News
5 December 2005
ASIA/JAPAN - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Kagoshima and appoints successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2005 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kagoshima (Japan) presented by Bishop Paul Shinichi Itonaga in ...
5 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Winter spiritual renewal course for priests will be held in Jerusalem
Rome (Fides Service) - Love cannot fail or limit itself or become bored. It must be renewed every day. This is what happens among one particular category men in love: priests “lovers of God”. They too must renew the ...
5 December 2005
AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawi in the grip of famine and institutional chaos sees timid signs of hope according to local missionary: “it has started to rain, people are sowing every kind of available seed, what is a more a political solution may be in sight”
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “Christmas is coming and the end of a particularly difficult year for Malawi is near and people want desperately to see a point of return, a return to a rule of law, to good government, to a l ...
5 December 2005
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus prayer recalls that “religious freedom is far from guaranteed effectively and everywhere” and asks those present to pray “that every man and women may realise to the full the religious vocation inscribed in the depth of every being”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the spirit of Advent, when “the ecclesial Community prepares to celebrate the great mystery of the Incarnation it is called to rediscover and deepen its personal relation with God”, ...
5 December 2005
VATICAN - “It is necessary to announce with new enthusiasm that the Gospel of the family is a path to human and spiritual fulfilment...and to help people realise the intrinsic evil of abortion” Pope Benedict XVI tells presidents of Latin American Bishops’ Commissions for the Family and Life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on Saturday 3 December received in audience participants in the meeting of presidents of the Latin American Bishops’ Commissions for the Family and Life. The meeting is being ...
5 December 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Bishops: Nostra Aetate marked a turning point in inter-religious dialogue
Sydney (Fides Service) - “Nostra Aetate marked a turning point in inter-religious dialogue” the Catholic Bishops of Australian said in a statement issued at the end of a recent meeting in which they said the Council ...
5 December 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Message from Bishop Zen after participation in the Synod on the Eucharist: may the family put the Eucharist at the centre of life
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - On his return from Rome where he took part in the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Church’s Life and Mission Bishop Joseph Zen Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong shared ...
5 December 2005
ASIA/INDIA - New Catholic Directory of India: valuable aid for Catholic communities and tool for evangelisation
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The 2005 edition of the Catholic Directory of India was released recently in New Delhi by Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, archbishop of Ranchi and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
5 December 2005
EUROPE/GREECE - Appreciation of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew for the Holy Childhood Meeting for Countries of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe held for the first time in Greece: “May your work bear fruit for the good of little ones and the glory of the Most Holy Trinity”
Corfu (Fides Service) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I sent a brief message of appreciation and congratulations to participants at the 5th Holy Childhood Meeting for Countries of the Mediterrane ...
5 December 2005
VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe on pastoral visit to Ho Chi Minh City archdiocese: “St Francis Xavier responded generously to the Lord’s command, crossing the world to announce Christ. Today the missionary situation is no better”
Ho Chi Minh City (Fides Service) - The pastoral visit to Vietnam of Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 November touched the archdiocese of Ho ...
3 December 2005
Instrumentum mensis Novembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum
Among the most significant interventions by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI during the month of November we mention an address given on 25 November on the occasion of the inauguration of the Academic Year of the Univer ...
2 December 2005
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mission Exhibition shows and analyses Catholic evangelising activity: PMS traces historical path of mission from Jesus Christ to Pope Benedict XVI
Merida Yucatan (Fides Service) - Among the activities of the 13th national mission congress taking place in Mérida Yucatán, was a Mission Exhibition at Yucatán Siglo XXI Centre. The main objective of the exhibition op ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Salesian Novitiate prepares for new Sumba premises to include a youth centre
Sumba (Fides Service) - Salesians, teachers and pupils at Waipengali on the island of Sumba are happy that a first new building for Tigaraksa Novitiate at a new Salesian Centre is almost ready. The building will accommo ...
2 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Pope Benedict XVI and Holy Childhood
Rome (Fides Service) - Children all over Italy are getting thank you letters from Pope Benedict XVI. In recent months the children had written to the new Pope to tell him about their love for the Gospel and deep desire t ...
2 December 2005
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The light of Christ illuminates Europe: theme for 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly
Sangallo (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of European Churches KEK and the Council of European Episcopal Conferences CCEE and announced the winner of a competition for a Logo for the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly AEE3 ...
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