News

• 21 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The Pope’s smile will win the hearts of children”: National Director of Holy Childhood in Germany expresses his joy for the election of Benedict XVI Santa Cruz (Fides Service) - When Pope Benedict XVI imparted his first Blessing Urbi and Orbi on 19 April, Mgr. Winfried Pilz, director of Holy Childhood in Germany, was in Santa Cruz, in Bolivia, where he followed even ...
• 21 April 2005
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - “Pope Benedict XVI is God’s gift to the Church” Catholic Archbishop Kondrusiewicz of the Mother of God diocese in Moscow tells Russia’s Catholics Moscow (Fides Service) - With regard to the election of Benedict XVI in a message to his people to be read on Sunday 25 April in all the Catholic churches in the diocese Catholic Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Moth ...
• 21 April 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria: Commitment for peace and justice, always necessary, was particularly important for John Paul II and so it will be for Benedict XVI Vienna (Fides Service) - “With all those involved in missionary activity I express great joy for the election of the new Pope Benedict XVI” national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria - Missio A ...
• 21 April 2005
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese Catholics say of Benedict XVI “his face is illuminated by the Holy Spirit ” Beirut (Fides Service) - “This Pontiff will know how to guide the Church of the present day on a safe course”, Syrian Catholic Bishop Raboula Antoine Beylouni in Lebanon told Fides. “Catholics in Beirut are very ha ...
• 21 April 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Catholics rejoice: “The new Pope will advocate for third world countries and work for the rebirth of the Church everywhere particularly in Europe” New Delhi (Fides Service) - India’s 16 million Catholics are rejoicing for the election of Pope Benedict XVI whom they assure of their loyalty, devotion and obedience, the All India Catholic Union which represents Ca ...
• 21 April 2005
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Catholics in Mbulu welcome the Pope from Bavaria whose compatriots helped build the local cathedral Dar es Salaam (Fides Service)- “The news of the election of Pope Benedict XVI was welcomed with cheers and applause and the ringing of church bells all over the diocese of Mbulu” Fr. Reginald Barhe in Mbulu diocese ...
• 21 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “As faithful heirs of St Daniel Comboni, we respond to the request of Pope Benedict XVI assuring incessant prayer and renewed commitment for the mission of the church today : Message from the Superior general of the Comboni missionary sisters Rome (Fides Service) - Superior General of the Comboni missionary sisters, Mother Adele Brambilla, sent a message to her congregation on the occasion of the election of Pope Benedict XVI in which she wrote: “Suddenly ...
• 21 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Benedictine Abbot Primate Notker Wolf says “the choice of the name Benedict was an act of love ” Rome (Fides Service) - At the time of Cardinal Ratzinger’s election as Pope, Abbot Notker Wolf Primate of Confederated Benedictines since 2000, in Mexico at the time, was surprised at the choice of the name Benedict X ...
• 21 April 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane: “The Pope will strive to spread the message of Christ and the joy, happiness and dynamism which come with it”. Brisbane (Fides Service) - “Benedict XVI has the grave responsibility to lead the world’s one million Catholics. I was surprise that he was elected so swiftly, a fact which shows there was almost unanimous consensus. ...
• 20 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany: Benedict XVI will have to build bridges to promote peace, justice and reconciliation and continue dialogue with other religions and promote the development of the young Churches in Africa, Asia and Oceania Aachen/München (Fides Service) - The National directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany (misso Aachen/missio Münschen), Fr. Hermann Schalück OFM and Fr. Eric Enlgert OSA, sent a statement to Fides hail ...
• 20 April 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pope Benedict XVI a prophet of truth and humility: testimony from Archbishop Francisco Perez Gonzelez, PMS National Director in Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI “is a great gift and we must be at his side with prayers and being united among ourselves” said Archbishop Francisco Pérez González, national director of the Pontifical M ...
• 20 April 2005
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “We pray Benedict XVI may be a bridge between the Church in the East and the Church in the West” Chaldean Catholic Bishop in Cairo told Fides Cairo (Fides Service) - “I was celebrating Mass when the white smoke appeared. I was informed and immediately announced to local Catholics the name of the new Pope Benedict XVI , faces were radiant with happiness”, C ...
• 20 April 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Benedict XVI will open up the Church with ecumenical dialogue” says Archbishop of Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (Fides Service) - Archbishop Dadeus Gringo of Porto Alegre (Brazil) said in a press statement to the media in Brazil, the new Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, the first German Pope since the Middle Ages, is a man ...
• 20 April 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "We greet with happiness and joy our new Holy Father. United to him we renew our commitment to support missionaries": National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States told Fides New York (Fides Service) - Mgr John E. Kozar, National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States sent Fides the following statement after the election of Pope Benedict 16th : “With happiness and jo ...
• 20 April 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses message to Christians and all men and women of goodwill at the end of his first Mass with Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel: “From God I invoke unity and peace for the human family and declare the willingness of all Catholics to co-operate for true social development, one that respects the dignity of all human beings” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, 20 April at 9am the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass with the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. At the end of the Mass the Pope read his message in Latin of whic ...