News

• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - Letter of the Holy Father to Italian Prime Minster Hon. Berlusconi, in view of the G8: “May the voice of Africa and less developed countries be heard!” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has written a letter to the Italian Prime Minster Hon. Berlusconi on the occasion of the G8 meeting to be held in Aquila, from 8 to 10 July 2009, under ...
• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope to the European Meeting on Vocation Pastoral: “Sow confidence and hope. There is in fact a profound sense of confusion among many young people today ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Vocation pastoral care is for every diocese a pastoral priority which assumes even greater importance in the context of the Year of the Priesthood which has just begun” said the Holy ...
• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope for the reopening of the Pauline Chapel: “For those who come to pray in this Chapel, for the Pope first of all, Peter and Paul are masters of faith ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the early evening of Saturday 4 July, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the Celebration of Vespers in the Pauline Chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, on the occasion of its ...
• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “ To the cry for blood shed coming from many parts of the earth, God replies with the blood of his Son who gave his life for us. Christ did not respond to evil with evil, but with good, with his infinite love. ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “To the cry for blood shed coming from many parts of the earth, God replies with the blood of his Son who gave his life for us. Christ did not respond to evil with evil, but with good, ...
• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Sunday 2009: “The nations will come to its light” (Rev 21, 24) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The goal of the Church's mission is to illuminate with the light of the Gospel all peoples journeying through history towards God, so that in Him they may be fully realised and accompl ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: “we are “Rommi” we are rich, I have three children. Some days I try to go to work in the green houses, I get 25 euro a day” Naples (Agenzia Fides) – – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, we continue our journey among people we call gypsies, a people who have migrated for almost a thousand years, m ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: travelling through the largest Rome communities in Europe, testimonial of young Rom girl under protection who had the courage to report her father for forcing her to steal Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, comparing our fears, with them and among them, aware that only schooling for new generations can integrate different ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: a Filipino immigrant tells how she reached Europe: “I was closed with two other girls in a container, without food, the air was unbreathable, the heat stifling. We reached a port in northern Europe …” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Testimony of a young Filipino woman: “I earned too little in my country. It was difficult to leave my family, my little girl and my husband, but I decide to come here to give her a better futur ...
• 4 July 2009
  Dossier - Magisterium of the Successor of Saint Peter POPE BENEDICT XVI in the year dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle The Year of St Paul 2008-2009 “As we thank the Lord for calling Paul and for rendering him a light for the nations and our teacher, let us pray: Give us today witnesses to the resurrection, captured by your love and ...
• 3 July 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Representatives of all female religious institutes in the country meet and take part in a solemn Eucharistic Procession with thousands of faithful Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – Some 78 women religious from 23 Chinese provinces representing almost every female religious congregation in mainland China, took part in a solemn Eucharistic Procession with thousands of lay ...
• 3 July 2009
  ASIA/INDIA - Daughters of Saint Camillus in the world of suffering care for the aged, the disabled and persons with AIDS and leprosy Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – On arriving in Kerala (Thariode) in 1972, the Camillian Sisters were initially directed by Mother Celsa Bonato, who came from Italy as Novice Mistress and Superior. In 1977 a second house wa ...
• 3 July 2009
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - In eastern Congo thousands of killings and rapes Human Rights Watch denounces; Bishop of Butembo-Beni appeals for help for the victims of violence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- 1,500 civilians killed and thousands of women and girls raped since January this year in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Libe ...
• 3 July 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Presidential elections: second round 2 August between Kumba Yala and Malam Bacai Sanha Bissau (Agenzia Fides)- Guinea Bissau will vote in a second round of presidential elections. This was announced by the independent electoral Commission which made public the results of the first round held on 28 June (s ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - First European Meeting for University students: “New disciples of Emmaus. Being Christians at university”; 11 July Papal audience Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The First European Meeting for University students: “New disciples of Emmaus. Christians at university” will be held in Rome 6 - 12 July (see Fides 17/6/2009). Organised by the Office for Uni ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A “Charter” to highlight the cultural and educative singularities which mark the identity of Catholic infant schools: initiative of the Archbishop of Bologna Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - The “Formative charter of Catholic Infant Schools” was personally elaborated by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna. “This is a document - according to FISM, Italian Federation ...