Vatican

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  7 October 2019
  VATICAN - The Pope opens the Synod for the Amazon: "do not extinguish the fire of mission" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Rekindling our gift in the fire of the Spirit is the opposite of letting things take their course without doing anything. Fidelity to the newness of the Spirit is a grace that we must ask ...
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  2 October 2019
  VATICAN - The Pope opens the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "to motivate us to be active in doing good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord calls us to make our talents bear fruit, with boldness and creativity. God will ask us if we stepped forward and took risks, even losing face. This extraordinary Missionary Month ...
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  1 October 2019
  VATICAN - "Christ fulfills his mission": the Extraordinary Missionary Month begins Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is first and foremost the work of God himself and is entrusted to the disciples who place Christ at the center of their lives. The Church lives and carries out the mission entruste ...
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  30 September 2019
  VATICAN - "An extraordinary time of missionary activity" begins tomorrow Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "For the month of October 2019 I asked the whole Church to live an extraordinary time of missionary activity to commemorate the centenary of the promulgation of the Apostolic Letter Maximum ...
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  18 September 2019
  VATICAN - Pope Francis will inaugurate the Extraordinary Missionary Month in the Vatican Basilica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, since 1927 proclaimed Patroness of the Missions with Saint Francis Xavier, which traditionally marks the beginning of Missionary October, will ...
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  2 September 2019
  VATICAN - Consistory for 13 new Cardinals: "their origin expresses the missionary vocation of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Angelus Address the Pope yesterday, Sunday, September 1, the Holy Father announced a Consistory for the creation of new Cardinals with these words: "On Oct. 5 I will hold a consis ...
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  12 August 2019
  VATICAN - On the anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the Pope reminds "Everyone is required to observe the limits imposed by international humanitarian law" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Marian prayer of the Angelus, the Holy Father reminded the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square, that today is the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, with these words: ...
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  29 July 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: "The new College in Macau, fruit of apostolic creativity and the desire to be a Church that goes forth" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The new Redemptoris Mater College for Evangelization in Asia, based in Macao, is "the fruit of apostolic creativity that looks to evangelization in that continent and expresses a will of de ...
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  29 July 2019
  VATICAN - The Congregation of “Propaganda Fide” establishes a “Redemptoris Mater” College in Macao for evangelization in Asia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has officially established the Redemptoris Mater College for Evangelization in Asia, based in Macau, entrusting it to the Neocatechumenal ...
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  17 July 2019
  VATICAN - Spiritual motherhood and fatherhood of the missionary animator of children and adolescents of today Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Taking the responsibility of the other and taking care of him/her is the gift of spiritual fatherhood and motherhood that characterize Christianity as faith in the Trinitarian God, which i ...
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  8 July 2019
  VATICAN - Bishop Sheen, announcer of the Gospel on radio and TV, director of the Propagation of the Faith will be blessed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis on July 5 authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate several Decrees, and also authorized a decree recognizing a miracle through the intercession of Ven ...
• 28 June 2019
  VATICAN - Pastoral guidelines of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of clergy in China Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Below is the full text published by the Holy See Press Office on the pastoral guidelines of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of the clergy in China. "For some time reques ...
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  28 June 2019
  VATICAN - The Pope will hand over the Pallium to 31 Metropolitan Archbishops, 13 of the territories of Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the celebration that will preside in the Vatican Basilica for the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Saturday, June 29, the Holy Father Francis will bless and hand over the P ...
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  28 June 2019
  VATICAN - Vocations increase in mission territories, their formation is the responsibility of the whole Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Priestly and religious vocations continue to blossom in the so-called 'mission' countries, as a sign and fruit of the vitality of faith, and these regions are already turning into missiona ...
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  13 June 2019
  VATICAN - The first African American Catholic priest and a PIME missionary among the new venerables Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - American priest Agostino Tolton (1854-1897), the first African American Catholic priest, and the lay religious of PIME Felice Tantardini (1898-1991), a missionary in Myanmar, are among the ...