News
2 February 2007
EUROPE/GT BRITAIN - Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster expresses disappointment that Catholic adoption agencies will not be exempt from considering same sex couples as possible adoptive parents
London (Agenzia Fides) - “We are deeply disappointed that no exemption will be granted to our agencies on the grounds of widely held religious conviction and conscience" Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor Cormac, Archbishop of W ...
2 February 2007
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Holy See decides not to adhere to new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which makes unacceptable references to ‘reproduction health’
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today was a talk delivered by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, concerning a Convention on the Rights of Persons with D ...
2 February 2007
AMERICA/CHILE - Free ‘day after pill’ is not the solution the country deserves, “because it attacks human life when it is most helpless” says President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - “Protection of life at every stage is an essential value for human life and human dignity” said Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic of the diocese of Rancagua and president of the Catholic Bisho ...
2 February 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - 70 new homes for poor Christians: Franciscans help Christ’s followers stay in the Holy Land
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - During the Season of Lent, in view of Palm Sunday, the Franciscan Custodians of the Holy Land will build 70 new homes in Jerusalem for poor Christian families living in ever more difficult con ...
1 February 2007
VATICAN - Barnabas, Silvanus and Apollos, co-workers of St Paul, “shine in the host of witnesses to the Gospel, bright examples of selflessness and generosity”: the Pope’s weekly catechesis
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - St Paul “was a man who welcomed collaboration” and in the Church “rather than try to do everything himself”, he relied on the help of many companions: some of these “who played an ...
1 February 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE -Ministers, in other words, servants of the Church
Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello -
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We recently saw yet another attempt by some clumsy “news man”, to invent a scoop anonymously recording and diffusing answers given by priests in the confessional. The recorded answers a ...
1 February 2007
VATICAN - 2 February, Day for Consecrated Life: “Like lighted candles, always and everywhere shine with the love of Christ, Light of the world”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We are all aware of the treasure which the gift of the consecrated life in the variety of its charisms and institutions represents for the ecclesial community. Together let us thank God ...
1 February 2007
AFRICA/BENIN -Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Dean emeritus of the College of Cardinals and first African bishop called by the Pope to an important post in the Roman Curia celebrates 50th anniversary of ordination as a Bishop with special Mass of Thanksgiving
Ouidah (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years ago on 3 February 1957 Cardinal Bernardin Gantin was ordained a bishop having been appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Cotonou in Benin on 11 December 1956. To mark this ...
1 February 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 11 February 12 dioceses celebrate 50 anniversaries
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - February 11 2007 is an important date in Argentina because 12 dioceses will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of foundation. On 11 February 1957 Pope Pius XII with the Bull "Quandoquidem ...
1 February 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Two Auxiliary Syro-Malabar Catholic Rite Bishops raised to the rank of Archbishop
Thrissur (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of Thrissur Archdiocese, Mar Andrews Thazhath, and the Auxiliary Bishop of Changanassery Archdiocese Mar Joseph Perumthottam were elevated as the archbishops of their respe ...
31 January 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Reconciliation among Catholics and formation for the clergy main concerns of Bishop Pietro Paolo Li Panshi of Kongmoon (Jiangmen) who died at the age of 95
Zhongshan (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Pietro Paolo Li Panshi of Kongmoon (Jiangmen), Guangdong Province of China, (100 km from Canton) died on January 4 at the age of 95. Born on 12 July 1911 he entered Macao Seminar in 192 ...
31 January 2007
AVE MARIA - “Mary, anchor of our faith”
Rev Luciano Alimandi -
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then it began to blow a great gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped. But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep. They woke him and s ...
31 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - New frontiers of evangelisation: Salesians carry Good News to Santal Indians
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelising among tribal peoples in India has never been easy, it demanded patience and determination from the first missionaries to set foot in the country. Still today some of the numerous ...
31 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - UNICEF Spain report: 500 million Euro needed for people in 33 countries
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presenting its 2007 report on humanitarian activity Spanish branch of the United Nations Children’s Fund said that to meet the needs of people in difficult situations in 33 countries at least 500 ...
31 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Post-tsunami aid in the village of Muttom: all damaged buildings repaired, two 2000 litre wells built and two 48,000 litre water-tanks installed, basic food kits and sets of fishing equipment distributed to 1,400 families
Rome(Agenzia Fides) - One of many fishing communities affected by the gigantic tsunami which struck southern Asia on 26 December 2004, was the village of Muttom on the Tamil Nadu coast of India, where 100 people, mainly ...
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