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24 April 2021
EUROPE/SPAIN - Day for Native Vocations: the Gospel brought by the missionaries has taken root and is bearing fruit
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis' suggestion to young people to ask themselves "For who am I?" (cf. Christus vivit) is the motto of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations and the Day of Native Vocations that the Chur ...
24 April 2021
ASIA - Day of Vocations: the fulcrum of the vocations of the Verbite Missionaries in Asia
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation of the Verbite Missionaries (Society of the Divine Word, SVD), comprising priests and religious brothers, is committed to spreading the Gospel of Christ, the Son of God made man, i ...
24 April 2021
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Day of vocations: the work of the Church to increase the quality of formation in Seminaries
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Priestly vocations in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are increasing more in terms of quality than quantity", explains to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Jacek Tendej CM, Rector of the Holy Sp ...
24 April 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Day of Vocations: despite the economic and social crisis and the pandemic, vocations to the priesthood have increased
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The work of promoting vocations in Venezuela is bearing fruit. This year, despite the full social and economic crisis that the country is going through, aggravated by the pandemic situation caus ...
24 April 2021
AFRICA - Day of Vocations: for the Comboni Missionaries "good witness is contagious"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is a continent of hope as regards to vocations to the consecrated Comboni missionary life. It is a moment of blessing as it was for Europe after the Second World War", said Fr. Elias Essogn ...
24 April 2021
VATICAN - Day of Vocations and Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle: today mission calls everywhere
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which has now become a traditional appointment in the Church, was established by Pope Paul VI and officially celebrated for the first time on Sunday ...
24 April 2021
VATICAN - World Day of Prayer for Vocations: increases in Africa and Asia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "World Day of Prayer for Vocations" is celebrated on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, this year on April 25, which is known as "the Sunday of the Good Shepherd", as in the Eucharistic litur ...
24 April 2021
NEWS ANALYSIS - Vocation Day: In Bangladesh Catholic families foster priesthood vocation
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangladesh, as many as 26 deacons were ordained AS priests in 2020. It is the highest number ever recorded in the history of the country. There is an important role of Catholic families in orde ...
24 April 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of Vocations: the missionary vocation continues to attract young people who join the Missionaries of Yarumal
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Institute for Foreign Missions of Yarumal (MXY) was founded in 1927 in Yarumal, a town in the diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, for evangelization and missionary work. "Our missionaries are curr ...
22 April 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Commitment of the Church and the UN Food Program to ensure school meals for one and a half million children
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Venezuela and the World Food Program, the United Nations World Food Program, will work together to ensure school meals for one and a half million children. This is what emerged fro ...
22 April 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Belief in witchcraft in Africa: Symposium deals with the widespread phenomenon
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Witchcraft is a widespread reality in Africa and it undermines our coexistence. We, as the Institute for Theological Education, are interested in considering the realities around us and reflect ...
22 April 2021
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - After thirty years of war, the Church leads the arduous path of reconciliation
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church played a key role in consolidating peace and democracy, even during the war. Christians, along with leaders of other religions, were at the forefront, including through the Interrel ...
22 April 2021
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Food security in times of the pandemic: Catholic congregations set up “community pantries”
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of the growing scenario of Covid-19 and its negative impact on poverty, food security and employment, the Church in the Philippines has launched the initiative of "community pantries ...
22 April 2021
AMERICA / CHILE - "Schools closed, but the mission continues even amidst difficulties": the commitment of the Salesians in times of pandemic
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Covid-19 does not stop its race in Chile and in recent months the situation has significantly worsened: although 40% of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, the infect ...
22 April 2021
ASIA/INDIA - Churches close, but not faith and charity: Christians face second wave of Covid-19
Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Churches are temporarily closing due to the second wave of Covid-19, but not faith, hope and charity among Indian Christians: as Agenzia Fides learned, with the increase in cases of Covid-19 in I ...
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