News

• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "For a human network of responses and help”: first meeting of RIIAL-Peru, to help the members of the Church use the computer in their pastoral activity Lima (Fides Agency) - From May 9 to 13, the Computer Network of the Church in Latin-America in Peru (RIIAL-Peru), will hold its first seminar with the slogan “For a human network of responses and help”. The main obje ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “By means of the apostolic ministry Christ himself reaches those called to the faith. The distance of the centuries is overcome and the Risen Lord offers himself living and working for us in the today of the Church and the world. This is our great joy.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the subject of the Church for catechesis at the general weekly audiences. On Wednesday 3 May he dwelt for the second time on the significance and value of Apost ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe opened the PMS General Assembly: “Our main mission, as National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies, is to bend down, like good Samaritans, over our brothers’ necessities, especially over the poor and the needy” Rome (Fides Agency) - “Our missionary activity is the effort we put in our work to make people know that God is love […]. Dear brothers, this is our main mission as National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societ ...
• 4 May 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The fifth CELAM General Conference “will show new routes for the evangelising mission of the Church”: Message of the Bolivian Bishops at the end of their Plenary Assembly Cochabamba (Fides Agency) - At the end of their 82nd Plenary Assembly, the Bishops of Bolivia published a Message addressed to the People of God on the topics they consider of greatest concern in the crucial era their Co ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office with regard to the episcopal ordinations in continetal China Vatican City (Fides Agency) - This morning the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, released the following statement to the journalists: "I can inform you of the position of the Holy See r ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Obedience of Faith” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Obedience of Faith”. Unity as a gift from heaven to recognise and make visible through full adhesion with personal freedom and Belonging, as a fundamental category of understanding ou ...
• 3 May 2006
  AFRICA/ DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - Archbishop of Katanga resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 3 May 2006, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Kananga (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Archbishop ...
• 3 May 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Woman embraces Catholic faith thanks to catechesis “on line” Tai Pei (Fides Service) - According to Christian Life Weekly, the bulletin of Tai Pei archdiocese d di Tai Pei, the Internet is proving an effective help for evangelisation. The experience of Mrs Jiang is an eloquent de ...
• 3 May 2006
  VATICAN - Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies opens tomorrow in Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow 4 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and president of the Supreme Committee of the Pontifical Mission Societies Crescenzio ...
• 3 May 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - The death of Rev. Andrea Santoro should not discourage pilgrims, religious leaders encourage “Faith tourism’ and pilgrimages in Turkey Ankara (Fides Service) - Turkey is a land of ancient traditions and deep religious roots for, Christians Muslims and Jews and pilgrims of all three faiths are most welcome to discover the country’s immense spiritual a ...
• 3 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Holy Father’s message to participants at European Meeting "Restoring Europe’s Soul": “Only by safeguarding and valuing to the full the legacy of values handed on by its forebears can Europe write a new page in its history respecting the dignity of every human person and banning definitively abuse and violence of human rights” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI addressed, through Cardinal Angelo Sodano secretary of state, a Message to the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for In ...
• 3 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Mission Societies: “official organ for missionary cooperation of all the Churches and all Christians” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) “rising spontaneously from the People of God as private apostolic initiatives of the laity, they transformed adherence of the faithful to Christ in ...
• 3 May 2006
  Dictionary of Ancient Christian Literature “Dizionario di letteratura cristiana antica” : presentation at Pontifical Urban University Rome (Fides Service) - Friday 19 May 2006, at 5pm at the Auditorium Giovanni Paolo II at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome (Via Urbano VIII, 16 ) there will be the presentation of the Italian edition of “Lexikon ...
• 3 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - We need young men and women willing to dedicate their life to following the Lord and we need courageous married couples deeply committed to their calling to love and holiness: initiatives for Vocation Week promoted by the Bishops’ Conference of Chile Santiago (Fides Service) - “We need young men and women willing to dedicate their life to following the Lord putting themselves at the service of brothers in the priesthood and the consecrated life. But we also need an ...
• 3 May 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Government to fund adult stem cells research: local Church applauds science which “respects ethics” Sydney (Fides Service) - The Australian government has decided to finance scientific research on the use and curative possibilities of adult stem cells. The decision to give 22 million dollars to Griffith University labo ...