News

• 4 May 2009
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Mexican missionaries working in Hong Kong join local faithful in praying for the people of Mexico affected by the Influenza A Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Missionaries of Guadalupe from Mexico, who are working in Hong Kong, have joined the local faithful in praying for the people of Mexico who are being affected by the Influenza A. Accordi ...
• 4 May 2009
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Climate changes provoke an increase in cholera in Zambia, Spanish study says Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – Climate changes are causing a rise in infections in Africa. This is what a study published by researchers at the Spanish Carlos III Health Institute say. According to the study, the increase of ...
• 4 May 2009
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Church in prayer for peace, stability, and the common good of the Korean nation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church is trying to offer a significant contribution, on a spiritual and material level, for peace, stability, and the common good of the Korean nation. This was the affirmation mad ...
• 4 May 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - After Jerusalem, Greece, and Malta, the Peace Marathon “Running in the Footsteps of Saint Paul” is headed towards Sicily; May 27, the torch will reach Benedict XVI La Valeta (Agenzia Fides) – Just hours ago, the marathon “Running in the Footsteps of Saint Paul” set off from Malta. The marathon is 1300km on foot, beginning on April 23 in Jerusalem and crossing the Holy Land (B ...
• 30 April 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “Let us pray to God so that he teaches us to see in the Church his presence, his beauty, to see his presence in the world, and that he helps us also to be transparent for his light.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI spoke of the Patriarch Germanus of Constantinople in the General Audience on April 29. As the Pontiff recalled, Saint Germanus “does not belong to the most ...
• 30 April 2009
  VATICAN - Final day of the Congress organized by the Saint Joseph Missionary College: “The identity and role of the lay catechist in the Church, communion and mission.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The second and final day of workshops promoted by the Saint Joseph Missionary College in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical University Urbaniana was dedicated to the identity of the lay cat ...
• 30 April 2009
  VATICAN; WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - The authority of an Episcopal Conference derives solely from the Apostolic See Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Share thoughts with Church authorities and do what the authorities advise. This is the secret of the unity between Catholic Bishops and the Pope, from which none of the forms which express ...
• 29 April 2009
  VATICAN - May 24, worldwide spiritual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Sheshan, to pray for the gift of communion and reconciliation; letter from Cardinal Dias to all Bishops on the Day of Prayer for the Church in China Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, in his letter written on May 27, 2007 to the Catholics of the People's Republic of China, expressed his desire that May 24 of every year be a Day of Prayer f ...
• 29 April 2009
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Auxiliary of Lilongwe appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on April 29, 2009, appointed Fr. Stanislaus Tobias Magombo, of the clergy of the Diocese of Dedza, National Secretary for Pastoral Ministry for the Malawi Bi ...
• 29 April 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Final Message from the Bishops at the close of their Plenary Assembly: “Our nation is Christian; it wants to continue being Christian and this is evident in many ways.” Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Bolivia issued a message at the close of the 87th Plenary Assembly celebrated on April 23-28. During their Assembly, on April 26, there was a launching of the national missio ...
• 29 April 2009
  AMERICA/CHILE - Message from the Bishops at the close of their Plenary Assembly: “The country cannot renounce the great values on which it has been built, values that the Church declares irrevocable.” Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – In the final message at the close of the 97th Plenary Assembly held April 20-24, the Chilean Bishops' Conference (CECh) once more called to mind the fact that “the Church, disciple of the ...
• 29 April 2009
  VATICAN - “The identity of the lay catechist in the evangelization of peoples” Congress at the Urbaniana, for 30th anniversary of Saint Joseph Missionary College Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The figure of the lay catechist in the ad gentes mission is at the center of the Congress that was organized by the Saint Joseph Missionary College in Rome, at the Pontifical University U ...
• 29 April 2009
  VATICAN - Pastoral Care of Tourism today, 40 years after “Peregrinans in terra”: Meeting on Europe promoted by the Pontifical Council for for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This morning, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People at San Calixto Palace in Rome, a meeting on the Pastoral Care of Tourism ...
• 29 April 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Who can ever separate us from the love of Christ? Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Easter Season leads us to contemplate the boundless loving mercy of God opened to us with the Resurrection of Jesus. Gone are the shadows of sin and death, put to flight by the glorious ...
• 29 April 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Thank you, Holy Father, for bringing hope for the future back to our continent” - A Message from the Bishops of Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo thank His Holiness Benedict XVI for “having visited our land of Africa, for having confirmed our faith in Jesus Christ, the Light of the Worl ...