Vatican
12 October 2024
VATICAN - Cinema and mission: Conference on "Audiovisual sources and the history of Catholic missions"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pio IV Hall in the Vatican, the international conference "Cinema and mission. Audiovisual sources and the history of Catholic missions" will be held on October 15. Starting at 8:30 a ...
9 October 2024
VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: the Holy Spirit is He who ensures the universality and unity of the Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Acts of the Apostles "we see the Spirit work for unity in two ways": He teaches her to expand in universality, and consolidate in unity. Universal and one: this is the mystery of the ...
6 October 2024
VATICAN/ANGELUS - Middle East, the Pope: Let us unite in prayer against the diabolical plots of war
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us unite with the power of Good against the diabolical plots of war". This is the invitation that Pope Francis addressed to the whole world at the end of the Angelus prayer, on the eve ...
6 October 2024
VATICAN - Pope announces Consistory for creation of 21 new Cardinals in December
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I am pleased to announce that on December 8th, I will hold a consistory for the appointment of new cardinals". As has often happened in these years of his pontificate, Pope Francis announc ...
2 October 2024
VATICAN - The Pope opens the Synod and announces a day of prayer and fasting for peace on October 7
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Exactly one year after the renewed conflict in the Holy Land between Israel and Palestine, Pope Francis, during the opening Mass of the XVI General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, calls f ...
1 October 2024
VATICAN/PENITENTIAL VIGIL - The Pope: "We cannot resolve conflicts by fueling violence"
by Samuele Massimi and Fabio Beretta
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Making peace "requires courage". And it also takes courage to "say yes to encounter and no to confrontation; yes to respect for pacts and no to provo ...
1 October 2024
VATICAN - The Holy Father appoints the Rev. Msgr. Sangalli Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Samuele Sangalli, hitherto secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for First Evangelization and the new particular Chur ...
18 September 2024
VATICAN - Formation courses for newly appointed bishops in the spirit of communion in the universal Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 267 newly appointed bishops from five continents have gathered in Rome to take part in formation courses offered to them by various Dicasteries of the Holy See from 15 to 22 Sep ...
18 September 2024
VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: When it comes to the Church, we are still too Western
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The first reflection that comes to mind after this journey is that we are still too Eurocentric or, as they say, 'Western' in relation to the Church," said Pope Francis, returning to St. P ...
15 September 2024
VATICAN/ANGELUS - Francis: "You cannot know Christ if you have not encountered Him"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –When asked "Who is Jesus for you?" we too answer "correctly, with a formula that we learned at Catechism. But are we sure that this means really knowing Jesus?", said Pope Francis during t ...
14 September 2024
The dialogue between China and the Holy See and the realism of the Pope
by Gianni Valente
"I am pleased with the dialogues with China. The results are good. Even for the appointment of bishops, things are progressing with goodwill".
This is what Pope Francis said on Friday during the p ...
6 September 2024
VATICAN - Jubilee 2025: The Pontifical Missionary Union offers an online itinerary of prayer and reflection
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The prayer journey of Christ's missionary disciples" is the title of the itinerary of four online meetings in English on prayer, organized and promoted by the Pontifical Missionary Union ( ...
3 September 2024
Pope Francis’s trip to ‘Southeast Asia’ and the mission of the Church today
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival in Jakarta of the flight that took off from Rome, Pope Francis' 45th international apostolic journey has begun. The Bishop of Rome, at almost 88 years of age, ...
2 September 2024
Pope Francis Enforcing Four Principles for Social Harmony During Asia-Pacific Apostolic Mission
by Victor Gaetan*
Rome (Fides News Agency) - Pope Francis’s ambitious 4-country pilgrimage, September 2-13, will include countless, colorful encounters as young countries greet the pontiff and he, in turn, ...
30 August 2024
VATICAN - Pope Francis: The Pontifical Urban University "has an identity of its own" and should not be "blended" with other universities
Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "We do not live in a Christian society, but we are called to live as Christians in today’s pluralistic society." And a historical and prestigious institution such as the Pontifical Ur ...
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