Vatican

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  13 November 2018
  VATICAN - Young Angolans for a Church that goes forth: Cardinal Filoni’s encounter with the youth of Saurimo Saurimo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni’s encounter with the youth of the ecclesiastical province of Saurimo, as part of his pastoral visit in Angola (see Fides, 9/11/2018), took place on the afternoon of Mo ...
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  12 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni's exhortation to the Bishops of Saurimo: "be united and supportive" Saurimo (Agenzia Fides) - A vibrant exhortation to be "united and supportive", to consolidate the spirit of ecclesial and fraternal communion and solicitude for the sister Churches, so that the ministry is fruitful, was ...
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  12 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Angola calls priests and religious to renew themselves for "a Church where the joy of the Gospel resounds" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I repeat the invitation of the Holy Father to renew, today and now, your personal encounter with Jesus Christ and to let yourselves meet him. Only in this way you can give a new impact to ...
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  9 November 2018
  VATICAN - "Being Church is the basis of every collection of funds for missions": the reflection of the Pontifical Mission Societies Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The basis of fundraising comes from the Gospel itself: when one thinks of donations, the offerings to be devolved to the missions of the Church, we must go back to the roots to find the motivation ...
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  9 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Angola and São Tomé for the 50th anniversary of the Episcopal Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, will be on a pastoral visit in Angola and the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe from 10 to ...
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  30 October 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni inaugurates the Academic Year at Urbaniana: networking to renew the multifaceted face of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Confirmation of the "varied face" of the Urbaniana University and "the permanent missionary tension of which it is the bearer" were reiterated this morning by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Gran ...
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  23 October 2018
  VATICAN - Fr. Meroni: "The missio ad gentes, model of the evangelizing mission of the Church" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The missio ad gentes is the original form, the paradigm and the model that sets up the whole evangelizing mission of the Church because it expresses the proclamation of the Gospel and the sacramen ...
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  22 October 2018
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: "Let us to pray so that the new generations may not lack the proclamation of the faith and the call to collaborate in the mission of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday 21 October, 92nd World Mission Day, the Holy Father Francis recalled the anniversary during the Angelus, with these words: "Today we celebrate World Mission Day, on the th ...
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  20 October 2018
  VATICAN - Share the Journey: fight fear by walking with migrants and refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila and President of Caritas Internationalis, invites communities of citizens all over the world to fight hatred and fear with a million-year m ...
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  20 October 2018
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2018 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 92nd anniversary on Sunday, October 21, 2018, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
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  19 October 2018
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies: support for the proclamation of the Gospel and for the human and cultural growth of peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies were born of young hearts as a means of supporting the preaching of the Gospel to every nation and thus contributing to the human and cultural growth of al ...
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  6 October 2018
  VATICAN - Special Fides: Young missionaries, witnesses of Christ giving their lives Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the month of October, traditionally dedicated to missions, and in the year the Synod of Bishops is dedicated to the vocational discernment of the young, Fides News Agenc ...
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  26 September 2018
  VATICAN - Pope Francis' message to Chinese Catholics and to the universal Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis at today's general audience, September 26, said: "Dear brothers and sisters, last Saturday, September 22, a Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People's Republi ...
• 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 ...