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AMERICA/MEXICO

10 million pilgrims are expected from all over the world for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

AMERICA/AMERICA

12 December: Continental Day of Prayer for Peace, entrusted to Our Lady of Guadalupe

VATICAN/VATICAN

Cardinal Filoni, outgoing Prefect of "Propaganda Fide", will be in office until mid-January: "I saw the beautiful face of the local Churches"

AMERICA/NICARAGUA

Mgr. Baez celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception with the Nicaraguan community of Miami

Continents

VATICAN

VATICAN

Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

AFRICA

SIERRA LEONE

Launch of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the Xaverian presence in Sierra Leone

ASIA

LEBANON

The "Kairos Project" of the Middle East Council of Churches takes shape

AMERICA

GUATEMALA

Lasallian missionary brother James Alfred Miller beatified, "martyr for education"

EUROPE

POLAND

Solemn entrustment of the whole missionary Church to the Black Madonna of Częstochowa

OCEANIA

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Mission is the "DNA" of Christian identity: the vocation of Catholic laity

FIDES NEWS

2019-12-10

AFRICA/DR CONGO - A 3-day sit-in organized by lay Catholics against corruption and violence in the eastern part of the Country

2019-12-09

AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacres in North Kivu bring the number of victims, since October 30, to 141.

2019-12-09

AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New repression against the Church: the Bishop of Esteli denounces "the pain of a people"

2019-12-09

ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of harmony and service to life: Cardinal Tagle speaks to the police

2019-12-07

AFRICA/KENYA - Religious leaders. "Let us not quarrel over the report of the Building Bridges Initiative commission"

2019-12-07

ASIA/PALESTINE - Cardinal Parolin: the end of the restoration of the Nativity in Bethlehem is a "call to peace, fruit of justice"

2019-12-07

AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Farmers expelled from their lands, attacked and threatened: support from organizations and the Church

2019-12-07

AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Jesuit Bartomeu Melià, great expert in language and culture of the Guaraní indigenous people, has died

2019-12-07

AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Missionaries Ad Gentes prepare to go to America, Africa and Europe

News Analysis vai all'indice

America

Drugs and drug addiction in Latin America: models of ecclesial community intervention

Asia

Missionaries in Taiwan: "Like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants"

Asia

Franciscans among the nomads: the mission of the Church in Central Asia

America

Latin America at the forefront in the "laboratory" of mission and urban pastoral care for large cities

America

Deep social and economic crisis in Haiti: how to get out of the serious situation?

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The missio ad gentes in the Acts of the Apostles

Africa

The Christians of Egypt, between discrimination and transformation

CEP APPOINTMENTS

ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Christ the King" interdiocesan theological Seminary in Karachi

AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the Rector of the Saint Augustin Major Seminary in Libreville

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the Rector of the “St. Francis Xavier” interdiocesan philosophical Seminary in Lahore

AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Simplisio Manyika, O.Carm.

Acts of the Holy See

AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Koupéla and appointment of new Archbishop

ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Bishop of Phan Thiêt

AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Moshi

ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Palayamkottai

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Evangelization

EUROPE/ITALY - The Orionine in the year of Youth: "Live every encounter in the sign of charity"

AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We are a family of God's people": first diocesan Synod in the history of the Country

Promotion and Development

AFRICA/GHANA - A campaign to call for support for the Catholic Auditor General of the Republic of Ghana

AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Caritas adopts a South African method to assist orphans due to AIDS

Area crisis

ASIA/HOLY LAND - A new trial on the disputed buildings between the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and Ateret Cohanim is possible

AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Catholic Church's condolences for the Sunday massacre

Migrants

AMERICA/BRAZIL - Local teams, advocacy, networking: the priorities of the Pastoral Care Service for Migrants

OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - An Australian Bishop: "Refugees live in inhuman conditions"

Politics

AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "May the next elections be peaceful, free and fair"

AFRICA/CAMEROON - Tension and violence in the northern provinces: the Church calls for inclusive dialogue

Missionaries Killed

AMERICA/ECUADOR - "One does not improvise to become martyr": the testimony of Fr. Moscoso, the first martyr of Ecuador

AFRICA/KENYA - Priest kidnapped and killed

Civil society

AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priest: violent fanaticism and occultism increase atheism and religious indifference among young people

AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops call for "peace, justice and dialogue"

Local Churches

ASIA/ISRAEL - Initiatives to revitalize the Aramaic language and identity continue

ASIA/TURKEY - New requests from the Armenian community to cancel the process for the election of the new Patriarch

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