News
29 April 2008
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Spring Scalabrini-Fest on “Let He who is ‘the first of all: Christ, the Head of the Body’ find us and send us”
Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25-27, the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries hosted the Scalabrini Spring Fest, in the Swiss town of Solothurn, where they are based. The event was open to anyone interested in findin ...
29 April 2008
AFRICA/SUDAN - The Darfur drama so far: 300,000 dead; over 2,000,000 driven from their homes; 260,000 refugees in neighboring countries
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - A conflict that has been ongoing since 2003, claiming the lives of over 300,000 people. This is the drama of Darfur, a region of western Sudan, where since February 2003, a series of armed grou ...
29 April 2008
ASIA/INDIA - The mission among the tribes in northeastern India, the Church offers the valuable service of education. Testimony from two Bishops to Agenzia Fides.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - They are small communities, that with very little resources, spread the Gospel with simplicity in remote and hard to reach areas. With silent dedication, priests, religious, missionaries, a ...
28 April 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI encourages the new priests to “spread the joy and hope that flow from the Gospel” and launches appeals for African nations
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Joy and hope for the newly ordained priests and for his apostolic journey to the United States of America, a greeting to the Eastern Churches celebrating Easter, and an appeal for Africa: t ...
28 April 2008
VATICAN - Pope ordains 29 priests: “May the hope rooted in faith, be always and increasingly yours! May you be witnesses and be wise and generous givers, sweet and strong, respectful and confident.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the VI Sunday of Easter, April 27, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, during which 29 deacons (28 from the Diocese of Rome and 1 from Propaganda Fide ...
28 April 2008
ASIA/TAIWAN - Moving testimony of the life and faith of Cardinal Paul Shan in “A Timeless Dialogue - farewell parting from life (on the earth)”
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “I am like the Lord’s kangaroo, that hops to wherever he is needed,” “the tumor is my second guardian angel that reminds me to cherish every moment I have left in ‘my race,’ as Saint ...
28 April 2008
ASIA/SINGAPORE - Youth preparing for WYD
Singapore City (Agenzia Fides) - There is a group of about 100 young pilgrims from among Singapore’s Catholic community that will attend World Youth Day in Sydney this year. As they are in need of material and spiritua ...
28 April 2008
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rector of the Philosophical Interdiocesan Major Seminary “George F. Singha,” in Brazzaville appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 22 February 2008, appointed Father Antonio Mabiala, of the clergy of the diocese of Pointe-noire, Recto ...
28 April 2008
ASIA/LEBANON - Franciscans in Lebanon bringing messages of peace and hope
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans of the Order of Conventional Friars Minor are in Lebanon to spread peace and hope, in a land afflicted by conflict and marked by poverty. They have been there fulfilling their mis ...
28 April 2008
VATICAN - Letter from the Holy Father Benedict XVI to Cardinal Ivan Dias, Special Envoy to ceremonies commemorating the new Christian Millennium in Ethiopia, coinciding with the National Eucharistic Congress
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 1, 2008, the Holy Father Benedict XVI nominated Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his Special Envoy to ceremonies commemorating ...
28 April 2008
AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops remind the Constitutive Assembly on some non-negotiable points that should be recognized as fundamental laws: life, family, freedom of education
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - “We wish to continue our service in the extension of the Kingdom of God by preaching His Word and celebrating the faith and hope of the Christian people, together with social and charitable serv ...
28 April 2008
AMERICA/PERU - Jubilee Year for the Prelature of Ayaviri, “to thank God for all the blessings and fruits of the first evangelization of our land, that we have inherited”: Interview with Bishop Kay Martin Schmalhausen
Ayaviri (Agenzia Fides) - The Prelature of Ayaviri is located in southern Peru. Along with the other Prelatures and Dioceses that were formed in this country during the late 50s, it celebrates its 50th anniversary, makin ...
28 April 2008
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A year under the sign of openness to God’s will
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - “Openness to the light and will of God”: this is the theme for 2008 for “Sisilah,” a movement that promotes dialogue, and the prayer communities of the “Harmony Chain,” an interdenomi ...
26 April 2008
Dossier - THE CRISIS OF THE FAMILY IN EUROPE (part two)
THE CRISIS OF THE FAMILY IN EUROPE (part two)
Introduction
Falling birth-rate, ageing population, no generation turnover
Responsibility of international organisation bureaucracy
The Catholic Church and p ...
25 April 2008
AMERICA/PERU - The Great Mission in Lima begins April 28, in an effort to strengthen us in the awareness of our identity as children of God and bring hope to every home with the preaching of the Good News
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In honor of Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo, second Archbishop of Lima and Patron of the Latin American Bishops, whose feast is celebrated on April 28, the Great Mission in Lima will be launched, in res ...
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