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ASIA/SINGAPORE-Pentecost: a "Spring of the Spirit" for the new evangelization

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Firing on Christians: Three injured in Karachi, threats to a Christian MP from Sindh

AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mother's Day against Domestic Violence

ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Emmaus community" in Mindanao: women consecrated to the service of dialogue with Muslims

AMERICA/PERU - The Day of Holy Childhood Association for the poor children in the world

AMERICA/ARGENTINA -Bishops to the government: "Stop corruption, we need to fight poverty"

ASIA/SYRIA-Instability and violence, appeal of the Apostolic Nuncio: "Enough with atrocities"

ASIA/SYRIA-"How to help the Christians in Syria?": we are waiting for the Pope's words in Lebanon

AMERICA/CHILE - "A transparent Church, formed by men acting under the protection of Jesus"

ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Taliban attack girls' schools in order to force the closure

ASIA/HONG KONG- The journey toward the Congress on the ministry of the lay faithful has begun: "From the ministry to the testimony - living the light of Christ"

ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Religious minorities scapegoated in the Middle East, if Arab revolutions "soured"

AFRICA/EGYPT - Only half of the electors voted in the first round of presidential elections, while one heads toward the second ballot

AFRICA/MALI-Confusion in Bamako, while on the border with Burkina Faso 25 people have died in inter-community clashes

ASIA/MALAYSIA - Compensation and intimidation: the government asks for damages to the civil society movement

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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-Resignation of the Archbishop of Lagos and appointment of successor

AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kumasi and nomination of successor

ASIA/INDIA - Nomination of Bishop of Calicut and Apostolic Administrator of Kannur

AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC- Appointment of the Archbishop of Bangui

AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of the Bishop of Berberati