Special Issue

• 20 May 2009
  The Gift of the Blessing The Blessing of the Father in Heaven The Blessing of Christ Blessings in the Life of the Church The Priest’s Blessing The Blessing in the Family ...
• 25 March 2009
  Special Fides - “Blessed are the pure in heart.” (Mt 5:8) “Blessed are the pure in heart.” (Mt 5:8) Mary’s Virginity and its Significance for our Times Mary’s Virginity and its Significance for our Times Virginity of Faith Virginity of the Mind Virginity of the H ...
• 30 December 2008
  THE NAMES OF PASTORAL WORKERS, PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND LAY CATHOLICS KILLED DURING 2008 The names of catholics killed while on mission in 2008 Priests and religious killed in 2008 biographical notes and circumstances of death Table for year 2008 Table of pastoral workers killed on mission between ...
• 4 October 2008
  THE WORD OF GOD IN THE LIFE AND THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH 12th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops 5 - 26 October 2008 From the Magisterium of the Holy Father Benedict XVI EUROPE/ITALY - “The Bible night and day”: the Holy Father starts the integral ...
• 18 March 2008
  Dossier - Best Wishes Holy Father! Best Wishes Holy Father! on St Joseph's Day, the name day of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, Fides News Agency looks back at these first three years of his Pontificate Introduction Why the name ...
• 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 ...
• 7 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mother Julia Verhaeghe and the beginnings of the Spiritual Family 'The Work' Rome (Agenzia Fides) -The first biography on Mother Julia Verhaeghe, the Foundress of the Spiritual Family The Work, will be presented in Rome on November 8th , 2007 at 5.30 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, ...
• 29 December 2006
  A Collection of the Prayers of The Bible With its “world prayer campaign”, Fides Agency is glad to present this PRAYER COLLECTION on the occasion of the Christmas Celebration, of the coming of the Saviour of mankind. The “New Evangelization” means getti ...
• 30 December 2005
  THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED WHILE ON MISSION IN THE YEAR 2005 Vatican City (Fides Service) - Once again this year Fides has the sad task of issuing the names of pastoral workers who died a violent death in 2005. According to the information collected, 26 Catholics were killed on mi ...
• 25 May 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Year of the Eucharist - “New Evangelisation in a de-Christianised Europe can only be from the Eucharist and towards the Eucharist”: all-night adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Seville (Fides Service) - The Spanish association for all-night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, founded in Madrid in 1877, is present today in every diocese of the country with a total number of 1,500 sections and ci ...
• 25 May 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Year of the Eucharist:Corpus Christi may give new impulse to Catholic mission in Australia Sydney (Fides Service) - In Australia the 'Eucharist source of mission' is the theme of inspiration for various initiatives in view of the annual feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday 26 May which is particularly intense a ...
• 25 May 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Year of the Eucharist:A week of reflection and prayer on the Eucharist in the dioceses of Colombia and the celebration of Eucharistic Congresses mark the solemnity of Corpus Christi Bogota (Fides Service) - In this Year of the Eucharist the Catholic Bishops of Colombia, through the Bishops Conference’s Liturgy Commission agreed to hold a Week of Reflection on the Eucharist from 22 to 29 the week i ...
• 25 May 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Year of the Eucharist: The Eucharist is fundamental, essential in the life of the missionary. It is like going to the source to be filled with that which we wish to offer to others Rome (Fides Service) - “The Eucharist is fundamental, essential in the life of the missionary. It is the most important moment for us, like going to the source to be filled with that which we wish to offer to others: t ...
• 25 April 2005
  VATICAN - Missionary world and the opening of the pontificate of Benedict XVI Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the opening of the pontificate of Benedict XVI Fides has published statements from Cardinals from all over the missionary world. After statements with regard to Africa an ...
• 25 April 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Benedict XVI is God’s gift to the Church and we must support him with our prayers so that with God’s help he will be the great Pope we expect him to be” said Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Archbishop Lima Rome (Fides Service) - “The election of His Holiness Benedict XVI was a swift and marvellous convergence of intentions, a choice obviously guided by God. This choice was accompanied by prayers of Catholics of the world ...