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3 May 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI continues his general audience teaching on Origen and his ever valid teaching on prayer and the Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI chose the teachings of Origen on prayer and the Church as the subject of his weekly teaching during the general audience on Wednesday 2 May in St Peter's Square where des ...
3 May 2007
EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina open web site a new channel for evangelisation
Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina has its own we site since April 30. National Director Rev. Fr. Tomo Knezevic told Fides that it is hoped the web si ...
3 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Catholic Church in Brazil has stopped losing members, and the country is still home to the largest Catholic population in the world
Río de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report issued by the Getulio Vargas Foundation although in the 1990s Brazil saw a drastic decline in its Catholic population, the soul drain has stopped and the numbers ha ...
3 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ There is urgent need for reflection and deeper awareness of who we are and what we offer to the world: and from this depends our qualified manner of exercising the mission of the Church.”: interview with Archbishop Odilo P. Scherer Archbishop of Sao Paulo and secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil.
Aparecida (Fides Service) - Ten days before the opening in Brazil of a major Catholic Church event CELAM 5, the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops' Conferences, Fides interviewed CELAM 5 Secr ...
3 May 2007
VATICAN - Month of Mary, Month of May - «QUÉ SOY ERA IMMACULADA COUNCEPCIOU» 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (2)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - 2ND Apparition SUNDAY 14th FEBRUARY
«The second apparition was on the following Sunday. I went because I felt inwardly drawn to return to the place. But my mother had forbidden me to go ...
2 May 2007
Pope Benedict XVI's May prayer intention: “That good and enlightened formation staff for Major Seminaries and Institutes of Consecrated Life may never be lacking in mission territories”. Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Pontifical Missionary Union secretary general
Vatican City (Fides Service) - A scarcity of vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life in the older Churches is compensated by a flourishing of the former in the young Churches in mission territories. Hundreds ...
2 May 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for 13 plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “ only love for neighbour can inspire within us justice at the service of life and the promotion of human dignity”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Three specific challenges facing the world today, environment and sustainable development, full justice, the values of the spirit, were identified by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in ...
2 May 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The golden thread of life” by Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. 'Peace be with you,' he said. Then he sp ...
2 May 2007
VATICAN - «Qué era Immaculada Councepciou» The 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (1)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1850. Four years later in the small French town of Lourdes, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a little girl Bernad ...
2 May 2007
AFRICA/MALI - “Political activity is not promoting one's own career but rather the common good” says Catholic Bishops in a statement on presidential elections
Bamako (Agenzia Fides)- “And if we were to re-establish politics?” was the title of issued by the Catholic Bishops of Mali on the occasion of the recent presidential elections. The statement, of which Fides received ...
2 May 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Apostolic Delegate visits diocese of Kengtung, which has just held diocesan synod
Kengtung (Fides Service) - The Catholics of the diocese of Kengtung, east Myanmar recently had the joy of a visit by the Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio. The Delegate was warmly welcomed to the Cathedr ...
2 May 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentinean Bishops stress the need for serious reflection on social behaviour, rights and duties in view of elections this year
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their 93rd plenary assembly the Argentinean Catholic Bishops issued a statement on the citizens social duties and in view of elections this year underlining the necessity to " ...
2 May 2007
AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Church of the 3rd Millennium”: Catholic Bishops launch TV project to promote the Values of the Kingdom of God and encourage ongoing creative, objective and ethical reflection
Santo Domingo (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic has announced the creation of a television station "The Church of the 3rd Millennium", official media of the local Church which w ...
2 May 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations plans to re-launch pro-life youth associations at the national level with National Conference
Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations (Provida), founded in Barcelona to promote respect for human life from the moment of conception to natural end, is organising a National Conference f ...
2 May 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - United Nations emergency alarm for child victims of conflict and violence
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - While world leaders work on peace processes in the Middle East the children of the region suffer hunger, fear and desperation.
Children bear the greatest burden of conflicts in the Middle Ea ...
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