Vatican

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  14 December 2023
  VATICAN - Russian Ambassador Soltanovsky: Holy See is “independent actor with global outreach and importance” By Victor Gaetan* Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky presented his credentials to Pope Francis on September 18, 2023 as the third ambassador to the Holy See from the Russian Federation. He also repres ...
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  13 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Proclamation and witness of the Gospel arise from the grace of Baptism Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The grace of baptism opens the "ears and mouth" of the one who receives it, freeing them from deafness to the calls of God and from closed mutism towards brothers and sisters. Thus, the proclamatio ...
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  7 December 2023
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle emerged from Jeanne Bigard's prophetic intuition by Elena Grazini Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - She dedicated her life to promoting and accompanying priestly vocations in mission countries. This is the story of Jeanne Bigard (see Fides, 14/4/2021), foundress of the ...
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  6 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the Church does not proclaim herself and the Holy Spirit is the protagonist of the mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation must take place "in the Holy Spirit", said Pope Francis, who at today's general audience continues the cycle of catechesis dedicated to the joy of the proclamation of the Gospel. A ...
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  29 November 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Christ's salvation is announced only in today's world, as it is Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel does not mean "standing on a balcony and shouting out Jesus’ name, but rather going down onto the streets, going to the places where one lives, frequenting the spac ...
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  24 November 2023
  Ten years of EVANGELII GAUDIUM (Part 4). The mission, the "sensus fidei" of the People of God and popular piety by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven - as the Gospel of Mark - his disciples "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the Word thr ...
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  23 November 2023
  Ten years of EVANGELII GAUDIUM (part 3) - "The whole people of God proclaims the Gospel". The Church as a missionary people by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The salvation that God offers us and that the Church proclaims, says the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium - "is the work of his mercy. No human efforts, however good they ...
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  22 November 2023
  VATICAN - The formation course “Evangelii Gaudium 2023” is coming to an end: with a view to the present and the future Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary formation course, focused on the contents of the Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium”, organized jointly by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), the International Cente ...
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  22 November 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: God chooses one in order to love everyone, to reach everyone Rome (Agenzia Fides) - God chooses one in order "to love everyone". Christianity "is not a little group of first-class, chosen people". And the calling of the Lord cannot be experienced as a privilege to be lived selfish ...
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  15 November 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis relaunches the message of Evangelii gaudium: “This is the right moment for the proclamation of Jesus”. Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus is "a Person", not an idea; a "traveling companion", not "a program". An encounter with Jesus always brings you joy, and if this does not happen to you, it is not a true encounter with Jesus" ...
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  14 November 2023
  VATICAN - The Commission of the New Martyrs draws on surveys published every end of the year by Fides Agency Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The "Commission of the New Martyrs - Witnesses of the Faith" established by Pope Francis in view of the forthcoming Jubilee of 2025. The working group's objective will be to draw up a catalogue of ...
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  8 November 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Madeleine Delbrêl. The joy of faith among non-believers Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The witnesses and confessors of the faith in Christ are always called to live in their time, to "share life with others, to mingle with the joys and sorrows of the world". And also to be in contact ...
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  4 November 2023
  EVANGELII GAUDIUM, 10 years (part 2). Baptism is sufficient to proclaim the Gospel by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We have found the Messiah". The first disciples of Christ, after encountering the gaze of Jesus, immediately went forth to proclaim their encounter with these words to those aro ...
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  29 October 2023
  VATICAN - “The Church is mission”. The Synod Report reaffirms the missionary dynamism of the synodal Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Rather than saying that the Church has a mission, we affirm that the Church is mission. ‘As the Father has sent me, so I send you’ (Jn 20:21)". Thus begins the eighth Chapter of the "Synthesis ...
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  25 October 2023
  VATICAN - The Gospel "is not written on water". Pope Francis re-proposes the missionary work of Cyril and Methodius, "Apostles of the Slavs" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christ's message of salvation can reach every people and every human being only if he speaks in his "mother tongue". Only in this way does the Christian faith show that it is not "foreign" to any p ...