News

• 12 March 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The “sleep” of the disciples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - One of the episodes we will meditate during the days of the Lord's Passion, is that of the three disciples, Peter, James and John who fall asleep in the Garden of Olives while Jesus experi ...
• 12 March 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino immigrants working for dialogue, peace, and reconciliation Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 9 million of them scattered all over the world: in Europe, the Middle East, America. They are Overseas Filipino Worker - expatriates who have left their country in search of emp ...
• 12 March 2008
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Government assessment of late-February fighting: 40 dead, numerous injured Yaoundé (Agencia Fides) - 40 people were killed in the fighting that broke out in late February, between demonstrators and government forces of Cameroon (see Fides 26/2/2008), according to a press statement from Marafa ...
• 11 March 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop of Eshowe appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 11, 2008, appointed Fr. Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo, bursar of the diocese of Bethlehem, South Africa, as bishop of Eshowe. The bishop-elect was born Jul ...
• 11 March 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Celebration of Unborn Child Day: “the unalienable right to life of the human being is a natural law written deep in the heart of every man.” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Episcopal Conference’s Commission for the Family and Defense of Life invites all to join in celebrating, on March 25, Unborn Child Day, especially in our time, when “life is threat ...
• 11 March 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “The Church is trying to respond to the present needs, by supporting support of farmers, working in favor of women, and education”: Interview with the Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Peten Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Ottavio Sassu, OP, Pro-Vicar Apostolic for the Vicariate of Peten, which depends from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was in Rome for his recent “Ad Limina Apostolorum” ...
• 11 March 2008
  VATICAN - Youth from the Diocese of Rome accompany the Pope towards 23rd World Youth Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Angelus on March 9, the Holy Father invited the youth of Rome to a liturgical Penance Service in preparation for World Youth Day, to be celebrated on a diocesan level on Palm Sunday. ...
• 11 March 2008
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The Community of Sant’Egidio serving to mediate in the dialogue between the government in Kinshasa and Rwandan hutu rebels in east Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the Community of Sant’Egidio to sponsor an encounter in Rome, between representatives of the Congolese government and the leaders ...
• 11 March 2008
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Franciscans strengthen their commitment to the evangelize central Asia Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Central Asia is, for various reasons, a territory yet to be explored, where word of the Good News has not yet arrived. That is why the Franciscan Family is strengthening its commitment to evangel ...
• 11 March 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Number of Korean Catholics of the diaspora increases, a true evangelizing force Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean Catholic community of the diaspora continues to grow in number, according to statistics from the Office for Pastoral Care for immigrants and sojourners, led by Bishop Vicent Ri Pyung-ho ...
• 11 March 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Encounter of Bishops and leaders of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in Oceania Canberra (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and leaders of the Eastern Rite Catholic communities in Australia recently met in order to establish stronger ties of communion and cooperation. The Church in Australia (with about 5.1 ...
• 11 March 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Opus Dei: Study Day for the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Prelature Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The only existing Personal Prelature in the Catholic Church celebrates is 25th anniversary as a prelature. Opus Dei is currently present in 61 countries in the world, with over 85,000 members. It w ...
• 10 March 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Angelus: Christ “is the image, indeed, the incarnation of God who is love, mercy, and paternal and maternal tenderness, of the God who is Life”; additional appeal for the Holy Land and Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The resurrection of Lazarus, narrated in the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Liturgical Cycle A, says Benedict XVI, is “the last great sign worked by Jesus, after which the high prie ...
• 10 March 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells participants of the Course from the Apostolic Penitentiary: “The heart of the sacrament’s celebration is not in the sin, but in the mercy of God, that is infinitely greater than any of our sins.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own ‘I’ and their hearts harden in sin. On the other hand, those who recognize themselves as w ...
• 10 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father offers condolences for the death of Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery, retired archbishop of Tamale, one of the first Catholics of the northwestern region of Ghana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery, retired archbishop of Tamale (Ghana) died March 6, at 89 years of age. The Holy Father Benedict XVI expressed his condolences and prayers in a telegram, sent to ...