News

• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Much of what is transmitted in various forms to the homes of millions of families around the world is destructive. By directing the light of Christ’s truth upon such shadows the Church engenders hope.”: Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 9 in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which is presided by Archbishop John P. Foley “U ...
• 10 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Meeting the challenges in our province: security and economic development with respect for human rights and the environment” Catholic Bishops of Katanga Kinshasa (Fides Service)- In a message bearing the title “May our hope not be disappointed” the Catholic Bishops of the province of Lubumbashi, Katanga southern Congo, encourage the people and rally the national lead ...
• 10 March 2007
  ASIA - Cardinal Martino in Asia for two meetings “Shrines and Pilgrimages” in Bangalore and “Service and Assistance to Asian Migrants” in Taipei Vatican City (Fides Service) - Forty theologians and about the same number of other participants including cardinals, bishops, priests and lay Catholics will attend a Conference on Shrines and Pilgrimages in Bangalore ( ...
• 10 March 2007
  Instrumentum mensis Februarii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum In February with his Message for Lent 2007 the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, offered the faithful a source of meditation and a means of living more intensely the forty days in preparation for Easter. “Lent - the Holy ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 14th Station: JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB Rome (Fides News Service) - 14th Station: JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:59-61 Jos ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - “The ancient custom of Peter’s Pence stems from the awareness that each member of the faithful is called to offer material support for the work of evangelisation and to assist the poor and the needy with generosity”: the Pope receives Circolo San Pietro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 8 the Pope received members of the Rome-based charity organization, the Circolo San Pietro, for their traditional annual audience during which they present him with Peter's Pence, ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - Cardinal Dias and Cardinal Kasper appointed by the Pope members of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed members of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue Cardinals Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Pe ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Evangelisation in the context of religious pluralism”: Cardinal Ivan Dias at Gregorian University for 7th anniversary of the Missiology Faculty Rome (Fides Service) - “The evangelisation mission of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium” was the theme of an Academic Act on March 8 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, to celebrate the 75th ann ...
• 9 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Putting out into the deep…to renew the missionary spirit in the Church”: Archbishop Robert Sarah at the Gregorian University for the 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Missiology Rome (Fides Service) - During an Academic Act on March 8 at the Gregorian University to mark the 75th anniversary of the university’s Faculty of Missiology Archbishop Robert Sarah, secretary of the Congregation for the ...
• 9 March 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - 25th Anniversary: More than 22,000 young people from 72 different countries have benefited from the activity of the International Youth Centre for Spirituality promoted by the diocese of Stuttgart and the Scalabrini missionaries Stuttgart (Fides Service) - A special Mass on Sunday 4 March presided by the auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart Bishop Thomas Maria Renz was the culminating event of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of th ...
• 9 March 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - In Padang the local Catholic community in front line to assist mainly Muslim Sumatra earthquake victims. The Bishop: “Charity knows no boundary” Padang (Fides Fides) - “We are doing everything we can. We have mobilised all our resources to assist the earthquake victims, especially and most importantly prayer” said Bishop Martinus Situmorang of Padang also pre ...
• 8 March 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI starts new cycle of catechesis on the apostolic Fathers: Pope Saint Clement’s Letter to the Corinthians expounds the Church’s identity and mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This week too the Pope’s weekly audience on March 7 was held first in St Peter’s and then in the Paul VI Hall. In St Peter’s the Pope addressing Italian Bishops from Piedmont accompan ...
• 8 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT: THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 13th Station: JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND GIVEN TO HIS MOTHER Rome (Fides News Service) - 13th Station: JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND GIVEN TO HIS MOTHER V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel ac ...
• 8 March 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE: The urgency of “theology of persecution” Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Roman Liturgy affirms that the sacrifice offered by the Son of God is the “source from which all martyrdom springs” (cfr. Roman Missal: prayer over the offerings Mass of Saints Cosm ...
• 8 March 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Symposium of Marian Pastoral 9 - 11 March and CELAM 5: gathered with Mary to invoke the Holy Spirit, discern God’s plans and set out for mission with faith and courage Belém do Pará (Fides Service) - From 9-11 March one of Brazil’s two main Marian Shrines the Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth in Belém do Pará will host a Symposium of Marian Pastoral. The Symposium, which will bri ...