Vatican

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  11 April 2022
  VATICAN - Two missionary Bishops in Peru and Zambia recognized as "Venerables" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the audience granted on April 9 to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Holy Father Francis authorized the Congregation to promulgate some decree ...
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  2 April 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Canadian indigenous peoples: the Christian faith cannot be transmitted in a way contrary to the faith itself Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christian faith cannot be confessed, witnessed and communicated to others with methods and tools that are foreign and contrary to the dynamics of the faith itself. Pope Francis repeated this in h ...
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  31 March 2022
  VATICAN - Patronal feast of the Pontifical Urbaniana University: "The art of global aspiration to fraternity" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The long period of crisis of the pandemic has deprived us of many things, the value of which appeared precious to us precisely because they were withheld from us. We were not able to cele ...
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  24 March 2022
  VATICAN - Catechist Martyrs: stories that deserve to be recognized Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For three decades, March 24, the day of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, canonized on October 14, 2018, the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies have proposed a "Day of ...
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  14 March 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "In the name of God, I ask you: stop this massacre!" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers and sisters, we have just prayed to the Virgin Mary. This weekend, the city that bears her name, Mariupol, has become a city martyred by the ruinous war that is devastating Ukrain ...
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  9 March 2022
  VATICAN - "A path accessible to all, that of ordinary holiness": Pope Francis to the participants in the conference on Women Doctors of the Church and Patronesses of Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "A path accessible to all, that of ordinary holiness", said Pope Francis in the message addressed to the participants of the International Interuniversity Conference on Women Doctors of the Church ...
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  8 March 2022
  VATICAN - "Caritas Celebrating Women": promoting female leadership Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Increasing visibility and giving space to the voice of women allows us to see how society and the Church flourish when all the people of God are able to contribute their gifts and skills i ...
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  7 March 2022
  VATICAN - Restoration work at St. Peter's College and new names for Cardinals and former missionaries Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Taking care of students and giving them all the necessary material, cultural and spiritual support: it is for this purpose that at St. Peter's College, an institute dependent on the Congre ...
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  16 February 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis remembers Father Richard, killed in Congo on February 2, during his general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, greeting the religious of the Order of Clerics Regular Minor, the Holy Father Francis said: "I am thinking of your young confrere, Father Richard, fr ...
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  12 February 2022
  VATICAN - Korea and its young missionaries among the themes of the latest POSI bulletin scheduled for the 2022 celebrations Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - In 1965 the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) was officially founded in Korea and has been operating at full capacity since 1987, giving life to an ever more dynamic and growing re ...
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  10 February 2022
  VATICAN - Service to the sick, an integral part of the Church's evangelizing mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church which, following the example of Christ, has always felt over the centuries the duty of service towards the sick and suffering as an integral part of her mission, is aware that i ...
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  28 January 2022
  VATICAN - World Leprosy Day: A total of 532 facilities for leprosy patients worldwide run by the Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest "Statistical Yearbook of the Church", the Catholic Church operates 532 institutions for lepers worldwide, of which 201 are in Africa, 201, 41 in America, 269 in Asia ...
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  22 January 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector upon lay men and women from different continents Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Sunday of the Word of God January 23 is observed annually on the third Sunday of Ordinary Time, ever since Pope Francis established this celebration on 30 September 2019. Pope Francis ...
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  17 January 2022
  VATICAN - Like the Magi, in search of the light that will overcome the darkness of these difficult times Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From January 18 to 25, 2022 the usual "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" will be celebrated, as Pope Francis reminded us at the Angelus yesterday, Sunday January 16. "This year’s propos ...
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  14 January 2022
  VATICAN - Blessed Paolo Manna and the Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies, was founded by Blessed Father Paolo Manna and recognized by Pope Benedict XV on October 31, 1916 with th ...