During Sunday's Angelus, the pope recalled that it was World Mission Day and asked for prayers for those who left their homelands to bring Christianity to other places.<\/p>\n
He also said that all Christians, wherever they are, must give positive testimony to their life of faith.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS The pope asked for prayers for missionaries and recalled that on Saturday, Alfredo Cremonesi, a missionary martyred in Burma in 1953, was beatified in Italy. Pope Francis asked for applause for him.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Hundreds of Peruvians that live in Rome carried the image of the Christ of Miracles in procession to St. Peter's Square.<\/p>\n The pope thanked them and asked that although they are far from home, that they preserve the faith and traditions of their people.<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal<\/p>\n Translated: Rachel Dobrzynski<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 21, 2019. During World Mission Day, the pope recalled that all Christians should bear witness to their faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vdKoAreWpSU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2010eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2010int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Believers are called to carry everywhere, with new impetus, the good news that in Jesus mercy overcomes sin, hope overcomes fear, fraternity overcomes hostility.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>May his example lead us to be workers in brotherhood and courageous missionaries in every environment.<\/em><\/p>\n