Vatican

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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 ...
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  26 June 2020
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: "The language of evangelization is that of charity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - To announce the Gospel today, the language best understood by humanity is that of charity, not of the great theological explanations. For this reason, the Vincentian religious have a particular rol ...
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  25 June 2020
  VATICAN - Aid to the dioceses of Bangladesh thanks to the PMS Covid-19 Emergency Fund Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the diocese of Barishal in Bangladesh, which includes 11 civil districts, has worked to help the population to stop the infection, both through ...