died after Fulani bandits reportedly attacked St. Raphael Parish Fadan Kamantan on the night of September 7 and set the rectory ablaze in what was confirmed as a kidnapping attempt.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255582/suspects-arrested-in-killing-of-seminarian-in-nigerian-parish-rectory-fire
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Bruno of Cologne, founder of the Carthusian order of monks who remain notable for their strictly traditional and austere rule of contemplative life.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-bruno-founder-616