Vatican

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  6 November 2025
  VATICAN - John Henry Newman and the Church Mission by Marie Symington Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Saint John Henry Newman has recently been proclaimed a Doctor of the Church and subsequently been named the Patron Saint of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, part of the Di ...
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  4 November 2025
  VATICAN- “Watershed moment for a glocal world”: International Conference on the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exhibition Rome (Agenzia Fides) – One hundred years ago, pilgrims who came to Rome for the 1925 Jubilee could encounter the entire world. At the request of Pope Pius XI, the pavilions of the "Vatican Missionary Exhibition" were s ...
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  3 November 2025
  Cardinal Tagle: Saint John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church, is also a "Doctor of Mission" by Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle* We publish the address given by the Cardinal Tagle at the opening of the academic event organized by the Pontifical Urbaniana University to commemorate the proclamation of Saint John Henr ...
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  3 November 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV proclaims Saint John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church, Patron of the Pontifical Urbaniana University by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The English saint John Henry Newman, proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV on the Solemnity of All Saints, is now the Patron Saint of the Pontifical Urban ...
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  31 October 2025
  VATICAN - “One in Christ, united in mission”: Theme of the next World Mission Day 2026 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “One in Christ, united in mission” is the theme of the World Missions Day which next year will mark the 100th anniversary of its establishment by Pope Pius XI, at the suggestion of th ...
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  29 October 2025
  MISSIONARY OCTOBER - Sister Suzanne Djebba: Joy and hope in the mission among the peoples by Sister Suzanne Djebba* We publish the address given by Sister Suzanne Djebba, Vicar General of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate (PIME), on the occasion of the International Missionary Congress “Missio ad ...
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  28 October 2025
  VATICAN - Artificial intelligence and mission at the center of the Pontifical Missionary Union's Online International Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Next Friday, October 31, the anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), the second annual online International Conference organized by the Missionary Society, f ...
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  26 October 2025
  VATICAN - Leo XIV: Ecclesial communion is "generated and preserved by the Holy Spirit" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ecclesial communion is "generated and preserved by the Holy Spirit." And this makes it possible at all times to invoke and encounter the miracle of a "humble Church," a Church that "does no ...
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  24 October 2025
  What do the Fathers and Doctors of the Church teach regarding the mission to proclaim the Gospel? by Marie Symington In the year 40 A.D. the number of Christians totaled to around a thousand. By the year 400, this figure had increased to nearly 40 million. How did Christianity grow so quickly in numbers in an empi ...
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  23 October 2025
  VATICAN - "Migration, a pilgrimage of hope": Theology's contribution to understanding the migration phenomenon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Millions of people forced to leave their homes due to conflict, poverty and climate change. In this complex global scenario, theology plays a crucial role in the study of migration, offer ...
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  22 October 2025
  VATICAN - Pontifical Missionary Union - PMU: In the Jubilee Year, online courses in missiological studies in French, Spanish and English begin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The International Secretariat of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) launches its online training program in missiological studies on October 24th. The courses, offered in French, Spani ...
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  19 October 2025
  Pope Leo XIV: “Without faith we cannot hope for salvation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” The words of Jesus, with which the passage from Sunday's Gospel ends, were repeatedly reiterated in the homily of his Holiness Po ...
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  18 October 2025
  VATICAN - Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood to children and young people around the world: "Be missionaries of hope and peace" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In July, the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI), Sister Inês Paulo Albino, addressed an appeal to all National Directions of the Pontifical Mission ...
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  17 October 2025
  VATICAN - Sister Maria Troncatti: “Called to be a missionary” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 19, 2025, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, Blessed Maria Troncatti will be proclaimed a saint by Pope Leo XIV. Sister Troncatti's holiness is demonstrated by the ...
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  17 October 2025
  VATICAN - Catholic Church Statistics 2025 Vatican City (Fides Agency) - As every year, in view of World Mission Sunday, which this year celebrates its 99th anniversary on Sunday, October 19, 2025, on the theme “Missionaries of Hope Among all Peoples”, Fides ...