Pope Francis has urged his cardinals "to find new ways to bring evangelisation to the ends of the Earth".

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"This is not what this county or country needs, " said the Mr Bessant, who is director of Mission and Evangelisation for the Diocese of Blackburn.

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More than 200 Catholic Bishops from around the world are due to arrive in Rome shortly for a three-week conference on how to check the falling away from the faith of millions of European Catholics and how to inspire a new evangelisation.

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