News
7 January 2009
AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, appointed Pontifical Legate for the World Meeting of Families
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Almost everything is prepared for the arrival of nearly 30 Cardinals and 200 Bishops who will come from all over the world, in addition to many families, to attend the 6th World Meeting of ...
7 January 2009
ASIA/SRI LANKA - With conflict ever fiercer, the Church calls for protection and assistance for displaced persons
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – The conflict in Sri Lanka is at the stage where the regular army has launched a massive effort to bend the resistance of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). In the north of Sri Lanka ...
7 January 2009
ASIA/INDIA - With Church/government collaboration Catholic centre cares for 'today's lepers”: persons suffering from AIDS
Raipur (Agenzia Fides) –Jeevodaya Centre in the diocese of Raipur was originally Pallottine for people with leprosy. Today the patients are persons with AIDS or TB. The recent inauguration of new structures for people ...
5 January 2009
EUROPE/GERMANY - “The condominium, the Turkish district and an Italian woman pensioner - fears and hopes”
(correspondence from Luca De Mata in Germany- part 11)
Germany (Agenzia Fides) - I am in Germany. Where, is of little importance. This is one of Germany's main cities, one of those which did not experience Communism and whose growth is due also to the work of numerous immigr ...
3 January 2009
The 80th Anniversary of Opus Dei
A Message of Holiness in the World
Introduction
1. The Founder: Saint Josemaría Escrivá
1.1 A man who knew how to love
1.2 His life
2.The Spirit of the Work
2.1 The model of the first Christians
2.2 The sanctification of work
...
2 January 2009
THE QUESTION OF IMMIGRATION
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1)
Introduction
Historical and economic origins of immigration in the United States
From the 20th century to today: History and Politics
Political-commercial relations between Mexico and the USA
Hispa ...
2 January 2009
Dossier - The Pontifical Council Cor Unum
Introduction
Structure, purpose and goals of the Pontifical Council
Cor Unum, the Pope's charity arm
Cor Unum and the encyclical Deus Caritas Est
Pope Benedict XVI addresses Cor Unum
Interview with C ...
30 December 2008
THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2008
The names of catholics killed while on mission in 2008
Priests and religious killed in 2008 biographical notes and circumstances of death
Table for year 2008
Table of pastoral workers killed on mission between ...
23 December 2008
DIES NATALIS DOMINI NOSTRI IESU CHRISTI 2008 - Wishing you a blessed Christmas, in contemplation and proclamation of the mystery of Christ, who has become Incarnate in order to save all mankind and make us “God's light” to all peoples.
Luca de Mata, Director
and the editorial staff of Agenzia Fides
Blessed Christmas 2008 - New Year 2009
...
23 December 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Roman Curia: “The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given. May it always be alive in us and so be radiated on the world in the midst of its tribulations.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The year just concluding has been rich by way of retrospective glances on important moments in the recent history of the Church, but also rich in events which carry within them pointers ...
23 December 2008
MISSIONARY INTENTION - The Pope’s Missionary Intention for January 2009: “That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelization in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.” Commentary.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church is like a river that irrigates the heart of human history. Over its course, it finds ever new and different landscapes to which it must adapt herself. Sometimes they are narrow ...
23 December 2008
EUROPE/GERMANY - Agenzia Fides interviews an illegal immigrant in Germany on the tariffs and the fears of someone trying to enter Europe (Luca de Mata writes from Germany)
Cologne (Agenzia Fides) – An interview with an illegal Filipino immigrant normally involves a gathering of the large Filipino community. All of them want to tell their story. The trip. Humiliations and the debts that h ...
23 December 2008
AFRICA/EGYPT - “Perhaps if the Lord had chosen to be born in this epoch, given God's way of acting, He would not have disdained this place”: says a missionary working in the rag-picker district of Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “In our very modest structure we try to make sure the small classrooms where we teach our children are kept clean. We insist on the necessity of hygiene and order as a system of life, and we h ...
22 December 2008
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus recalls that in the Christmas mystery of salvation, “beyond the historical dimension... there is a cosmic dimension: Christ is the sun of grace who, with his light, transfigures and inflames the universe with expectation,” and greets participants in the initiatives underway for the world Year of Astronomy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “With the feast of Christmas just a few days away, we are invited to fix our gaze upon the ineffable mystery that Mary carried for nine months in her virginal womb: the mystery of God who ...
22 December 2008
VATICAN - “You can pray to the Lord that he will change the hearts of those who make weapons, bring terrorists to their senses, convert the heart of those who think always of war and help humanity to build a better future for all the children of the world.” The Pope addresses the youth of Italy's Catholic Action (A.C.R.)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to custom, on December 20, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received a group of youth representing Italy's Catholic Action (A.C.R.), in an audience to wish them a blessed Christmas. ...
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