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19 October 2020
VATICAN - After the Angelus, Pope Francis recalls the missionaries "who sow the Gospel in the great field of the world"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Marian Angelus prayer, the Holy Father yesterday recalled the celebration of Mission Sunday with these words: "Today we celebrate World Mission Day, which has the theme “Here I ...
19 October 2020
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Joint projects for interreligious dialogue within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between Vatican-Kazakhstan
Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Kazakh Center for the Development of Interfaith and Inter-civil Dialogue 'Nursultan Nazarbayev' (NJSC) have signed a Memorandum of Under ...
19 October 2020
AFRICA/GUINEA - Tense presidential election results
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the first round of the presidential election on October 18th is expected, in an atmosphere of tension. The two main candidates are outgoing President Alpha Condé, and Cellou Dale ...
17 October 2020
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Missionaries: give hope amid conflicts, pandemics, poverty, natural disasters
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The peace process continues, but very slowly. The appointment of the regional governors, after the formation of the national transitional government, was a very significant step forward that can b ...
17 October 2020
EUROPE/ENGLAND - Towards Mission Sunday: from climate crisis to conflicts in the world, it is more important than ever to be a light in the darkness
London (Agenzia Fides) - On World Mission Day 2020 - the one time in the whole year when the global Church comes together in celebration and support of mission - the Pontifical Mission Societies of England and Wales (Mis ...
17 October 2020
NEWS ANALYSIS - Challenges to the evangelizing mission in Africa, at the time of Covid-19
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The fundamental dynamic of the mission, which is to announce the Good News of salvation: starting from this awareness, the Catholic communities in Africa will have to rethink some great perspectiv ...
17 October 2020
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right: the satisfaction of the Church
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador unanimously approved, with 78 votes in favor and no votes against, the reform of the Constitution of the Republic to recognize water as a public good ...
17 October 2020
VATICAN - Video message from Cardinal Tagle: "where the most vulnerable and needy are, there are also the missionaries"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a video message for World Mission Sunday, released by the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States of America, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for th ...
16 October 2020
VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2020
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 94th anniversary on Sunday, October 18, 2020, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
16 October 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - A young priest ordained five months ago found dead
Caratinga (Agenzia Fides) - "The Diocese of Caratinga informs with great regret the death of Fr. Adriano da Silva Barros, parish vicar of São Simão parish, in Simonésia, MG. Fr. Adriano had disappeared in the early af ...
16 October 2020
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Catholic schools: tools for evangelization and human development, in partnership with the government
Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic educational institutes in Malaysia are authentic and precious means of evangelization, human development and personal growth: this is what was stated by Archbishop Simon Peter Poh Hoon ...
16 October 2020
AMERICA/HONDURAS - The National Director of the PMS: "It is important to make the link between charity and evangelization known"
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is great joy and enthusiasm in all diocesan Missions Directions for missionary October. This is a great opportunity to invite all the baptized to become aware of their vocation and th ...
16 October 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches present their proposal concerning the bill on the family to the Egyptian government
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives in charge of the Churches and ecclesial communities present in Egypt have presented to the Egyptian political authorities a unitary proposal concerning the bill on personal sta ...
16 October 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Archbishop Kouadio launches an appeal for evangelization, on the eve of Mission Sunday
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church exists to evangelize and this mission is of a Divine nature; By virtue of this precept, the whole Church in all its components, priests, men and women religious and lay faithful, are ...
16 October 2020
VATICAN - World Mission Day: mission challenges every baptized person, called to give a concrete answer
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of World Mission Day "is a source of joy for the universal Church, even if within the local Churches it will be celebrated in a different way this year, due to the particula ...
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