News

• 7 June 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Japanese Catholics pray for Beatification of 188 martyrs Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Beatification of Peter Kassui Kibe and 187 other 17th century martyrs will be an important event for the Catholics of Japan. Fr Fuyuki Hirabaschi, secretary of the Japanese Bishops’ Conferen ...
• 7 June 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Irish missionary Marist Brother dies at 94 having spent 70 years on mission in the Far East Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Students and Marist brother teachers gathered for Mass on 2 June at St Francis parish in Hong Kong in memory of Irish born Fr. Kenny, who died at the age of 94 having spent 70 years on missi ...
• 6 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Day for Families programme includes novelties, International Family Fair and Family Rosary performed by children Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - The programme has been released for the 5th World Meeting of Families to be held 1 to 9 July in Valencia, Spain on the theme "Handing on the faith in the family". The event will have four main ...
• 6 June 2006
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Christians all over the world will observe June 25 special day of prayer for North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday June 25 Christians of different confessions in various parts of the world will observe a special day of prayer for North Korea with prayer vigils and special services and prayers. The ...
• 6 June 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The social exclusion of so many of our brothers calls us not to be resigned to this situation we must revise our attitudes”: message from president of the Bishops’ Commission for Caritas Argentina in view of annual collection 11 June Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “On Sunday 11 June with the Annual Collection we will call for a gesture of concrete solidarity which at the same time will increase awareness of the need to work to assure that no one is ...
• 6 June 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI opens Rome’s Annual Diocesan Church Meeting: “The more we nourish ourselves with Christ, the more we are in love with Him, the more we feel impelled to bring others to Him: in fact we cannot keep for ourselves the joy of the faith, we feel the need to share it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The discovery of the beauty and joy of the faith is a journey which every new generation must travel for itself because the faith touches all that is ours, our most intimate thoughts, ou ...
• 6 June 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - After the earthquake in Java, volunteers in Semarang diocese work tirelessly Yoyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the earthquake in Java which affected mainly the city of Yoyakarta, aid is funded more by private than government contributions. In the days following the quake in which 6,000 wer ...
• 6 June 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Carrying God’s love to all”: vocation evening and exhibition encourage young people to discover that a vocation is an expression of Love Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Help participants, above all young people, understand that a vocation is an expression of Love and that Christians have a duty to carry God’s love to all people: these motivations inspired a ...
• 6 June 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New Church Movements: springtime for mission in Oceania Paramatta (Agenzia Fides) - New Church Movements and Communities are a springtime for mission in Oceania said Bishop Kevin Manning of Paramatta diocese after Pope Benedict XVI June 3 meeting in Rome with Movements and ...
• 6 June 2006
  AMERICA/CILE - 2nd Conference on Hispanic-American Catholics and Public Life: the light of the Gospel must illuminate private and public life Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The 2nd Conference on Hispanic-American Catholics and Public Life organised by San Tommaso University in Chile will be held 8 and 9 June. The 1st Conference held in 2005 was attended by over 1 ...
• 6 June 2006
  AMERICA - Catholic Church and the fight against AIDS. Report to UN New York (Agenzia Fides) - During a meeting of the United Nations Organisation held recently in New York on results and goals in the fight against HIV/AIDS there emerged the serious concern of His Holinesss Benedict XVI ...
• 6 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - «Preach the Gospel and care for the Sick», statement from Italian Bishops’ Commission for Services of Charity and Healthcare Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the presentation of a statement issued by the Italian Bishops’ Commission for Services of Charity and Healthcare on 4 June the president of the Commission Bishop Francesco Montenegro said “f ...
• 5 June 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops and social pastoral workers in frontier dioceses in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay search for paths of dialogue in social-environment conflict Uruguayana (Agenzia Fides) - About eighty people, bishops, priests, religious, social pastoral workers and experts gathered in Uruguayana (Brazil), from 29 to 31 May for the “21st Meeting of Frontier Dioceses" from Arg ...
• 5 June 2006
  VATICAN - “The Holy Spirit illuminates the human spirit and revealing Christ crucified and Risen shows how we can become more like Him” : Pope Benedict XVI on Pentecost Sunday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Pentecost Sunday 4 June Pope Benedict XVI presided Mass in St Peter’s Square. “At Pentecost the Holy Spirit came down upon the Apostles and this was the beginning of the Church’s u ...
• 5 June 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI on the Eve of Pentecost: “The Holy Spirit desires unity, totality. Therefore His presence shows itself especially in missionary impulse. A person who finds something true, beautiful and good in life runs to share it with everyone, everywhere” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In St Peter’s Square in the early evening of Saturday June 3 the eve of Pentecost, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI presided the celebration of the 1st Vespers of Pentecost with an estim ...