News

• 3 April 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Statement from San Marcos diocese after Bishop and several pastoral workers received death threats San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of San Marcos, which belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Altos (Guatemala), issued a statement addressed to the civil society of Guatemala and the international communit ...
• 3 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - It is official: the Opposition takes parliament. Uncertainty about Mugabe's next moves Harare (Agenzia Fides)- Zimbabwe's Opposition has taken parliament. The electoral Commission announced the results for the lower house of the Zimbabwean parliament. For the first time in 28 years the ruling party of Pres ...
• 3 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “If there is a change of regime the 800,000 Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa are ready to repatriate” a missionary in Cape Town told Fides Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - “If there is a change of government in Zimbabwe there will be a return en masse of about 700-800,000 Zimbabwean refugees presently in South Africa” said Scalabrinian missionary Fr. Mario T ...
• 3 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Natalia Dallapiccola, the first companion Chiara Lubich, also ends her earthly journey: it was she who promoted the Focolari Movement in eastern Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Natalia Dallapiccola, the first to join Chiara Lubich on earth in 1943, is the first to reach her, only a few days later, in eternal life. Natalia was 83. She died, due to weakening of heart and lu ...
• 3 April 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The urgency of ethics, the silence of politics Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the most elementary of moral distinctions, the distinction between the acts of man and human acts, it is said that only human acts can be properly considered moral acts. Human acts are ...
• 3 April 2008
  VATICAN - Grandparents: topic of 18th Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence and witness of grandparents in the family is the theme of the 18th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family being held in the Vatican from 3-5 April. More than ...
• 3 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Legion of Mary members in Taiwan join in celebrating the country’s 150th anniversary of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 members of the Legion of Mary in Taiwan, especially in Tai Pei, have participated in the annual Congress 2008 that took place on March 15. According to Christian Life Weekly, the weekly ...
• 3 April 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Summer formation courses on dialogue and peace in the Sisilah oasis Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - Learning about oneself, learning about others’ religious beliefs, studying, finding common ground, acting in a certain way in favor of dialogue, reconciliation, peace...these are the objecti ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - “Remembering Karol”: John Paul II, three years after his death Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the passing of our beloved John Paul II, and on the occasion of the publishing of the paperback version of the book, “A Life with Karol” written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Apostolic Exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis” is the theme of a permanent formation course in the Diocese of Chia Yi Chia Yi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Apostolic Exhortation “Sacrementum Caritatis” is an excellent theological work on the mystery of the Sacrament of Thanksgiving and for pastoral meditation.” These were the opening w ...
• 2 April 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New community of consecrated laity in Broken Bay Broken Bay (Agenzia Fides) - New religious and lay communities are springing up in the Australian Church; evidence of this is the new community of lay consecrated women that has been officially announced in the Diocese o ...
• 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 ...