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Vatican to Gradually Defund Some Mission Territories

Jan 23, 2021

Earlier this month the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples sent a letter to the bishops of some 1,100 Catholic territories and announced the gradual reduction of the financial support they regularly receive from the Vatican.

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