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14 December 2006
December 2006 The Holy Father’s missionary prayer intention:
“That missionaries all over the world may live their vocation to be faithful followers of Christ with joy and enthusiasm”
Comment by Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church, from the beginning, has been the depositary of the Message of Salvation entrusted to her by Jesus Christ through the Apostles and at the same time the duty to preach the Lord’ ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - Timothy and Titus “teach us to serve the Gospel with generosity knowing that this involves a service to the Church”: Pope Benedict XVI illustrates the figure of two of St Paul’s co-workers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Vatican Basilica this morning, the Holy Father met with faithful from dioceses in the Italian region of Calabria, accompanied by their bishops who are in the process of completing th ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Primacy of Peter
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church should return to the courage and the intellectual strength of the early centuries and launch a new rational challenge in all fields. What attracted pagans, and not only in the fi ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for World Day of the Sick 2007: “Once again the Church turns her eyes to those who suffer and calls attention to the many incurably ill on every continent, particularly in places where poverty and hardship cause immense misery and grief ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father's Message for the 15th World Day of the Sick was made public on December 13. The event is due to be celebrated in Seoul, South Korea on February 11, 2007, Feast of Our Lady ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - New Rector for St Augustine’s inter-diocesan seminary for philosophy in Kalonda
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 October 2006, appointed Rector of St Augustine’s inter-diocesan major seminary for philosophy in K ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/ R.D. CONGO - Appointment of rector of Saint Cyprian major inter-diocesan in Kikwit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 October 2006, appointed rector of Saint Cyprian major inter-diocesan in Kikwit (R.D. Congo), Rev. Alb ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - WALKING TOWARDS CHRISTMAS - Announcement and Fulfilment (4)
Rome (Fides) - BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY
Isaiah 7, 14 : « Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.».
Luke 1, 31-32, 34-35) : « ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Commemoration of 60 Loyola Jesuit College students killed a year ago in Port Harcourt air-crash
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- A special Mass was celebrated on Sunday 10 December for the repose of the souls of the 60 students at Loyola Jesuit College Karu, Abuja (Nigeria) killed a year ago in an air crash in Port Harcourt ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s message for the World Day of Peace 2007: a summary of the main points
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Pope addresses a special message of prayerful good wishes for peace to Governments, leaders of nations and all men and women of good will. In his Message for World Peace Day ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA The Immaculate Conception, Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy of the Word which the Church offers us on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December, presents a marked contrast: the first reading from the Book of Genesis speaks of Ad ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations and the International Organizations attends 4th Special Session of UN Human Rights Council: “The victims are not just statistics; they are real people. Indeed the priority is action to end the killings and the abuses over political arrangements and commercial interests.”
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) -“For three years already the Holy See has been following with grave concern the terrible suffering of the people caught up in the tragic conflicts intermittently erupting in the Darfur region o ...
13 December 2006
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian mayor of Bethlehem issues customary Christmas Message: in the town where Jesus Christ was born citizens face serious economic and social difficulties
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - As Christmas draws near the town of Bethlehem is living one of the ‘most difficult periods in its history’, said the mayor Dr Victor Batarseh in his customary Christmas Message. The ‘wa ...
13 December 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Religious leaders say education must include transcendent values for authentic integral development of the human person
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the main religious confessions in Argentina met with the parliamentary Education Commission to defend articles which they consider indispensable and insist that ‘transc ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ Announced by the Scriptures- Announcement and Fulfilment (3)
Rome (Fides Service) - A FUTURE KING
The Patriarch Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham blesses his children before he dies. To Juda, his fourth son he says: « The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the ruler's sta ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE: Ecclesiastic Archives (4)
Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ecclesiastic Archives «a treasure in vases of clay». The importance indeed essentiality of archives for the very mission of the Church is directly in proportion to their complexity and fr ...
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