Vatican

• 17 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS: “ONCE AGAIN TERRORISM HAS COMMITTED ITS TERRIBLE ACT, PARTICULARLY DEVASTATING IN IRAQ AND TURKEY.... I RENEW MY FIRM CONDEMNATION ALSO FOR EVERY TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE HOLY LAND... THE HOLY LAND NEEDS NOT WALLS BUT BRIDGES!” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Once again in the past few days, terrorism has committed its terrible act particularly devastating in Iraq and in Turkey. As I continue to pray for the victims, I confirm my spiritual ...
• 14 November 2003
  VATICAN - LEO XIII AND PEACE CONVENTIONS PROMOTED BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE AND THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF THIS GREAT POPE Vatican City (Fides Service) – In history’s passage from the 19th to the 20th centuries and the definitive turn towards modernity, the impulse given by Pope Leo XIII to a new presence and activity of the Holy See at ...
• 14 November 2003
  VATICAN - “IT IS IMPORTANT TO PROPOSE TO PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR, FIGURES AND EXPERIENCES THAT HELP THEM TO GROW AT THE HUMAN, PSYCHOLOGICAL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL LEVEL”, POPE JOHN PAUL II ADDRESSES 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to participants at the 18th International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for t ...
• 13 November 2003
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK STARTS ITS 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “DEPRESSION” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Some 600 participants, health experts, cardinals, bishops and laity gathered in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican for the 18th International Conference organised by Pontifical Council for ...
• 13 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE PRESIDES MASS FOR THE CARDINALS AND BISHOPS WHO DIED IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS: “ALL THESE VENERABLE BROTHERS ARE NOW IN THE PROVIDENT ‘HANDS’ OF GOD WHO HAS WELCOMED INTO THE ETERNAL EMBRACE OF HIS LOVE ” Vatican City (Fides) – On Thursday 13 November at 11.30am Pope John Paul II presided a Concelebration of the Holy Eucharist in St Peter’s Basilica for the cardinals and bishops who died during the last 12 months. ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SENDS TELEGRAMME OF CONDOLENCE TO ITALIAN PRESIDENT CIAMPI AFTER MORTAL ATTACK ON ITALIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN NASSIRIYA (IRAQ) Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a telegramme of condolence to the President of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for the death of Italian peacekeepers in a car bomb attack on an Italian Army base at Nass ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE TEACHING: “IN CHRISTIAN CELEBRATIONS THE SUFFERING OF THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE ECHOED IN THE HEARTS OF ALL; AS TOO THE JOY OF EACH SHOULD BE LIVED BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY OF WORSHIPPERS ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Psalm 141 – “You are my refuge” – recited by Saint Francis of Assisi a few moments before his death, was the subject of the teaching given by Pope John Paul II during his general ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE FIELD OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED BUT IT DEMANDS GREAT CAUTION: CARDINAL MARTINO CONCLUDES SEMINAR ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Vatican City (Fides) - “The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will continue to help enlighten consciences so that vegetable bio-technology may be an opportunity for all and not a threat, within a political and ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN - 17 TO 22 NOVEMBER 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "STARTING OUT FROM CHRIST FOR RENEWED PASTORAL FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES". Vatican City (Fides) – “The migratory phenomenon was born with man. It dates back to the time of our ancestors. Today, however, it has acquired a universal dimension encouraged by various aspects of modern globalisat ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: “SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MUST STRIVE FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT OF ITS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS” Vatican City (Fides Service) - " We are united in our common desire to correct misunderstandings and even more to allow ourselves to be enlightened by the one Truth which governs the world and guides the lives of all men ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES A DELEGATION OF PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS: DESPITE OBSTACLES, WE CONTINUE TO SAY THAT PEACE IS POSSIBLE AND THAT IT IS REACHED ONLY WITH PATIENT DIALOGUE. TERRORISM IN EVERY FORM MUST BE CONDEMNED Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Monday 10 November in the Vatican Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to a delegation of Christian members of the Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine (OLP). He said h ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN/UNITED NATIONS - “PEACE IS POSSIBLE, PEACE MUST BE WILLED, EARNED AND SHARED AS A COMMON GOOD OF HUMANITY.”: HOLY SEE OBSERVER ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE SPEAKS ON CULTURE OF PEACE TO UN ASSEMBLY Vatican City (Fides Service) – “War destroys the life of innocent people, teaches how to kill, throws into upheaval even the lives of those who do the killing and leaves behind a trail of resentment and hatred, thus ...
• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - “DEPRESSION” TOPIC OF 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 13 to 15 November in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health Workers and the Sick will hold its 18th International Conference. The subjec ...
• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS MUST BE STUDIED IN VIEW OF RESPONSIBLE ETHIC AND PASTORAL DISCERNMENT: TODAY AND TOMORROW SEMINAR IN THE VATICAN PROMOTED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Collect as much information as possible on GMOs which will service to sustain ethic and pastoral discernment”: this was the finality indicated by the President of the Pontifical Counci ...
• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE BEATIFIES FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD, “PRECIOUS STONES” OF THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, THE CHURCH RESPLENDENT IN HOLINESS THE FRUIT OF THE INCESSANT WORKING OF GOD’S SPIRIT Vatican City (Fides Service ) – “A place reserved for divine worship is always a sign of the spiritual temple, the Church, composed of living stones, the faithful, united by the same faith, participation in the sac ...