News
20 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Catholics mourn Archbishop Major Cyril Baselios, leader of the Syro-Malankar Community
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - He will be remembered and missed by all. His Beatitude Major Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara Catholics died on 18 January at the age of 71. At t ...
20 January 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Community of the Missionaries of Jesus, new evangelising reality
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of the Missionaries of Jesus, MJ, is an international and multicultural missionary community founded in the Philippines on 12 June 2002 by a group of forty-one men called and inspir ...
20 January 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Towards an America integrated through Education”: Inter-American Catholic Education Congress 5 -10 February
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-American Catholic Education Confederation and CONSUDEC Superior Education Council have organised the 21st Inter-American Catholic Education Congress 5 -10 February together with ...
19 January 2007
VATICAN “In pastoral activity carried out for Gypsies, humanitarian aid and the truth of the Gospel must go together hand in hand, and the elements of justice, brotherly love and equality should be part of them.”: final document following study meeting of National Directors of Pastoral care of Gypsies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 - 12 December 2006, a Study Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, on the “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, Careful Examination of the Docume ...
19 January 2007
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Forming Disciples....Building One Church” is the theme for the 2007 Collection for the Church in Latin America to support pastoral care in 22 countries
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “Forming Disciples, Building One Church” is the theme of the 2007 Collection for the Church in Latin America taken in most Catholic parishes in the United States during the last weekend o ...
19 January 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “WYD of communion and solidarity among youth from rich and poor countries”, says Bishop Fisher. Sydney 2008 pilgrimages planned all over the world
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - WORLD Youth Day 2008 participants from the poorest countries will pay the lowest registration fees, while participants from industrialised nations such as Australia will pay the most in a solidar ...
19 January 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 17 November 2006 appointed Rev. Philip Balikuddembe of the diocese of Hoima, National Director of the Po ...
19 January 2007
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops’ go ahead for 3rd National Mission Congress 26 - 30 March 2008: increasing Catholics’ awareness of the call to mission
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Venezuela will hold its 3rd National Mission Congress in 2008. The proposal, advanced by the Pontifical Mission Societies national office and the National Mission Council, was appr ...
19 January 2007
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Social and political uncertainty, country needs reconciliation and improvements in education: Xaverian missionary reports
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - “This situation of uncertainty is expected to last for several months until the elections, the date of which has yet to be set. The state of emergency and interim government continues, and tensi ...
19 January 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Bishop Oswald Gracias of Mumbai calls for “more participation of lay Christians in politics and society”
Kochi (Agenzia Fides) - It is important to help lay Catholics realise that they have great relevance in the pastoral activity of the Church and its mission to carry Christian values to the fields of politics, media, soci ...
19 January 2007
AFRICA/KENYA - Africa and its Contradictions: 7th World Social Forum in Nairobi starting tomorrow
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - About 100,000 members of civil society organisations and local bodies are expected to attend the 7th World Social Forum in Nairobi which starts tomorrow 20 January and will conclude on Wednesda ...
19 January 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - Inspirer of Lord’s Resistance Army dies in exile
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Alice Lakwena, the woman who inspired the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA, has died in a refugee camp at Dadaad, in northern Kenya, close to the Ugandan border where she lived in exile for 18 Years ...
18 January 2007
VATICAN - “I encourage you to live these days in prayerful listening to the Spirit of God, in order to make significant steps on the path towards full and perfect communion among all Christ’s disciples”: the Pope’s general audience and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his Wednesday audience on 17 January, the day before the start of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18 to 25 January involving Christians all over the worldk Pope Benedi ...
18 January 2007
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - New national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burkina Faso e Niger
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 6 October 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burkina Faso and Niger ...
18 January 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue
by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it would not seem out of place to reflect on what should be an acquired fact in every ecclesial sphere: the clear and unequivocal ...
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