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Agenzia Fides is thenews agency of theVatican. It is based in thePalazzo di Propaganda Fide inRome. It is part of theCongregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It was formed on 5 June 1927, as the first missionary news agency of theRoman Catholic Church and was approved byPope Pius XI.
Agenzia Fides started to issue editions in English, French and Polish (latter for a short period) followed by those in Italian (1929), Spanish (1930), German (1932), Chinese (1998), Portuguese (2002) and Arabic (2008). Since 1998 Fides Service went online with up to five reports daily from non-European events. Its homepage consists of information about statistics andmissionaries killed asmartyrs.
The image archive of the agency includes about 10,000 photographs[1] documenting the history of Catholic missions from the years 1930 to 1990.
In 2011, the directorDavid Niño de Guzmán was found dead. While the official explanation from investigators pointed to suicide, family, friends and co-workers questioned this finding and believed his death was murder.[2]
The current director is Prof. Luca de Mata.[citation needed]
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