News

• 16 December 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Conception parish in Yi Chang diocese celebrates 100th anniversary: towering church cross now a city symbol Yi Chang (Agenzia Fides) - The towering cross belonging to Immaculate Conception parish in Yi Chang diocese, Hu Bei province of China has become a city symbol and a point of reference for the whole town. The parish, whic ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (6) Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. The prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, about 740 BC announces the future glory of Jerusalem at the time humiliated by Sennacherib, and ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Rome’s university students: “The Eucharistic mystery is the privileged point of convergence for the different ambits of Christian life, including that of intellectual research” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for Christmas at the end of a special Mass for students at the many universities in Rome celebrated by Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini in St Peter’s at 5pm on 14 December, Pop ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, they sign a Common Declaration: “It is our common responsibility to overcome, in love and truth, the many difficulties and sad experience of the past”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his address to His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, received in audience in the Vatican on December 14th, said “Greece and Rome intensifi ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD - “The priest: first son and then father of many” Mgr Massimo Camisasca Vatican City (Fides Service) - For twenty two years I have been involved in the formation of young men for the priesthood and I have followed in detail the itinerary of over a hundred priestly vocations, authentic or onl ...
• 15 December 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Advent of prayer and assistance for the poor and the excluded Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Papua New Guinea have intensified prayer and charitable works in the Season of Advent. In the parishes, often run by missionary congregations, priests, religious and laity gath ...
• 15 December 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Christmas celebrations are a wonderful opportunity to evangelise on the great values of the family”: Archbishop of Leon sends his people a special Christmas message Leon (Agenzia Fides) - In a special Christmas Message addressed to the diocese of León, Archbishop José G. Martin Rabago says that Christmas celebrations are a “wonderful opportunity to evangelise on the great values ...
• 15 December 2006
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Salesian Cooperator considered authentic witness of honesty and justice killed in ambush Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 December 34 year old Johnny Morales, a Salesian Cooperator in Guatemala was killed in an ambush. Rev Stjepan Bolkovac, SDB, Central Delegate of the Association of Salesian Cooperato ...
• 15 December 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Message for 23rd Caritas Sunday: give yourself, reach out to the hungry, the neglected, the sick Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Peace Be With You All in this Land’ is the title of a message issued by the country’s Catholic Bishops on the occasion of South Korea’s 23rd Caritas Sunday 17 December. The president of t ...
• 15 December 2006
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - After devastating the west, floods strike in the east, thousands of homes evacuated, people living on pirogues Bumba (Agenzia Fides)- The consequences of climate change are ever more serious in Africa. After Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea now the eastern regions of Democratic Congo are being devastated by torrential rains a ...
• 15 December 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops concerned for treatment of Religious Instruction in schools. New subject “Education to Citizenship” is state interference with the moral education Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain have expressed concern for treatment of Religious Instruction and the new subject of Education to Citizenship introduced by the government. In a statement dated 14 December i ...
• 15 December 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Intense preparation for 2nd Diocesan Mission Congress in Tang Shan (Yong Ping) diocese next year in November Tang Shan (Agenzia Fides) - To nourish the mission spirit born of the 1st Asian Mission Congress, the 3rd Meeting of Overseas Chinese Catholics and a Seminar on Priesthood, Evangelisation and Media promoted by Faith bull ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas CHRIST ANNOUNCED IN THE SCRIPTURES - Announcement and Fulfilment (5) Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH « For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. » (Isaiah 9, 5). ...
• 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 ...