Vatican

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  7 October 2025
  VATICAN - An academic event at the Urbaniana University on the "Concilium Sinense" and the present of the Church in China
  Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "One Hundred Years since the Council of China: Between History and Present." This is the title of the academic event that will mark the beginning of the academ ...
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  7 October 2025
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Father Frédéric Pierre Rossignol, new bishop of Tournai: "God does not impose himself, he gives a sign" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The diocese of Tournai has its new bishop: Spiritan Frédéric Pierre Rossignol, appointed yesterday, October 6, by Pope Leo XIV. The new Bishop Rossignol, C.S.Sp., until now spiritua ...
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  5 October 2025
  VATICAN - Jubilee of the Missionary World, Pope Leo speaks of a “new missionary age” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, "a new missionary age opens up in the history of the Church." It is time to recognize and proclaim anew, "with joy" and "at the tomb of the Apostle Peter," that "the entire Church ...
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  5 October 2025
  MISSIONARY MEETING - Father Giulio Albanese: the current challenges of the mission by Father Giulio Albanese MCCJ* We publish the address given by Father Giulio Albanese, Comboni Missionary, current Director of the Office for Social Communications and the Office for Missionary Cooperation of the Vi ...
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  5 October 2025
  MISSIONARY MEETING - Cardinal Marengo: Whispering the Gospel beyond all borders and barriers by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo IMC* We publish the address given by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, on the occasion of the International Missionary Meeting "The Missio ad Gentes Today: Toward ...
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  5 October 2025
  MISSIONARY MEETING - Cardinal Tagle: The "Missio ad gentes" today. A reflection by Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle We publish the address given by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), on ...
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  1 October 2025
  VATICAN - World Mission Month: Hope at the center of the Pontifical Mission Societies' video Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – With the beginning of the month of October dedicated to mission, numerous initiatives have been launched in all National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to raise awar ...
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  29 September 2025
  VATICAN - Missionaries of hope among the peoples: On October 4 and 5, the missionary world celebrates its Jubilee, with the international meeting at the Pontifical Urbaniana University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On October 4th and 5th, Rome welcomes missionaries from all over the world who will gather in the Eternal City to celebrate their Jubilee. "Missionaries of hope among the peoples": this i ...
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  11 September 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Leo to the new Bishops: You are the servants of the people's faith by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "We have two hundred bishops, only one Pope, and not a whole lot of time, so we’ll take the best advantage of it," said Pope Leo XIV himself, with a touch of humor, ...
• 10 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the dioceses of Xiwanzi and Xuanhua with the erection of the diocese of Zhangjiakou and consecration of the first bishop of Zhangjiakou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend more effectively to its spiritual good, on 8 July 2025 the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV decided to suppress the d ...
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  10 September 2025
  VATICAN - From the Peter's Pence to the Pontifical Mission Societies: The Course for new Bishops deals with money, mission and communion with the Successor of Peter by Gianni Valente "For the love of money is the root of all evils," writes the Apostle Saint Paul to Timothy. This is the same realism with which the Church has always collected and distributed money and material good ...
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  8 September 2025
  VATICAN - Ecumenical Commemoration of Martyrs and Witnesses of the Faith: celebration in St. Paul Outside the Walls in the sign of communion between the churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a strong bond that already unites us which goes beyond all divisions: it is the testimony of Christians from different Churches and traditions, victims of persecution and violence ...
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  8 September 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Schönborn to the new bishops: “The shepherd belongs to his flock” by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – When the Soviet Union expanded its control over Estonia and the other Baltic states in 1940, the German Jesuit Eduard Profittlich, the first Catholic Archbishop of Tallinn, c ...
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  6 September 2025
  VATICAN - Archbishop Nwachukwu to newly ordained bishops: Belonging to the “Tribe of Christ” frees the Church from tribalism and ethnocentrism by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "Tribalism and ethnocentrism have not spared the Church. On the contrary, they have often pierced and wounded the Body of Christ," and "when cultural, ethnic, or caste identi ...
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  5 September 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle at the Formation Course for newly ordained bishops: Custodians, not masters of “God's flock” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is God who has full trust in you, expressed through the Church, especially through the Holy Father, who names, appoints the bishops. But it is the Holy Spirit that appoints us. Let us never fo ...