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8 January 2024
VATICAN -The Pope: “The ‘third world war in pieces’ is increasingly turning into a real global conflict”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "third world war in pieces" is turning into a "real global conflict", warns Pope Francis in his address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. Referring to his oft-stated c ...
8 January 2024
Diplomacy and mission of the Church: This is why the Pope speaks to the Ambassadors
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The speech that the Bishop of Rome addresses every year to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See is not just an expression of the current Pope's "personal opinion" o ...
5 January 2024
VATICAN - “Christus in martyre est”. The light of hope lit by the martyrs continues to illuminate the path of the Church
by Stefano Lodigiani
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the earliest times, Christian communities buried with due honor those who had borne witness to the faith to the point of giving their lives. Christians very so ...
4 January 2024
VATICAN - Pope Francis to the Fraternité missionnaire des Cités: revive the missionary zeal of the early Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel of Christ is announced to the poor first, and the Nativity scene itself is the sign of this predilection. Pope Francis recalled this in the speech prepared for the meeting with a ...
30 December 2023
"You do not go to Heaven alone." The life of self-sacrifice of witnesses to the faith, for the salvation of all
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the year that is about to end, at least twenty Catholic missionaries, and pastoral care workers were killed.
And also at the end of this year, like every year, Agenzia Fid ...
30 December 2023
VATICAN - Missionaries and pastoral care workers killed in 2023
Dossier edited by Stefano Lodigiani
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 20 missionaries were killed in the world in 2023: 1 Bishop, 8 priests, 2 non-religious men, 1 semi ...
20 December 2023
VATICAN - Pope Francis: Before the Nativity scene what counts is amazement
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before the Nativity scene, which remembers the mystery of the birth of Jesus, what counts is amazement. It is not enough to look at the Nativity scene as a "beautiful thing" or as a histori ...
14 December 2023
VATICAN - Russian Ambassador Soltanovsky: Holy See is “independent actor with global outreach and importance”
By Victor Gaetan*
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky presented his credentials to Pope Francis on September 18, 2023 as the third ambassador to the Holy See from the Russian Federation. He also repres ...
13 December 2023
VATICAN - Pope Francis: Proclamation and witness of the Gospel arise from the grace of Baptism
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The grace of baptism opens the "ears and mouth" of the one who receives it, freeing them from deafness to the calls of God and from closed mutism towards brothers and sisters. Thus, the proclamatio ...
7 December 2023
VATICAN - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle emerged from Jeanne Bigard's prophetic intuition
by Elena Grazini
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - She dedicated her life to promoting and accompanying priestly vocations in mission countries. This is the story of Jeanne Bigard (see Fides, 14/4/2021), foundress of the ...
6 December 2023
VATICAN - Pope Francis: the Church does not proclaim herself and the Holy Spirit is the protagonist of the mission
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation must take place "in the Holy Spirit", said Pope Francis, who at today's general audience continues the cycle of catechesis dedicated to the joy of the proclamation of the Gospel. A ...
29 November 2023
VATICAN - Pope Francis: Christ's salvation is announced only in today's world, as it is
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel does not mean "standing on a balcony and shouting out Jesus’ name, but rather going down onto the streets, going to the places where one lives, frequenting the spac ...
24 November 2023
Ten years of EVANGELII GAUDIUM (Part 4). The mission, the "sensus fidei" of the People of God and popular piety
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven - as the Gospel of Mark - his disciples "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the Word thr ...
23 November 2023
Ten years of EVANGELII GAUDIUM (part 3) - "The whole people of God proclaims the Gospel". The Church as a missionary people
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The salvation that God offers us and that the Church proclaims, says the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium - "is the work of his mercy. No human efforts, however good they ...
22 November 2023
VATICAN - The formation course “Evangelii Gaudium 2023” is coming to an end: with a view to the present and the future
Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary formation course, focused on the contents of the Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium”, organized jointly by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), the International Cente ...
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