Vienna (Agenzia Fides) October 18, 2009, Austria will also be celebrating World Mission Sunday. In all the parishes of the Austrian Dioceses, the faithful are called to pray and offer a contribution to the meeds of their most needy brothers

And Pope Benedict XVI wrote recently that "integral human development presupposes the responsible freedom of the individual and of peoples" (Caritas in veritate, no. 17). Such authentic human development can be achieved only by assuming a shared responsibility for one

Rome (Agenzia Fides) On the occasion of the 83rd World Mission Sunday (WMS), which will be celebrated this Sunday, October 18, Missio, the foundation within the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) for missionary ministries, is encouraging all parish communities and Catholic

The Church of the 21st Century feels the urgent need for Christ's love to reach every heart, especially the poor, those who suffer, and the marginalized." This is what the Archbishop of Madrid and President of the Spanish Bishops' Conference,

Fr. Sinnott is a man of peace. We ask that his abductors may release him soon and treat him with compassion, given his precarious health conditions," Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar of Pagadian told Agenzia Fides in a recent conversation, shortly after