News
25 January 2007
VATICAN - “The path of ecumenism is slow and uphill, as every path of repentance. However it is a path which after the initial difficulties and precisely because of them, presents many occasions for joy, refreshing stops, and allows us now and then to inhale deeply the pure air of communion”: Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at the General Audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “marvellous flourishing of efforts to restore unity among Christians” particularly in the past 40 years was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during the weekly audience ...
25 January 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Name of Jesus Christ
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The ministers of the Church speak less and less about Jesus and ever more frequently about peace, justice, solidarity and dialogue …they are not convinced of the effectiveness of the Name ...
25 January 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Youth Volunteer Service in Cambodia
Phnon Penh (Agenzia Fides) - An experience of poverty, suffering, hardship. An experience of profound humanity which revealed the sense of mission. This was how young Koreans described their recent participation in an In ...
25 January 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - National Mount of Christ the King Youth Pilgrimage concludes 27 January with the consecration of Mexican youth to Christ the King
Leon (Agenzia Fides) - The Witness and Hope Movement has urged young Catholics to take part in the National Youth Pilgrimage to the Mount of Christ the King the geographical and spiritual heart of Mexico with the theme ...
25 January 2007
ASIA/FILIPPINES - “Mission essential in formation of clergy”: 1st National Conference of St Peter Apostle Society organised by local Pontifical Mission Societies
Naga City (Agenzia Fides) - In the formation of seminarians and clergy orientation to mission is most important. This emerged during the 1st National Conference of St Peter Apostle Society held in Naga City in the dioces ...
25 January 2007
VATICAN - “Leprosy: a forgotten disease”: 14 million treated 4 million left mutilated. 54th World Leprosy Day on Sunday
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 29 January is the annual World Leprosy Day dedicated this year to the theme ‘Leprosy: a Forgotten Disease’. The Day was instituted in 1954 at the insistence of Raoul Follereau.
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24 January 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s message for World Communications Day: The Formation of Children and the Formation of the Media
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for his message on the occasion of the 41st World Communications Day on May 20. In the messa ...
24 January 2007
VATICAN - Following the death of Abbé Pierre, founder of the Emmaus Movement, Pope Benedict XVI sends telegrame of condolence to the Archbishop of Bordeaux France
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Given below is the text of a telegramme sent on behalf of the Holy Father, by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, Fr ...
24 January 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mother of Unity
Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. Now the body is not a single part, but ...
24 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: slogan for Holy Childhood Day on Sunday 28 January
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: is the slogan chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain for Holy Childhood Day celebrated by that local Church on Sunday 28 January. “Set out” ...
24 January 2007
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Church leaders request that Catholic Adoption Agencies be exempt from the obligation to consider same sex couples as adoptive parents
London (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster has written to the British government asking for Catholic Adoption Agencies to be exempt from the obligation to consider same sex couple ...
24 January 2007
AMERICA/MEXICO - Work to resume on Mexican Martyrs Shrine symbol of loyalty to Christ and value of martyrdom
Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - On February 5 the feast of Saint Felipe de Gesù Mexico’s first martyr, the archdiocese of Guadalajara will resume work on a new Shrine dedicated to the Mexican Martyrs starting with a sp ...
23 January 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe: Estonia(I)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Brief History. The forefathers of present day Estonians were Esti tribes organised in small states vaguely federal in the first century AD. In 1219 King Waldemar II of Denmark invaded north ...
23 January 2007
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Pan African Congress on Evangelisation Final Statement highlights media, Church-Family-of-God awareness, respect for religious freedom, Laity’s mission in temporal realities, preparations for 2nd Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa
Dar-Es-Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - From the 15th to the 18th January 2007, SECAM held a Pan-African Congress at Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania on the theme: "Evangelisation in Africa: Ecclesia in Africa in Retrospect and the Wa ...
23 January 2007
AFRICA - La Croix du Benin and DIA Agency in Congo: two Catholic realities celebrate anniversary
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Two important Catholic media realities in Africa Cotonou based La Croix du Benin and DIA Catholic news agency based in Kinshasa Congo are marking respectively 60th and 50th anniversaries.
La Croix ...
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