Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost their lives in a violent manner over the course of the last 12 months. According to information in our possession, during 2011, 26 pastoral care workers were killed: one more than the previous year: 18 priests, 4 religious sisters, 4 lay people.
For the third consecutive year, the place most affected, with an extremely elevated number of pastoral workers killed is AMERICA, bathed with the blood of 13 priests and 2 lay persons. Following is AFRICA, where 6 pastoral workers were killed: 2 priests, 3 religious sisters,1 lay person. ASIA, where 2 priests, 1 religious sister, 1 lay person were killed. The least affected was EUROPE, where one priest was killed.
2024 - A Missionary among fellow prisoners: Ján Havlík is blessed
2024 - The Church's grateful memory of the martyrs and the present of the Church
2024 - Jesuits and Salesians celebrate the memory of Father Stanisław Michalski, murdered at Christmas 1950
2024 - The martyrology of Catholics in Rwanda in 1994
2023 - The beatitude of martyrs, friends in Paradise
2023 - Sacrificing one's life to save the lives of others: the simple and strong faith of young Akash
2022 - In grateful memory of the murdered missionaries. Witnesses, not "testimonial"
2022 - Missionaries killed in the year 2022
2022 - Recognized the heroic virtues of Luisa Guidotti Mistrali, killed in former Rhodesia
2022 - The testimony of Monsignor Jaramillo, "prophet and martyr of peace" is always alive and current
2022 - Catholic priest and in charge of the migrant's house found dead in Tecate
2022 - Canonization of Charles de Foucauld: Archbishop of Algiers on the special spiritual path
2022 - Catechist Martyrs: stories that deserve to be recognized
2022 - March 24, Missionary Martyrs Day: "Voice of the Word"
2022 - The diocesan process for the beatification of the young Akash Bashir begins
2022 - Patriarch Sako: Canonization processes for Iraqi martyrs progressing
2022 - The Egyptian government increases the state subsidy to the families of the Coptic martyrs of Libya
2022 - Massacre of Jesuits: Film reconstructs what happened in 1989 and what is still happening today
2021 - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN THE YEAR 2021
2021 - Message and spiritual legacy of the monks of Tibhirine, 25 years after their tragic death
2020 - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN 2020
2020 - Bishops: "despite the pain, Catholics refuse to give in to fear"
2020 - A young priest ordained five months ago found dead
2020 - Salesian missionary Father Josef Thannhuber remembered, 100 years after his martyrdom in Brazil
2020 - On the feast of San Romero the memory of all the missionaries killed in the name of Christ
2020 - A Day to remember the missionary martyrs
2020 - The body of the priest who went missing since January 16 has been found
2019 - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN 2019
2019 - Lasallian missionary brother James Alfred Miller beatified, "martyr for education"
2019 - A parish priest in Cauca killed, a battleground between old and new armed gangs
2019 - The martyr Catechists of the Church of Mozambique towards beatification
2019 - The martyrs of La Rioja beatified: "they lived and died out of love"
2019 - The Bishops of the Cordoba region: "Let us joyfully live the grace of beatification"
2018 - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN THE YEAR 2018
2018 - Special Fides: Young missionaries, witnesses of Christ giving their lives
2018 - Another priest murdered in Medellín
2018 - A priest killed in the English-speaking area, scene of clashes with separatists
2018 - La Rioja remembers its martyrs, the next blessed
2018 - Priest killed to rob his van
2018 - An impulse for mission and for vocations comes from the beatification of Sr. Leonella
2018 - Bishops ask after yet another priest is assassinated : ' why have we lost respect for life?'
2017 - Missionaries killed in 2017
2017 - The relics of Father Ramírez transfered, the Martyr of Armero, the next blessed
2017 - Pope Francis: “The Church is Church if she is a Church of martyrs”
2017 - Conclusion of the diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the missionary martyr Fr. Ramin
2016 - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2016
2015 - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2015
2013 - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2013
2012 - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2012
2010 - THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2010
2009 - THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2009
2008 - THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2008
2006 - NAMES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE ON MISSION IN 2006
2005 - THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED WHILE ON MISSION IN THE YEAR 2005