News

• 24 October 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - New parish at Joso, Saitama diocese for community of Catholic immigrants from Brazil, and Shimoigusa Salesian parish marks 50th anniversary Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The large community of Catholics, mainly immigrants from Brazil, living in Joso, in the diocese of Saitama in the prefecture of Ibaraki has a new parish centre. The chapel was blessed by Bishop Da ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus on Mission Sunday: “Mission starts from the heart: when we stop to pray in front of the Crucifx, and we see that pierced side, we cannot fail to be filled with joy at the knowledge that we are loved and with a desire to love and be channels of mercy and reconciliation” - Appeal for Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Sunday was the focus of Pope Pope Benedict XVI’s address before the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 23 October. Here is what the Pope said. “Today we are celebrating the ...
• 23 October 2006
  ASIA/THAILAND - Asian Mission Congress - New Hope for Asia Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - The spacious hall filled with people and colours was the splendid setting for the final act of the Asian Mission Congress. The participation of many Tribals in their costumes at the closing M ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world”: Pope Benedict XVI receives members of the Fondazione Giovanni Paolo II Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world, usin ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Lateran University XVI: “God is the ultimate truth to which all reason naturally tends … God is not empty word or abstract hypothesis, on the contrary, God is the foundation on which to build our life” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am happy to be here at "my" University, because this is the Bishop of Rome’s own University. I am aware that here you seek the truth and so, in ultimate analysis, you search for Chri ...
• 23 October 2006
  ASIA/THAILAND - Asian Mission Congress conclusions: Now it is up to us to write new pages in the Story of Jesus in Asia Chiang Mai (Fides Service) - The 1st Asian Congress came to a close in an atmosphere of general satisfaction. The final day, Sunday 22 October, Mission Sunday, focused on the last testimonials and the closing Mass presid ...
• 23 October 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil elected chairman of the FABC Office of Evangelisation New Delhi (Fides Service) - Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil has been elected chairman of the Office of Evangelisation of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, FABC, for the third time. Archbishop Menamparampil, ...
• 23 October 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Eparchy for Catholics of Chaldean Rite in Australia and New Zealand Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict created a Chaldean Eparchy for Oceania, to care for Australian and New Zealand Catholics who follow the Chaldean Rite, with the title of "Saint Thomas Apostle of Sydney of the Chald ...
• 23 October 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Not walls but bridges lead to solutions for the challenges of the new millennium”: a delegation of US Bishops visits Mexico border zone Mexico City (Fides Service) - A delegation of US Catholic Bishops is making a week long visit the Mexico border region 23 - 29 October to assess the situation and inspect critical points with regard to the crime of human ...
• 23 October 2006
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops say situation ever more serious, violence must be eradicated, nation wide novena of prayer for peace 13 to 21 November San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - “All together to eradicate violence” is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of El Salvador. The document presents the human person as the centre of the activity of s ...
• 23 October 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Catholic Encyclopaedia at the service of faith and culture: publishers receive Catholic Academic Award Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The recently published Korean Catholic Encyclopaedia is a mine of valuable information in many areas Catholic theology, history, culture, activities, figures, martyrs and the life of the Catholic ...
• 23 October 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Mt Alvernia Hospital run by the Franciscan Missionaries of Divine Motherhood is the only Catholic hospital on the island Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood FMDM is an international Catholic congregation of sisters following Christ in the spirit of St Francis of Assisi. Willing to serve anywhere in the ...
• 23 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Beatification of Sr. Margarita María López de Maturana, foundress of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Bérriz: she turned a cloistered convent into a missionary institute Bilbao (Agenzia Fides) - On Mission Sunday 22 October, in Bilbao, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and Papal Envoy for the occasion, presided Mass for the Beatificatio ...
• 21 October 2006
  DOSSIER FIDES: 80TH WORLD MISSION SUNDAY “The love which God has for each single person constitutes, in fact, the very core of living and preaching the Gospel, and all who hear it in turn, become witnesses.” Pope Benedict XVI, Message for Mission Sunday 2006) CONTENTS a)MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER 2006 ”Charity, the soul of Mission” b)The Pope's October missionary prayer intention: “That the celebration ...
• 21 October 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Chilaw Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Pope Benedict XVI, on 19 October 2006, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Chilaw (Sri Lanka), presented by Bishop Frank Marcus Fern ...