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Fides News Agency (Fides) was created on 5 June, 1927, by order of the Council Superior General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, as the first Missionary Agency of the Church and among the first agencies in the world, at the service of informing and promoting missionary activity. The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, at the Assembly of its Supreme Council in April 1927, decided to establish Fides “to raise awareness of missions” to the People of God via the press, with the intention to arouse missionary cooperation through vocations, spiritual communion and material resources. Fides was therefore to provide current news and images not only for publication in missionary magazines, but also for other press in all countries. Tasks entrusted to the Agency were also to prepare studies on the situation of missions and on religious and social matters in the mission territories. The Congregation “de Propaganda Fide” approved the decision and gave

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