News

• 5 March 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - “Work is a Blessing” Bishop of Natitingou Lenten Message Natitingou (Fides Service)- “Material difficulties assail us on every side. But God has given us hands with which to work and share in His creative work. Our hands are tools to build our dignity. The virtue of fortitud ...
• 5 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Meeting to plan National Mission Congress for next year 2008 Bangalore (Fides Service) - The Conference of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CCBI through its Commission for Proclamation, is planning to bring together regional secretaries of the Commission, diocesan direc ...
• 5 March 2007
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - “May Lent be for every Christian a renewed experience of God’s love given to us in Christ, a love that each day we in turn must ‘re-give’ to our neighbour”, Catholic Bishops’ issue Lenten Appeal for Peace Dili (Fides Service) - In an appeal for Peace the Bishops of East Timor draw inspiration for Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for Lent 2007 stressing the need to “recognise the wounds inflicted upon the dignity of the hum ...
• 5 March 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - “We must evangelise to make known Christ and the beauty of Christian life” says the Bishop Prelate of Juli, a year after his installation in one of the poorest parts of Peru called the Rome of the Andes where the people are mainly Aymara and a few Quechua Juli (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Prelature of Juli, in southern Peru has a population of 510,000 95% Aymara and 5% Quechua. It is called ‘Rome of the Andes’ because it has four churches with the same names as the ...
• 5 March 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA - Critical approach to the challenge of globalisation for Latin America, towards CELAM 5 Rome (Fides Service) - "Globalisation and Christian Humanism. Looking at Latin America is the title of a book published in French by the Anne Sigier publishing house in Québec, Canada written by Prof. Guzmán Carriquiry ...
• 3 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 9th Station: JESUS FALLS FOR THE THIRD TIME Rome (Fides News Service) - 9th Station: JESUS FALLS FOR THE THIRD TIME V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Book of Lamentations. 3:27-32 It is ...
• 3 March 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope and the Curia conclude Spiritual Exercises: “behind many phenomena today, apparently very distant from religion and from Christ, there exists a quest, a longing, a desire…and the only true answer to this longing, omnipresent precisely in our day, is Christ” says Pope Benedict Vatican City (Fides Service) - With Morning Prayer and the last Conference, this morning Pope Benedict XVI and his closest collaborators of the Roman Curia concluded a week of spiritual exercises with meditations given b ...
• 3 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Announcing God’s Love” Javieradas Pilgrimages 4-10 March in honour of Saint Francis Xavier patron saint of the region and patron saint of the missions Pamplona (Agenzia Fides) - “Announcing God’s Love” is the slogan of the traditional Javieradas Pilgrimages 2007 to Javier Castle organised in the Spanish region of Navarra from Sunday 4 March to 4 Saturday 10 March ...
• 3 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two Congolese members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scheut Missionaries, on mission in South Africa Johannesburg (Fides Service)- In 2006 Fr Manu Tsasa and Fr Léopold Kalubende of Kasai in central Democratic Congo, Scheut Missionaries, members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary left for mission Klerks ...
• 3 March 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Conversion means turning our hearts to God: Lenten Message from Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, Archbishop of Seoul Seoul (Fides Service) - ‘Convert your hearts and believe in the Gospel’ is the title of a Lenten Letter issued by the Archbishop of Seoul Cardinal Nicholas Cheong focussed on conversion, repentance, prayer, works of ...
• 3 March 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - 500 Days to World Youth Day, group registration now open. Carpenters busy making 500,000 little copies of WYD Cross for distribution to participants Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - March 2007: With 500 days to go until the start of World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia 2008 (WYD08), organisers have announced a package of measures for international pilgrims.The measures inclu ...
• 3 March 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pope Benedict XVI proposes Prayer for 5th General Conference of the Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM scheduled for May Aparecida (Fides Service) - In just over two months time the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conference CELAM will be held at the Marian Shrine of Aparecida (Brazil), 13 to 31 May on th ...
• 3 March 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Pressure increases to bring government and rebels back to the negotiating table Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- There is increasing pressure to convince the Ugandan government and the Lord’s resistance Army rebels LRA to resume peace talks since the recent expiry of a cease fire agreed in August 2006 (s ...
• 3 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics end celebrations for Lunar New Year in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation Beijing (Fides Service) -Lunar New Year festivities lived by Catholics in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation in communion with Chinese Catholics all over the world close tomorrow Sunday 4 January with Yuan ...
• 2 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 8th Station: JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM WHO WEEP FOR HIM Rome (Fides News Service) - 8th Station: JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM WHO WEEP FOR HIM V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according ...