News
4 December 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Service of tele-translation for foreigners at hospitals in the Canary Islands
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Canary Islands health service plans to provide a new tele-translation service in the Island's 8 hospitals and 31 clinics to communicate with patients in 49 languages. This new service offered b ...
3 December 2007
The Pope's missionary prayer intention for December: “That the Incarnation of the Son of God, which the Church celebrates at Christmas, may help the peoples of Asia recognise Jesus as the One sent by God, the only Saviour of the world ” Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Our mission is to re-propose the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God and son of man, to the world, for a future of peace, love and justice. With these words pronounced a year ago Cardi ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Man and the world need God- the true God! - otherwise they cannot hope. Science does much for the good of humanity - undoubtedly - but it cannot save it.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the first Sunday of Advent, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his reflection before the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the significance of the Advent Season wh ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit Hospital San Giovanni Battista: “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will we will experience the power of his love”
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will, we will experience the power of His love. Hospitals and nursing homes, precisely because the inmate ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent “Advent is a favourable time for rediscovering hope, not vague or false, but certain and confident, since it is ‘anchored’ in Christ, God made man, the rock of our salvation”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope. Every year this fundamental attitude of the spirit is rekindled in the hearts of Christians as they prepare to celebrate the great feast of ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs: “What is needed, in fact, is a spirit of solidarity conducive for promoting as a body those ethical principles which, by their very nature and their role as the basis of social life, remain non-negotiable”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To express gratitude and appreciation for what they do collaborating actively with Papal Representatives at Interantional Organisations and render still closer and more effective this share ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - On the feast of St Francis Xavier, Fides is 80 years old
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides News Service of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started its activity in December 1927 immediately after the feast of the Patron Saint of the missions, St Francis Xa ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - “You were told, but I tell you…” -intervention on Christian-Jewish dialogue by Prof. Michele Loconsole
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ You have heard how it was said…but I say to you…”, these famous words of Jesus are recurrent in his earthly preaching, especially with regard to the Jewish religious leaders; and ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Blog by Andrea Tornielli: The Encyclical on Christian Hope - Blog by Luigi Accattoli: Benedict and the self-critique of modern Christianity - Marco Tosatti: In his Encyclical the Pope writes his own divine comedy. - Palazzo apostolico.it: Ratzinger's encyclical, between the hereafter and hope. An Oblate in Thai prisons
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical on Christian Hope: Not elements of the cosmos, the laws of matter which definitively government the world and man, but a personal God who governs the starts, that is the uni ...
3 December 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Cooperators and members of Opus Dei in Denmark, in Lebanon and Galicia activate local versions of the Opus Dei web site
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With Danish, Arab and Galician, the number of languages in which Opus Dei offers information on the reality and news of Church reality represented by Opus Dei is now 27. In fact the net offers 61 c ...
3 December 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bible Week closes: suggested reflections for Advent 2007
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of Bible Week held in Korea was to offer the faithful suggestions for living a fruitful Advent. The theme discussed by experts and the faithful was “Seed and Lamps for the World”, ...
3 December 2007
AFRICA/TOGO - Bishop of Aného appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2007 appointed as Bishop of Aného (Togo) Rev. Isaac Jogues Agbémenya Gaglo, until now diocesan administrator of Aného.
Rev. Isaac Jogu ...
3 December 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Tezpur resigns, Successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 3 December 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Tezpur (India), presented by Bishop Robert Kerketta, S.D.B., in con ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - New Head of Office at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 1 December 2007, appointed Bureau Chief at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Rev. Mgr. Ermes Giovanni Viale, until now an official ...
1 December 2007
AFRICA/RWANDA - Jubilee Year for the 25th anniversary of the apparitions in Kibeho, presided by Cardinal Ivan Dias and a report on Rwanda's ecclesial situation
Kibeho (Agenzia Fides)- “We are very grateful to Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for coming to preside the Mass to close a special Jubilee year for the 25th anniversary ...
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