Vatican

• 22 September 2018
  VATICAN - Erection of the Diocese of Chengde Desiring to promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend with greater efficacy to its spiritual good, the Supreme Pontiff Pope Francis has decided to constitute in China the Diocese of Chengde, which wil ...
• 22 September 2018
  VATICAN - Briefing Note about the Catholic Church in China With a view to sustaining the proclamation of the Gospel in China, the Holy Father Pope Francis has decided to readmit to full ecclesial communion the remaining “official” Bishops, ordained without Pontifical Mandate ...
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  22 September 2018
  VATICAN - Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China on the appointment of Bishops The Press Office of the Holy See today released the following communiqué that we faithfully report: "Within the framework of the contacts between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China that have been underwa ...
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  10 September 2018
  VATICAN - The Pope to the Bishops of Mission territories: the Bishop is a man of prayer, a man of proclamation and a man of communion Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 8 September, the Holy Father received in audience the newly appointed Bishops of Mission territories who are taking part in a Seminar organized, in Rome, by the Congregation for ...
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  3 September 2018
  VATICAN - The Study Seminar for the new Bishops of mission territories begins Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, with greetings from Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and the Eucharistic concelebration presided by the Secretary of CE ...
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  23 June 2018
  VATICAN - Mgr. Bodet and the new universal impulse of Missionary Childhood, from Paris to Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Henri Bodet died in the French diocese of Angers on 19 June. He was National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in France from 1978 to 1982 and Secretary General of the Pon ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Missionary Union, International Center for Missionary Animation Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Fabrizio Meroni, PIME, General Secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PUM), Director of the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) and Director of Agenzia Fides, deliv ...
• 1 June 2018
  VATICAN - The Pope: Extraordinary Missionary Month and Synod for Amazonia, opportunities for evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod for Amazonia and the Extraordinary Missionary Month, both of which will be celebrated in October 2019, are two opportunities for evangelization, to put into practice the call to " ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Agenzia Fides Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "Agenzia Fides, established in 1927, has just turned ninety and is facing a constantly changing world of information", said Fr. Fabrizio Meroni, PIME, Secretary General of the Pontifical Missi ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Fernando Domingues, MCCJ, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle (POSPA), introduced his annual report to the Assembly of the PMS: "We are happy to acknowledg ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "An essential task of the International Secretariat of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith is to ensure the fair and responsible distribution of funds collected each year by the Peopl ...
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  30 May 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - " October 2019 should help bring the entire People of God to a new awareness of Christian baptismal responsibility for the Church’s mission to evangelize to the ends of the earth. It was dec ...
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  29 May 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Communication networks require an authentic conversion from everyone Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, can be considered the pioneer of the network, because she understood, at only 19 years of age, that "one of the great ...
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  28 May 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni opens the PMS Assembly: "to evangelically renew the Church's mission in today's world" Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 by Pope Francis, inspires me to dedicate my reflection on the Pontifical Mission Societies around this providential oppo ...
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  28 May 2018
  VATICAN - President of the PMS: "mission, specifically missio ad gentes, remains a permanent call for the Church today" Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy to start today my first general assembly with you ... As you know, I am new and I have to learn a lot from you in this task that the Holy Father has entrusted me". This is wha ...