News
22 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “Today we pray in a special way for missionaries. May we never fail to offer spiritual and material help to those working on the frontiers of mission ”
Naples (Agenzia Fides) - Before leading the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 21 October at the end of Mass celebrated in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, Pope Benedict XVI thanked those present, “dear ...
22 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “With respect for the differences of the various religions, we are all called to work for peace and to concrete commitment to promote reconciliation among peoples”
Naples (Agenzia Fides) - In Naples on Sunday 21 October after the Mass in Piazza del Plebiscito, Pope Benedict XVI went to the Aula Magna of the Archdiocesan Seminary at Capodimonte, where he greeted the leaders of Dele ...
22 October 2007
VATICAN - “Ethnic and social differences lived in a spirit of reciprocal respect and love, become a common enrichment rather than a motive for division”: Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Congo on ad limina visit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “May our meeting, expression of communion with the Successor of St Peter, be a source of ever more intense communion among yourselves and among your diocesan Churches, filling you with co ...
22 October 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - “We are fighting with you to free you from slavery ”: Catholic Women religious confirm commitment to fight trafficking in human persons
Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “We wish to say to victims of human trafficking, women and children especially, we are on your side, you are no longer alone. We are fighting to free you from slavery”. This was stated by the pa ...
22 October 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Miguel Esser, from Chile, is the new international director of the Don Orione International Lay Movement MLO
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Miguel Esser, from Chile has been elected the new president of the Don Orione International Lay Movement MLO. The new president was elected in Madrid during an MLO meeting for general coordinat ...
22 October 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Release of two Catholic priest hostages in northern Iraq
Mosul (Agenzia Fides)- The two Catholic priests of Syro-Catholic rite taken hostage in Mosul, northern Iraq on 13 October (see Fides 15 and 16 October 2007) were released yesterday Sunday 21 October. The priests, Fr. Piu ...
22 October 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Born to evangelise”: bi-centenary of Saint Antonio Maria Claret, a great apostle who undertook marvellous missionary work in his life
Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - Celebrations to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Saint Anthony Maria Claret, were officially opened 20 and 21 October in Sallent, Barcelona (Spain). The Claretian year will close in the S ...
22 October 2007
AFRICA - Africa rejoices for two new African Cardinals: the Archbishops of Dakar and Nairobi
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “I received the news of my appointment as Cardinal, as a call, a duty, to serve the Lord more and better” said Archbishop Théodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar in Senegal and President of the Bishops' ...
22 October 2007
ASIA/NEPAL - Nepalese Christians concerned for the country's future: instability threatens peace and the democratic process
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Nepal is concerned after the Maoists left the government. There is fear of more instability and chaos. The fact that the convocation of another constituent assembly ...
22 October 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops consider proposed constitutional reform morally unacceptable because “it violates the fundamental rights of the democratic system and of the person, threatening freedom and social harmony”
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “Called to live in Freedom” is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Venezuela in which they analyse a proposed Bill of Constitutional Reform, presented to the nation on ...
22 October 2007
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - New Constitution and general elections in 2009, local Catholic Church called in to help
Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Fiji will participate in the moral and civil reconstruction of the country which is starting a progress of normalisation after travailed years of civil war which caused seri ...
20 October 2007
Dossier Fides - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007
Sunday 21 october 2007 - Dossier Fides
Dossier Fides - 81st WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2007
"All the Churches for all the world"
Index
Message of his holiness Benedict XVI for the 81st World Mission Sunday 2007
The ...
19 October 2007
VATICAN - “The daily chronicle reveals that society of our day faces many ethic and social emergencies which can undermine its stability and seriously jeopardise its future” Pope Benedict XVI says in a Message to Italy's 45th Catholic Social Week
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of the theme chosen for the 45th Catholic Social Week being held in Pistoia and Pisa from the 18 to the 21 October - “The common good today: a commitment which comes from a ...
19 October 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Meetings, events and a video illustrate World Mission Sunday contents
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church is missionary because it walks in step with humanity” says Rev Denis Kibangu Malanda in a video “All the Churches for all the World ” produced by Missio - Pontifical Mission Soc ...
19 October 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We are called to help spread the Gospel”: national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies says in letter for World Mission Sunday
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- “World Mission Sunday is an opportunity to reflect on the urgency and importance of the Church's missionary activity, still today, 50 years since the Fide Donum Encyclical” Mgr Hypolite Adigwe, ...
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