News

• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake in Sumatra, society mobilised. Catholic Bishop of Padang: “With trust in Divine Providence let us help our brothers and sisters in difficulty” Padang (Fides Service) - “It was unexpected and terrible and left the people prostrate”, said a local church source in Padang with regard to the impact of a 6.3 Richter scale earthquake which struck the island of Sum ...
• 6 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 11th Station: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS Rome (Fides News Service) - 11th Station: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:37-42 ...
• 6 March 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - Celebrations for fifty years of independence: Catholic Bishops entrust the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Accra (Fides Service)- Ghana celebrates today 6 March 50th anniversary of independence. This country was to first shake off the yoke of colonial to be ruled by black Africans. The people of Ghana, just over 22 million, a ...
• 6 March 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Towards CELAM 5: 15th Theology Week also via the Internet, focus on Discipleship Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Discipleship is the theme of the 15th Theology Week 5 to 9 March organised jointly by the Inter-Continental University of Mexico and the Missionaries of Guadalupe. The theme was drawn from ...
• 6 March 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA-TORONTO - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 9 December 2006, appointed Ms Marie T. Deans National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in C ...
• 6 March 2007
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Many young Polynesians need to know more about Jesus and his message of happiness and hope.: mission during Lent, dedicated this year to evangelising young people and helping the poor Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - “Too many Christians live Lent absentmindedly…their minds are more concerned with other things” Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath of Papeete, Tahiti, writes in a local Catholic periodical La Se ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Pastoral activity and budding vocations in the tiny Catholic community in vast central Asian step lands Karaganda (Fides Service) - Pastoral work is proceeding well for the first two priests ordained after theological studies at the Catholic Seminary in Karaganda, the only Catholic seminary in Central Asia. The inter-dioce ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Harmony Forums to be launched in Gujarat to counter communalism Gandhinagar (Fides Service) - To foster a more harmonious society the Indian Bishops’ Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and the Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue, western region, will launch Harmony Forums i ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Wu An parish sends 100 lay missionaries to surrounding villages Han Dan (Fides Service) - The parish of Wu An in the diocese of Han Dan, which has a long and glorious tradition in evangelisation, at the beginning of Lent celebrated a solemn rite to confer the missionary mandate to re ...
• 6 March 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Great Mission in the Prelature of Ayaviri: 140 missionaries visit families and organise sessions of catechism and preparation for the sacraments Ayaviri (Fides Service) - In the Prelature of Ayaviri in the southern Peruvian province of Carabaya, large crowds gathered to celebrate the closing of a Great Mission which had lasted three weeks in February. Some 140 mi ...
• 6 March 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Rafaela diocese devotes Lent to “Rediscovering the beauty and joy of being a family” and plans First Diocesan Family Meeting in October Rafaela (Fides Service) - “The Joy of being a Family” is the title of a Pastoral letter issued by Bishop Carlos María Franzini of the diocese of Rafaela, in Argentina in which he suggest that "Lent can be an oppor ...
• 6 March 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The story Grace, a nurse in Uganda. On Women’s Day 8 March Doctors with Africa CUAMM remember women in Africa who struggle and hope Rome (Fides Service) - Women who do not give up, who retain their dignity and pride despite a life of hardship and fatigue. Even in Africa there are women who make it, who study, engage in a profession and pay for the up ...
• 5 March 2007
  VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope recalls “prayer is not an accessory, an optional extra, but rather a question of life and death. Only those who pray, that is, who entrust themselves to God with filial love can enter eternal life, which is God himself” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel of the second Sunday of Lent presents us with the episode of the Lord’s Transfiguration (Lk 9,28-36): Jesus went up the mountain to pray taking with him Peter, James and John. ...
• 5 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 10 Station: JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS Rome (Fides News Service) - 10 Station: JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:33 ...
• 5 March 2007
  ASIA/KOREA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 1 February 2007 appointed Rev. Dominic Kim Hwa-seok of the diocesan clergy of Masan, National Director o ...