Special Issue

  • 21 October 2022
    VATICAN - Catholic Church Statistics 2022 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, in view of World Mission Sunday, which this year celebrates its 96th anniversary on Sunday, October 23, 2022, Fides New Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
  • 24 March 2022
    VATICAN - Catechist Martyrs: stories that deserve to be recognized Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For three decades, March 24, the day of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, canonized on October 14, 2018, the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies have proposed a "Day of ...
  • 30 December 2020
    VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN 2020 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, in 2020 20 missionaries were killed in the world: 8 priests, 1 religious man, 3 religious women, 2 seminarians, 6 lay people. This year ...
  • 30 December 2019
    VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN 2019 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 lived by Catholic communities at all latitudes, which was also an opportunity to rediscover the figures of many witnesse ...
  • 19 October 2019
    VATICAN - Catholic Church Statistics 2019 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 93rd World Mission Sunday, October 20, 2019, which is celebrated in the context of the Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019, announced by Pope Francis in the c ...
  • 29 December 2018
    VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN THE YEAR 2018 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the course of the year 2018, 40 Missionaries were killed throughout the world, almost double the 23 of the previous year, and they were priests for the most part: 35. After eight conse ...
  • 20 October 2018
    VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2018 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 92nd anniversary on Sunday, October 21, 2018, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
  • 6 October 2018
    VATICAN - Special Fides: Young missionaries, witnesses of Christ giving their lives Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the month of October, traditionally dedicated to missions, and in the year the Synod of Bishops is dedicated to the vocational discernment of the young, Fides News Agenc ...
  • 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 ...
  • 30 December 2016
    VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2016 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2016, 28 Catholic pastoral care workers were killed worldwide. For the eighth consecutive year, the place most affected, with an extremely elevated number of pastoral care work ...
  • 30 December 2015
    VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2015 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The wake of pastoral workers killed in this historic phase of humanity reveals an unprecedented upsurge. It seems to have no equal in the history, because it is an ongoing globalized persec ...
  • 17 October 2015
    VATICAN - World Mission Day: Catholic Church Statistics 2015 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, this year celebrated on Sunday, October 18, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panorama of the missionary Church all o ...
  • 30 December 2014
    VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2014 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to information in our possession, during 2014, 26 pastoral care workers were killed worldwide, three more compared to 2013. For the sixth consecutive year, the place most affecte ...
  • 25 October 2014
    VATICAN - WORLD MISSION DAY - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2014 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, this year celebrated on Sunday, October 19, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panorama of the missionary Church all o ...
  • 14 June 2014
    VATICAN - Message of His Holiness Francis for the World Mission Day 2014 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides publishes Pope Francis's Message for World Mission Day, which this year will be celebrated on Sunday, October 19 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today vast numbers of people still do ...

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World Mission Sunday 2017