Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Schools of Hong Kong will offer a new optional course on Morals and Religion starting in 2009. According to the Hong Kong diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the decision was taken by the Dioces ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the course of an Ordinary Public Consistory held this morning in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI established that on Friday, May 11, during the course of his Apostolic journey to Brazil, he will ca ...
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - For the Church in Spain the first Sunday in March (this year March 4) is Latin America Day promoted by the Spanish Bishops’ Commission for Missions and Cooperation among Churches to recall the relations ...
New Delhi (Fides Service) - In the name of the sacredness of human life Caritas India, the largest national NGO of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), has devised an integrated programme "Save Farmers-Save India" to ...
Rome (Fides News Service) -
V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:27-31
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus int ...
Dakar (Fides Service)- “The elections will reveal the vitality of the country’s democratic system” said local Church sources in Dakar capital of Senegal, where a first round of presidential elections will be held on Sunday ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again, given the large number of visitors for the General Audience on Wednesday 21 February, Ash Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI gave his audience in two stages. First to St Peter’s Basilica wher ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since some Catholics have adopted an individualistic ‘liberal’ idea of conscience, rejecting the idea of communion of conscience, in which the individual Christian and the Church are one Body, g ...
Rome (Agence Fides) - STABAT MATER
Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic hymn attributed to Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother was stand ...
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Ash Wednesday is considered the ‘gateway’ to Lent. In fact today’s Liturgy and its distinctive actions anticipate in a synthetic form the very physiognomy of the Lenten Season. In her tradit ...
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the annual Lenten Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil, this year with the theme “Fraternity and Amazon" and the motto "Life and Mission in that Land " (see Fides 20/2/2007), Pope Be ...
Paisley (Agenzia Fides) - In a Pastoral Letter read out at all Masses in the Diocese of Paisley on Sunday (18 February 2007) Bishop Philip Tartaglia called for action to protect "the religious freedom of the Catholic Church in the ...
Rome (Fides News Service) The STATIONS OF THE CROSS (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, ...
Bella Vista (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate its 180th anniversary the parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen parish in Bella Vista, Argentina has organised various initiatives.
Among the different cultural activities already underw ...
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 December 2006 appointed Rev. Jean A. Mendes Martins of the diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde, National Directo ...
