Vatican

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  19 November 2025
  November 20, presentation of the book “Cinema and Mission: Audiovisual Sources and History of Catholic Missions” will take place at Palazzo de Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, November 20, at 3:00 p.m., the book "Cinema and Mission. Audiovisual Sources and History of Catholic Missions" will be presented at the Palazzo de Propaganda Fide. The book, e ...
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  17 November 2025
  Artificial Intelligence and the Mission of the Church. An analytical contribution by Marie Symington Roma (Agenzia Fides ) - On Monday September 29 2025, the Dicastery for Communication announced the theme chosen by the Holy Father Leo XIV for the 60th World Communications Day: Preserving human voi ...
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  16 November 2025
  Pope Leo, at the Jubilee of the Poor: “They are the very flesh of Christ and not just a sociological category” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The preferential option of Jesus and the Church for the poor leads “back to the essence of our faith,” for they are “the very flesh of Christ and not just a sociological category,� ...
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  13 November 2025
  Holiness and Mysticism: Leo XIV calls for “prudence” in the face of “extraordinary phenomena” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The “extraordinary phenomena,” which can accompany particolar mystical experiences, are never “indispensable prerequisites for the recognition of a believer’s holiness.” And whe ...
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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 ...