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  • Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

    Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

    • Dec 31, 2020

    Attacked because of their faith, killed in a robbery, murdered in a general climate of violence or struck down by someone with obvious mental difficulties, the 20 missionaries who died violent deaths in 2020 were witnesses of the Gospel, said Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news agency.

    By Cindy Wooden
  • Experts say formal Vatican-China ties are a distant hope

    Experts say formal Vatican-China ties are a distant hope

    • Dec 10, 2019

    Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, raised eyebrows this weekend when he said the next step for the Vatican and China would be to establish formal diplomatic relations and spoke of a possible future papal trip, yet experts say official ties are still a long way off.

    By Elise Harris
  • If Church does not evangelize, it will decay, pope says

    If Church does not evangelize, it will decay, pope says

    • Nov 4, 2019

    The Catholic Church must follow Jesus’ command to preach the Gospel to every person, otherwise it will not fulfill its mission of bearing witness to Christ, Pope Francis said.

    By Junno Arocho Esteves
  • Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency

    Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency

    • 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.

    By Wyatt Noble
  • Vatican agency says at least 23 church workers killed in 2017

    Vatican agency says at least 23 church workers killed in 2017

    • 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.

    By Carol Glatz
  • Latest numbers confirm global south as new Catholic center of gravity

    Latest numbers confirm global south as new Catholic center of gravity

    • 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.

    By Crux Staff
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