Vatican

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  28 January 2022
  VATICAN - World Leprosy Day: A total of 532 facilities for leprosy patients worldwide run by the Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest "Statistical Yearbook of the Church", the Catholic Church operates 532 institutions for lepers worldwide, of which 201 are in Africa, 201, 41 in America, 269 in Asia ...
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  22 January 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector upon lay men and women from different continents Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Sunday of the Word of God January 23 is observed annually on the third Sunday of Ordinary Time, ever since Pope Francis established this celebration on 30 September 2019. Pope Francis ...
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  17 January 2022
  VATICAN - Like the Magi, in search of the light that will overcome the darkness of these difficult times Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From January 18 to 25, 2022 the usual "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" will be celebrated, as Pope Francis reminded us at the Angelus yesterday, Sunday January 16. "This year’s propos ...
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  14 January 2022
  VATICAN - Blessed Paolo Manna and the Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies, was founded by Blessed Father Paolo Manna and recognized by Pope Benedict XV on October 31, 1916 with th ...
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  14 January 2022
  VATICAN - Myanmar and Italy united in prayer and missionary reflection on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Paolo Manna Vatican News (Agenzia Fides) - "The news of missionary activities: Blessed Paolo Manna and the contemporary world" is the theme of the two meetings for prayer and missionary reflection organized on Saturday 15 and Sunday ...
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  7 January 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis' "thank you" to the many children of Missionary Childhood Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Thursday January 6, solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Pope Francis at the Angelus thanked the children and young people of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (PO ...
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  7 January 2022
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Day October 23, 2022 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, January 6, the Message of the Holy Father Francis for World Mission Sunday, which will be celebrated on Sunday, October 23, 2022, on the theme ...
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  3 January 2022
  VATICAN - On January 6, 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Congregation “de Propaganda Fide” for the reunification of Christians and the spread of the faith Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Four hundred years ago, on the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, on January 6, 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Sacred Congregation "de Propaganda Fide" as the supreme organ for the p ...
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  30 December 2021
  VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN THE YEAR 2021 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, in 2021 22 missionaries were killed in the world: 13 priests, 1 religious man, 2 religious women, 6 lay persons. This year the highest ...
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  27 November 2021
  VATICAN - With the beginning of the new liturgical year, a "missionary journey" with the Word of God Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The meditations for the Advent of the "missionary journey" proposed by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) for the new liturgical year are online on the website of the Pontifical Mission ...
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  26 November 2021
  VATICAN - Pope to Pauline Family: Preach Christ with prayer and all available media Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "This anniversary is an opportunity for the Church, and especially for all of you, to remember the great works that the Holy Spirit performed in and through Blessed Giacomo Alberione and th ...
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  19 November 2021
  VATICAN - Sister Gloria after her kidnapping as a religious: "I had to keep silent so that God could protect me" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was on February 7, 2017 when a group of armed men entered the house of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary in Karangasso in southern Mali and took Sister Gloria Cecilia ...
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  16 November 2021
  VATICAN - Multiculturality and formation: the International Congress of Urbaniana University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The annual International Congress of the Pontifical Urbaniana University is entitled "Multicultural communities for what formation?" and will be held at the university under the jurisdictio ...
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  3 November 2021
  VATICAN - Filipinos, ardent missionaries in the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We received the gift of faith 500 years ago, but not only then: we invoke the Lord and we receive it from him even today. We received and lived it as Filipinos, and we give it to the world as Fili ...
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  30 October 2021
  VATICAN - For a Church which is always and entirely missionary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If the month of October, which the Church defines as "missionary month" is a special time during which the Catholic faithful all over the world are called to rediscover and renew their miss ...