News

• 11 September 2006
  VATICAN - Opening ceremony of CEP Study Seminar in Rome for 99 Bishops in mission territories appointed in the past two years: “You bishops are the builders of the Church which has started a new millennium in its history” Card Dias says Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn celebration of Vespers, yesterday Sunday 10 September, opened the Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for 99 Bishops appointed in the pas ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/LEBANON - “Since the fighting stopped hope has returned”: testimony from Father Fadel Sidarouss SJ, Near East Jesuit Provincial Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - “The cries of the poor and the victims of war reach our hearts, but in Lebanon life has resumed since the fighting stopped: refugees have returned home, schools and markets have opened, rebuild ...
• 11 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict in Bavaria- “The world needs God, We need God...We do not fail to show respect for other religions and cultures...when we profess our faith clearly and uncompromisingly in the God who counters violence with His own suffering; who in the face of the power of evil exalts his mercy, in order that evil may be limited and overcome” Munich (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 September 23rd Sunday of Ordinary time, Pope Benedict XVI presided an outdoor Mass at Munich’s new exhibition NeuMesse centre and led the recitation of the Angelus prayer at midday ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - No to terrorism and violence: religious communities and civil society in Maharashtra condemn attacks on Malegaon mosque and vow to promote social and religious harmony Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The people’s response to violence and terrorism is ‘no’. After the recent attack in front of a mosque in Malegaon, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, “people in Maharashtra have ...
• 11 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The Catholic Church will never stop fighting for life, its opinion will never change” says president of Bishops’ Conference in reply to a campaign to discredit the Catholic Church Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In response to criticism from some sectors of society of the local Catholic Church’s opposition to allow an abortion to be practised on a minor a statement was issued by the standing committee ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Church prays and hopes the lives of three Catholics will be saved Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Indonesia fear for the fate of three Catholics from Poso in Sulawesi, Fabianus Tibo, Marinus Riwa and Dominggus da Silva accused of homicide during inter-religious clashes in Poso 2 ...
• 11 September 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Evangelisation on line allows Catholics to share the faith: 200 students complete first year and start second year Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The final statement issued at the end of Asian Youth Day in Hong Kong called for the Internet to be used for evangelisation particularly for the benefit of young people. A programme for Evange ...
• 9 September 2006
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “The number of people seeking hospital treatment for intoxication symptoms has not diminished” says a missionary in Abidjan: toxic waste nightmare continues Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “The number of people seeking hospital treatment for intoxication symptoms has not diminished”. For the moment street protests have stopped, but people are demanding free medicines to treat t ...
• 9 September 2006
  Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the Albanian hills outside Rome. Here, after three weeks rest at Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta, he resumed his o ...
• 8 September 2006
  VATICAN - Study Seminar in Rome for 99 recently appointed Bishops in mission territories for which the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples is responsible Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - About 99 Bishops are expected to arrive in Rome to take part in a Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples which will open with Vespers on 10 September ...
• 8 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI starts his apostolic visit to Bavaria where he was born, grew up, and ministered before being called to Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict entrusted his imminent 6 day visit to southern Germany to the Blessed Virgin Mary when he addressed thousands people at the Wednesday audience in St Peter’s square on Septem ...
• 8 September 2006
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - “Many challenges, one proposal: Brotherhood” - international Brotherhood Day organised by the Focolari Movement to commemorate tragedy 50 years ago Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 16 September at least 11,000 people from 64 different countries are expected to gather in Budapest SportArena for an International Brotherhood Day organised by the Focolari Movement to ...
• 8 September 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - 5th edition of Mediterranean Youth Agora on the 7th Beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew “Blessed are the Merciful for they will receive mercy" Loreto (Agenzia Fides) - The 5th edition of Mediterranean Youth Agora organised jointly by the Italian Bishops’ national youth pastoral service and the national Office for cooperation among Churches, taking place in Lo ...
• 8 September 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - 120 Benedictine nuns from all over the world are taking part in an international symposium on “Guiding with Wisdom”: the Benedictine rule in the light of the Beatitudes Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The S. Anselmo Pontifical Liturgical Institute is hosting the 5th international symposium of the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum CIB on the theme “Guiding with wisdom... so that the stro ...
• 8 September 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Local Church drafts plan to stop violent cattle raids Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Only sustained mediation and development - not the use of force by State security personnel - can restore peace among traditionally hostile herding communities in Kenya’s Rift Valley Provinc ...