Vatican

• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation of 70th Bibliographia Missionaria at the Pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 6 December, at 5pm at the Pontifical Urban University (Newman Hall) in via Urbano VIII, 16 (Roma), the University Library and the Urban University Press will present the 70th vo ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Clericus Cup athletes will attend Papal General Audience tomorrow Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - An important appointment awaits the participants in the second Clericus Cup event: on Wednesday 5 December representatives of each of the 16 teams in the championship will take part in the ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Bishops of Korea and the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar on ad limina visit: “ I am aware of the practical gestures of reconciliation undertaken for the well-being of those in North Korea. I encourage these initiatives and invoke Almighty God’s providential care upon all North Koreans.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The Church in your countries has made remarkable progress since the arrival of missionaries in the region over four hundred years ago, and their return to Mongolia just fifteen years ag ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Blog by Andrea Tornielli: The Encyclical on Christian Hope - Blog by Luigi Accattoli: Benedict and the self-critique of modern Christianity - Marco Tosatti: In his Encyclical the Pope writes his own divine comedy. - Palazzo apostolico.it: Ratzinger's encyclical, between the hereafter and hope. An Oblate in Thai prisons Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical on Christian Hope: Not elements of the cosmos, the laws of matter which definitively government the world and man, but a personal God who governs the starts, that is the uni ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - “You were told, but I tell you…” -intervention on Christian-Jewish dialogue by Prof. Michele Loconsole Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ You have heard how it was said…but I say to you…”, these famous words of Jesus are recurrent in his earthly preaching, especially with regard to the Jewish religious leaders; and ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - On the feast of St Francis Xavier, Fides is 80 years old Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides News Service of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started its activity in December 1927 immediately after the feast of the Patron Saint of the missions, St Francis Xa ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs: “What is needed, in fact, is a spirit of solidarity conducive for promoting as a body those ethical principles which, by their very nature and their role as the basis of social life, remain non-negotiable” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To express gratitude and appreciation for what they do collaborating actively with Papal Representatives at Interantional Organisations and render still closer and more effective this share ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent “Advent is a favourable time for rediscovering hope, not vague or false, but certain and confident, since it is ‘anchored’ in Christ, God made man, the rock of our salvation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope. Every year this fundamental attitude of the spirit is rekindled in the hearts of Christians as they prepare to celebrate the great feast of ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit Hospital San Giovanni Battista: “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will we will experience the power of his love” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will, we will experience the power of His love. Hospitals and nursing homes, precisely because the inmate ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Man and the world need God- the true God! - otherwise they cannot hope. Science does much for the good of humanity - undoubtedly - but it cannot save it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the first Sunday of Advent, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his reflection before the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the significance of the Advent Season wh ...
• 30 November 2007
  SPECIAL - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello SPE SALVI, the second Encyclical of His Holiness Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A magnificent fresco on Christian hope, the new Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI: Spe Salvi facti sumus, “In hope we were saved” (Cf Rom 8,24) is the title and I wager it will occupy no ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Thailand-Myanmar: a baby girl at the meat market is worth 15 euro - A new director for the Vatican Museums: Antonio Paolucci Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the web site “Dio: pace o dominio”: Testimony from a missionary in a village in northernThailand-Myanmar. Remember the teaching of Don Oreste? "Prostitution is the effect of the most ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Josephine Bakhita, the slave who became the first Sudanese saint, cited as an example in Pope Benedict XVI 's new encyclical Spe salvi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Josephine Bakhita, the first Saint of Sudan and the first African woman to be raised to the honour of the altars without being a martyr, is cited as an example in Spe salvi the second encyc ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - “Without ignoring or downplaying our differences as Christians and Muslims, we can and therefore should look to what unites us,”: the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI relies to open letter from 138 Muslim religious leaders Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 13, for the occasion of the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr), a group of 138 Muslim religious leaders sent an open letter to the Holy Father Benedict XVI and to o ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - John Paul II: the life of Saint Josephine Bakhita “ inspires the firm resolve to work effectively to free people from oppression and violence ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing the Bishops of Sudan received for their ad limina visit on 15 December Pope John Paul II mentioned the figures of two intrepid witnesses to the faith, “two holy individuals who ...