Vatican

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  22 March 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to professors in mission Seminars: "Today the Church is in your hands" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the Church is in your hands": this is the what the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni said to 16 priests, professors in the major ...
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  14 March 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: the reform of the Church to transform it into a missionary sense Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us not forget that it is the Holy Spirit, dominum et vivificantem, the agent that incessantly moves the Church to a permanent purification and reformation of itself, so that it goes ah ...
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  7 March 2018
  VATICAN - Condolences on behalf of the Missionary Dicastery for the sudden death of the Archbishop of Hochiminh-ville, Msgr. Paul Bui Van Doc Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, together with Secretary, Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, and Adjunct Secretary and President of the Pon ...
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  19 February 2018
  VATICAN - Press release of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the Diocese of Ahiara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has today released the following statement. "The Holy Father, after having accepted the resignation of His Excellency, the Most Rev. Peter ...
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  31 January 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Parolin, “Why we are in dialogue with China” We publish the interview with Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin launched today on Vatican Insider, a religious information website of the Italian daily La Stampa Interview with the Secretary of St ...
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  5 January 2018
  VATICAN - Missionary Childhood Day: "Children are the present of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Children are our present rather than the future: it is in our care to make them experience the joy, prayer and sharing even in difficulties. And with a truly universal spirit: I would like ...
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  28 December 2017
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in 2017 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2017, 23 Catholic pastoral care workers were killed worldwide: 13 priests, 1 religious brother, 1 religious sister, 8 lay persons. For the eighth consecutive year, the place mo ...
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  15 December 2017
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: "Mission is the thermometer of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When announcing the Kingdom of God, Jesus recalls that the Kingdom belongs to God: as Benedict XVI observes in his trilogy about Jesus, it is about a subjective genitive. The Kingdom does ...
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  4 December 2017
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the proclamation of the Gospel is not "proselytism". Only the Holy Spirit "attracts" and converts hearts Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel "is not making proselytism". The Church grows "for attraction". And to exercise the attraction that can change and convert hearts are not our "apologetic explanations ...
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  10 November 2017
  VATICAN - The martyrdom of Italian missionary Sr. Leonella Sgorbati has been recognized Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Our founder, Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, encouraged us to be at the service of the mission at the cost of life, and the recognition of Sister Leonella's martyrdom is a new impulse for us to live mi ...
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  9 November 2017
  VATICAN - Appointment of the Secretary and Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Protase Rugambwa, Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of Kigoma, until now Secretary of the same Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Pres ...
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  23 October 2017
  VATICAN - Extraordinary Missionary Month "May we be open to the joyful newness of the Gospel" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today World Mission Day is celebrated, on the theme 'Mission at the Heart of the Church'. I urge everyone to live the joy of mission by witnessing the Gospel in the environs where each one ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the presentation of World Mission Day: "the first evangelizer is Christ himself" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The first evangelizer is Christ himself". Jesus "does not abandon the missionary nature of the Church", but "remains present" in the apostolic work accomplished by his disciples, which is not "a t ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - The Cloister is mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Teresa of Lisieux wanted 'to be love in the heart of the Church'. Today cloistered nuns are like a heart pumping blood, that is, the charity of Christ, to the entire bod ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - Dossier for World Mission Day: the number of Catholics in the world is increasing Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics in the world is increasing: almost one billion and 300 million, 17.7% of the world's population. According to figures from the Church’s Book o ...