News

• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope, looking ahead to World Youth Day, invites “the whole Church to share in this new stage of the great pilgrimage of young people across the world” and makes an appeal to the participants in the G-8 Summit, “so that at the heart of their deliberations they will put the needs of the weakest and poorest peoples.” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – “My thoughts already go to Australia where, God willing, I will travel next Saturday, July 12. In Sydney, in fact, in the southeast of the country, the 23rd World Youth Day will take ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - “Especially in our time it is important that bishops be witnesses and teachers of holiness, capable of transmitting faithfully, by example and words, those truths that illumine man's heart and lead him to eternal life”: Cardinal Bertone’s homily at the episcopal consecration of Archbishops Vacchelli and Auza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of July 3, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone presided a Solemn Mass in the Vatican Basilica for the episcopal consecration of His Excellency Piergiusep ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - Plenary Indulgence granted by the Holy Father on the occasion of World Youth Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who, on the occasion of the ‘Twenty-third World Youth Day’, will gather at Sydney in the spirit of pilgrimage; all those who, wher ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - “If you simply have Our Lord in your heart, you will never be afraid of anything!”: the experience of Fr. Jiang - sole caretaker of the wreckage of the Church destroyed by the earthquake, surviving on what nature provided Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – “If you simply have Our Lord in your heart, you will never be afraid of anything!...I felt like my heart was bleeding as I looked upon the wreckage of my parish that has centuries of history ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Indications from the Regional Bishops’ Conference of Taiwan for the Year of St. Paul Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – The Office for Sacred Scripture of the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith, of the Regional Bishops’ Conference in Taiwan has given several indications as to how Catholics on the island ...
• 7 July 2008
  VATICAN - “Populorum Progressio” Foundation due to meet in Guadalajara to consider financing 230 new projects in support of poor indigenous mixed race and Afro-American rural communities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The members of the administrative council of the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation are due to meet in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 9 to 12 July to consider the financing of development proje ...
• 7 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Missionaries today, St. Paul-style”: Missiology Week in Burgos, in honor of the Year of St. Paul Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning today, July 7, until Friday, July 11, the Theology School in Burgos will host the 61st Spanish Missiology Week. The Missionary Week will be dedicated this year to the Year of St. Paul ...
• 7 July 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops at the close of their Plenary Assembly ask that all may continue on the “way of forgiveness, justice, truth, and solidarity, towards the restoration of liberty for all victims and for peace” and express their support for the Anti-Kidnapping March on July 20 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – On July 5, the Colombian Bishops’ Conference ended their Plenary Assembly with a Mass in the Primate Cathedral of Colombia, presided by Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Saenz, Archbishop of Bogota, tog ...
• 7 July 2008
  AMERICA/CANADA - Cardinal Marc Ouellet gives the 49th International Eucharistic Congress a "highly positive" evaluation Quebec City (Agenzia Fides) – In a statement on the International Eucharistic Congress (CEI 2008) celebrated in Quebec, which ended June 22, Cardinal Marc Ouellet gave a highly positive evaluation of the event, saying ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/JAPAN - Forming the backdrop for the G8 Summit: the world food crisis, the climate issue and financial speculations, along with the Pope’s appeal to focus on “the needs of the weakest and poorest peoples.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Today, July 7, marks the beginning of the G8 Summit which will run until July 9. The Summit is taking place on the island of Hokkaido (Japan) and is a meeting held among the leaders of the wealth ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - “The Church is growing and making progress: even the Holy Father has congratulated us,” says Archbishop Nicholas Chia Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – “The progress of our small Church, from a pastoral spiritual, and formative perspective are evident: even the Holy Father has congratulated us and offered us encouragement,” Archbishop N ...
• 7 July 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Northeastern India celebrate the Year of St. Paul: two “Schools of Evangelization,” a new church, and a new mission for the poor Miao (Agenzia Fides) – In the small villages of Northeastern India, a mountainous area inhabited by tribes, the Year of St. Paul is being celebrated with great solemnity and activity. As the Bishop of Miao (in the Indi ...
• 7 July 2008
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Promoting a renewed and intensified Biblical formation for all members of the Church: one of the objectives mentioned in the 7th Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Biblical Federation, celebrated for the first time in Africa Dar es-Salaam (Agenzia Fides) – Over 230 specialists in Biblical pastoral activity from nearly 80 countries met from June 24 to July 3, for the 7th Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Biblical Federation. For the first ti ...
• 4 July 2008
  VATICAN - Decrees from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, among which are miracles attributed to the intercession of Blessed Father Damian, missionary among the lepers of Molokai and to the Martin spouses, parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father today received in private audience Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised the promulgation of decrees con ...
• 4 July 2008
  VATICAN - Program for Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Journey to France, for the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Lourdes Apparitions Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has announced that Benedict XVI will make an apostolic trip to France from 12 to 15 September, for the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the ...