News
25 January 2006
VATICAN - Benedict XVI’s first encyclical: a comment by Rev Nicola Bux, docent at Puglia Philosophy Faculty. vice director of the Bari Ecumenical Institute “Love’s reasoning”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Christ said to his disciples: unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. In what does this surpassing consist? In ...
25 January 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict publishes first Encyclical “Deus Caritas est” on Christian love:addressed to the bishops, priests and deacons, men and women relgious and all the faithful
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the John Paul II Hall of the Holy See Press Office this morning at midday there was the official presentation of the first encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI "Deus Caritas est" date ...
25 January 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - The Pope appoints new Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 25 January 2006, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo (Kenya) Bishop Anthony Ireri Mukobo, I.M.C., titular Bishop of Rusgunie, until now Auxiliary Bish ...
25 January 2006
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic archbishop of Melbourne says ban on abortion pill RU 486 must remain
Melbourne (Fides Service) - Archbishop Dennis Hart said the ban on RU 486 abortion pill must remain. The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne said this in a statement issued ahead of the scheduled 9 February parliamentary co ...
25 January 2006
AMERICA/PERU - “The Church sees public office as a great opportunity for disinterested service of others and to work to solve society’s problems”: reflections by Cardinal Cipriani Archbishop of Lima in view of general elections
Lima (Fides Service) - In view of general elections on 9 April in Peru, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop Lima and Primate in Peru, issued a statement “reflections on the electoral process in the light of ...
25 January 2006
ASIA/MACAO - Exhibition on the History of the Catholic Church in Macao to mark 430 years of Macao diocese and 40 years of Communications Centre
Macao (Fides Service) - “Respect life, live in harmony, protect the environment” is the theme launched by the diocese of Macao to mark 430 years of the creation of the diocese and 40 years of service of Macao Dioce ...
25 January 2006
ASIA/NEPAL - Pro-Prefect Apostolic on the eve of January 27 peace prayer rally: “Christians in Nepal hope and pray elections in February may lead to a return to peace”. New Missionaries of Charity Home opening soon
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “Catholic community hopes and prays that elections in February may lead to a return to peace in Nepal,” said Fr Pius Perumana, pro-Prefect Apostolic of Nepal, as Christians prepare to take ...
25 January 2006
VATICAN - Weekly teaching of Pope Benedict XVI: psalm 143: blessed the people « whose God is the Lord », “a people who does not renounce its faith and spiritual and moral values”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his weekly audience this morning in the Paul VI Hall, Pope Benedict XVI illustrated the second part of Psalm 143 (the King’s Prayer - Vespers Thursday week 4. “We have the entry ...
25 January 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur risks the greatest calamity ever seen”. United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Unless we guarantee security for those in need of aid we may see the greatest ever calamity”, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Antonio Guterres who launched the alarm for the hu ...
25 January 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Mission territories deserve more media attention say Italian missionaries
EUROPE/ITALY - Mission territories deserve more media attention say Italian missionaries
Rome (Fides Service)- “We are dismayed by the way in which Italian media ignore problems in mission territories”: this lament ...
24 January 2006
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - New Rector appointed for St Augustine Major Inter-diocesan Seminar in Maputo
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 5 January 2006 appointed Rector of St Augustine Major inter-diocesan Seminar in Maputo Rev. José ...
24 January 2006
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “I firmly condemn the killing of UN peacekeepers and call for an international intervention to end the violence” says Cardinal Etsou, Archbishop of Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “I firmly condemn the killing of United Nations peacekeeping troops by Ugandan rebels who have already caused the death of so many innocent civilians. I call for a decisive intervention on the ...
24 January 2006
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand Catholic newspaper and sister NZ Catholic website
Auckland (Fides Service) - On the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, patron of journalists New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper launched its new website.
The website www.nzcatholic.org.nz offers local and internat ...
24 January 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Church activity to promote education and care for marginalised people focus of plenary assembly of Catholic Bishops of India 8 to 15 February
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Church activity to promote education and care for marginalised people will be the main topics for discussion at the next general assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI to ...
24 January 2006
VATICAN - The Media: A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation -Pope Benedict XVI's Message for the World Day of Social Communications 2006
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the wake of the fortieth-anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, I am happy to recall its Decree on the Means of Social Communication, Inter Mirifica, whi ...
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