News
12 December 2006
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - On the feast of the Immaculate Conception local Camillan celebrated three important events
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Although in the capital of Burkina 8 December is not a Bank Holiday on the feast of the Immaculate Conception the Camillan Community in Burkina Faso celebrated three important events. The fi ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Perverse spiral of war, extremism and natural disasters. Islamic Courts ultimatum: “Ethiopian troops out by the end of the week or it will be war ”
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - With the humanitarian emergency caused by floods affecting vast areas of Somalia in recent months still critical, threatening clouds of war now appear on the horizon. Both the national interim ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for the World Day of Peace 2007: “The human person, the heart of peace”. “I am convinced that respect for the person promotes peace and that, in building peace, the foundations are laid for an authentic integral humanism”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope’s annual Message for the World Day of Peace, 1 January 2007 was made public this morning at the Holy See press office. “The human person, the heart of peace” is the theme cho ...
12 December 2006
AMERICA/CANADA - Debate on Redefining Marriage not Over: For Catholics, marriage is an issue intimately related to human nature which has been created male and female. Catholic teaching on this remains consistent and constant: marriage is the exclusive union of one man and one woman.
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Canada, together with the members of the majority of faith communities and with many Canadians who have no particular religious affiliation, have voiced disappointment th ...
12 December 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops thank German Catholics for dedicating Advent Campaign to Mexico and the difficulties of emigrants
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico sent a message to the people of Germany thanking them for dedicating this year’s Adveniat national Advent Campaign to Mexico and in particular to the issue of emigrat ...
12 December 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Bishops’ biannual plenary: family pastoral, youth, inter-religious relations
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Pastoral care for families was the central theme of a recent biannual conference of the Catholic Bishops of Australia in Sydney during which the Bishops approved the publication of a booklet “D ...
12 December 2006
ASIA/LAOS - New local priests welcomed by small Catholic community as a sign of hope
Thakhek (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Laos are rejoicing for the ordination of two new local priests. Deacons Pierre Wilaiphorn Phonasa and Lucas Sukpaphorn Duangchansai were ordained priests by Bishop Jean Sommeng Wora ...
12 December 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Jesuit missionary Robert De Nobili, a religious, linguistic and cultural revolutionary
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Robert De Nobili, popularly known in Tamil Nadu as a philosophical preacher, was a religious, linguistic and cultural revolutionary said Father M. Devadoss Jesuit Madurai Provincial, when he i ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA - Africa’s oil and Africa’s future
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Pope Benedict XVI’s warning with reward to disregard for the environment and damage caused by the oil rush describe with dramatic precision the situation in Africa where new and old powers fight ...
11 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas - Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and fulfilment (2)
Rome (Fides Service) - THE WOMAN, HER OFFSPRING. VICTORY OVER THE EVIL ONE, SALVATION OF MANKIND
After the sin and fall of Adam and Eve, God announces salvation and says to the serpent: « I shall put enmity between you ...
11 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Preparing for Christmas means striving to build ‘God’s dwelling place among us. No one is excluded; everyone can and must help to make this home of communion spacious and beautiful” - appeal for the Middle East and Lebanon
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 December, as Bishop of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI went to consecrate a new parish church in the outskirts of Rome dedicated to Mary, Star of Evangelisation. Before the Angelus pra ...
11 December 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Dedication of a new church: “Particularly in our widely secularised social context today, the parish is a beacon which irradiates the light of the faith and responds to the deepest and truest longings of the human heart”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 December, as Bishop of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI went to dedicate a new church in the southern outskirts of Rome dedicated to Saint Mary, Star of Evangelisation. This was the fir ...
11 December 2006
VATICAN - “The feast of the Immaculate conception illuminates like a beacon the Season of Advent, time of trustful watching for the coming of the Saviour”: the Pope’s prayer on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today we celebrate one of the most beautiful and popular feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary: her Immaculate Conception. Mary never committed sin, indeed she was preserved even from that c ...
11 December 2006
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The Pope appoints new Archbishop of Kananga
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 9 December 2006, appointed Archbishop of Kananga (Democratic Republic of Congo) Bishop Marcel Madila Basanguka, until now titular Bishop of Gigti and ...
11 December 2006
AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Pope appoints Coadjutor Archbishop of Lubango
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 11 December 2006, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Lubango (Angola) Bishop Gabriel Mbilingi, C.S.Sp., until now Bishop of Lwena (Angola). (S.L.) (Age ...
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