Vatican

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  30 December 2024
  Lives broken, lives donated. For the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Another year comes to an end. And this year too, the stories of Catholic missionaries and pastoral workers killed in the last 12 months, gathered and published by Fides Agency, give a glimpse of the ...
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  30 December 2024
  MISSIONARIES AND PASTORAL WORKERS KILLED IN 2024 Dossier by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – «We can ask them: “How did you manage to survive such trials?” And they will tell us what we heard in this passage from the Second Letter to the Corinthia ...
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  29 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - The Pope: Never remain with your head turned to your mobile phone, a family is happy only if it communicates Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Do you know why the Family of Nazareth is a model? Because it is a family that converses, that listens, that talks". This is what Pope Francis said this morning at St. Peter's Square fo ...
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  26 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis on the feast of Saint Stephen: Christian martyrs also pray for the salvation of their executioners Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Love, humanly impossible, also addressed to one's executioners, is one of the characteristics of Christian martyrdom, which makes it incomparable to all human forms of sacrifice that arise from sel ...
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  25 December 2024
  VATICAN/URBI ET ORBI - Christmas, the Pope: Mercy dispels hatred and the spirit of revenge, let us open the doors to gestures of dialogue by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "God’s mercy can do all things. It unties every knot; it tears down every wall of division; God’s mercy dispels hatred and the spirit of revenge. Come! Jesus is the ...
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  24 December 2024
  VATICAN - On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opens the Jubilee: in our world of suffering and sighs, the hope of Christ is alive by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Haec porta Domini. Iusti intrabunt in eam". On Christmas Eve, the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica opens onto a world torn apart by wars and violence. The Jubilee of t ...
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  22 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: “No child is a mistake”, “let us learn to experience wonder and gratitude before the mystery of the life that is born” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us learn to “experience wonder and gratitude before the mystery of the life that is born” because “no child is a mistake”. This was the central message of Pope Francis during th ...
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  20 December 2024
  In Rome, in the Holy Land and throughout the World. Vademecum to obtain Indulgences in the Jubilee Year 2025 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In 2025, the Catholic Church will once again celebrate the Jubilee Year, a special time of remission and forgiveness, designed as an opportunity to intensely experience heali ...
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  19 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Supporting the missionary works of the universal Church is an expression of the encounter with Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting the missionary and charitable works of the universal Church is a concrete expression" of the "authentic and personal encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we must proclaim ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: sinners and "foreign" women among the ancestors of Jesus, because Christ's mission is for everyone Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world of the Gentiles ... ...
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  12 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on foreign debt: “Instrument of control” of governments and private financial institutions at the expense of the poorest countries by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis lists three possible measures to overcome foreign debt, this "instrument of control" over poor countries, and thus reopen a "path of hope" towards peace, in ...
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  11 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "Hope is the most beautiful gift that the Church can give to all of humanity" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Spirit is the ever-gushing source of Christian hope ". And "if the Church is a boat, the Holy Spirit is the sail that propels it and lets it advance on the sea of history, today a ...
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  8 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: May we reach the feast of the Nativity with a ceasefire on all fronts of war Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “May we reach the feast of the Nativity with a ceasefire on all fronts of war”. This is the appeal that Pope Francis launched at the end of the Angelus on the Solemnity of the Immacul ...
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  4 December 2024
  VATICAN - Wednesday Papal Audiences also in Chinese. The importance of a new gift
  by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “With great pleasure.” With these words, Pope Francis announced today the addition of Chinese among the languages in which ...
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  1 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated. The whole human family is defeated!", said Pope Francis at the end of Sunday's An ...