News

• 26 October 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - Preparations continue for 49th International Eucharistic Congress in June 2008: deepening knowledge of the significance of the Eucharist for the Christian life Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - In a meeting of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, 16-20 October in Quebec, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec spoke about preparations for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress i ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - “We must learn to listen with the heart to God who speaks” Pope Benedict XVI tells students and teachers of Pontifical Universities in Rome for the opening of the new academic year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Eucharistic concelebration in St Peter’s Basilica on 23 October presided by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, to mark the beginn ...
• 25 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops warn that proposed Bill on biomedical research “fails to guarantee proper protection of life opening the door to legal practice of more abuses against the dignity of the human person” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “The Proposed Law On Bio-Medical Research Fails To Protect Life And Allows Human Cloning” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
• 25 October 2006
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “If we demand a state law which defends human life from its conception it is because it is a universal value, of natural ethics, not only a moral religious precept”: Bishops and upcoming referendum on abortion Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Portugal has called on the country’s Catholics to vote against lifting restrictions on abortion in the upcoming referendum. On 19 ...
• 25 October 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “The auspicated renewal of our parishes will come not from opportune pastoral initiatives, or elaborate programmes but from the encounter with Christ, especially in the Eucharist”: Bishop attend on-going formation meeting on parishes Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The parish, community of disciples and missionaries that our countries may have life in Christ” is the subject of a meeting of on-going formation for Bishops taking place at Santa Cruz de l ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA, Rev Luciano Alimandi -“Mary, New Eve: the path to happiness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us reflect together on the first chapters of the Book of Genesis: Gen. 3, 1-13 tells of the fall of our first parents, original sin which caused Adam and Eve to fall from heights of gra ...
• 25 October 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - 3rd Overseas Chinese Catholic Communities Congress on Evangelisation and Pastoral Care 17 - 21 November Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 3rd Overseas Chinese Catholic Community Congress on Evangelisation and Pastoral Care will take place 17 - 21 November in Singapore to reflect on the theme “The descendents of Emperors Yan an ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: FRENCH - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The profound changes which occur in the spiritual life of a nation are nearly always enveloped in mystery. The disappearance of the Gaulish language replaced by popular Latin is one example ...
• 24 October 2006
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Two killed and four injured in clashes outside church in Dili. Priests and religious work to restore social harmony Dili (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 22 October, while East Timor’s prime minister Ramos-Horta was on his way to Europe, for a visit during which he will also meet Pope Benedict XVI, two people were killed outside a church ...
• 24 October 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD”: Inspiring Principles for the building of churches and places for the celebration and the adoration of the Eucharist (2) by Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The compositive criteria of a church depend on the nature of the cultural habitat. It is a complex and organic, symbolic and iconographic place offered to Christifideles convoked in holy as ...
• 24 October 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day campaign: Canadian Bishop James Wingle arrives to take part in “Activ8” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop James Wingle has come from Canada to take part in a campaign to promote World Youth Day 2008 to be held in Sydney. Bishop Wingle is Bishop of Saint Catholics diocese a suffragan of Toronto ...
• 24 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with Incurable Pathologies”: theme of 15th World Day for the Sick 2007 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with incurable Pathologies” is the theme of World Day for the Sick 2007 for which the main celebrations on February 11, Feast of Our Lady of Lou ...
• 24 October 2006
  AFRICA/BENIN - New rector appointed for Saint Gall Major Seminary in Cotonou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 4 August 2006, appointed Rector of the Saint Gall Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in Cotonou (Benin), Re ...
• 24 October 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - New Rector for Paul VI Major Regional Seminary in Antsiranana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 28 August 2006, appointed Rev. Abel Celestinus Andriamihaja, of the clergy of Mahajanga Rector of the P ...
• 24 October 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Huancayo diocese opens modern laboratory at the service of HIV+ persons Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Huancayo in Peru has opened a modern laboratory to monitor HIV+ patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy. The laboratory, funded with the help of international organisation ...