Vatican

• 14 September 2015
  VATICAN - The first blessed in South Africa: Benedict Daswa, family man, killed for the Gospel Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "A new Blessed is being proclaimed in South Africa. Samuel Benedict Daswa was a family man killed in 1990 - just 25 years ago because of his fidelity to the Gospel, recalled Pope Francis du ...
• 14 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni concludes his visit to Bangladesh where he meets families and seminarians Tejgaon (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday afternoon, September 12, continuing his pastoral visit to Bangladesh, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, celebrated evening Mass ...
• 12 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni meets Bishops, priests, religious and laity of Bangladesh: "We are all in a permanent state of mission" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – Today Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, met the representatives of the seven dioceses of Bangladesh, in Dhaka: Bishops, major religious sup ...
• 12 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the Bishops of Bangladesh: "try to sow unity in the dioceses" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The unity with Christ and with the community of the faithful, who "have a right to see their Bishops living in communion, both in the pastoral decisions taken by them and in their implementation", ...
• 11 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Bangladesh for the XXV Anniversary of the diocese of Rajshahi: "there is much work to do" Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is consoling to know that after twenty-five years your Local Church is growing, not only in number, but also in the service of God and of the community, in spite of tensions and different d ...
• 7 September 2015
  VATICAN - Pastoral visit of Cardinal Filoni in Bangladesh, India and Nepal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, is leaving for a pastoral visit in Asia. From 9 to 13 September he will be in Bangladesh, where he w ...
• 30 June 2015
  VATICAN – Ceremonial gift of the pallium to 46 Metropolitan Archbishops, 13 belong to the territories of Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, June 29, according to custom, the Holy Father blessed and delivered the pallium to 46 Metropolitan Archbishops appointed during the yea ...
• 17 June 2015
  VATICAN – The Pope: "the international community should act in a fitting and effective way to prevent the causes of forced migration" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of his general audience, held in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis launched the following appeal: "This coming Saturday marks World Refugee Day, promoted by the United Nations. We ...
• 5 June 2015
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to the PMS: "missionary activity is still the greatest challenge for the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father received in audience the participants of the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Missionary Societies, who were accompanied by the Prefect of the Congrega ...
• 3 June 2015
  VATICAN - The College of Saint Paul celebrates 50 years of service to the formation of missionary priests Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn Eucharistic celebration presided by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, "St. Paul the Apostle" International Pontifical M ...
• 2 June 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni opens the Assembly of the PMS: "form people to the true sense of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I like to think of this Assembly as the place and the moment when the entire missionary Church, present and active in all peoples and cultures, is gathered in fraternal communion, at the s ...
• 28 May 2015
  VATICAN - General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "How to support the universal mission today and tomorrow" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), begins next Monday, June 1, at the Retreat House of the Salesians in Rome. The National Directors of the PMS from all ...
• 25 May 2015
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Day 2015 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish the full text of the Holy Father’s Message for World Mission Day 2015, which will be celebrated on Sunday 18 October. Dear Brothers and Sisters, The 2015 World Mission Sund ...
• 21 May 2015
  VATICAN - The Pope recalls the Day of Prayer for the Church in China on May 24 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the general audience yesterday, May 20, the Holy Father recalled the next World Day of Prayer for the Church in China with these words: "On the 24 May, the Catholics in China ...
• 18 May 2015
  VATICAN - Archbishop Romero will be the patron of Caritas Internationalis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero (1917 -1980), who will be beatified on May 23 in San Salvador, murdered for standing with the poor in El Salvador, was adopted as a ...