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Vatican reports ‘crisis of vocations’ as numbers fall worldwide

2018-06-16
By: Matters India
On: June 16, 2018
In: Religious

The number of seminarians has fallen amid what a Vatican document calls a “crisis of vocations”. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of men in seminary training for the priesthood fell by nearly 4,000, to 116,160. The decline has been especially concentrated in the Americas and Europe. In Africa seminaryContinue Reading

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