News

• 2 April 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Life and the Dignity of the Human Person” Congress April 3-5, organized by the Bishops’ Conference Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops’ Conference has organized the first “Life and the Dignity of the Human Person” Congress, scheduled to take place April 3-5 in the Major Seminary. The Congress will begi ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Living an authentic faith”: a guidebook for catechumens Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Korean adults who take interest in the Catholic faith and begin the journey to Baptism is constantly on the rise. In order to help them, as well as those who simply have a curiosity ...
• 2 April 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI on the 3rd anniversary of the death of John Paul II: “Let us thank the Lord for giving the Church this faithful and courageous servant... May the Church, following his teaching and his example, continue faithfully and without compromise her evangelising mission ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The date of April 2nd remains impressed on the memory of the Church as the day that the servant of God Pope John Paul II departed from this world … and today too, just as three years a ...
• 2 April 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Divine Mercy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the light of merciful Jesus we are invited to treasure the gift of grace of Easter we have just celebrated. Faith in the Risen Lord was renewed especially in those who took to heart the ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - “Christian-phobia” virus still not eradicated Goa (Agenzia Fides) - Repeated episodes on various continents, India especially, would seem to indicate that the virus of Christian-phobia has not yet been eradicated, said Redemptorist priest Fr Desmond de Sousa of Goa, ...
• 2 April 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Among the objectives of general assembly of Bishops: a Church which is alive, faithful, credible; commitment to helping the poor; foster the presence of God in society; intensify pastoral care for the family and for life Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Mexico have gathered for their 85th general assembly 31 March to 4 April. The Assembly opened with a Mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe, presided by Bishop Carlos Agui ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The heroic acts of a simple man: Giovanni Palatucci, the last police chief in Fiume Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Giovanni Palatucci was a young man from the province of Avellino (Italy) who gave up his medical carrier to become a policeman, as a vocation. During the Second World War, while he was in charge of ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The positive results of collaboration between science bioethics: Study Day in “Bambino Gesu” Hospital Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, April 1, a group of researchers in genetics met in the “Bambino Gesu” Children’s Hospital in Rome, to present and discuss some of the cases that have shown the positive results of ...
• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells the Salesian General Chapter: “The predilection for and commitment to young people, so characteristic of Don Bosco’s charism, must be translated into a similar commitment to the involvement and formation of families.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The appeals addressed to us by young people, especially their questions on fundamental problems, indicate their intense desires for full life, authentic love and constructive freedom. Th ...
• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - The Church and the paths of the Christian community (1) - “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were ...
• 1 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparations underway for the 150 anniversary of the evangelization of Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “Commemorate the past, hang on to the past and plan for the future” is the theme for the writing contest, whose winning articles will be published in magazines and newspapers on the 150th an ...
• 1 April 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - The Law on Rapid Divorce Settlement “in no way strengthens or upholds the family; on the contrary, it weakens it and leads to its rupture and separation.” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, President of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference, issued a statement in light of the recent approval of the so-called “Law on Rapid Divorce Settleme ...
• 1 April 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Preparing for the General Assembly of Bishops: study on the document “Pastoral Goals and Guidelines,” commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the week of prayer for Christian unity, 50th anniversary of Caritas Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - From April 3 - 8, the Bishops of Bolivia will hold their General Assembly in the city of Cochabamba. There are three main points that will be addressed during these days, according to the Exe ...
• 1 April 2008
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Chapel of Perpetual Adoration on the Mount of Beatitudes inaugurated during the meeting of European bishops on New Evangelization Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - This past weekend, in the Domus Galilaeae on the Mount of Beatitudes, the monastery situated there inaugurated a perpetual adoration chapel. Domus Galilaeae is a center for formation and retre ...
• 1 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “A reestablishment of civil coexistence is needed,” veteran Jesuit missionary in Zimbabwe tells Fides Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe remains in uncertainty as word of the March 29 general election results “trickles out” from the electoral commission (see Fides 31/3/2008). Of the 109 of the 210 seats already accou ...