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5 May 2008
VATICAN - On the Solemnity of the Ascension, Benedict XVI recalls that “Jesus encourages us not to remain looking up at the sky, but to unite ourselves in prayer, invoking the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In His discourses to the disciples, Jesus often insisted on the importance of His ‘return to the Father,’ the crowning of His entire mission. Indeed he came into the world to bring m ...
5 May 2008
VATICAN - Pope tells Italy’s Catholic Action: “May you always know how to live up to the greatness of your Baptism, for the salvation of every man you meet and for a world that thirsts for peace and truth.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In a missionary Church, placed before an educational emergency like the one found in Italy today, you who love and serve it should be tireless announcers and prepared, generous educators ...
5 May 2008
VATICAN - “The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice consigned to the past, as if it were an outdated prayer to be recalled with nostalgia. On the contrary, the Rosary is experiencing a new springtime,” the Pope affirmed at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice consigned to the past, as if it were an outdated prayer to be recalled with nostalgia. On the contrary, the Rosary is experiencing a new springtim ...
5 May 2008
VATICAN - Pope at the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “the responsibility of Christians to work for peace and justice, their irrevocable commitment to build up the common good, is inseparable from their mission to proclaim the gift of eternal life.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “How can solidarity and subsidiarity work together in the pursuit of the common good in a way that not only respects human dignity, but also allows it to flourish?” This is the central ...
5 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Four religious sisters from the Congregation of St. Joseph take perpetual vows on the Solemnity of the Ascension
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, May 1, the beginning of the month of Mary and the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, 4 religious sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph, in He ...
5 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Over 2,500 faithful attend the consecration of the new Cathedral of the Diocese of Nan Ning
Nan Ning (Agenzia Fides) - Over 2,500 faithful from the Diocese of Nan Ning, in the province of Guang Xi, gathered from all over continental China -from Hong Kong to Vietnam- to participate in the solemn consecration and ...
5 May 2008
ASIA/CHINA - “An opportunity for the world to rediscover China”: the China Philharmonic Orchestra pays tribute to the Holy Father with a Chinese note
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “It is...a great honor to be able to play for the Holy Father,” the Director of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Yu Long, told Reuters news agency, as he prepares for the Concert that will ...
5 May 2008
EUROPE/SPAIN - 3,000 Latin American residents living in Spain celebrate the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples in the Shrine of Torreciudad
Huesca (Agencia Fides) - The Shrine of Torreciudad welcomed some 3,000 Latin America residents living in Spain, during the celebration of the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples. The event that takes place every fir ...
5 May 2008
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Leaders of seven Christian Churches write a letter of endorsement to the President for his veto of the “Reproductive Health Law” that favors abortion
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of seven Christian Churches (Anglicans, Apostolic Armenians, Baptists, Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Menonites, and Pentecostals), sent a letter to the President of Uruguay, Taba ...
5 May 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest murdered by two unidentified hitmen in Mexico City
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, May 2, Fr. Julio Cesar Mendoza Acuña, 33 year-old Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Mexico City, was killed by two unidentified hitmen, according to a report from “Agencia ...
5 May 2008
AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Norberto Rivera introduces the “Stable Ministry of the Catechist” in the Archdiocese, convinced that “the activity of the lay faithful is becoming increasingly more necessary and invaluable.”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, May 4, the Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, introduced “ad experimentum” for five years, the Ministry of the Catec ...
5 May 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Justice and Peace Commission confirms that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission can no longer be relied on as a “neutral and nonpartisan electoral umpire.”
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) can no longer be relied on as a “neutral and nonpartisan electoral umpire.” That was what the Justice and Peace Commission of the Zimbabwean Bishops’ ...
5 May 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Crisis in Somaliland, an island of stability in the midst of the Somali chaos, endangers Western strategy in the area
Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The violent confrontations carried out between the police and demonstrators last week in Hargeisa, capital city of Somaliland - a Somali region that declared itself independent in 1991 - has in ...
5 May 2008
ASIA/MALAYSIA - The faithful of Sibu celebrate their new Auxiliary Bishop
Sibu (Agenzia Fides) - In the Diocese of Sibu, on the Island of Borneo in Malaysia, local Catholics are celebrating the gift of their new Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Hii Teck Kwong, ordained a bishop on May 1, at the Cathedr ...
3 May 2008
EUROPE/ITALY - “Our mission…is on all human frontiers”: Interview with Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo, founded in 1985 by Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, today has a hundred members who are priests, as well as some thirty seminarian ...
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