News

• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Enclosed monastic life: importance and significance for the world today, reflections by enclosed Benedictine nuns at S. Maria di Rosano Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone admires the beauty of a splendid rose bush or the sumptuous majesty of a great oak tree, but how many think of the root below these wonders of nature? Everyone knows the root is in ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Monks and nuns of enclosed orders are visible signs of God’s tent in the world: contribution from the Poor Clares at Otranto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, on 21 November in Italy believers are urged to celebrate the Day Pro Orantibus, to recall those men and women who still today choose to live for God alone at the margins of hu ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - A Day to recall those who help build the Kingdom of God through a contemplative life: 3,534 convents of enclosed nuns in the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was Pope Pius XII who instituted on 21 November 1953, on the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the “Day Pro Orantibus”. On this recurrence the faithful ar ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Convents and monasteries of contemplative life are an ‘oasis’ where man, a pilgrim on earth, can more easily draw from the sources of the Spirit and quench his thirst on his way. These apparently useless places are indispensable, like the green ‘lungs’ of a city”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus stresses the importance of the enclosed religious life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Holy Mary in the Temple, 21 November, the Church celebrates the “Day pro Orantibus” and recalls with prayer and concrete aid communitie ...
• 20 November 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - at least 200 Chinese Catholics attend Third Worldwide Chinese Pastoral and Evangelization Convention in Singapore - Message from the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - After lengthy and careful preparation the Third Worldwide Chinese Pastoral and Evangelization Convention on the theme " The Chinese Descendants: Subjects of Evangelisation" opened in Singapore ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Music can lead to prayer “it invites us to lift our mind to God to find in Him the reasons for our hope and the strength to face the difficulties of life”: Pope Benedict XVI’s address after a Concert in his honour given by the Philharmonic Quartet Berlin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Soloists playing together demands of the individual not only commitment of all one’s technical and musical ability to execute one’s own part, but at the same time the ability to list ...
• 18 November 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Tension in Antananarivo after a night of shooting. Fides first hand chronicle Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- The situation in Madagascar is uncertain after a night of gunfire in the capital in the early hours of the morning Saturday 18 November near Ivato Military Base adjacent to Antananarivo airp ...
• 18 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict’s prayer for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Agenzia Fides thinks it opportune to recall the prayer for Vocations composed by Pope Benedict XVI for this year’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations last May, held on Sunday 7th May. � ...
• 18 November 2006
  AMERICA/BELIZE - The Pope accepts the resignation of the Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan and appoints successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 18 November accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Belize City-Belmopan (Belize), presented by Bishop Osmond Peter Marti ...
• 18 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Ecumenism of love” says Pope Benedict XVI to plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Unity of Christians: “The dialogue of charity by nature promotes and illuminates dialogue of truth… certainly relativism or easy and false Irenaenism will not help ecumenical efforts Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 17 November Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians. In his address ...
• 17 November 2006
  VATICAN - Holy See Press Office statement with regard to Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with Heads of Roman Curia Offices Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The following statement was issued by the Holy See Press Office in the afternoon of Thursday 16 November: “Today 16 November in the morning, in the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father presi ...
• 16 November 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New rector appointed for All Saints inter-diocesan seminary in Benin City Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 8 September 2006, appointed Rector of the All Saints Inter-Diocesan Seminary in Benin City (Nigeria), R ...
• 16 November 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the General Audience: “We learn from Paul that the working of the Spirit orients our life towards the great values of love, joy, communion and hope. It is up to us to experience this every day heeding the promptings of the Spirit” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For the third Wednesday running Pope Benedict XVI devoted his General Audience teaching to the thought of Saint Paul: “We have before us a giant not only at the level of concrete aposto ...
• 16 November 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE rev. Nicola Bux and rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Priestly celibacy, horizon of a greater love Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote in his «Report on the Faith» published in 1985 «A priest is always tempted to grow accustomed to greatness, making it a routine. Today he might feel the g ...
• 16 November 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the Languages of the World: Portuguese (2) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With regard to the necessity to foster greater awareness of the importance of prayer, let us listen to what the Blessed Virgin Mary said when she appeared to the three shepherd children at ...