News

• 23 February 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Latin America Day “as lively as ever Spanish Church’s concern for evangelisation in America: 800 of the 898 Spanish diocesan priests presently on mission serve in America Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - For the Church in Spain the first Sunday in March (this year March 4) is Latin America Day promoted by the Spanish Bishops’ Commission for Missions and Cooperation among Churches to recall the ...
• 23 February 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics help curtail farmers’ suicide rates in the country New Delhi (Fides Service) - In the name of the sacredness of human life Caritas India, the largest national NGO of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), has devised an integrated programme "Save Farmers-Save ...
• 23 February 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 2nd Station JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS Rome (Fides News Service) - V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:27-31 Then the soldiers of the governor took ...
• 23 February 2007
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - “Sunday’s elections will be an important test for the life of Senegal once a beacon of democracy for all Africa” says a local Church source Dakar (Fides Service)- “The elections will reveal the vitality of the country’s democratic system” said local Church sources in Dakar capital of Senegal, where a first round of presidential elections will be held ...
• 22 February 2007
  VATICAN - “This Lent, by a more fervent participation in the Eucharist, may we learn to enter more deeply into the Paschal Mystery and to “re-give” Christ’s love to others, especially the suffering and those in need”: the Pope’s teaching at the general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again, given the large number of visitors for the General Audience on Wednesday 21 February, Ash Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI gave his audience in two stages. First to St Peter’s Bas ...
• 22 February 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - de facto couples and homosexual persons (2) Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since some Catholics have adopted an individualistic ‘liberal’ idea of conscience, rejecting the idea of communion of conscience, in which the individual Christian and the Church are on ...
• 22 February 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- « STABAT MATER » Rome (Agence Fides) - STABAT MATER Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic hymn attributed to Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother ...
• 22 February 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope presides the first Lenten ‘station’ Mass at the basilica of Santa Sabina: “Works of charity (almsgiving), prayer and penance (fasting), and other sincere efforts for conversion find their highest significance and values in the Eucharist, source and summit of the life of the Church and the history of salvation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Ash Wednesday is considered the ‘gateway’ to Lent. In fact today’s Liturgy and its distinctive actions anticipate in a synthetic form the very physiognomy of the Lenten Season. In ...
• 22 February 2007
  VATICAN - Message to Catholics in Brazil for the Lenten Fraternity Campaign 2007, the Pope recalls with gratitude the many courageous men and women missionaries dedicated, “even at the risk of their life, to spreading the Catholic faith in the villages and towns of the region” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the annual Lenten Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil, this year with the theme “Fraternity and Amazon" and the motto "Life and Mission in that Land " (see Fides 20/2/2007 ...
• 22 February 2007
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - Catholic Bishop of Paisley calls for action to protect the religious freedom of the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom Paisley (Agenzia Fides) - In a Pastoral Letter read out at all Masses in the Diocese of Paisley on Sunday (18 February 2007) Bishop Philip Tartaglia called for action to protect "the religious freedom of the Catholic Chu ...
• 21 February 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT: THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS Rome (Fides News Service) The STATIONS OF THE CROSS (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) ...
• 21 February 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Catholics at Nuestra Señora del Carmen parish celebrate 180th anniversary Bella Vista (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate its 180th anniversary the parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen parish in Bella Vista, Argentina has organised various initiatives. Among the different cultural activities alre ...
• 21 February 2007
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 December 2006 appointed Rev. Jean A. Mendes Martins of the diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde, Nation ...
• 21 February 2007
  VATICAN - Cardinal Paul Poupard visits Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Imam of al-Azhar al-Sharif Vatican City (Fides Service) - On February 20 Cardinal Paul Poupard visited Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Imam of al-Azhar al-Sharif, in Cairo.The Holy See Press Office released the following communique: "Cardinal ...
• 21 February 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Meeting for diocesan and regional Holy Childhood delegates. National Holy Childhood Meeting in June Rome (Fides Service) - “Jesus is Risen: Mission has Started” is the title of a three day meeting for diocesan and regional Holy Childhood delegates next month in Rome from 2 to 4 March. The Meeting is an annual event ...