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• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI and European University Day: “Intellectual charity can unite the existential journey of young people who live far apart but nevertheless feel connected with each other at the level of interior research and witness ” Vatican City (Fides Service)- In the late afternoon of Saturday 10 March in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI addressed university students taking part in the 5th European University Day on the theme "Int ...
• 12 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - The family in Europe is in danger. Highly aggressive anti-Christian legislation and groups refuse to recognise the family as a value and a juridical good to be protected. The transcendent dimension of the human person is ignored. Rome (Fides Service) - "The Family: the Future of Europe" was the theme of a European Conference on the Family organised by the Institute for Higher Studies on Women of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rom ...
• 12 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Hundreds of families will have new homes at Cardinal Etsou Peace City in memory of the late Cardinal Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Over 900 families displaced by civil war in Congo will soon move into brand new homes in Cardinal Etsou Peace City in an advanced stage of construction in the Mokali district, in east Kinshasa c ...
• 12 March 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “We are each called by name for mission and evangelisation”: Archbishop of Tucuman Pastoral Letter on the Sacrament of Confirmation Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - "Lord, May Your Promise Come True in Us" is the title of a Pastoral Letter issued by Archbishop Luis H. Villalba of Tucuman archdiocese in Argentina focussed on the Sacrament of Confirmation wit ...
• 12 March 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Commission for Peace and Human Development stresses urgency of empowerment of women: much remains to be done to promote women's rights in Pakistan Lahore (Fides Service) - Denouncing various forms of violence against women in Pakistan including domestic violence, deprivation from the voting right and denial of equal opportunities, the local Commission for Peace and ...
• 12 March 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Increasing number of Korean Catholics in overseas communities , but there is still room for mission Seoul (Fides Service) - According to Statistics of Overseas Korean Catholics published by the Korean Bishops’ Committee for the Pastoral Care of Migrants, the number of practicing Korean Catholics in overseas Catholic ...
• 10 March 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The Bishop of Quelimane resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 10 March 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Quelimane (Mozambique) presented by Bishop Bernardo Filipe Governo ...
• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - The diocesan investigation into the life, virtues and fame of holiness of John Paul II will conclude in the Cathedral of Rome on 2 April the 2nd anniversary of the death of the late Pontiff Rome (Fides Service) - The diocesan investigation into the life, virtues and fame of holiness of John Paul II will conclude on 2 April in the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of Saint John in the Lateran. This was announc ...
• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Much of what is transmitted in various forms to the homes of millions of families around the world is destructive. By directing the light of Christ’s truth upon such shadows the Church engenders hope.”: Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 9 in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which is presided by Archbishop John P. Foley “U ...
• 10 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Meeting the challenges in our province: security and economic development with respect for human rights and the environment” Catholic Bishops of Katanga Kinshasa (Fides Service)- In a message bearing the title “May our hope not be disappointed” the Catholic Bishops of the province of Lubumbashi, Katanga southern Congo, encourage the people and rally the national lead ...
• 10 March 2007
  ASIA - Cardinal Martino in Asia for two meetings “Shrines and Pilgrimages” in Bangalore and “Service and Assistance to Asian Migrants” in Taipei Vatican City (Fides Service) - Forty theologians and about the same number of other participants including cardinals, bishops, priests and lay Catholics will attend a Conference on Shrines and Pilgrimages in Bangalore ( ...
• 10 March 2007
  Instrumentum mensis Februarii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum In February with his Message for Lent 2007 the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, offered the faithful a source of meditation and a means of living more intensely the forty days in preparation for Easter. “Lent - the Holy ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 14th Station: JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB Rome (Fides News Service) - 14th Station: JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:59-61 Jos ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - “The ancient custom of Peter’s Pence stems from the awareness that each member of the faithful is called to offer material support for the work of evangelisation and to assist the poor and the needy with generosity”: the Pope receives Circolo San Pietro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 8 the Pope received members of the Rome-based charity organization, the Circolo San Pietro, for their traditional annual audience during which they present him with Peter's Pence, ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - Cardinal Dias and Cardinal Kasper appointed by the Pope members of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed members of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue Cardinals Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Pe ...