Vatican

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  25 January 2020
  VATICAN - A day devoted to the Bible should not be seen as a yearly event but rather a year-long event: initiatives in local Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "A day devoted to the Bible should not be seen as a yearly event but rather a year-long event, for we urgently need to grow in our knowledge and love of the Scriptures and of the risen Lord ...
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  24 January 2020
  VATICAN - "Sunday of the Word of God": the contribution of missionaries to translations into local languages Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday, January 26, the first "Sunday of the Word of God" will be celebrated in the world, announced by Pope Francis with the Apostolic Letter "Aperuit Illis", so that "the life of our peop ...
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  18 January 2020
  VATICAN - Week of prayer for Christian unity: "Hospitality is a virtue that testifies to the loving encounter with others" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are called to pray, so that all Christians will become one family again, to witness together love for Christ": this is what Fr. Anthony Currer, official of the Pontifical Council for th ...
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  14 January 2020
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni's farewell from "Propaganda Fide": "It is time for inter gentes mission" Vatican City (Agenzi Fides) - "Today there is a need for a renewed proclamation of the Gospel around the world, not only in the traditional 'mission territories' but also in the continents of ancient evangelization. From ...
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  2 January 2020
  VATICAN - The Star Singers of seven European countries at the Pope's Mass on the first day of the year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January, the solemnity of Mary Most Holy Mother of God, as has been the case for 16 years now, a delegation of the "Star Singers" of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood atte ...
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  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 ...
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  17 December 2019
  VATICAN - The challenges of mission in Asia: a conference at the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The conference that, on the 20th anniversary of the post-synodal exhortation "Ecclesia in Asia", is to be held at the Pontifical Urbaniana University on 18 and 19 December focuses on the ch ...
• 10 December 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni, outgoing Prefect of "Propaganda Fide", will be in office until mid-January: "I saw the beautiful face of the local Churches" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, outgoing Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will remain in office until mid-January, when elected Prefect, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ...
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  9 December 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 8 December, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, to lead the Congregation fo ...
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  29 November 2019
  VATICAN - Congress at Urbaniana University closes: mission in continental contexts, challenges and hopes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ample space in the works of the International Congress "From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium", "on the urgency of the missionary transformation of the Church" (see Fides, 26/11/2019), wh ...
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  28 November 2019
  VATICAN - Conference at Urbaniana University: a Synodal Church on a mission on new world scenarios Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference "From Maximum illud to Evangelii Gaudium", "on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation" (see Fides, 26/11/2019) continue at a fast pace at the Pon ...
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  27 November 2019
  VATICAN - Conference at Urbaniana University begins "From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference "From Maximum illud to Evangelii Gaudium", "on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation", promoted and supported by the Congregation for the Evange ...
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  27 November 2019
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: I love China, I would like to go to Beijing Rome (Agenzia Fides) “I would like to go to Beijing. I love China". Pope Francis responded to many questions posed to him by the journalists during the flight bringing him back to Rome from Japan, at the end of his apo ...
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  26 November 2019
  VATICAN - Congress at Urbaniana University: “From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium”, on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 30, 1919 Pope Benedict XV published the Apostolic Letter "Maximum illud" with which he gave new impetus to the common missionary responsibility by putting the Gospel of Jesus Ch ...
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  21 November 2019
  ASIA/THAILAND - Pope Francis: a missionary is not a "mercenary of the faith" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A missionary "is not a mercenary of the faith or a producer of proselytes". He is rather a humble mendicant who feels the absence of brothers, sisters and mothers, "with whom to share the irrev ...