Vatican

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  13 October 2020
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: "Mission belongs to every baptized person: lay people and missionary families are on the rise" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The profound meaning of World Mission Day (WMD) is to keep the meaning of mission in all the baptized alive. In this historical moment, the element of the universality of the Church, which ...
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  9 October 2020
  VATICAN - Archbishop Rugambwa: "The release of Father Maccalli, seed of peace and sign of hope for the mission of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The release of Father Pierluigi Maccalli, missionary of the Society for African Missions is a special sign of hope for all of us, for Africa and for the Universal Church, in the month trad ...
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  1 October 2020
  VATICAN - Towards Mission Sunday: amidst the pandemic, mission continues Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the first day of the Missionary Month of October, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the International Secretariats of the Pontifical Mission Societies, recall that t ...
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  21 September 2020
  VATICAN - International Day for Peace: the human person above all interests Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " Peace cannot be attained without the courageous selfless act of putting the human person and the human condition above any other vested interests", reads the note from Caritas Internation ...
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  3 September 2020
  VATICAN - Aid from the PMS Fund to parishes, families, poor children and Catholic schools for the Covid emergency in Africa and Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic has exposed the difficult situation for the poor and the great inequality that reigns in the world - Pope Francis recalled at the general audience on 19 August -. The virus, ...
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  31 August 2020
  VATICAN - Card. Tagle for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation: The "pandemic of love and solidarity" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "As followers of Christ, we share the role of guardians of God's creation and our well-being is linked to the well-being of Mother Earth": this is what Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Presiden ...
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  29 July 2020
  VATICAN - World Day against Human Trafficking: institutions must protect vulnerable people Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "At this moment of COVID-19, we denounce a preoccupying reality for vulnerable people and increase in risk of trafficking", said secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, Aloysius John, ...
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  25 July 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Pauline Jaricot, a "modern saint" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Social media, in her day, were far from existing. But Pauline Jaricot, a seventeen-year-old from Lyon, already had a clear understanding of the capillary and ontologically universal dimensi ...
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  21 July 2020
  VATICAN - Aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency to support monasteries, rural communities, parishes in Africa and Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 pandemic that has been marking the lives of peoples of all continents for months, also places serious limits on the life of ecclesial communities, which face difficulties and o ...
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  17 July 2020
  VATICAN - Assistance from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency sent to Niger, Gambia and Zambia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Niger extends for a large part in the Sahara desert and despite the lack of rain, the agro-pastoral sector is the almost exclusive source of livelihood for its inhabitants, who live in a si ...
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  17 July 2020
  VATICAN - Economic crisis in the Middle East and international debt at the center of the Caritas Internationalis Annual Report Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a crucial moment of change. This event also takes place in a spirit of hope for the future, especially at a time when humanity is facing a serious health crisis that has affected ...
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  9 July 2020
  VATICAN - Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ecuador and Bolivia receive aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In many dioceses of mission territories, the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, of a health, social and economic nature, have added to already dramatic situations, as in the cas ...
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  6 July 2020
  VATICAN - Aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency to the dioceses of Togo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The isolation decreed by government authorities to contain the Covid-19 pandemic has caused serious economic and social consequences, even in Togo. In addition to the closure of places of w ...
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  3 July 2020
  VATICAN - The PMS Fund for the Covid emergency has sent aid to the dioceses of Benin, Madagascar, Senegal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Benin recorded the first cases of Covid-19 in March and, as in other parts of the world, the pandemic caused profound changes on social, economic and health levels, with also psychological ...
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  27 June 2020
  VATICAN - Assistance thanks to the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency in Chad and Kenya Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Doba, in Chad, has also seen schools, churches, public places and other gathering centers closed following the provisions issued to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. An importan ...