News

• 31 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations: “In our troubled world, so frequently marked by poverty, violence and exploitation, dialogue between cultures and religions must more and more be seen as a sacred duty incumbent upon all those who are committed to building a world worthy of man.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church’s commitment to implementing the principles set forth in the historic Declaration Nostra Aetate of the Second Vatican Council, “which firmly condemned all forms of antisemi ...
• 31 October 2008
  VATICAN - “Centuries after Paul, we see that the cross, and not the wisdom that opposes the cross, has triumphed. The Crucified is wisdom, because he manifests in truth who God is, that is, the power of love that goes to the point of the cross to save man.” The Pope's Catechesis from the General Audience. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, Paul understood the central significance of the cross: He had understood that Jesus had died and risen for all and also for [Paul], h ...
• 31 October 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Kole resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 30 October 2008, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Kole (Democratic Republic of Congo) presented by Bishop Stanisla ...
• 31 October 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish missionary severely wounded by a bomb blast in the Democratic Republic of Congo Burgos (Agenzia Fides) – According to information provided by the Missions Delegation of Burgos, Sister Maria Presentacion Lopez Vivar, a Spanish missionary from Burgos (Spain), was hit in a bomb that exploded in Rutsh ...
• 31 October 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Thousands of civilians are fleeing: “The drama of North Kivu affects the international community,” says the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Martino Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Thousands of people are in flight (40,000 according to UN sources) from North Kivu (in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), moving towards Rwanda and Uganda, while rebel leader Laurent Nkun ...
• 31 October 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Kivu: the war in “the Switzerland of central Africa” - Analysis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Kivu is a region of 256,000 km sq. in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire, Belgian Congo), which gets its name from Lake Kivu which, with an area of 270,000 km ...
• 31 October 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Missionary Congress opens in Gujarat, in solidarity with the victims of the anti-Christian attacks Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - “Walking in the footsteps of Jesus”: this was the main theme of the Missionary Congress in Gujarat, which began on October 30 and which will last three days. The event will be attended by ...
• 31 October 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - All Saints and All Souls Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Recollection and prayer in these days devoted to the solemnity of All Saints, inseparably connected with the commemoration, often sad and mournful, of the souls of the departed, are violen ...
• 31 October 2008
  VATICAN - Erection of the Pontifical Ateneo Regina Apostolorum School of Bioethics Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – After seven years of education and research, the Bioethics School at the Pontifical Ateneo Regina Apostolorum has been canonically erected by the Holy See, with a decree dated October 16, ...
• 29 October 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Paul's conversion and ours Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - When reading of Saint Paul's conversion following his encounter with the risen Lord who appeared to him on the road to Damascus (cfr. Acts 9, 1-9), we often tend, in a sense, to think more ...
• 29 October 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Message to the Congress on Vatican Council II in the Pontificate of John Paul II: “The vast doctrinal patrimony, which we rediscover in its Dogmatic Constitutions in its Declarations and Decrees, still stimulates us to a deep appraisal of the Word of the Lord in order to apply it to the Church today.” Vatican City (Agencia Fides) – “I cannot help but rejoice in light of the theme chosen, as it is one that unites two subjects which are of great importance to me: the Second Vatican Council, which I had the honor of ...
• 29 October 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - “Christians in Orissa just want to return to normal life, in peace and harmony with everyone, with respect for constitutional rights.” Interview with Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes, General Secretary of the Indian Bishops' Conference. New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – They do not seek special privileges...only equal opportunity and respect for constitutional rights for all Indian citizens. Christians in Orissa are not seeking revenge; they just want to re ...
• 29 October 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church in India mourns the death of the first Catholic priest from the violence in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The anti-Christian violence in Orissa has clamed its first Catholic priest. Fr. Bernard Digal, of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, in Orissa, who was attacked on August 25 by Hindu f ...
• 29 October 2008
  VATICAN - Amid the sharp contrasts of his time, Pope John XXIII was “a man and pastor of peace, who opened unexpected horizons of fraternity among Christians and of dialogue with everyone”: Benedict XVI on the 50th anniversary of the election to the pontifical throne of Blessed John XXIII Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The announcement of his election to the See of Peter, “was a prelude and prophecy of the experience of fatherhood, that God was to abundantly bestow through the words, gestures, and ecc ...
• 29 October 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Goma has become a starvation camp,” missionaries reveal in a statement denouncing human rights violations in East Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “The war that has already claimed 5 million lives has recommenced. The Congolese Bishops are describing it as a ‘cover-up’ war, used to distract attention from the exploitation of the n ...