News

• 29 January 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Murdered Kenyan MP was a Catholic social activist Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Mugabe Were a Catholic social activist, shot dead yesterday outside his home, was married to an Italian women from Lecce” local Church sources in Kenya told Fides. Mugabe Were was an MP for ...
• 29 January 2008
  VATICAN - The missionary vocation of the laity Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary task to share with all mankind the news of salvation part salvation, is exercised by the whole Church, although in different roles. In the context of the Church's mission, th ...
• 29 January 2008
  AFRICA/MALAWI - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 12 October 2007 appointed Rev. Michael Useni of the diocesan clergy of Chikwawa, National Director of the ...
• 29 January 2008
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 23 November 2007, appointed Rev. Elias Peter Kingamkono of the clergy of the diocese of Mbeya, Tanzania, ...
• 29 January 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Christians victims of unjustified violence: Catholic Archbishop in Orissa state calls for peace, security and freedom Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation of Christians in Orissa is difficult and tricky”, the Catholic Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Orisssa, told Fides. Archbishop Raphael Che ...
• 29 January 2008
  ASIA/TURKEY - “Paul, witness and Apostle of the Christian identity”: Catholic Bishops of Turkey issue Letter for the Year of St Paul Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - “Paul is apostle and teacher for all Christ's disciples, but especially for those of us who live here in Turkey; the apostle of the gentiles is a son of this land and it was mainly here that ...
• 29 January 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' plenary focuses on the “role of women in the Church and in society”. Archbishop Castro Quiroga: “may women be once again energetic defenders of life, marriage and motherhood” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “The world expects Christian women, made bold by the power of the Holy Spirit, to be courageous apostles and missionary disciples of Jesus Christ; firm defenders of life, marriage and motherhoo ...
• 29 January 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops call the national government and armed groups to be reconciled and to resolve social and armed conflict; national demonstration 4 February Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Colombia gathered in a plenary assembly have urged Colombians to take part in a peaceful national demonstration on 4 February at midday to protest against the practice of ...
• 29 January 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “There is a split in the President's ethnic group: crisis more complex than it appeared” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Grave escalation of the Kenyan crisis: for the first time army helicopters opened fire to disperse angry mobs in Naivasha city, Rift Valley, 90 km from Nairobi, the centre of violence in recent ...
• 29 January 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Over six thousand people at Sunday's pro-life and pro-family gathering in Barcelona organised by “Pact for Life and Dignity” platform Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - More than six thousand people took part in Sunday's pro-life and pro-family gathering in Barcelona organised to defend life and the family by the platform “Pact for Life and Dignity” and a ...
• 29 January 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Sister receives award for 50 years of service to the rural poor Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In recognition of her person and service, appreciated by the Australian civil community, is the esteem of the entire nation for the Catholic Church: Sr Patricia Rhatigan, who dedicated 50 years ...
• 28 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope's Angelus: “The kingdom of God is therefore life which becomes apparent after death, the light of truth which dispels the shadows of mistruth ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The beginning of Christ's public mission narrated by St Mark the Evangelist in the liturgy of the Word for the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, is marked by preaching of the Kingdom and healing ...
• 28 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses the Roman Rota: “render Rotal jurisprudence ever more openly unitary and effectively accessible to all operators of justice so as to reach uniform application in all Church tribunals” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The first centenary of the re-establishing of the Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota on the part of Saint Pius X, “is an opportune occasion to reflect on a fundamental aspect of the Rot ...
• 28 January 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI concludes Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “today, as in the past, Ecumenism has a profound need of that vast community of Christians of all traditions who without clamour pray and offer their life to promote unity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “At the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we are ever more aware that the task of recomposing unity, which requires our efforts and energy, is infinitely superior to our capab ...
• 28 January 2008
  VATICAN - “The law of the Church is first of all, lex libertatis: a law which renders us free to follow Christ” the Pope said at a Conference promoted by the Pontifical Commission for Legislative Texts Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Ius ecclesiae is not only a set of norms produced by the ecclesial Legislator for this special people, the Church of Christ. It is first and foremost an authoritative declaration on the ...