Vatican

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  9 December 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 8 December, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, to lead the Congregation fo ...
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  29 November 2019
  VATICAN - Congress at Urbaniana University closes: mission in continental contexts, challenges and hopes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ample space in the works of the International Congress "From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium", "on the urgency of the missionary transformation of the Church" (see Fides, 26/11/2019), wh ...
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  28 November 2019
  VATICAN - Conference at Urbaniana University: a Synodal Church on a mission on new world scenarios Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference "From Maximum illud to Evangelii Gaudium", "on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation" (see Fides, 26/11/2019) continue at a fast pace at the Pon ...
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  27 November 2019
  VATICAN - Conference at Urbaniana University begins "From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference "From Maximum illud to Evangelii Gaudium", "on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation", promoted and supported by the Congregation for the Evange ...
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  27 November 2019
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: I love China, I would like to go to Beijing Rome (Agenzia Fides) “I would like to go to Beijing. I love China". Pope Francis responded to many questions posed to him by the journalists during the flight bringing him back to Rome from Japan, at the end of his apo ...
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  26 November 2019
  VATICAN - Congress at Urbaniana University: “From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium”, on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 30, 1919 Pope Benedict XV published the Apostolic Letter "Maximum illud" with which he gave new impetus to the common missionary responsibility by putting the Gospel of Jesus Ch ...
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  21 November 2019
  ASIA/THAILAND - Pope Francis: a missionary is not a "mercenary of the faith" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A missionary "is not a mercenary of the faith or a producer of proselytes". He is rather a humble mendicant who feels the absence of brothers, sisters and mothers, "with whom to share the irrev ...
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  8 November 2019
  VATICAN - The "red missionary thread" that links children and young people of the Holy Childhood Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In this edition "we would like to speak especially about them, the adolescents, an age that the Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) does not seem to be engaged with in any evident manner, ...
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  5 November 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: "The Pope thanks everyone for the "great work" carried out in the Extraordinary Missionary Month" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of the liturgical celebration presided over by Pope Francis, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, October 20, the Holy Father, referring to the Extraordinary Missionary Month that w ...
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  4 November 2019
  VATICAN - The Pope and mission: “Without Jesus we can do nothing” At the end of the Extraordinary Missionary Month, we are providing a few extracts from the book-length interview of Gianni Valente from Fides News Agency with Pope Francis, in which the Pope emphasizes that “Either the ...
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  19 October 2019
  VATICAN - Catholic Church Statistics 2019 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 93rd World Mission Sunday, October 20, 2019, which is celebrated in the context of the Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019, announced by Pope Francis in the c ...
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  16 October 2019
  VATICAN - Extraordinary missionary Month: the first missionary activity is prayer Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Pauline Jaricot, a French lay woman, now Venerable, who in 1822 founded the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, conceived and placed prayer at the beginning of the missionary activity ...
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  15 October 2019
  VATICAN - Study day on Cardinal Newman, "the Augustine of modern times" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "On the eve of the canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman, this day dedicated to the study of the Blessed introduces us not only to the better knowledge of the multiform, extraordinary, ...
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  12 October 2019
  VATICAN - "Cor ad Cor loquitur": Academic act at Urbaniana University on Blessed John Henry Newman Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "John Henry Newman, a year before his death, in 1879, created Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII, chose as his motto the expression, 'Cor ad cor loquitur', which recalled St. Augustin, summarizing t ...
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  8 October 2019
  VATICAN - Prayer, soul of the mission: the Rosary for the extraordinary missionary Month Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Pray for the work of the missionaries and for the proclamation of the Gospel; today, in particular, let us pray for the synod on the Amazon. Let us not forget, moreover, persecuted Christians who ...