(OSV News) — Amid wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, this year’s World Mission Sunday is “even more important” than ever, said an executive from the U.S. offices of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

Pope Francis leads an audience with members of Fidesco at the Vatican March 20, 2021. Fidesco is a Catholic organization that recruits and deploys people for missionary and development work. (Credit: ...

Pope Francis arrives for an audience with members of Fidesco at the Vatican March 20, 2021. Fidesco is a Catholic organization that recruits and deploys people for missionary and development work.

A quarant’anni dalla fondazione, la FIDESCO conta 150 volontari (dati del 2017) inviati in Africa a collaborare per progetti di sviluppo. A loro Papa Francesco chiede di “conservare lo stupore del ...

“Vorrei ringraziare Fidesco, i suoi responsabili, i suoi volontari, e ringraziare il Signore per il lavoro svolto in questi quarant’anni di servizio missionario, come pure per la testimonianza resa a ...

Città del Vaticano , sabato, 20. marzo, 2021 13:30 (ACI Stampa). A quarant’anni dalla fondazione, la FIDESCO conta 150 volontari (dati del 2017) inviati in Africa a collaborare per progetti di ...

Denis Jacques Leblond, age 57 (28 for a few decades now), returned to the Father on January 27, 2014. He was born in Boulogne Billancourt, France, on April 11 to the late Maurice and Jacqueline ...

An element of terror lingers in their voices when Haitians refer to the epic earthquake as "Gudugudu. Gudugudu. Gudugudu." Haitian nun Sister Marie Yannick says it is ...

Thirty-year-old Heather Quinlan will soon be leaving her home in California to spend a year in Rwanda serving as a mentor and English teacher at a Catholic boarding school for girls ages 11 to 19. "It ...

As kids across the country head back to school, four recent college grads are preparing to take off for new lives in the missions. They are being sent by Fidesco, a 30-year-old Paris-based Catholic ...