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Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- Feb 21, 2018
The Catholic Church in China registered 48,556 baptisms in 2017, reflecting the vitality and missionary strength of the Catholic communities there, according to a report by Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Vatican agency says at least 23 church workers killed in 2017
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Dec 28, 2017
Fides said 23 people working for the church worldwide — 13 priests, one religious brother, one religious sister and eight lay persons — died violent deaths in 2017; that number was down from 28 people killed in 2016.
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Latest numbers confirm global south as new Catholic center of gravity
- Global Church
- Oct 22, 2017
New Catholic population numbers released in advance of today’s 91st World Mission Day confirm that the southern hemisphere, containing most of the so-called “developing world,” has become the new demographic center of gravity of the Church. Today more than two-thirds of all Catholics live outside the West, and that share is growing all the time.
READ MOREDebunking three myths about anti-Christian violence
- Church
- Jan 4, 2015
ROME — At the end of every December, the Vatican’s missionary agency Fides puts out a list of Catholic pastoral workers killed in the line of duty during the past year. It’s not a complete index of anti-Christian violence, just clergy and laity murdered while working full-time for the Catholic
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