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MISSIONARIES AND PASTORAL WORKERS KILLED IN 2024

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – «We can ask them: “How did you manage to survive such trials?” And they will tell us what we heard in this passage from the Second Letter to the Corinthians: “God is the ...
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VATICAN - On January 6, 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Congregation “de Propaganda Fide” for the reunification of Christians and the spread of the faith

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Four hundred years ago, on the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, on January 6, 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Sacred Congregation "de Propaganda Fide" as the ...
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AFRICA/NIGERIA - The parish priest of St. Michael's Church in Umuekebi, Imo State kidnapped

Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest, Father Kingsley Eze, has been kidnapped in Nigeria. The parish priest of St. Michael Church of Umuekebi in Osuoweerre Autonomous Community in Isiala ...
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ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop Gomes: "The Rohingya crisis is growing more severe as international aid continues to decline"

Dhaka (Fides News Agency) – "The situation facing the Rohingya is extremely difficult. International funding is decreasing day by day, and some non-governmental organizations have been forced to ...
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ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Church celebrates the month of martyrs in September

Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "God has chosen his people on this earth to accept the Gospel and to flourish in faith. Let us entrust ourselves to the intercession of the blessed martyrs so that we may ...
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AMERICA - 40 years after the Beagle conflict: when the Holy See managed to avoid war between Chile and Argentina

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The confrontation seemed inevitable. Chile and Argentina were on the brink of war over sovereignty of the Beagle Channel, a strategic passage between the Atlantic and ...
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VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV: "My priority is that of seeking the re-establishment of full and visible communion among Christians"

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I seek the re-establishment of full and visible communion among all those who profess the same faith in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit," as well as ...
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The Pope to the Pontifical Mission Societies: Let us walk together in an “ongoing missionary conversion”

Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – The urgency of embracing an ongoing “missionary conversion” was at the heart of the address Pope Leo XIV delivered in English to the participants in the General ...
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VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2018

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 92nd anniversary on Sunday, October 21, 2018, Fides News Service offers some statistics ...
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ASIA/VIETNAM - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification opens for two missionary bishops

Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of the two bishops François Pallu (MEP) (1626-1684) and Pierre Lambert de La Motte (MEP) (1624 - 1679), the first missionaries sent to the Far East, is precious ...
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AFRICA/DR CONGO - A declaration of principles was signed in Doha between the Congolese government and the M23 to end the war

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23/Congo River Alliance (AFC) guerrillas signed a declaration of principles on July 19 in Doha, Qatar, to end ...
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AMERICA/HAITI - A young aspiring priest killed by a drone; concern for the fate of a priest involved in prison ministry a month after his abduction

Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A young man who had begun his journey to become a priest was killed by a kamikaze drone used by the police. According to the Haitian newspaper PouSiOupaTKonnen, ...