News

• 29 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - Final week, 31 May official Message. International Eucharistic Congress next year wonderful impulse for Great Continental Mission Aparecida (Fides Service) - The 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI in Aparecida, Brazil on 13 May is in its last stages this week: the f ...
• 29 May 2007
  AMERICA - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - The most important thing is for Aparecida to be an evangelising event to give new impulse to evangelisation…to make the light of the Gospel penetrate the hearts, structures and lives of Latin Americans”: interview with Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo, emeritus vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since he was young priest Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo has always been fascinated by the Catholic vitality and pastoral potential of the Churches in Latin America. Through the years he ha ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Church is by nature missionary and since the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit never ceases to guide her along the roads of the world, to the ends of the earth, until the end of time” Pope Benedict XVI says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer on Pentecost Sunday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The essential and qualifying traits of the Church" was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI's reflection at midday on Sunday 27 May the “great feast of Pentecost”, fifty days after Easte ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Mozambique: “Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task”, Pope Ben ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (4) : Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt Vatican City (Fides Service) - CAMEROON: Shrine of Our Lady of the Apostles in Mvolye Hill in Yaoundé. REPUBLIC OF CONGO. At Linzolo, at one of the first missions opened in 1883 by Spiritan Missionaries a few km from ...
• 28 May 2007
  AFRICA/ COTE D'IVOIRE - Orionini Fathers lay foundation stone for new Seminary at Anyama Abidjan (Fides Service) - Saturday 26 May will be a day to remember for the Orionini family in Africa. In Cote D'Ivoire in Anyama the foundation stone was laid for a new Orionini seminary. The Congregation of Saint Luigi ...
• 28 May 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Newly baptised Christians play major role at Pentecost; Pentecost charity party in Tai Pei park Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics received into the Church at Easter played a major part in liturgies on Pentecost Sunday in China, especially in Beijing. During a solemn Mass on Sunday 27 May the newly baptised receiv ...
• 28 May 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Process of beatification for 36 servants of God missionaries in labour camps during the Korean War Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Order of St Benedict of Wagwan has announced the opening of a process of Beatification for 36 Servants of God who died in labour camps and prison camps in the years of the Korean War 1949 to 1 ...
• 28 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We face the great challenge to rediscover marriage as a vocation of love and the sacrament of matrimony as the summit which elevates this calling of a man and a women ”: interview with the only married couple at the Conference Aparecida (Fides Service) - Dr Luis Jensen and his wife Pilar Escudero de Jensen, are representing married couples at 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida. Th ...
• 28 May 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Reconciliation Week: 40 years since referendum gave citizenship to indigenous Australians, full integration still long way off Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Some progress has been made in forty years but much remains to be done for full integration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians say indigenous leaders, heads of civil organisations, ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - A “short cut” to holiness for the priests of the third millennium: “Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort show us how to know, love and serve Our Lord with Mary as our Mother, Model and Guide ” - Testimony by Cardinal Ivan Dias Dublin (Fides Service) - The “Treaty on true devotion to Mary”, written by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) at the beginning of 1700, although addressed to all Christians in general can be especially appl ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (3): Angola, Benin, Burkina-Faso Vatican City (Fides Service) - ANGOLA “Land of Mary”. L’Angola viene chiamata la terra di Maria. The first Catholic missionaries, who were Portuguese, arrived in Angola on, 29 April 1491, and built a church dedi ...
• 26 May 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New impulse for Catholic school identity and mission to evangelise youth: 17th International Organisation for Catholic Education conclusions Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - During the 17th Meeting of OIEC, International Organisation for Catholic Education 21 to 25 May in Santiago de Compostela, in Spain participants listened to reports from the five ...
• 26 May 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Falling cotton prices, crisis for Burkina Faso producers, government intervenes to save main cotton company from bankruptcy Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - There is alarm in Africa for falling prices of cotton the main export for many countries including Burkina Faso. Ouagadougou authorities say, “subsidies granted by countries in the north t ...
• 26 May 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - 27 May: Holy Childhood Day in Peru on the theme “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!” Lima (Fides Service) - For the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru Sunday 27 May is the annual nation Holy Childhood Day. This year the slogan is “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!� ...