News
13 December 2006
AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - New Rector for St Augustine’s inter-diocesan seminary for philosophy in Kalonda
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 October 2006, appointed Rector of St Augustine’s inter-diocesan major seminary for philosophy in K ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/ R.D. CONGO - Appointment of rector of Saint Cyprian major inter-diocesan in Kikwit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 October 2006, appointed rector of Saint Cyprian major inter-diocesan in Kikwit (R.D. Congo), Rev. Alb ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - WALKING TOWARDS CHRISTMAS - Announcement and Fulfilment (4)
Rome (Fides) - BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY
Isaiah 7, 14 : « Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.».
Luke 1, 31-32, 34-35) : « ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Commemoration of 60 Loyola Jesuit College students killed a year ago in Port Harcourt air-crash
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- A special Mass was celebrated on Sunday 10 December for the repose of the souls of the 60 students at Loyola Jesuit College Karu, Abuja (Nigeria) killed a year ago in an air crash in Port Harcourt ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s message for the World Day of Peace 2007: a summary of the main points
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Pope addresses a special message of prayerful good wishes for peace to Governments, leaders of nations and all men and women of good will. In his Message for World Peace Day ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA The Immaculate Conception, Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy of the Word which the Church offers us on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December, presents a marked contrast: the first reading from the Book of Genesis speaks of Ad ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations and the International Organizations attends 4th Special Session of UN Human Rights Council: “The victims are not just statistics; they are real people. Indeed the priority is action to end the killings and the abuses over political arrangements and commercial interests.”
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) -“For three years already the Holy See has been following with grave concern the terrible suffering of the people caught up in the tragic conflicts intermittently erupting in the Darfur region o ...
13 December 2006
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian mayor of Bethlehem issues customary Christmas Message: in the town where Jesus Christ was born citizens face serious economic and social difficulties
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - As Christmas draws near the town of Bethlehem is living one of the ‘most difficult periods in its history’, said the mayor Dr Victor Batarseh in his customary Christmas Message. The ‘wa ...
13 December 2006
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Religious leaders say education must include transcendent values for authentic integral development of the human person
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the main religious confessions in Argentina met with the parliamentary Education Commission to defend articles which they consider indispensable and insist that ‘transc ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ Announced by the Scriptures- Announcement and Fulfilment (3)
Rome (Fides Service) - A FUTURE KING
The Patriarch Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham blesses his children before he dies. To Juda, his fourth son he says: « The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the ruler's sta ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE: Ecclesiastic Archives (4)
Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ecclesiastic Archives «a treasure in vases of clay». The importance indeed essentiality of archives for the very mission of the Church is directly in proportion to their complexity and fr ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - On the feast of the Immaculate Conception local Camillan celebrated three important events
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Although in the capital of Burkina 8 December is not a Bank Holiday on the feast of the Immaculate Conception the Camillan Community in Burkina Faso celebrated three important events. The fi ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Perverse spiral of war, extremism and natural disasters. Islamic Courts ultimatum: “Ethiopian troops out by the end of the week or it will be war ”
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - With the humanitarian emergency caused by floods affecting vast areas of Somalia in recent months still critical, threatening clouds of war now appear on the horizon. Both the national interim ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for the World Day of Peace 2007: “The human person, the heart of peace”. “I am convinced that respect for the person promotes peace and that, in building peace, the foundations are laid for an authentic integral humanism”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope’s annual Message for the World Day of Peace, 1 January 2007 was made public this morning at the Holy See press office. “The human person, the heart of peace” is the theme cho ...
12 December 2006
AMERICA/CANADA - Debate on Redefining Marriage not Over: For Catholics, marriage is an issue intimately related to human nature which has been created male and female. Catholic teaching on this remains consistent and constant: marriage is the exclusive union of one man and one woman.
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Canada, together with the members of the majority of faith communities and with many Canadians who have no particular religious affiliation, have voiced disappointment th ...
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