Dossier Fides - October 2007

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VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Sunday 2007: "All the Churches for all the World"

VATICAN - The Pope addresses Superior Council of the Pontifical Mission Societies and participants at Congress of Fidei donum Missionaries: “Although many are the challenges to evangelisation in our day, many too are the signs of hope which testify all over the world to encouraging missionary vitality among the Christian people ”

VATICAN - Letter from the Cardinal Secretary of State to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the encyclical Fidei Donum: “This method in time could become the norm for missionary co-responsibility ”

VATICAN - “The Church's mission and our concern as Bishops must be for each and all: I think this should be remembered particularly in this 50th anniversary year of the Encyclical Fidei donum of Pius XII” : Benedict XVI addresses general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI

VATICAN - During Benedict XVI's meeting with the clergy of Belluno-Feltre and Treviso, with regard to the 50th anniversary of the Fidei donum encyclical, the Pope said “Reciprocity is always very important and precisely the experience that we are Church sent to the world and we all know and love one another is most necessary and is also the power behind our proclamation”

VATICAN - In a Letter for the Lisieux Year of Mission Pope Benedict XVI mentions Fidei Donum encyclical and the proclamation of Saint Therese as patron saint of the missions: “the Popes have never failed to recall the connection between prayer, charity and the Church's missionary activity”.

Encyclical Fidei Donum - On the Present Condition of the Catholic Missions, Especially in Africa

CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS - October 2007 - Mission Sunday 2007 Special Feature

PMS

VATICAN - PMS Annual General Assembly: the Pontifical Mission Society for the Propagation of the Faith offers decisive contribution to the missionary world helping to fund some 6,000 projects.

VATICAN - PMS Annual General Assembly - Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle supports Formation of 81.323 seminarians in mission territories

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