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27 January 2007
VATICAN - Intentions entrusted by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the Apostleship of Prayer for the year 2008
Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below the General and Missionary Prayer Intentions entrusted by Pope Benedict XVI to the Apostolate of Prayer for the year 2008.
JANUARY
General:
That the Church may strengthe ...
26 January 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI concludes Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “We must ask ourselves: have we Christians become too silent? Do we perhaps lack the courage to speak out and bear witness like those who witnessed the healing of the deaf and dumb man? Our world needs this witness; it waits especially for the common witness of Christians”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Division and incommunicability, consequences of sin, are contrary to God’s plan for humanity… "speaking" and "listening are essential conditions for building the civilisation of love ...
26 January 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI hopes coming Synod will help “rediscover the importance of the Word of God in the lives of all Christians, and of all ecclesial and civil communities and rediscover the missionary dynamism contained in the Word of God”: Audience to members of the ordinary Council of the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “On 25 January Pope Benedict XVI received the members of the ordinary council of the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops. The Council is currently preparing the 12th Ordinary Gen ...
26 January 2007
VATICAN - Holy See Press Office Statement: Pope Benedict XVI receives Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viêt Nam
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy See Press Office issued the following statement: “This morning, Thursday January 25, 2007, Nguyen Tan Dang, prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, was ...
25 January 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Name of Jesus Christ
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The ministers of the Church speak less and less about Jesus and ever more frequently about peace, justice, solidarity and dialogue …they are not convinced of the effectiveness of the Name ...
25 January 2007
VATICAN - “The path of ecumenism is slow and uphill, as every path of repentance. However it is a path which after the initial difficulties and precisely because of them, presents many occasions for joy, refreshing stops, and allows us now and then to inhale deeply the pure air of communion”: Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at the General Audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “marvellous flourishing of efforts to restore unity among Christians” particularly in the past 40 years was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during the weekly audience ...
25 January 2007
VATICAN - “Your prayers and participation in Holy Childhood initiatives will help support the vocation and mission of many priests, religious and lay men and women. They need you” says Cardinal Dias in a special Holy Childhood Day message to Catholic children in Spain
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In a special message to Catholic children in Spain who will celebrate their annual Holy Childhood Day on Sunday 28 January (see Fides 24/1/2007), Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congreg ...
24 January 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mother of Unity
Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. Now the body is not a single part, but ...
24 January 2007
VATICAN - Following the death of Abbé Pierre, founder of the Emmaus Movement, Pope Benedict XVI sends telegrame of condolence to the Archbishop of Bordeaux France
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Given below is the text of a telegramme sent on behalf of the Holy Father, by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, Fr ...
24 January 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s message for World Communications Day: The Formation of Children and the Formation of the Media
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for his message on the occasion of the 41st World Communications Day on May 20. In the messa ...
23 January 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe: Estonia(I)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Brief History. The forefathers of present day Estonians were Esti tribes organised in small states vaguely federal in the first century AD. In 1219 King Waldemar II of Denmark invaded north ...
22 January 2007
VATICANO - The Holy See Press Office statement following Meeting on the situation of the Catholic Church in China.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office today released the following statement at the close of a meeting held in the Vatican from January 19 to 20, on the situation of the Catholic Church in China. "Pop ...
22 January 2007
VATICAN - “It is necessary to proclaim the integral message of Salvation, so it may impregnate the roots of culture and be incarnated in present day Latin America in order to respond better to its needs and legitimate aspirations.”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants at Pontifical Commission for Latin America plenary
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 20 January in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received the 50 participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America presided by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...
22 January 2007
VATICAN - “Ecumenism is a profound dialogical experience, listening and speaking to one another, getting to know one other better; this is a task for everyone, especially spiritual ecumenism based on prayer and sharing among Christians as far as this is possible at the moment”: the Pope’s reflection at the Angelus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 21 January, in the middle of the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity", before leading from his study window the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer with the crowds gathered in ...
20 January 2007
EUROPE - Pope Benedict XVI will meet European and Asian university Students on March 10
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 March 2007 at 4pm in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, European and Asian university students will gather for a prayer meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on the theme “Intellectual Char ...
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