News
25 May 2007
AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity Campaign 'Sharing 2007' to increase awareness of family violence and promote initiatives to build unity and peace in families
Lima (Fides Service) - "United Family Path to Peace" is the theme of the 18th national solidarity campaign 'Sharing 2007' to be launched on Saturday 26 May in Lima. The aim of the campaign promoted by the Catholic Bishop ...
24 May 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at general audience reflects on his recent pastoral visit to Brazil: “ it was first of all to give praise to God for the ‘wonders’ worked among the peoples of Latin America, for the faith which has animated their life and the culture for over five hundred years ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “During this general audience I would like to reflect on my recent apostolic journey to Brazil from the, 9 to the 14 of this month. After two years of Pontificate, at last I had the joy o ...
24 May 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI attends concert "Resurrexi": “For every believer and for every ecclesial community what is important is the encounter with Jesus Christ crucified and risen ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This evening of music was an opportunity to meditate on the central event of our faith: the Resurrection of Christ… Easter is the heart of Christianity. For every believer and for ever ...
24 May 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE : After Family Day, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Contra facta non valet argumentum”. The ancient philosophical saying shows all its truth which resists even the most violent and underhand attempts at reductionism. Italy's Family Day ...
24 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (1): South Africa, Mary Queen assumed into Heaven, patroness of South Africa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - South Africa has many Marian Shrine. Some have even received the grace of a apparition of the Blessed Virgin May and are visited by believers from all over southern Africa. In 1952, during ...
24 May 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Eve of Pentecost priestly ordination of 38 deacons of the Prelature of Opus Dei originally from 17 different countries
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 26 May, eve of Pentecost, 38 deacons of the Prelature of Opus Dei will receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders at 4pm in the Basilica of St Eugenio, in Rome at the hands of the Prelate of Opu ...
24 May 2007
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishops' statement with regard to Jesuit missionary expelled without any explanation by the state authorities
Antananarivo(Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Madagascar have expressed serious perplexity after the expulsion of Jesuit missionary Fr. Sylvain Urfer, on 12 May. A Bishops' Conference statement issued on 21 May ...
24 May 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Death of ninety year old Archbishop. Bernardino Dong Guangqing of Hankow, enterprising and active Franciscan who launched numerous initiatives in the Catholic community
Hankow (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Bernardino Dong Guangqing, O.F.M., of Hankow (Hankou), in Hubei province, China passed away on 12 May at the age of ninety. He was suffering from cancer of the lung. Born to fervent Ca ...
24 May 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Justice and Peace Commission reports threats to Christian minority, forced conversion or migration
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Christian minorities in northern Pakistan are subject to threats and intimidation by groups of Islamic fundamentalists. Whole families are intimidated by destruction of homes and small busines ...
24 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean: “Mission must be the ordinary life of a diocese not an isolated event…the local Church, as such, must be missionary ”
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Some of the bishops attending the Aparecida conference presented reflections on certain questions discussed in the first part of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin Am ...
24 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean “The Saints are precious fruits of the evangelisation of our Latin American continent”
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Horacio Valenzuela of Talca, Chile, spoke about the importance of the witness of the saints for the Church and especially for the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Bishops ...
24 May 2007
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - National Family Week “The Family: first school of discipleship and mission ”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Family: first school of discipleship and mission is the theme of the National Family Week 2007 which the Church in Colombia will hold from 8 May to 3 June. The theme is in keeping with that o ...
24 May 2007
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Preparations for Conference on Inter-religious Dialogue in Asia and the Pacific, 29 to 31 May
Waitangi (Fides Service) - Final preparations are being made for a Conference on Inter-religious dialogue in Asia and the Pacific to be held in Waitangi, New Zealand, 29 to 31 May. The Conference, organised with the help ...
24 May 2007
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Bishop of Molegbe resigns
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 23 May 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Molegbe (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Bishop Ignace Ma ...
23 May 2007
VATICAN AVE MARIA - Mary, the Bride of the Spirit - Rev Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the time between Ascension and Pentecost the Church calls the faithful to be in prayer in the Upper Room, especially in front of Jesus in the Eucharist, to prepare to receive the Holy Sp ...
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