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Missionaries

Pope Francis prays during a memorial Mass for deceased cardinals and bishops in this file photo from Nov. 4, 2024. According to Fides, the news agency of the Pontifical Mission Societies, eight priests and five laymen were killed around the world in 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez).

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Vatican says 13 missionaries were killed in 2024

Cindy Wooden|Dec 30, 2024|3 Min Read

Persecution

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Vatican report: 20 Catholic missionaries killed in 2023

Joe Bukuras|Jan 2, 2024|3 Min Read

A banner honoring Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini is seen as Pope Benedict XVI leads the Angelus at the Vatican in this Jan. 17, 2010, file photo. On Oct. 9, 2022, Pope Francis will canonize Bishop Scalabrini, who founded separate missionary orders of men and women in the 1880s to provide for the pastoral needs of large numbers of Italian emigrants. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Faith

Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist

Cindy Wooden|Oct 4, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis greets Kiko Argüello, co-founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, during an audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican June 27, 2022. The movement was preparing to send priests and 450 families on evangelization missions to every continent. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope sends 450 families of Neocatechumenal Way as missionaries

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jun 27, 2022|2 Min Read

Barnabite Father Giovanni Scalese holds a baggage trolley, right, as he arrives with five Missionaries of Charity nuns at Rome's Fiumicino airport Aug. 25, 2021, after the group was evacuated from Afghanistan. Father Scalese, who was head of the sole Catholic mission in Afghanistan, told the Vatican newspaper that now is a time of waiting for God to indicate a new path for the missionary church in Afghanistan. (CNS photo/ANSA)

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Forced to flee Afghanistan, Catholic mission waits to start a 'new page'

Carol Glatz|Oct 13, 2021|4 Min Read

A young woman outside a church in Rajaf, South Sudan. (CNS/Matthieu Alexandre, Caritas Internationalis)

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Africa bishop attack shows complexity of missionary appointments

Elise Ann Allen|May 11, 2021|5 Min Read

Fr. Pedro Opeka. (Anne Aubert/Amici di Padre Pedro, Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 via CNA)

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Catholic missionary priest nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Courtney Mares|Feb 11, 2021|3 Min Read

The funeral Mass of Michael Nnadi at Good Shepherd Seminary in Kaduna, Nigeria, Feb. 11, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Maiduguri via CNA)

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Twenty Catholic missionaries killed worldwide in 2020

Catholic News Agency|Dec 30, 2020|3 Min Read

Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, is pictured in a file photo baptizing a child in Bomoanga, Niger. Father Maccalli, a 59-year-old native of Crema, Italy, and and three other hostages were released in Mali after being kidnapped more than two years. (CNS photo/Raffaella Russitto, courtesy Society of African Missions)

Faith

Freed missionary priest recounts harrowing tale of kidnapping

Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 15, 2020|4 Min Read

Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, is pictured in a file photo with a child in Bomoanga, Niger. Father Maccalli, a 59-year-old native of Crema, Italy, and and three other hostages were released in Mali after being kidnapped more than two years. (CNS photo/Raffaella Russitto, courtesy Society of African Missions)

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Town rejoices as Italian missionary, other hostages freed in Mali

Cindy Wooden|Oct 9, 2020|3 Min Read

(Image via CNA)

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Pope Francis says missions should facilitate encounter with Christ, not complicate it

Hannah Brockhaus|May 21, 2020|4 Min Read

Staff and volunteers together at an Angels of Charity and Music mission in Peru. (Angels of Charity and Music)

LA-based mission brings music and medicine beyond borders

R.W. Dellinger|Feb 19, 2020|7 Min Read

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