Vatican

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  20 March 2021
  VATICAN - Pope authorizes Decrees on heroic virtues concerning three religious of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 17, 2021, the Holy Father Francis received in Audience His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. During the Audie ...
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  16 March 2021
  VATICAN - Webinar of the Pontifical Mission Societies on Communication and Fundraising: From "fund-raising" to "faith-raising" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the educational initiatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), the Pontifical Missionary Union and the International Center for Missionary Education (CIAM) have organized ...
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  15 March 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Filipino migrants in Rome: you are "smugglers of faith" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I have often said that here in Rome Filipino women are “smugglers” of faith! Because wherever they go to work, they sow the faith”. This is what Pope Francis repeated during the homily of th ...
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  10 March 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis' gratitude for his trip to Iraq: "Muslims invite Christians to return, and rebuild churches and mosques together" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim residents of Mosul invite their Christian fellow citizens to return "to rebuild churches and mosques together". This is the image that Pope Francis sees as the seed of the rebirth of thi ...
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  22 February 2021
  VATICAN - Recognition of the heroic virtues of three Italian missionaries who died of Ebola in Congo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 20, the Holy Father Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a number of decrees, including those concerning the recognition of the heroic virt ...
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  16 February 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis commemorates the martyrs killed in Libya: "They have received the greatest gift that a Christian can receive" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 21 martyrs of Libya killed by Daesh jihadists on a beach not far from the Libyan city of Sirte said shortly before they died: "Lord Jesus!". In confessing the name of Jesus while they were bein ...
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  12 February 2021
  VATICAN - Accompanying the studies of priests and nuns from all over the world: the Domus Missionalis Foundation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to make students from all over the world to experience the catholicity and universality of the Church. The main purpose of the Domus Missionalis Foundation is to look after and acc ...
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  10 February 2021
  VATICAN - Children and young people, joyful and credible witnesses to the proclamation of the Gospel despite the pandemic Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Witness is the characteristic element of the baptized person's mission. The witness is the one who can tell about an event or a person as he was present at the event or knows the person in ...
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  9 February 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Fraternity and hope are like medicines that the world needs today, like vaccines" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 8, Pope Francis received the representatives of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See to exchange New Year's wishes. In his address, the Pope went into detail on the h ...
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  2 February 2021
  VATICAN - "The mission of the Church: missionary charity and fundraising": webinar of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spanish Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The webinar "The mission of the Church: missionary charity and fundraising", organized by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PUM) and by the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIA ...
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  1 February 2021
  VATICAN - Encouragement from the Pope to missionaries, health workers and volunteers fighting against leprosy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Marian prayer of the Angelus, transmitted from the Library of the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, Pope Francis recalled the 68th World Day for Leprosy Sufferers and encouraged th ...
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  29 January 2021
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: "Mission is to share the love received from God, out of pure gratitude" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father in the Message for World Mission Day of 2021, taken from the Acts of the Apostles, brings together the mission and the human experience of the mercy of Christ: he wants to ...
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  29 January 2021
  VATICAN - Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Mission Day 2021 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today we publish the Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Mission Day 2021, entitled «We cannot but speak about what we have seen and heard» (Acts 4:20) Dear Brothers and Si ...
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  29 January 2021
  VATICAN - "Mission of compassion" and co-responsibility between dioceses in the universal Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Message for World Mission Day 2021, Pope Francis recalls that the current situation of the pandemic has brought to the fore and amplified the pain, the solitude, the poverty, which ...
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  12 January 2021
  VATICAN - Father Leonardo Sileo confirmed as Rector of the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2021, the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, confirmed Prof. Fr. Leonardo Sileo, OFM, as Rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana Univers ...