News

• 25 April 2008
  VATICAN - Rev Nicola Bux: Orthodox Easter Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Eastern Rite Churches, Orthodox and Catholics alike, celebrate Easter on Sunday, April 27. Why an entire month after our own celebration of the feast? The Council of Nicea, held in 325, ...
• 25 April 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “A New World, A New Humanity”: Bishops’ Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “A New World, A New Humanity” is the title of the Message from the Korean Bishops’ Commission for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, issued on the occasion of the World Day of M ...
• 25 April 2008
  VATICAN - The non-nutritional use of agricultural products causes an unprecedented rise in food costs and has negative effects on poverty levels: Holy See address at the FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy See wants to demonstrate with its presence, the appreciation it has for the work that FAO carries out along with other governments in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, ...
• 25 April 2008
  AFRICA - Facing the energy crisis, Uganda and Nigeria attempt to use their own uranium reserves to generate electricity Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From uranium suppliers to nuclear energy manufacturers. This is the transformation being attempted by Uganda and Nigeria, the latter being one of the most important uranium providers in the world. ...
• 25 April 2008
  VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I say to you …” - intervention by Prof. Michele Lo console: from the synagogue of New York a fresh start for Christian-Jewish dialogue Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone is aware of the recent polemic which followed the liberalisation of the old Catholic rite, due to the re-use of the Good Friday prayer Oremus et pro Iudaeis and changes in the pray ...
• 24 April 2008
  MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - The Pope’s missionary intention for May, “That just as she accompanied the Apostles in the early stages of the Church, may the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of Evangelization and Queen of Apostles, continue to guide missionaries throughout the world with maternal affection.” Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The II Vatican Council presents us with Mary as the Mother and image of the Church. In contemplating Her, the Church finds in Mary, her model and the fullness of her perfection. There is a ...
• 24 April 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Native Vocations Day: "although these are not easy times for vocations, we should make the effort not to let ourselves be overcome by discouragement and anxiety" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Native Vocations Day helps us to be realists and live with a greater sense of responsibility towards others...in a society that is contaminated by secularism and oppressed by consumerism, the co ...
• 24 April 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Encounter for Catholic Television Producers proposes new directory for citing worldwide productions and an adequate promotion of the Continental Mission Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - About 40 representatives from among Catholic producers and television channels from the Americas met on April 20 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) to discuss topics related to production and prom ...
• 24 April 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Twenty new Nigerian missionaries sent out to different parts of the world participate in a course organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Giving a new impulse to the missions abroad on behalf of the Catholic Church in Nigeria was the aim of the two-week Orientation Program held at St. Benedict’s Monastery, Ewu-Ishan, in Edo (Niger ...
• 24 April 2008
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 28 March 2008, appointed Father Rodolfo French Naar, of the clergy of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bluefi ...
• 24 April 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Spain and Italy: Biological Will and Family Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The latest news is that now Spain has a new law on a so-called Biological Will, “the right to be able to choose to die with dignity” (Sic!). Although this is not the place for a detaile ...
• 24 April 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - The “Missionary Labs” in preparation for the 7th National Congress of the Holy Childhood Association Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - A group of nearly 80 catechists, priests, religious men and women, missionary workers, members of missionary volunteer groups, and heads of the Pontifical Mission Societies from the parishes ...
• 24 April 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics prepare for the Universal Day of Prayer for the Church in China, on May 24 Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics are getting ready to celebrate the Universal Day of Prayer for the Church in China, called for Pope Benedict XVI in his letter to Chinese Catholics, signed May 27, 2007. Aware ...
• 24 April 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Word of God Seminar in preparation for the upcoming Synod of Bishops, children’s camp in September Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - In October, the Bishops of the world will meet with the Holy Father at the Vatican, in order to reflect on the Word of God and its importance in the life of every Christian and in the mission ...
• 24 April 2008
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Steps being taken towards respect of human rights Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Both the Church and civil society members of Pakistan have rejoiced at the Pakistani government’s ratification of several Treatises and Conventions of the United Nations: the Convention agai ...