News

• 7 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 12th Station: JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS Rome (Fides News Service) - 12th Station: JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to John 19:19-20 Pilate ...
• 7 March 2007
  ASIA/THAILAND - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Nakhon Sawan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 7 March 2007, appointed Rev. Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovitvanit Bishop of Nakhon Sawan in Thailand, until now the Bishop elect was parish priest at t ...
• 7 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “True Love; Family and Educative Community; How to be good parents today”: themes of Pro Vita et Familia Pre-Congress to intensify evangelisation all over the country Quito (Agenzia Fides) - “True Love; Family and Educative Community; How to be good parents today” are three themes for reflection during a Pro Vita et Familia Pre-Congress organised in the archdiocese of Quito (Ecuad ...
• 7 March 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “We are One and we are Many”: archdiocese of Adelaide focuses Lenten Programme on Multi-Cultural richness Adelaide (Fides Service) - The society of Adelaide, the principal city of South Australia, is markedly multi-cultural with various generations of emigrants from many different European and Asian countries, and the local ...
• 7 March 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Mary and ‘our dear Sister Death’ Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Season of Lent is particularly appropriate for meditating on the “Novissima” or “newest things” (Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell), especially on death, not only on the significan ...
• 7 March 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - Act of re-consecration of the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Golden Jubilee Accra (Agenzia Fides)- “On the eve of Ghana’s independence in 1957, the then Bishops consecrated Ghana to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference deemed it appropriate to renew this consecration ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake in Sumatra, society mobilised. Catholic Bishop of Padang: “With trust in Divine Providence let us help our brothers and sisters in difficulty” Padang (Fides Service) - “It was unexpected and terrible and left the people prostrate”, said a local church source in Padang with regard to the impact of a 6.3 Richter scale earthquake which struck the island of Sum ...
• 6 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 11th Station: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS Rome (Fides News Service) - 11th Station: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:37-42 ...
• 6 March 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - Celebrations for fifty years of independence: Catholic Bishops entrust the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Accra (Fides Service)- Ghana celebrates today 6 March 50th anniversary of independence. This country was to first shake off the yoke of colonial to be ruled by black Africans. The people of Ghana, just over 22 million, a ...
• 6 March 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Towards CELAM 5: 15th Theology Week also via the Internet, focus on Discipleship Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Discipleship is the theme of the 15th Theology Week 5 to 9 March organised jointly by the Inter-Continental University of Mexico and the Missionaries of Guadalupe. The theme was drawn from ...
• 6 March 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA-TORONTO - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 9 December 2006, appointed Ms Marie T. Deans National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in C ...
• 6 March 2007
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Many young Polynesians need to know more about Jesus and his message of happiness and hope.: mission during Lent, dedicated this year to evangelising young people and helping the poor Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - “Too many Christians live Lent absentmindedly…their minds are more concerned with other things” Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath of Papeete, Tahiti, writes in a local Catholic periodical La Se ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Pastoral activity and budding vocations in the tiny Catholic community in vast central Asian step lands Karaganda (Fides Service) - Pastoral work is proceeding well for the first two priests ordained after theological studies at the Catholic Seminary in Karaganda, the only Catholic seminary in Central Asia. The inter-dioce ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Harmony Forums to be launched in Gujarat to counter communalism Gandhinagar (Fides Service) - To foster a more harmonious society the Indian Bishops’ Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and the Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue, western region, will launch Harmony Forums i ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Wu An parish sends 100 lay missionaries to surrounding villages Han Dan (Fides Service) - The parish of Wu An in the diocese of Han Dan, which has a long and glorious tradition in evangelisation, at the beginning of Lent celebrated a solemn rite to confer the missionary mandate to re ...