News

• 21 June 2006
  Sixty years ago, 23 June 1946, the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, arrived in Rome for the first time: commemoration celebrations in various parts of the city Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty years ago, 23 June 1946, the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, arrived in the Eternal City for the first time. Despite a tempestuous sea voyage from Genoa and a difficul ...
• 21 June 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Luciano Alimandi - “Two inseparable Hearts” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In this month of June love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus is especially visible since this is the month of this special devotion. Looking at the Heart of Jesus we encounter immediately next ...
• 21 June 2006
  VATICAN - Celebrations for the 500th Anniversary of the Vatican Museums continue with the opening of the first sections of the newly arranged Missionary Ethnological Museum. Collections contain about 100,00 artifacts Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Closed for five years for restoration work the newly arranged Missionary Ethnological Museum, part of the Vatican Museum complex was officially reopened on 20 June. Founded on November 12, ...
• 21 June 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Catholic cathedral organises prayer Taizé style “Prayer for China and the Church” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Brother He Jin Tang, a member of the Ecumenical Taizé Community, recently organised a prayer meeting for young Christian workers in Hong Kong to encourage them to find more time for prayer an ...
• 21 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Pope’s visit will encourage the families of the world to be what they are meant to be, the seed of a new society ” says president of the Spanish Family Policy Institute Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Pope will be a great encouragement for families all over the world, subject to repeated and ever more aggressive threats and attacks, according to president of the Spanish ...
• 21 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - From child soldiers to child prisoners: the plight of former child soldiers enlisted by National Liberation Forces now in prison Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A recent Human Rights Watch report said that instead of rehabilitating child soldiers the Burundian government lets them languish in prison. These children were forcefully enlisted by the Nati ...
• 21 June 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - AIDS pandemic focus of two important meetings in Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A workshop on AIDS 21 - 24 June organised by the Symposium of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opened today in Nairobi, capital of Kenya at Catholic Universit ...
• 21 June 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Full participation in definition of national education policy": Bishops’ Commission for Education meets Bolivian Forum for Education La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - To examine the present situation of education in Bolivia and draft a new education proposal the Bishops’ Commission for Education and the Bolivian Forum for Education are in La Paz taking part ...
• 20 June 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Cardinal Martino Papal Envoy to celebrations for 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Holy See Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - First papal representative to the Republic of Singapore in 1981, Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, today President of the Pontifical Councils for Peace and Justice and for the Pastoral care of ...
• 20 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Orionini: first steps for a new English speaking Missionary Delegation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Orionini confreres of the General Council and the Representatives of the English speaking countries, met from 16th to 18th June in view of a new English speaking missionary delegation. Rev. Flavio ...
• 20 June 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Buga National Pilgrimage 2006, young people start preparation for 23rd World Youth Day in Australia Buga (Agenzia Fides) - The National Buga Pilgrimage 2006 in Colombia 30 June to 3 July, will be an opportunity for young people to come together from all over the country to experience a time of communion and share propo ...
• 20 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Pastoral care for students is an ongoing commitment for the Catholic community: Mass for students at the end of the school year and before exams Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Pastoral care for students has become a constant for the Catholic community in China, characterised by a variety of forms and contents. As the priest in charge in Han Dan diocese confirms, “th ...
• 20 June 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Islamic Courts are a constitutive element of Somali society. Their power has still to be deciphered Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “It is difficult to say whether interests connected with international fundamentalism are behind the Islamic Courts which have taken power in a greater part of Somalia” say local Church so ...
• 20 June 2006
  AFRICA/CONGO BRAZZAVILLE - The diocesan Union of the Mother Superiors of Pointe-Noire intervenes to denounce critical water shortage Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Women Religious have raised their voices to denounce a critical water shortage in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville according to a Brazzaville Catholic newspaper La Semaine ...
• 20 June 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church calls on the government to respect transcendent and spiritual values in education and to guarantee parents right to give their children a religious education RE Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, and Bishop Angel Divassón of Puerto Ayacucho president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Commission for Education recently presented a memorandum ...