News

• 5 December 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE” Ecclesiastic Archives (3) Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archives promote growth of sensus ecclesiae. The use of an ecclesiastic history archive fosters growth of sensus ecclesiae. First place in the life of the Church is given to the Christifide ...
• 5 December 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Italian missionary Fr. Eugenio Cucchi 34 years of mission in Malawi moves to new mission in Democratic Congo Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 December the community of Monfort missionaries in Lilongwe said goodbye to Superior Fr. Eugenio Cucchi 34 years of service in Malawi who was leaving for a new mission in the Democratic Re ...
• 5 December 2006
  AFRICA/BENIN - “Putting Children at the Centre of Advent”: Pastoral Letter from Bishop of Natitingou Natitingou (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the centre of a reflection on Advent in a Pastoral Letter “Christmas: popular religiosity and the future of our children”, issued by Bishop Pascal N’Koué of the diocese of ...
• 5 December 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - After recent episodes of violence, normal pastoral activity continues but Catholics demand more state protection New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A lay Catholic killed in Kashmir; a Catholic school sacked in Tamil Nadu: in recent days various attacks on Indian Catholics have caused tension and fear. “However we continue our pastoral a ...
• 5 December 2006
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Missionaries of Charity open new professional training centre for girls Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of Mother Teresa, the Missionaries of Charity have opened a new professional training centre for girls in Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim country. The community, two Indian sisters, one ...
• 5 December 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Durian: “God’s messages in natural disasters”, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of Bishops’ Conference Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Typhoon Durian was a message from God “a warning about what happens when natural resources are misused and maltreated by human negligence”. Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of the diocese of Jaro, p ...
• 4 December 2006
  VATICAN - NOVENA OF PRAYER IN PREPARATION FOR THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION DAY NINE: 7th DECEMBER Rome (Fides Service) - 7 DECEMBER 2006 DAY NINE: 7th DECEMBER O Divine Son of Mary Immaculate, O Sweet Redeemer! Just as you granted Mary the grace to be assumed into heaven and be seated beside You, we humbly beg y ...
• 4 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus gives thanks for the “unforgettable spiritual and pastoral experience” of his journey to Turkey and urges Christians to live an authentic and fruitful Season of Advent Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his Angelus reflection on Sunday 3 December Pope Benedict XVI said “I wish with you to thank God for my apostolic journey to Turkey in which I felt I accompanied and sustained by t ...
• 4 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Holy Father presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent: “Awake! Remember God comes! Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today, now! The one true God, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob", is not a God up in heaven with no interest for us and our history, he is a God-who-comes.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “At the beginning of a new Liturgical Year, the Liturgy calls the Church to renew its announcement to the nations, in two words: "God comes"… Not in the past - God came -, or in the fut ...
• 4 December 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples presides Mass on the Feast of Saint Francis Xavier at the Church of Gesu Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the First Sunday of Advent December 3, the feast of Saint Francis Xavier patron of the missions, in this 500th year since his birth, (1506-1552), Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation ...
• 4 December 2006
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO -Rwandan refugee among first ordinations in the apostolic prefecture of Likouala Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides)- A sign of the unity of the Church in Africa. This was how parishioners saw the ordination as Deacon of Rwandan refugee Celestin Ndagijimana, in Saint-Paul d'Impfondo Church in the apostolic p ...
• 4 December 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Oaxaca conflict: Catholic Bishops of the Southern Pacific Region call on conflicting parties to listen with humility, dialogue intelligently, discern according to the Gospel and reject violent methods” Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Oaxaca and Chiapas, gathered with priests, religious and laity of the southern pacific region of Mexico to discus the life of the Church and the work of the inculturation ...
• 4 December 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - At least 3,000 Catholics attend closing celebrations for 450 years presence of the Catholic Church in Cambodia; Apostolic Blessing from the Pope and Message from Card. Dias Kompong Cham (Agenzia Fides) - At least 3,000 Catholics from all over the country gathered in central Cambodia on Sunday 3 December to celebrate with joy the closing of Jubilee celebrations to commemorate 450 years of th ...
• 4 December 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Jesuit mission helping the poor, the disabled, the marginalised Phnom Pen (Agenzia fides) - Assisting families, disadvantaged communities; assisting war victims, people mutilated by mines, and the disabled: there are the goals of the Jesuit Social Service in Cambodia, sponsored by th ...
• 4 December 2006
  AFRICA - Africa and south America south-south partnership to tackle global challenges Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- South-South Partnership for Development for more presence of African and South American countries on the international scene and to reinforce resistance to pressure from western states. This emer ...