Vatican

• 30 November 2007
  SPECIAL - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello SPE SALVI, the second Encyclical of His Holiness Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A magnificent fresco on Christian hope, the new Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI: Spe Salvi facti sumus, “In hope we were saved” (Cf Rom 8,24) is the title and I wager it will occupy no ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Thailand-Myanmar: a baby girl at the meat market is worth 15 euro - A new director for the Vatican Museums: Antonio Paolucci Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the web site “Dio: pace o dominio”: Testimony from a missionary in a village in northernThailand-Myanmar. Remember the teaching of Don Oreste? "Prostitution is the effect of the most ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Josephine Bakhita, the slave who became the first Sudanese saint, cited as an example in Pope Benedict XVI 's new encyclical Spe salvi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Josephine Bakhita, the first Saint of Sudan and the first African woman to be raised to the honour of the altars without being a martyr, is cited as an example in Spe salvi the second encyc ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - “Without ignoring or downplaying our differences as Christians and Muslims, we can and therefore should look to what unites us,”: the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI relies to open letter from 138 Muslim religious leaders Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 13, for the occasion of the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr), a group of 138 Muslim religious leaders sent an open letter to the Holy Father Benedict XVI and to o ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - John Paul II: the life of Saint Josephine Bakhita “ inspires the firm resolve to work effectively to free people from oppression and violence ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing the Bishops of Sudan received for their ad limina visit on 15 December Pope John Paul II mentioned the figures of two intrepid witnesses to the faith, “two holy individuals who ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Bishop Macram Max Gassis: Bakhita, an amazing sign for Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid in Sudan, speaking to Fides on the occasion of the canonisation of Josephine Bakhita (1 October 2000), said: “Bakhita is a symbol of ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved': second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI presented this morning Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI with the title "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved' was presented this morning, November 30 during a press conference at the John Paul II Hall o ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Reality comes before ideology, including that of “gender”. Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Never before as in these times of proclaimed ecological sensitivity, only on the nature of man everything and the opposite of everything can be said and done. Especially in the western area ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Italian edition of Pope Benedict XVI's New Encyclical “Spe salvi” included with December 9th issue of Catholic weekly “Famiglia Cristiana” - Collect and recycle mobile phones to support development programmes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian version of Pope Benedict XVI's new Encyclical XVI “Spe salvi” (Saved by Hope), to be made public at the Holy See Press Office on Friday 30 November, will be included with t ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope calls young migrants to be “ protagonists as of now of a world where understanding and solidarity, justice and peace will reign.” - Papal Message for 94th World Day for Migrants and Refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The vast globalisation process underway around the world brings a need for mobility, which also induces many young people to emigrate and live far from their families and their countrie ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope's catechesis dedicated to the figure of Saint Ephrem, “still relevant for the life of the different Churches”: “his is a theological reflection expressed with images and symbols taken from nature, from daily life and from the Bible” - Appeal for World AIDS Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a widespread opinion today that Christianity is a European religion which exported the culture of this continent to other countries. But the truth is much more complex since the Ch ...
• 28 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Osservatore Romano interview with president of Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco: “A Church loved by her people in a country in need of systematic re-evangelisation” - Sr Teresa Karottukunnel, FMA and her work to help drug addicts in India: Interview - Cardinal Bertone attends Pontifical Lateran University academic act to mark 70th anniversary of new premises Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In Italia there is a Church which is not interested in the life of political parties or how politics are run, it desires simply to love and serve the people speaking out clearly and firmly, ...
• 28 November 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - "With Jesus, history will never be the same again" , Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The personal story of every believer from the first real encounter with Jesus, undergoes a profound change, it will never be the same again: it becomes a story of salvation! It is no longer ...
• 27 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Forum of Catholic NGOs starts on November 30 in Rome - In India about 500 delegates will attend CCI Catholic Council of India Meeting Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A summit of Catholic NGOs proposed by the Holy See's Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone ,will start on 30 November in Rome. The Delegations, representing Caritas internationalis, ...
• 27 November 2007
  VATICAN - The missionary nature of the Church in post-council Magisterium (part one) Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the post-council period we saw, in the name of religious pluralism, a sort of levelling: Christ was presented as one of many mediators of salvation and the Church as one of many ways to ...