News
15 February 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Young Builders of a New School and a New World”: Catholic Student Week calls young people to build a civilisation of love
Caracas (Fides Service) - In view of the annual Student’s Day celebrated by the Church in Venezuela on the Sunday following February 12 the animators and advisers of Youth and Student Pastoral Care of the Venezuelan As ...
15 February 2007
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Miarinarivo and appoints successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 15 February 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Miarinarivo (Madagascar) presented by Bishop Raymond Razakarivon ...
15 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cardinal George Pell present at the opening of Australia’s first Catholic Crematorium
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Australia’s first Catholic crematorium was opened in Sydney with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney. The project includes a Catholic chapel and crematorium, condole ...
14 February 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Through Mary to Jesus” Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Fides Service) - God the Father has always had a magnificent plan for His creation, man in particular: He wishes His Son to be born and to grow in each of us that all may reach “the state of perfect Man, ...
14 February 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Diphu
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 14 February has appointed Rev. John Moolachira Bishop of Diphu (India). The Bishop elect, a member of the clergy of Tezpur diocese was formerly rector o ...
14 February 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Solemn celebrations for the reopening of Long Gang parish church newly dedicated to Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus to whom the community is deeply devoted
Chong Qing (Fides) - Catholics in the parish of Long Gang, Da Zu district of Chong Qing diocese Si Chuan province of China, recently celebrated the reopening of the parish church newly dedicated to Saint Therese de Lisi ...
14 February 2007
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Referendum draws ‘yes’ to depenalise abortion: the country’s Catholic Bishops call special Meeting to analyse the results
Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Portugal will hold a special meeting 16 February to analyse the results of the referendum on the abortion on Sunday February 11. Abortion won but it will not be binding si ...
14 February 2007
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Brazilian Orionini missionaries in Maputo: poor suburban Catholics proudly support parish and priests
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Almost four years since the arrival of the first Orionini missionaries in Mozambique, director general of the Piccola Opera della Divina Provvidenza, Rev. Flavio Peloso, made a pastoral visit to ...
14 February 2007
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Catholic Church in Nigeria will carry out a sensitization campaign to educate the people on how to take part in April elections
Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church in Nigeria will carry out a sensitization campaign to educate the people on how to take part in the forthcoming general elections, the Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Okog ...
14 February 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Three days of Celebrations and prayers at Nyaunglebin for the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Yangon (Fides Service) - Three days of national Marian celebrations brought over 40,000 people to the Marian Shrine of Nyaunglebin, in the diocese of Yangon. The celebrations were presided by Archbishop Charles Maung Bo ...
14 February 2007
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We promise to make our prophetic voice heard to denounce falsehood and corruption and to announce the truth”: Catholic Bishops call for reconciliation and respect for the truth
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “We, the members of the Church, lay people, religious, clergy, and bishops, admit our limits and promise to make our prophetic voice heard to denounce falsehood and corruption and to announce t ...
13 February 2007
VATICAN - In his message for Lent 2007 Pope Benedict XVI writes: “Let us direct our gaze to Christ crucified who, dying on Calvary, revealed fully for us the love of God … Contemplating “Him whom they have pierced” moves us in this way to open our hearts to others”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “They shall look on Him whom they have pierced” (Jn 19:37)” is the theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for Lent 2007 presented today at the Holy See Press Office. “Dear Brothers ...
13 February 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants in an international congress on Natural Law: “Legislation frequently becomes no more than a compromise between different interests: there is a move to transform into rights private interests or desires which clash with the duties demanded of social responsibility … all juridical law draws ultimately its legitimacy from rooting in natural law”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Late yesterday morning, the Holy Father received in audience participants in an international congress on Natural Law, being promoted by the Pontifical Lateran University. In his address t ...
13 February 2007
EUROPE/GERMANY - On the way to 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly, third stop at the town where Luther started the Reformation
Wittenberg (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred and fifty delegates from churches, Bishops’ conferences, ecumenical organisations, communities and movements will meet from 15-18 February 2007 in the city of Wittenberg (German ...
13 February 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Papal Envoy Cardinal Lozano Barragán presides special Mass for World Day for the Sick: There is a logic which, refusing to consider a human life as a value in itself because it fails to correspond to a vision in which material wellbeing, efficiency and productivity become the founding ‘values’ of human existence, opens the way for laws which promote a culture of death.
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea proposed the pastoral care of patients suffering from incurable illnesses as the theme of the Day. The Holy Father Benedict XVI benevolently accepted ...
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