News

• 15 December 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Formation in dialogue for Christians and Muslim educators and teachers Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – Giving formation to Christian and Muslim professors and teachers is one of the main objectives of the movement for Islamic-Christian dialogue called “Sisilah,” active for 25 years in Sou ...
• 13 December 2008
  Instrumentum mensis Novembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum During the general audiences of this month, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI continued his cycle of teaching on St Paul, in this special Year of St Paul. On 24 November, Benedict XVI received in audience His Holiness A ...
• 12 December 2008
  VATICAN - Message of the Holy Father for the World Day of Peace 2009: “ What the fight against poverty really needs are men and women who live in a profoundly fraternal way and are able to accompany individuals, families and communities on journeys of authentic human development.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Fighting poverty to build peace” is the theme of the Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message for the World Day of Peace, January 1, 2009. Revisiting a theme addressed by Pope John Paul II i ...
• 12 December 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope presents Roman university students with Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans: “May this be substantial nourishment for your faith, leading you to believe more and better and also to reflect upon yourselves so that you might come to a ‘mature’ faith and, at the same time live this faith.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of December 11, at the close of the Eucharistic Celebration presided by Cardinal Agostino Vallini, for Rome's university students, in preparation for Christmas, the Holy ...
• 12 December 2008
  AMERICA - Message from the President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications to those working in communications in Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Claudio Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, has sent a Message to all those who serve the Church in the area of communications in Latin Americ ...
• 12 December 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The aggressions against the Passionist Fathers reveals “the state of insecurity and vulnerability in which citizens are living; the lost of the values of honesty and respect for life” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Press Office of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference has issued a statement firmly denouncing the acts of violence that claimed two victims, Passionist Fathers, yesterday afternoon in the Hamac ...
• 12 December 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Continental Mission launched in Caracas “to strengthen the faith and Christian life of our people, through a new evangelization effort.” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Caracas is making intense preparations for the realization of the Continental Mission, which is “a program of intense pastoral activity to strengthen the faith and Christi ...
• 12 December 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Cardinal Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis, expresses his concern for the whereabouts of human rights activists kidnapped in Zimbabwe Harare (Agenzia Fides) - “News of the abduction of Jestina Mukoko is disturbing. She is a respected human rights defender and valued partner of Caritas. Ms Mukoko and all other human rights defenders that have been abd ...
• 12 December 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Three-year anniversary of the Ecclesial Base Community of the parish of Yong Nian, in the Diocese of Shang Hai Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) – On December 6, the Parish of Yong Nian, in the Diocese of Shang Hai, celebrated the third anniversary of the Ecclesial Base Community, in the time in which we wait in expectance for the Lord ...
• 12 December 2008
  VATICAN - The Instruction “Dignitas personae”: a great “yes” to human life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Dignitas personae,” the Instruction published today by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on several bioethical questions - updating information contained in “Donum Vitae ...
• 12 December 2008
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “The increase in grain prices is hurting families,” a missionary from Malawi says Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – The startled citizens are asking themselves, “Will famine return?” says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortian missionary who has been working in Malawi for decades, in a brief update sent t ...
• 11 December 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI, at the close of the Concert for the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “The rights of man are, therefore, ultimately founded in God the Creator, who has given each one the intelligence and freedom. If one ignores this solid ethical base, human rights remain fragile because deprived of a solid foundation.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights “still today constitutes a very high point of reference in the intercultural dialogue on liberty and the rights of man. The dignity of every ma ...
• 11 December 2008
  VATICAN - Pope at the General Audience speaks of Saint Paul's teachings on the sacraments: “through the Word and the Sacraments, the Lord is near in every aspect of our life” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In beginning the catechesis held during the General Audience on December 10, the Holy Father Benedict XVI repeated what he had spoke of the week before, on the beginnings of human history ...
• 11 December 2008
  VATICAN - “Human rights are always in need of being defended. They are in need of fidelity on our part, because they can be lost from view, reinterpreted in a restrictive way or actually denied.” Cardinal Bertone's address at the Commemorative Act for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, a solemn act was organized by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on December 10, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaratio ...
• 11 December 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Day of Prayer for the Missions; Christmas Campaign for children in Papua New Guinea Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – Since 1900, Jasna Gora (Czestochowa) has celebrated a Day of Prayer for the Missions on a date near the feast on Saint Francis Xavier, Patron of the Missions. Agenzia Fides learned of this ...