News

• 12 February 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTHAFRICA - Bishop of Umtata resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on February 8, 2008, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Umtata (South Africa), presented by Bishop Oswald Georg Hirmer, in c ...
• 12 February 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Kurnool nominated Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on February, 2008, nominated as Bishop of the diocese of Kurnool (India), Fr. Anthony Poola, diocesan priest from Cuddapah, Director of the Christian Foundatio ...
• 12 February 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Simdega resigns, successor nominated Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on February 11, 2008, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Simdega (India), presented by Bishop Joseph Minj, in conformity wit ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope tells FIES: "in an age in which there is an ever stronger influence of secularisation, and on the other hand, in which there is experienced a widespread need to find God, we should never lack the possibility of dedicating time to an intense listening to his Word in silence and prayer." Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Benedict XVI reaffirmed the importance of spiritual exercises in his address to the participants of the National Assembly of the Italian Federation of Spiritual Exercises, whom he received ...
• 12 February 2008
  AMERICA - New Evangelisation, the Great Continental Mission, and the growth of secularism in society under study for North and South American bishops New York (Agenzia Fides) - The 35th meeting of the Bishops of the Catholic Church in America is being held in Huntington, New York, 11 to 14 February 2008, attended by bishops from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bis ...
• 12 February 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA ­ Extraordinary Assembly of Bishops to address food supply crisis, increased violence, and the relations between Colombia and Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) ­ The crisis of food supply which comes as a result of the oil embargo placed on the PDVSA, the increase in violence, and the serious difficulties in the relation between Colombia and Venezuela ...
• 12 February 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR ­ Episcopal Conference presents new liturgical book: “Celebrate Singing,” an instrument for formation and guide for singing in celebrations of the Sacraments Quito (Agenzia Fides) ­ On February 11, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, a presentation was held of the new Liturgical Song Book “Celebrate Singing,” a publication put out by the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference, thro ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Pope meets with pastors and clergy from the Diocese of Rome, at the start of Lent. Among the topics of discussion: the deaconate, youth, sin and the 4 last things, silence, dialogue and mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, February 7, the Holy Father Benedict XVI held a meeting in the Hall of Blessings, with the pastors and clergy from the Diocese of Rome in their traditional visit at the start o ...
• 12 February 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - New support projects for poor and marginalised children in the tribal dioceses of north-eastern India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - These dioceses see themselves as indebted to the first religious of the Foreign Missions of Paris (MEP), who brought the Gospel to the tribes of north-eastern India, as well as to the “new i ...
• 12 February 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Youth of Tai Yuan respond to the Pope’s call: “Let us live the Pauline Year with an active evangelisation.” Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - “We respond to the Pope’s call to evangelise for the Pauline Year and we commit ourselves to living the Pauline Year in active evangelisation.” This has been the response to the Holy Fath ...
• 12 February 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - 2 million unemployed: No roses for Kenya this Saint Valentine’s Day. Who thinks about the farmers of Naivasha? Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The investigation commission for the elections seems a necessary and important step that will shed light and return peace to the country,” Agenzia Fides was told by a source from the local ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to participants at a Meeting to mark the 20th anniversary of Mulieris dignitatem: “it is necessary to recall God's design that created the human being masculine and feminine, with a unity and at the same time an original difference and complimentary ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ A renewed anthropological study is certainly necessary based on the great Christian tradition, which incorporates new scientific advances and, given today's cultural sensitivity, in thi ...
• 9 February 2008
  Dossier - NEONATAL EUTHANASIA Contents: The child: “desired ” and “undesired” Prenatal diagnosis Definition of neonatal euthanasia The Groningen Protocol Spina bifida What happens in Belgium, Switzerland, France, United Ki ...
• 8 February 2008
  VATICAN - Intentions of the Holy Father for 2009 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Here we publish the list of Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer intentions for the year 2009. January General: That the family may become more and more a place of training in charity, persona ...
• 8 February 2008
  VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (first part) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...