A total of 3,176,620 faithful participated in audiences and liturgical celebrations organized at the Vatican in 2025according to data published this Tuesday by the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household, which includes general and jubilee audiences, special audiences, liturgical celebrations and the recitation of the Angelus.
Concretely, between January and April, during the pontificate of Pope Francis, 262,820 faithful were counted: 60,500 during the eight general and jubilee audiences, 10,320 during the special audiences, 62,000 during the liturgical celebrations and 130,000 during the Angelus prayers, according to the official Vatican website. Vatican News.
The calculation takes into account what happened until February 14, the date of Francis’ hospitalization at the Gemelli Polyclinic and the subsequent suspension of audiences (the last general audience of the Argentine Pontiff took place on February 12).
In addition, since the election of Pope Leo XIV until the end of the year, there have been a total of 2,913,800 faithful. Concretely, there were 1,069,000 participations in the 36 general and jubilee audiences, 148,300 in the special audiences, 796,500 in the liturgical celebrations and 900,000 in the Angelus prayers.
The month of December was the month with the highest number of attendance at Marian prayer, with nearly 250,000 participants, while In October the climax was reached in the two liturgical celebrations (around 200,000 spectators) and in the general and jubilee public (around 295,000).
17 mission kills
On the other hand, a total of 17 missionaries (priests, nuns, seminarians and lay people) were murdered in different parts of the world in 2025, according to the annual report that Agenzia Fides publishes at the end of the year.
He The African continent once again records the highest number of murderswith ten pastoral agents killed throughout the year (6 priests, 2 seminarians and 2 catechists). Nigeria was the hardest hit country, followed by Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Sudan.
In America, four victims were countedamong them, two nuns murdered in Haiti, a priest murdered in Mexico and a priest of Indian origin murdered in the United States. In Asia, two priests were murdered (one in Myanmar and the other in the Philippines), while in Europe, a priest was murdered in Poland.
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