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 and their activities. Its archives include an enormous volume of data and photographs, including past and present studies on the missions. In fact, the information disseminated by the news agency over the past 8 decades constitutes a rich and accurate font of documentation on evangelization during the birth and development of many young Local Churches.