Vatican

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  25 July 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Pauline Jaricot, a "modern saint" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Social media, in her day, were far from existing. But Pauline Jaricot, a seventeen-year-old from Lyon, already had a clear understanding of the capillary and ontologically universal dimensi ...
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  21 July 2020
  VATICAN - Aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency to support monasteries, rural communities, parishes in Africa and Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 pandemic that has been marking the lives of peoples of all continents for months, also places serious limits on the life of ecclesial communities, which face difficulties and o ...
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  17 July 2020
  VATICAN - Assistance from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency sent to Niger, Gambia and Zambia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Niger extends for a large part in the Sahara desert and despite the lack of rain, the agro-pastoral sector is the almost exclusive source of livelihood for its inhabitants, who live in a si ...
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  17 July 2020
  VATICAN - Economic crisis in the Middle East and international debt at the center of the Caritas Internationalis Annual Report Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a crucial moment of change. This event also takes place in a spirit of hope for the future, especially at a time when humanity is facing a serious health crisis that has affected ...
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  9 July 2020
  VATICAN - Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ecuador and Bolivia receive aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In many dioceses of mission territories, the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, of a health, social and economic nature, have added to already dramatic situations, as in the cas ...
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  6 July 2020
  VATICAN - Aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency to the dioceses of Togo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The isolation decreed by government authorities to contain the Covid-19 pandemic has caused serious economic and social consequences, even in Togo. In addition to the closure of places of w ...
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  3 July 2020
  VATICAN - The PMS Fund for the Covid emergency has sent aid to the dioceses of Benin, Madagascar, Senegal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Benin recorded the first cases of Covid-19 in March and, as in other parts of the world, the pandemic caused profound changes on social, economic and health levels, with also psychological ...
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  27 June 2020
  VATICAN - Assistance thanks to the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency in Chad and Kenya Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Doba, in Chad, has also seen schools, churches, public places and other gathering centers closed following the provisions issued to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. An importan ...
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  26 June 2020
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: "The language of evangelization is that of charity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - To announce the Gospel today, the language best understood by humanity is that of charity, not of the great theological explanations. For this reason, the Vincentian religious have a particular rol ...
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  25 June 2020
  VATICAN - Aid to the dioceses of Bangladesh thanks to the PMS Covid-19 Emergency Fund Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the diocese of Barishal in Bangladesh, which includes 11 civil districts, has worked to help the population to stop the infection, both through ...
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  20 June 2020
  VATICAN - "Forced like Jesus Christ to flee": living with dignity as refugees in the time of the coronavirus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Victims of violence, fear and above all of an unfair system, in 2019, 33.4 million people in 145 countries were forced to leave their homes in addition to the hundreds of millions of refuge ...
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  17 June 2020
  VATICAN - "The value of martyrdom as an element of Christian life in El Salvador": towards the beatification of the missionary Cosma Spessotto Zacatecoluca (Agenzia Fides) - "I ask the Lord to give me the strength at the right time to defend the rights of Christ and the Church. To die a martyr would be a grace that I do not deserve. Washing all my sins, defects ...
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  16 June 2020
  VATICAN - New aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency in Africa, Asia and America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Fund established by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support the Churches of mission countries in the face of the Covid-19 emergency (see Fides, 6/4/2 ...
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  13 June 2020
  VATICAN - PMS National Directors, collaborators of the Holy Spirit: the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies celebrated online Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Spirit is the true protagonist of the mission of the Church: the Spirit helps to discern in a new and creative way how to be animators of the mission in local churches, in the fiv ...
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  10 June 2020
  VATICAN - Secretary General of POSPA: "Prayer and charity, even in times of pandemic, are the channels for carrying out the mission of evangelization" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In general, the Covid-19 pandemic can be considered to have caused fewer victims in Africa. Faced with this disease, many people in sub-Saharan Africa keep calm. They are in fact accustome ...