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11 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Holy Land (3) - Visit to the Basilica of the Memorial of Moses: “Like Moses, we too have been called by name, invited to undertake a daily exodus from sin and slavery towards life and freedom.”
Mount Nebo (Agenzia Fides) – The first event of the Holy Father on May 9 was his visit to the ancient Basilica of the Memorial of Moses on Mount Nebo. “It is appropriate that my pilgrimage should begin on this mounta ...
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11 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Holy Land (2) - Visit to the Regina Pacis Center: “I come simply with one intention, a hope: to pray for the precious gift of unity and peace, most specifically for the Middle East.”
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - “Unlike the pilgrims of old, I do not come bearing gifts or offerings. I come simply with one intention, a hope: to pray for the precious gift of unity and peace, most specifically for the Middl ...
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11 May 2009
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in the Holy Land (1) - Welcoming Ceremony: “I come to Jordan as a pilgrim, to venerate holy places that have played such an important part in some of the key events of Biblical history.”
Amman (Agenzia Fides) – At 2:30pm on May 8, the Holy Father Benedict XVI was received by the King and Queen of Jordan at the Queen Alia Airport in Amman. “I come to Jordan as a pilgrim, to venerate holy places that h ...
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8 May 2009
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE : Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The world pollutes the Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his homily during the Mass for the ordination of priests for his diocese of Rome, in St Peter's Basilica on Good Shepherd Sunday, 3 May 2009, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, among other r ...
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8 May 2009
VATICAN - May 10-16, Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, May 10, National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) will arrive in Rome from every continent, to participate in the annual General Assembly of the PMS. The ses ...
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8 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Swiss Guard: “faith in Jesus Christ and in His love for mankind, even such different worlds can become a single unit, creating bridges of peace and solidarity between peoples”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church brings together men and women from very different cultures. They form a community in which people live and believe together and, in the essential things of life, understand on ...
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7 May 2009
VATICAN - Economic and social crisis lead to a discussion on fundamental human rights
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The basis of human rights has been the message of Christ that the Church has interpreted with various notions that have arisen in the Christian world, like the idea of the person, the id ...
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7 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI's catechesis on Saint John Damascene: “God wants to rest in us, he wants to renew nature also through our conversion, he wants to make us participants in his divinity.” Message to the people of Jordan, Israel, and Palestinian Territories
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – John Damascene is a “ a prominent personality in the history of Byzantine theology, a great doctor in the history of the universal Church. He is above all an eye witness of the passage ...
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6 May 2009
VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The Word of God: a bath which purifies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus said to her: “'Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?' (Jn 11, 40). Jesus' words to Martha, the sister of Lazarus, who had been dead for four days, c ...
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6 May 2009
VATICAN - Heroic testimony of catechists from the Church in Mozambique martyred in the civil war
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his recent talk during the Congress organized by the Saint Joseph's International Missionary College (see Fides 29 and 30/04/2009), Father Osorio Citora Afonso, IMC, from the Church in ...
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5 May 2009
VATICAN - The Pope in the Holy Land to encourage Christians and contribute with reconciliation throughout the entire region
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – A journey to confirm Christians in their faith, to speak as a pilgrim of peace in a land devastated by long decades of conflict, to continue on the path of ecumenism and dialogue among th ...
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5 May 2009
VATICAN - “Letter from Catechists to Catechists” in the Pauline Year, on the 30th anniversary of Saint Joseph's International Missionary College: “we feel called, right where we live, to be first and foremost the voice and the living presence of Christ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The “Letter from Catechists to Catechists,” which hopes to “confirm us in our vocation” and “give thanks to God” for the gift of believers who respond to the call to become ev ...
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5 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “Human rights, therefore, are ultimately rooted in a participation of God, who has created each human person with intelligence and freedom. If this solid ethical and political basis is ignored, human rights remain fragile since they are deprived of their sound foundation.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The natural law is The natural law is a universal guide recognizable to everyone, on the basis of which all people can reciprocally understand and love each other. Human rights, therefor ...
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4 May 2009
VATICAN - Five years after the Instruction “Erga migrantes caritas Christi,” the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People to hold World Congress in November
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the approval and publication of the Instruction “Erga migrantes caritas Christi” (The love of Christ towards migrants), the Pontifical Coun ...
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4 May 2009
VATICAN - Concert offered by President of the Italian Republic for the Holy Father, on the fourth anniversary of his Pontificate: “music becomes prayer”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “My deepest gratitude for an excellent musical tribute. I thank the Lord President for his courteous words and I greet his kind wife. The skill and enthusiasm with which it was performed ...
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