Vatican

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  26 May 2020
  VATICAN - PMS Covid emergency Fund sends support to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, South Africa, Liberia, Botswana and Morocco Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Through the Emergency Fund established by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support local churches in mission countries (see Fides, 6/4/2020), contributions have alr ...
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  25 May 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis entrusts Pastors and faithful of the Catholic Church in China to Our Lady Help of Christians Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Regina Caeli prayer from the Library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father yesterday remembered the "World Day of Prayer for the Church in China" with these words: "Dea ...
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  22 May 2020
  VATICAN - Message of the Holy Father to the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Below is the full text of the Pope's Message to the Pontifical Mission Societies sent on May 21, feast of the Ascension of the Lord. When they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, ...
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  18 May 2020
  VATICAN - The missionary anxiety of Saint John Paul II, "Pastor close to the people" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - While World Mission Day was celebrated around the world, on Sunday 22 October 1978, the new Pope, John Paul II, began his ministry as universal Pastor in St. Peter's Square with a vigorous ...
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  12 May 2020
  VATICAN - In times of pandemic, "the missionary creativity of animators and children" and aid from the Special Fund of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI), or Missionary Childhood (POIM), has never stopped intervening in the communities of mission countries. In particular in this period, in ...
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  6 May 2020
  VATICAN - COVID 19: Caritas Internationalis joins Pope Francis' request for the promotion of a 'global creative solidarity' Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are aware that we are facing an atypical emergency in which the countries that are normally among the largest donors are the most affected by the virus", said Secretary General of Carit ...
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  27 April 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis invites to pray the Rosary: "Our Mother will help us overcome this trial" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of May will begin in a few days, dedicated in a particular way to the Virgin Mary. With a brief Letter — published yesterday — I invited all the faithful to pray the Holy Ros ...
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  17 April 2020
  VATICAN - The mission of the Church at the service of the most vulnerable and of the entire human family: a visible sign of the solidarity of the universal Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Internationalis is in the Commission for Covid-19 wanted by Pope Francis and, together with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD), will coordinate the first ...
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  10 April 2020
  VATICAN - The Good Friday Holy Land Collection postponed to 13 September Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis postponed the traditional Good Friday collection for the Holy Land to Sunday 13 September, 2020, on the eve of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. As the statement from ...
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  8 April 2020
  VATICAN - President of the PMS: the Emergency Fund, a sign of the Pope's care for the young Churches affected by the pandemic Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "For almost a century, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) have been an instrument of the Pope for the benefit of the Churches in mission territories. We know that there is an impact of ...
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  6 April 2020
  VATICAN - An emergency fund established by the Pope at the Pontifical Mission Societies for Covid-19 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has established an emergency fund at the Pontifical Mission Societies, in order to come to the aid of those people and communities who are being tragically impacted by the s ...
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  4 April 2020
  VATICAN - Covid-19, Caritas Internationalis to governments: "Do not forget the poor, migrants, peoples victims of wars" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not forget the South of the world, migrants and refugees, continue to help countries facing war and poverty" is the invitation that Caritas Internationalis (CI) has addressed to governm ...
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  1 April 2020
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle for global truce: Covid-19 emergency "can be an occasion for peace and reconciliation" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The appeal of the Secretary General of the United Nations for a global ceasefire is needed and opportune. That Pope Francis supported and repeated it makes the appeal truly prophetic. The ...
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  30 March 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis re-launches the UN appeal: all conflicts should stop in the face of the pandemic Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The planetary emergency of the coronavirus pandemic, "which knows no borders", makes more urgent than ever a "global and immediate ceasefire in all corners of the world". This is the appeal launche ...
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  23 March 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis invites to respond to the pandemic of the virus "with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To the pandemic caused by the virus, we want to respond with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness", invited Pope Francis at the end of the Angelus yesterday, Sunday 22 ...