News

• 11 April 2006
  AFRICA - January 2007 Congress will assess evangelisation in the past ten years Rome (Fides Service)- The Catholic Bishops of Africa have decided to hold an all African Congress to assess evangelisation efforts in the past ten years. The Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar S ...
• 11 April 2006
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “Called to love everyone without distinction and beyond all religious or national barriers” Easter Message from Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Jerusalem (Fides Service) - “Every feast invites us to reflect on the meaning of our faith. The feast of Easter renews our courage and helps us to face the challenges of life, private and public, as well as the difficu ...
• 11 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses young participants at UNIV 2006: “A person who discovers Christ feels impelled to carry Him because a joy so great cannot be hidden it demands to be shared” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Paul VI Hall this morning, addressing participants at the UNIV international congress of university students, accompanied by members of their families Benedict XVI said “Dear young ...
• 11 April 2006
  VATICAN - Planning and building God’s house. Contribution by Bishop Mauro Piacenza, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church. “The Baptistery” Vatican City (Fides Service). “The Baptistery” - Excavations in the oldest Domus Ecclesiae in Doura Europos (Syria), dating to the mid-third century, brought to light a room used for the celebration of the Eucharist ...
• 10 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Poland 25 to 28 May Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 8 April the director of the Holy See press office Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls released the following announcement: “From 25-28 May 2006 the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will ...
• 10 April 2006
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Youth Day Cross and Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary change hands from Cologne Germany to Sydney Australia: “Most Holy Mary was the first ‘believer’ who carried her own cross like her Son and then lived with him the joy of his resurrection” Vatican City (Fides Service) -Palm Sunday Mass presided by Pope Benedict XVI in St Peter’s Square closed with the official hand-over of the Youth Day Cross and icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary from young Catholics of Co ...
• 10 April 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates first Holy Week Rite: “Palm Sunday tells us that the real important "yes" is the Cross, that precisely the Cross is the true tree of life. We find our life not by living it jealously for ourselves but by living it for others. Love is giving of self, this is why the Cross symbolises the path of true life” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Palm Sunday April 9 Pope Benedict XVI presided Mass in a sun-flooded St Peter’s Square filled with visitors in Rome for Holy Week and Easter many of them young people since the day was ...
• 10 April 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Food Programme and S. Egidio agreement for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa Rome (Fides Service) - On April 11 at 11am at the WPF Rome offices, the United Nations’ World Food Programme and the S. Egidio will sign an agreement to provide food support for an HIV/AIDS prevention programme in Afr ...
• 10 April 2006
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Healthcare and the planet’s poorest people: 1 doctor to every 18,000 Rome (Fides Service) - In Zambia, one of the world’s poorest countries, devastated in the past decade by four wars, there is one doctor for every 18,000 people and one nurse for every 7,800. This emerged from a World ...
• 10 April 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - 3rd Global Congress Evangelisation and Pastoral for overseas Chinese Catholics in Singapore Singapore (Fides Service) - The 3rd Global Congress Evangelisation and Pastoral for overseas Chinese Catholics will be held in Singapore 17 to 21 November on a theme still to be chosen. The organising committee has invi ...
• 7 April 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New rector appointed for Sacred Heart Seminary in archdiocese of Rabaul Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 24 March 2006 appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan Sacred Heart Seminary in the Archdiocese of R ...
• 7 April 2006
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Pope appoints Bishop of Chinhoyi Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 6 April 2006, appointed Bishop of Chinhoyi (Zimbabwe) Rev. Fr. Dieter Scholz, SJ, Director of Harare Formation Centre . Bishop elect Dieter Scholz, S ...
• 7 April 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Pope appoints Bishop of Hsinchu Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 6 April 2006 appointed Bishop of Hsinchu (Taiwan) Rev. John Baptist Lee Keh-mien, until now rector of the Inter-diocesan Seminary at Hsinchuang archdio ...
• 7 April 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Francis Xavier incarnated radical obedience to the Lord’s mandate to his apostles: Go, make disciples of all nations!": papal envoy Cardinal Rouco Varela presides celebrations for the 5th centenary of the birth of Francis Xavier Navarra (Fides Service) - This morning at Javier Castel in Navarra, Spain special envoy of Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela archbishop of Madrid, presided a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist t ...
• 7 April 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “St Francis Xavier was God’s great gift to Navarra, the universal Church and to all humanity”: says Archbishop of Pamplona in pastoral letter Navarra (Fides Service) - In a letter for the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Francis Xavier the Archbishop of Pamplona Fernando Sebastián described the main celebrations on April 7th in Javier the birth place ...