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23 March 2007
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Explosions at the country’s largest weapons deposit kill 80 and wounds thousands, many of them children
Maputo (Fides Service)- “This is the second such incident in this place and the most serious” Fides learned from local Church sources in Maputo where yesterday 22 March at least 80 people died and 360 were injured in ...
23 March 2007
VATICAN - “Christian health workers are well aware of the close and indissoluble bond that exists between their professional service and the virtue of charity to which Christ calls them”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants at plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 22 March in the Vatican Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care. In his talk to them the Pope affirmed that “healt ...
23 March 2007
VATICAN - The tenth anniversary of the death of Mgr. Tiziano Scalzotto, former Under-Secretary and Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Exuberant, intelligent and jovial man of profound spirituality and charity hidden but just as deep: these few traits suffice to outline the personality of Mgr Tiziano Scalzotto who died on ...
23 March 2007
ASIA/KOREA - The Pope appoints auxiliary Bishop of Daegu
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 23 March 2007 appointed Rev. Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil, until now editor of the Maeil Catholic newspaper, auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Daegu (Ko ...
23 March 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops denounce spreading culture of death which robs man of his fundamental rights and dilutes society’s awareness of the value of life and the dignity of every human person : Message for the annual Day for Life
Madrid (Fides Service) - In a message for the national Day for Life in Spain, March 25th , the country’s Catholic Bishops write “As the Bishops of the ‘People of Life’ we denounce a spreading culture of death and ...
23 March 2007
AMERICA/ECUADOR - “We must raise our voices to unmask interpretations which dare to put aside the truth of the Gospel on the grounds that it is culturally outdated and inadequate for the problems of our epoch”: Cardinal Cipriani addresses Pro Life and Family Congress
Guayaquil (Fides Service) - With the participation of over 3,000 people Ecuador is holding its first National Pro Life and Pro Family congress in Guayaquil in 6 different parishes.
The first conference was given by ...
23 March 2007
AMERICA - Numerous initiatives all over the continent for Pro-Life Day Sunday 25 March: prayers, demonstrations, marches, publications
Rome (Fides Service) - Latin American countries are preparing to mark Pro-Life Day Sunday 25 March with numerous activities to underline the sacredness of the gift of life and the need to protect life in all its stages. ...
22 March 2007
VATICAN - “The figure and works of Justine mark the early Church’s firm decision for philosophy and reason rather than the religion of the pagans”: the Pope’s catechesis on Saint Justine the most important Christian apologist of the 2nd century
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his catechesis on the Apostolic Fathers, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his audience teaching on Wednesday 21 March to the figure of Saint Justine, philosopher and martyr, “the mo ...
22 March 2007
VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Act of Faith (5)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - God, Creator and Father gives his commandments to his children. After creating man and woman in his own image a likeness God put them in the Garden of Eden where he used to visit them and s ...
22 March 2007
EUROPE/ENGLAND - “Address spiritual hunger in mission work before material needs”: Annual European Meeting for National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies
Durham (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 March 25 national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Europe met for their annual assembly, this year hosted by St Cuthbert's College Ushaw, in the city Durham, in nort ...
22 March 2007
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Freetown and Bo
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 March 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone) presented by Bishop Joseph Henry Ga ...
22 March 2007
VATICAN - “Sacramentum Caritatis” “Sacrament of Charity” post-synodal apostolic exhortation: 200,000 copies sold in a few days
Vatican City (Fides Service) - ‘Sacramentum caritatis’ the post synodal apostolic Exhortation by Pope Benedict XVI made public last week is proving highly popular. In a few days the Vatican Publishers and Book Shop s ...
22 March 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Evangelisation, education and formation for women: missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles commemorate Founder on the centenary of his death
Rome (Fides Service) - “Our spirituality is essentially apostolic, marked by the simplicity of our Founder: ‘to know and love God and to make Him known and loved - Superior General Eileen Curran of the Sisters of Our ...
22 March 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Augustin Planque and the missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles
Rome (Fides Service) - Fr. Augustin Planque was born in Chemy, in the north of France in 1826 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1850. Augustin felt called to the priesthood at an early age and he left his father’s ...
22 March 2007
AMERICA/ECUADOR - 1st national “Pro-Life and Pro-Family Congress” to uphold the whole truth on life and the family in the light of the Gospel and the teaching of the Church and condemn the culture of death
Guayaquil (Fides Service) - “The Whole Truth about Life and the Family” is the theme of Ecuador’s 1st National Pro-Life and Pro-Family Congress 21 - 24 March which opened yesterday in Guayaquil. Some 3,000 experts, ...
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