News

• 11 October 2005
  VATICAN - Monday 17 October Synod Bishops will join the Pope for evening Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St Peter’s Basilica: everyone in Rome is warmly invited Vatican City (Fides Service) - Monday 17 October the Bishops taking part in the 11th assembly of the Synod of Bishops will join Pope Benedict XVI in St Peter’s Basilica for evening Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament an ...
• 10 October 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Pope appoints new Auxiliary Bishop of Durban Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 10 October 2005 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Durban (South Africa) Rev. P. Barry Wood, OMI, until now Vicar General of the same archdiocese, assigning ...
• 10 October 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Pope appoints new metropolitan archbishop of Bloemfontein Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 10 October 2005, appointed Archbishop of Bloemfontein (South Africa), Bishop Jabulani Nxumalo OMI, until now titular Bishop of Fico and Auxiliary of th ...
• 10 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Towards Arequipa Diocesan Eucharistic Congress: 150 Eucharist Week Animators prepare with reflection on apostolic Letter “Dies Domini” Arequipa (Fides Service) - Preparations continue with enthusiasm for a Diocesan Eucharistic Congress organised by the archdiocese of Arequipa on the theme “Eucharist, food for new life”, 13 - 20 November. The organis ...
• 10 October 2005
  VATICAN - This evening Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe opens academic year 2005/2006 pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Fides Service) - With a solemn concelebration of Mass and the invocation of the Holy Spirit presided this evening October 10, by Card. Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of ...
• 10 October 2005
  VATICAN - Indicating the figure of Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen, Benedict XVI recalls that “the faith is not merely a private sentiment, to be hidden when it is embarrassing ” and asks for prayers for the Synod of Bishops. Appeal for earthquake victims in south east Asia and floods in central America Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 9 October Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the congregation for the causes of saints, celebrated Mass in St Peter’s and, charged by Pope Benedict XVI, he read the Apo ...
• 10 October 2005
  VATICAN - The importance of song in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: a reflection Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give our English translation of a reflection by Fr Hermann Geissler a member of “Das Werk” an an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith, on the importance of son ...
• 10 October 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Numerous activities to celebrate World Mission Sunday. Spain has 17,515 missionaries working all over the world to break the bread of the Word and the Eucharist Madrid (Fides Service) - “I think Mission Sunday this year will help us understand the authentic sense of mission and certainly lead many in different walks of life to do their best to make their life a mission” said ...
• 10 October 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Liberia prepares to vote in an atmosphere of hope. Catholic novena of prayer organised by the Bishops ended yesterday Monrovia (Fides Service)- “There is expectation and hope for the future. People know tomorrow’s vote will be decisive in the country’s history” said local Church sources in Monrovia capital of Liberia about to ho ...
• 10 October 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Bukavu mourns Archbishop Charles Mbogha Kambale who died yesterday after a long illness Bukavu (Fides Service)- Catholics in Bukavu in the east of Democratic Congo are mourning their Archbishop Charles Mbogha Kambale who died on Sunday 9 October after a long illness. The Archbishop died in Bukavu hospita ...
• 10 October 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistan’s Catholics assist Kashmir earthquake victims. “A day’s wages in aid of the homeless”. Caritas sends volunteers to the site, President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference leads special prayers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - “We are still deeply shocked and traumatised by the tragedy. The death toll rises by the hour and loss of life and damage to structures is vast. It is feared that as many as 40,000 people have ...
• 10 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir earthquake: Catholic community mobilised, Jammu-Srinagar diocese coordinates rescue efforts and aid News Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have expressed sympathy and solidarity with the victims of the October 8 earthquake the disputed region of Kashmir which struck on both sides of the border. On ...
• 10 October 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - The centrality of the Eucharist in the life of Consecrated persons: Day of Reflection for men and women Religious Honiara (Fides Service) - The centrality of the Eucharist in the religious life and the Eucharist as source of all apostolate: these were the main points emerging from a recent meeting of men and women Religious at the M ...
• 10 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The size of tragedy cannot be calculated: thousands are homeless after hurricane Stan swept the country. 1.400 inhabitants of Panabaj village buried alive. Cardinal Quezada Toruño appeals for “Solidarity without frontiers” Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Guatemala, the central American country which hosted CAM 2, the second American Mission Congress in 2003 and which for years has struggled to eliminate violence, now faces the consequence ...
• 10 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Eucharist as a service to the sick: Italian Association for Health Care Pastoral national conference. “Promote health care pastoral which starts from man and reaches the celebration of the Eucharist through the man it represents.” Rome ( Fides Service) - ‘Eucharist bread broken and washing of feet’ is the slogan of a national conference of the Italian Association for Health Care Pastoral opened today 10 October in Perugia and which will close ...