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Germany now a ‘mission country,’ Bishop Bätzing says amid declining Catholic numbers

May 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 20

Bishop Georg Bätzing addresses journalists on Sept. 28, 2023. / Credit: Martin Rothweiler/EWTN Germany

CNA Newsroom, May 14, 2024 / 09:32 am (CNA).
The German Bishops’ Conference president has called Germany — a nation whose very history is ent… […]

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Cause for canonization opened for young Polish lay missionary killed in Bolivia

April 19, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Krakow announced on April 14, 2024, the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murdered in Bolivia in 2017. / Credit: The Helena Kmiec Fo… […]

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Catholics prepare to converge in St. Louis for SEEK24: Here’s what to expect

December 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Mass at SEEK23. / Credit: FOCUS SEEK23

St. Louis, Mo., Dec 28, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
More than 18,000 people from across the country have signed up to attend the SEEK24 Catholic conference, which promises to bring a vibrantly Catholic presence… […]

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Salesian priest stabbed to death in Democratic Republic of the Congo

December 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Léopold Feyen. / Credit: ANS

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 15, 2023 / 18:45 pm (CNA).
The Salesian News Agency (ANS) reported the murder of Salesian missionary Father Léopold Feyen in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo… […]

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Teresita: The Spanish 10-year-old who became a missionary

March 9, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

Madrid, Spain, Mar 9, 2021 / 08:54 pm (CNA).- A 10-year-old girl in Spain fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a Catholic missionary from her hospital bed shortly before dying from a brain tumor this week.Teresita Castillo de Diego died March 7 in… […]

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