News

• 26 January 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Harsh blasphemy laws may be modified: Christians hopeful Lahore (Agenzia Fides) -Pakistan may modify its blasphemy law after the forthcoming national election scheduled for the end of 2007 or early next year. This was announced by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed secretary of th ...
• 26 January 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seoul opens School for the Religious Formation of the Laity Seoul(Agenzia Fides) - A School for the Laity, specialised in formation of lay Catholics in theology, Catholic Social Doctrine, catechesis, and a course on the Second Vatican Councilm is the latest project launched by th ...
• 26 January 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Caritas Peru launches aid campaign for homeless families affected by torrential rains: 14 people reported dead, many more still missing Chanchamayo (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas-Peru has launched an aid campaign to provide prompt relief to families made homeless when torrential rains caused mudslides and flooding of the Rivers Tulumayo, Chacrapuquio and Tarm ...
• 26 January 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Towards CELAM 5: Conference Commissions will meet on 1 February in Aparecida; handbook to help people pray, reflect and accompany the Conference Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting of the various organising Commissions for the 5th General Conference of Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences, CELAM, will take place on 1 February at the House in Apareci ...
• 25 January 2007
  VATICAN - “Your prayers and participation in Holy Childhood initiatives will help support the vocation and mission of many priests, religious and lay men and women. They need you” says Cardinal Dias in a special Holy Childhood Day message to Catholic children in Spain Vatican City (Fides Service) - In a special message to Catholic children in Spain who will celebrate their annual Holy Childhood Day on Sunday 28 January (see Fides 24/1/2007), Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congreg ...
• 25 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The path of ecumenism is slow and uphill, as every path of repentance. However it is a path which after the initial difficulties and precisely because of them, presents many occasions for joy, refreshing stops, and allows us now and then to inhale deeply the pure air of communion”: Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at the General Audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “marvellous flourishing of efforts to restore unity among Christians” particularly in the past 40 years was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during the weekly audience ...
• 25 January 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Name of Jesus Christ Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The ministers of the Church speak less and less about Jesus and ever more frequently about peace, justice, solidarity and dialogue …they are not convinced of the effectiveness of the Name ...
• 25 January 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Youth Volunteer Service in Cambodia Phnon Penh (Agenzia Fides) - An experience of poverty, suffering, hardship. An experience of profound humanity which revealed the sense of mission. This was how young Koreans described their recent participation in an In ...
• 25 January 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - National Mount of Christ the King Youth Pilgrimage concludes 27 January with the consecration of Mexican youth to Christ the King Leon (Agenzia Fides) - The Witness and Hope Movement has urged young Catholics to take part in the National Youth Pilgrimage to the Mount of Christ the King the geographical and spiritual heart of Mexico with the theme ...
• 25 January 2007
  ASIA/FILIPPINES - “Mission essential in formation of clergy”: 1st National Conference of St Peter Apostle Society organised by local Pontifical Mission Societies Naga City (Agenzia Fides) - In the formation of seminarians and clergy orientation to mission is most important. This emerged during the 1st National Conference of St Peter Apostle Society held in Naga City in the dioces ...
• 25 January 2007
  VATICAN - “Leprosy: a forgotten disease”: 14 million treated 4 million left mutilated. 54th World Leprosy Day on Sunday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 29 January is the annual World Leprosy Day dedicated this year to the theme ‘Leprosy: a Forgotten Disease’. The Day was instituted in 1954 at the insistence of Raoul Follereau. ...
• 24 January 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s message for World Communications Day: The Formation of Children and the Formation of the Media Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for his message on the occasion of the 41st World Communications Day on May 20. In the messa ...
• 24 January 2007
  VATICAN - Following the death of Abbé Pierre, founder of the Emmaus Movement, Pope Benedict XVI sends telegrame of condolence to the Archbishop of Bordeaux France Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Given below is the text of a telegramme sent on behalf of the Holy Father, by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, Fr ...
• 24 January 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mother of Unity Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. Now the body is not a single part, but ...
• 24 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: slogan for Holy Childhood Day on Sunday 28 January Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: is the slogan chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain for Holy Childhood Day celebrated by that local Church on Sunday 28 January. “Set out” ...