ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Makassar
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Fransiskus Nipa, of the clergy of Makassar, Indonesia, hitherto judicial vicar and deputy parish priest of the cathedral, as coadjutor archbis ...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Three monks kidnapped in a Benedictine monastery
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A novice and two postulants of the Benedictine order were kidnapped from a monastery in the Nigerian state of Kwara. At one o'clock on the night of October 17, an armed group, believed to be Ful ...
VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2023
Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, in view of World Mission Sunday, which this year celebrates its 97th anniversary on Sunday, October 22, 2023, Fides News Agency offers some statistics chosen to give a pano ...
19 October 2023
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Bishop of Njombe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 19, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Eusebio Samwel Kyando, of the clergy of Njombe, until now member of the Finance and Development Committee and representative of t ...
Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - There are many different World Mission Month initiatives that the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) around the world have launched in these mo ...