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More than 1,000 Catholic children from East Timorese "stolen" and Islamized

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The campaign has started: the opposition is divided and concerns about the stability of the Country

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ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 1,000 Catholic children from East Timorese "stolen" and Islamized

ASIA/MALDIVES - "The Maldives should look at the Arab spring: more democracy and religious freedom"

AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "The FARC are not a political group, but a gang of terrorists"

AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara commit suicide because of despair, because they have nothing to eat

AFRICA/SENEGAL - The campaign has started: the opposition is divided and concerns about the stability of the Country

ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Reconciliation and peace with the Taliban: the desire of the Afghan civil society

AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Santa Rosa: "I am here with you because the pastor, Father David Donis is not here anymore, unfortunately he was killed "

AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The government and the Islamic leadership are moving to stop Boko Haram" says the Archbishop of Abuja

ASIA/CHINA - The path of Evangelization continues waiting for the Year of Faith

CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias’ appeal: "it is necessary to eradicate forms of dehumanization in India"

ASIA/INDIA - Peace, development, education: the emergencies of a vast and plural country

ASIA/PAKISTAN - A think-tank on religious freedom and persecution: the idea of Pakistani Christians abroad

ASIA/TURKEY - Patriarch Bartholomew at the National Assembly to discuss the new Constitution

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SPOTLIGHT

World Mission Sunday 2012

Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI

Missionaries killed

The missionaries killed during 2010

Prayer

Missionary prayer Intention 2012

SPECIAL ISSUE

THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, BISHOPS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS, KILLED IN THE YEAR 2011

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost...

VATICAN - World Mission Day: Catholic Church Statistics

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, October 23 this year, Fides News Service...

THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2010

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year, Fides publishes an annual document of all the pastoral workers who lost...

DOSSIER

THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES FOR MISSIONARY ANIMATION AND COOPERATION

“The universal mission should become a fundamental constant in the life of the Church”, Fr. Timothy Lehane Barrett, SVD,...

Special Feature for Mission Sunday 2009: CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS

CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS WORLD POPULATION – CATHOLICS PERSONS /CATHOLICS PER PRIEST ECCLESIASTICAL...

Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum

The Holy Father Benedict XVI in the month of September continued to reside in his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, from...

ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE

AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Apostolic Vicar of Kontagora

AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishops in Kinshasa

AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ruhengeri

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Resignation of the Archbishop of Karachi and appointment of Successor

AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Bishop of Ziguinchor