News

• 3 December 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bible Week closes: suggested reflections for Advent 2007 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of Bible Week held in Korea was to offer the faithful suggestions for living a fruitful Advent. The theme discussed by experts and the faithful was “Seed and Lamps for the World”, ...
• 3 December 2007
  AFRICA/TOGO - Bishop of Aného appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2007 appointed as Bishop of Aného (Togo) Rev. Isaac Jogues Agbémenya Gaglo, until now diocesan administrator of Aného. Rev. Isaac Jogu ...
• 3 December 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Tezpur resigns, Successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 3 December 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Tezpur (India), presented by Bishop Robert Kerketta, S.D.B., in con ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - New Head of Office at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 1 December 2007, appointed Bureau Chief at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Rev. Mgr. Ermes Giovanni Viale, until now an official ...
• 1 December 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Jubilee Year for the 25th anniversary of the apparitions in Kibeho, presided by Cardinal Ivan Dias and a report on Rwanda's ecclesial situation Kibeho (Agenzia Fides)- “We are very grateful to Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for coming to preside the Mass to close a special Jubilee year for the 25th anniversary ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved': second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI presented this morning Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI with the title "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved' was presented this morning, November 30 during a press conference at the John Paul II Hall o ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Bishop Macram Max Gassis: Bakhita, an amazing sign for Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid in Sudan, speaking to Fides on the occasion of the canonisation of Josephine Bakhita (1 October 2000), said: “Bakhita is a symbol of ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - John Paul II: the life of Saint Josephine Bakhita “ inspires the firm resolve to work effectively to free people from oppression and violence ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing the Bishops of Sudan received for their ad limina visit on 15 December Pope John Paul II mentioned the figures of two intrepid witnesses to the faith, “two holy individuals who ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - “Without ignoring or downplaying our differences as Christians and Muslims, we can and therefore should look to what unites us,”: the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI relies to open letter from 138 Muslim religious leaders Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 13, for the occasion of the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr), a group of 138 Muslim religious leaders sent an open letter to the Holy Father Benedict XVI and to o ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Josephine Bakhita, the slave who became the first Sudanese saint, cited as an example in Pope Benedict XVI 's new encyclical Spe salvi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Josephine Bakhita, the first Saint of Sudan and the first African woman to be raised to the honour of the altars without being a martyr, is cited as an example in Spe salvi the second encyc ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Thailand-Myanmar: a baby girl at the meat market is worth 15 euro - A new director for the Vatican Museums: Antonio Paolucci Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the web site “Dio: pace o dominio”: Testimony from a missionary in a village in northernThailand-Myanmar. Remember the teaching of Don Oreste? "Prostitution is the effect of the most ...
• 30 November 2007
  SPECIAL - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello SPE SALVI, the second Encyclical of His Holiness Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A magnificent fresco on Christian hope, the new Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI: Spe Salvi facti sumus, “In hope we were saved” (Cf Rom 8,24) is the title and I wager it will occupy no ...
• 30 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Let us welcome Jesus into the world!” national Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood promotes Christmas Novena Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “Let us welcome Jesus into the world!” is the title of a Christmas Novena prepared by the national office of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood in Italy. From 16 December a daily ...
• 30 November 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Twelve associations stage abortion protest in front of the health ministry in Madrid Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - At 6.30pm this evening twelve associations will gather in front of the ministry of health in Madrid to call the government and parliament to guarantee rigorous obedience to the laws with regard t ...
• 30 November 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Chaos reigns in Somalia but some come looking for oil Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- Somalia is in the grip of chaos but business continues as usual. While most of the people in the capital Mogadishu have fled the city because of fighting between the Ethiopian troops supporting ...