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ASIA/INDONESIA

Testimony of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies on the need to "give impetus and vitality to the mission, in particular through the action of the laity"

AFRICA/AFGHANISTAN

Parliamentary election: Coptic Bishops declare “equidistance” and want high voter turnout

AFRICA/BENIN

Bishops in view of the election: "It should be peaceful, inclusive and democratic"

ASIA/VIET NAM

Bishops' delegation visits flood victims

Continents

VATICAN

VATICAN

Communiqué on the extension of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China regarding the appointment of Bishops

AFRICA

CAMEROON

Civil War creates lost generation

ASIA

INDIA

Denial of bail to Jesuit accused of "sedition"

AMERICA

BRAZIL

After 10 years, a new phase of the inter-congregational missionary Project in Haiti

EUROPE

SPAIN

Thanks from the PMS to all those who participated in World Mission Day "in times of pandemic"

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA

More than 360 Catholic schools involved in the special Missionary Childhood Day

FIDES NEWS

2020-10-23

ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Political crisis resolved with centralization of powers: people's expectations have been disappointed

2020-10-22

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic girl abducted and converted to Islam: the kidnapper's false statements

2020-10-22

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops complain of a "standstill" in the Country and death threats against confreres in the episcopate

2020-10-22

ASIA/LEBANON - The annual Synod of Maronite Bishops begins in the sign of silence and conversion

2020-10-22

AFRICA/DR CONGO - The third National Eucharistic Congress will take place in 2021

2020-10-22

AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops' Conference supports the fight against fake news in view of the elections

2020-10-22

AFRICA/NIGERIA - Youth protest, the result of a mixture of poverty and indignation according to the testimony of a Nigerian friar

2020-10-22

ASIA/CAMBODIA - Apostolic Prefect Figaredo: "The poor and the little ones evangelize us"

2020-10-22

AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A priest killed during a robbery

News Analysis vai all'indice

Africa

Challenges to the evangelizing mission in Africa, at the time of Covid-19

Asia

Evangelization in Asia in the midst of the pandemic

Africa

Africa, the sisters of the Good Shepherd alongside the exploited of cobalt

Asia

Environmental disasters and the Church's commitment: the path of safeguarding creation in Central Asia

Africa

Africa, Covid-19 has not stopped wars

America

Laudato Sì year, opportunity for pastoral and missionary renewal in Latin America

Asia

Pakistan: the Commission for minorities and respect for human rights

CEP APPOINTMENTS

AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Pius X" interdiocesan major Seminary of Maputo

AFRICA/GUINEA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Sebastien Bidiare

AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Léonidas Ngomanziza

AFRICA/TOGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Donald Charit-Dine Fadaz

Acts of the Holy See

ASIA/BANGLADESH - Resignation of the Archbishop of Dhaka and appointment of the new Archbishop

AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Gambella

AFRICA/CHAD - Resignation of the Bishop of Pala

ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Sivagangai

News
Dossier Special Issue Portugués

Evangelization

AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than one hundred young people confirmed in a parish of Kinshasa sent as "missionaries in the suburbs"

VATICAN - Testimony of the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood on the involvement of children and young people in proclaiming Christ during the missionary month

Promotion and Development

AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Missionaries: give hope amid conflicts, pandemics, poverty, natural disasters

ASIA/VIETNAM - Mobilization of Catholic communities in favor of populations affected by floods in central Vietnam

Area crisis

AFRICA/NIGERIA - Life has become dangerously brutish and short in Nigeria

ASIA/HOLY LAND - #PeacefulHarvest: World Council of Churches supports olive harvest in Palestine

Migrants

AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico is the main destination for Central American migrants

AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Migrants: a reality of suffering for many Venezuelans

Politics

AMERICA/CHILE - Churches destroyed: the Bishops urge us to distance ourselves from irrational violence

ASIA/THAILAND - Demonstration of "young people" for democracy and the limitation of the powers of the Crown

Missionaries Killed

EUROPE/ITALY - A priest entirely dedicated to the marginalized has been killed

EUROPE/FRANCE - In the memory of Father Hamel, the rejection of all violence and respect for human life

Civil society

AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Caritas and student pastoral care: "Free elections under the sign of peace and democracy"

AFRICA/EGYPT - Candidacy of Coptic Orthodox priest in the elections reopens the debate on the participation of the clergy in politics

Local Churches

AFRICA/EGYPT - The number of legally recognized Christian churches rises to 1738

AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches present their proposal concerning the bill on the family to the Egyptian government

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