Vatican

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  28 December 2017
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in 2017 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2017, 23 Catholic pastoral care workers were killed worldwide: 13 priests, 1 religious brother, 1 religious sister, 8 lay persons. For the eighth consecutive year, the place mo ...
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  15 December 2017
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: "Mission is the thermometer of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When announcing the Kingdom of God, Jesus recalls that the Kingdom belongs to God: as Benedict XVI observes in his trilogy about Jesus, it is about a subjective genitive. The Kingdom does ...
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  4 December 2017
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the proclamation of the Gospel is not "proselytism". Only the Holy Spirit "attracts" and converts hearts Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel "is not making proselytism". The Church grows "for attraction". And to exercise the attraction that can change and convert hearts are not our "apologetic explanations ...
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  10 November 2017
  VATICAN - The martyrdom of Italian missionary Sr. Leonella Sgorbati has been recognized Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Our founder, Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, encouraged us to be at the service of the mission at the cost of life, and the recognition of Sister Leonella's martyrdom is a new impulse for us to live mi ...
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  9 November 2017
  VATICAN - Appointment of the Secretary and Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Protase Rugambwa, Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of Kigoma, until now Secretary of the same Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Pres ...
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  23 October 2017
  VATICAN - Extraordinary Missionary Month "May we be open to the joyful newness of the Gospel" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today World Mission Day is celebrated, on the theme 'Mission at the Heart of the Church'. I urge everyone to live the joy of mission by witnessing the Gospel in the environs where each one ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the presentation of World Mission Day: "the first evangelizer is Christ himself" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The first evangelizer is Christ himself". Jesus "does not abandon the missionary nature of the Church", but "remains present" in the apostolic work accomplished by his disciples, which is not "a t ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - The Cloister is mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Teresa of Lisieux wanted 'to be love in the heart of the Church'. Today cloistered nuns are like a heart pumping blood, that is, the charity of Christ, to the entire bod ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - Dossier for World Mission Day: the number of Catholics in the world is increasing Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics in the world is increasing: almost one billion and 300 million, 17.7% of the world's population. According to figures from the Church’s Book o ...
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  13 October 2017
  VATICAN - The cause of beatification of Cardinal Celso Costantini opens Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 October, on the day of his death 59 years ago, the diocesan phase of the cause of beatification and canonization of Cardinal Celso Costantini (1876-1958) opens in the Cathedral of Concordia S ...
• 28 September 2017
  VATICAN - Appointments at Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples announced the following appointments: The Holy Father has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio in Gre ...
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  4 August 2017
  VATICAN - The Holy See demands full respect for human rights and the suspension of new Constituent in Venezuela Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Fides gives here the unabridged text of a statement issued by the Holy See’s Secretary of State office regarding the situation in Venezuela: The Holy See reiterates its profound concer ...
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  31 July 2017
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: human trafficking "is an aberrant plague and a modern form of slavery" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis recalled the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons promoted by the United Nations, Sunday, July 30, with these words during the Angelus: "Each year, thousands of men, women ...
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  7 July 2017
  VATICAN - Recognized the martyrdom of Mgr. Jesús Jaramillo Monsalve, first Bishop of Arauca Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the promulgation of several decrees, in ...
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  30 June 2017
  VATICAN - Solemnity of the Apostles Peter and Paul: "The Lord is always at our side, walking with us, never leaving us" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Fathers of the Church liked to compare the holy Apostles Peter and Paul to two columns, on which the visible building of the Church rests. Both sealed with their own blood their testim ...