The Pope sent out his first twitter message at the end of his general audience on Wednesday, 12 December 2012. To underscore the universality of the gesture, he was flanked by 5 children representing the world’s continents.Immediately after blessing the crowd the Pope pressed a tablet screen and sent out the message: “Dear friends, I… Read more »
To make missionary work known to everyone via the press and to incite collaboration with the missions through vocations, spiritual solidarity and economic means: this is the purpose Fides New Agency, established by the Pontifical Office for the Propagation of the Faith in 1927. Fides is an important center of information concerning the Church’s missionaries… Read more »
Promulgated on 4 December 1963, Vatican Council II’s Decree Inter Mirifica sets forth important principles concerning the relationship between the Church and the means of communication, starting with the fact that the Church has a right to use these means for her ministry and that she must ensure that they are used according her moral… Read more »
The Fifth Mother Teresa International Award for Social Justice was conferred this year on Sima Samar, the former vice-president of Afghanistan, and on Mala Yousufzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for defending the rights of women. In bestowing the award, Abraham Mathai, president of the Harmony Foundation, which organizes this annual… Read more »
In his message for the next World Youth Day, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 23-28 July 2013 on the theme, Go and make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:19), Pope Benedict XVI invites young people to be the first missionaries among their contemporaries, in particular in the world of the… Read more »
