News

• 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 ...
• 8 October 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Although Pope Benedict XVI spent most of September at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, he continued is normal activity of meeting visitors from all over the world on Sundays for the midday Angelus prayer, he rece ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 6,000 lay people involved in Great Mission 2005 in diocese of Chiclayo carry the Good News to families door to door Chiclayo (Fides Service) - Over 6,000 lay Catholics are carrying the Good News of Salvation to families door to door in the first stage of a Great Mission in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo which comprises 4 provinces L ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The role of the laity in the Church, society and politics: 3,000 people from all over the country gather in the capital for Laity Congress 2005 Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “Towards Argentina of the Bi-Centenary” is the title of a Laity Congress organised by the Lay Department and the Commission for the Laity and Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ C ...
• 7 October 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Bible and SMS or text messages : new technology at the service of the Word of God Sydney (Fides Service) - The idea might have seemed curious at first but it soon convinced even the most sceptical: to ‘translate’ Bible verses and spread the World of God via SMS or text messages. The advantage is t ...
• 7 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Formation of the laity and evangelisation of the family: Bishops’ Conference identifies pastoral priorities for 2006 New Delhi (Fides Service) - Chair persons and secretaries of the CCBI Conference of Catholic Bishops of India recently identified pastoral priorities for 122 dioceses of Latin Rite, for the coming year. CCBI president B ...
• 7 October 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young people and the Eucharist: 2nd international meeting of Adoration Groups draws to a close Rome (Fides Service) - “This year I went to World Youth Day in Cologne and while there I met young members of a Venite Adoremus group and was deeply impressed by their inner joy and peace so I came to Rome to take part ...