News

• 20 September 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Italian Comboni Missionary Bishop Gianfranco Masserdotti dies in road accident Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni General House has announced the death of Italian missionary Bishop Gianfranco Masserdotti, Bishop of Balsas in Brazil, killed in Brazil in a road accident 12 km from the town of Balasa ...
• 20 September 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Franciscan Chapter in Assisi renews commitment for dialogue and peace in the world Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Franciscans, at a special Chapter meeting in Assisi 14 September - 1 October to renew commitment to building communion of prayer and promoting dialogue, took part in a special prayer vigil to pr ...
• 20 September 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Family, social peace and political situation focus of Catholic Bishops' 2nd Plenary Assembly Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- “The Catholic bishops of in Nigeria have set aside the second week of August every year as the Family Week to be observed by all faithful in the country. The Family Week will celebrate “the inv ...
• 19 September 2006
  VATICAN - “As the Catholic Bishops of Italy we express to the Pope our total support and solidarity and we intensify our prayers for him, for the Church, for religious freedom and for dialogue and friendship among religions and peoples ” statement by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of the “lecture” given by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg last week was underlined by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference CEI ...
• 19 September 2006
  VATICAN - Holy See issues Arabic translation of Pope Benedict XVI’s address on Sunday 17 September Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See has provided the Arabic translation of last Sunday’s Angelus reflection by Pope Benedict XVI when he said “I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in s ...
• 19 September 2006
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo speaks about “The Holy See and Relations with Nations” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church’s relations with nations was the subject of an address given by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, until recently in charge of the Holy See’s section for relations with nat ...
• 19 September 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES SOUNDS AND COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE” Bishop Mauro Piacenza - The centre of the liturgical space and the heart of human sacrality: Sanctuary and Crucifix (2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Well known to all is the affirmation made by the Sacrosanctum Concilium (n. 7) that “Christ is always present in His Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in th ...
• 19 September 2006
  ASIA/LAOS - An Oblate ordained to the priesthood in Laos, the first in over 30 years Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in over 30 years, an Oblate has been ordained to the priesthood in Laos. The details of the Ordination are on the www.omiworld.org, web site run by the OMI office for commu ...
• 19 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Association of Catholic laity re-elects chairman and confirms loyalty to Pope Benedict XVI News Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The All India Catholic Union, an association for lay Catholics was formed 87 years ago as a body of committed lay Catholics in a society where Christians are a small minority and where in rec ...
• 19 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - First National Meeting for Youth Movements to consolidate ecclesial unity in diversity of charisma Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The commission for youth pastoral of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia has organised the First National Meeting for Youth Movements for members of movements of a pastoral character a ...
• 19 September 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Local Church grateful to missionaries ready to take its future and the work of evangelisation in its own hands Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries brought the seed of the Gospel to Japan. Today the local Church must stand on its own feet and take its future and the work of evangelisation in its own hands according to Rev. Sh ...
• 18 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI Angelus: “From a sign of cursing the Cross has been transformed into a sign of Blessing, from a symbol of death to a symbol par excellence of Love which conquers hatred and violence and generates immortal life” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 September, during his reflection before the midday Angelus prayer with hundreds of people gathered in the courtyard of his Summer Residence at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict ...
• 18 September 2006
  VATICAN - “The well being of the human person must be sought not only in universally valid finalities, but also in the methods used to reach these ends: a good end can never justify means which are intrinsically wrong” the Pope tells participants at international congress on stem cells Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In the morning of Monday 17 September at Castelgandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI received participants at a Congress promoted by the Pontifical Academy for Life and by the International Feder ...
• 18 September 2006
  VATICAN - Statement by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone with regard to Pope Benedict XVI's address at the University of Regensburg, Germany Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 16 September the Holy See Press Office issued the following statement by the Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. “Given the reaction in Muslim quarters to certain ...
• 18 September 2006
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - “The Bishop’s paternity with regard to his priests” Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Bishop’s paternity with regard to his priests” was the subject of a lecture given on 16 September by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy ...