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  12 February 2024
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle celebrates “Lunar New Year” with Chinese Catholic students in Rome: “Jesus is the sun, we are the moon” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church does not shine with its own light. She can only give the light of Christ to the world by reflecting it on her opache body, like the moon reflects the light of the sun. This is the emblem ...
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  6 February 2024
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle at the Conference for the ongoing formation of priests: "In order not to become ‘wolves’ " Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In order not to become ‘wolves’, pastors "must keep watch over themselves or must take care of themselves and their faith. This is ongoing formation". With these words, echoing the Apos ...
• 5 February 2024
  VATICAN - Appointment of under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Graziano Borgonovo, until now official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, as under-secretary for the Dicastery for Evangelizati ...
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  2 February 2024
  VATICAN - Pope's message for World Mission Day 2024. The mission is to invite everyone to the Lord's banquet. By Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelization" is "a tireless going out towards all humanity" to invite everyone "to the Lord’s banquet". This celebration is that of the "happiness of his Kingdom", the c ...
• 1 February 2024
  VATICAN - Dr. Benjamín Estévez de Cominges appointed Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Economy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, the Holy Father has appointed Dr. Benjamín Estévez de Cominges, until now delegate for the Administration of the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for first evangelizat ...
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  31 January 2024
  VATICAN - Vatican News: Every Sunday Angelus and Wednesday catechesis on the Vatican portal pages will now also be in Mongolian Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Magisterium of the Successor of Peter will now be available in Mongolian. A new tool at the service of evangelization that, we hope, will develop its full potential through today's com ...
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  13 January 2024
  VATICAN - Blessed Paolo Manna: an evening of prayer and missionary reflection on the occasion of the liturgical commemoration Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 14, at the “Collegio Urbano” the spiritual and missionary witness and legacy of Blessed Paolo Manna, founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), will be rememb ...
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  10 January 2024
  VATICAN - World Missionary Childhood Day: "Spiritual cooperation" the theme of the initiatives being carried out all over the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Some make an Advent calendar to sell, others study a song to perform, others make donation boxes and go to schools and parishes or take part in the Epiphany Singing campaign and go from hou ...
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  8 January 2024
  VATICAN -The Pope: “The ‘third world war in pieces’ is increasingly turning into a real global conflict” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "third world war in pieces" is turning into a "real global conflict", warns Pope Francis in his address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. Referring to his oft-stated c ...
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  8 January 2024
  Diplomacy and mission of the Church: This is why the Pope speaks to the Ambassadors by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The speech that the Bishop of Rome addresses every year to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See is not just an expression of the current Pope's "personal opinion" o ...
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  5 January 2024
  VATICAN - “Christus in martyre est”. The light of hope lit by the martyrs continues to illuminate the path of the Church by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the earliest times, Christian communities buried with due honor those who had borne witness to the faith to the point of giving their lives. Christians very so ...
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  4 January 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to the Fraternité missionnaire des Cités: revive the missionary zeal of the early Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel of Christ is announced to the poor first, and the Nativity scene itself is the sign of this predilection. Pope Francis recalled this in the speech prepared for the meeting with a ...
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  30 December 2023
  "You do not go to Heaven alone." The life of self-sacrifice of witnesses to the faith, for the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the year that is about to end, at least twenty Catholic missionaries, and pastoral care workers were killed. And also at the end of this year, like every year, Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 December 2023
  VATICAN - Missionaries and pastoral care workers killed in 2023 Dossier edited by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 20 missionaries were killed in the world in 2023: 1 Bishop, 8 priests, 2 non-religious men, 1 semi ...
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  20 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Before the Nativity scene what counts is amazement Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before the Nativity scene, which remembers the mystery of the birth of Jesus, what counts is amazement. It is not enough to look at the Nativity scene as a "beautiful thing" or as a histori ...