News

• 15 April 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - President of the Italian Bishops' Conference visits earthquake site; Sunday, April 19, nationwide collection for the people of Abruzzo Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On his visit yesterday to L'Aquila and the surrounding areas devastated by the earthquake, Italian Bishops' Conference President Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco announced that another 2 million Euros wo ...
• 15 April 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Czestochowa's Major Seminary launches Apostolate of Prayer for Vocations on Holy Thursday Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – This part Holy Thursday (April 9), Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak of Czestochowa officially launched the Pastoral Ministry for Vocations in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa. “We should pray fo ...
• 15 April 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholics in South Africa generously respond to the Bishops' appeal for Zimbabwe Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Southern Africa has risen to the challenge of assisting the poor and destitute in Zimbabwe. After a call by the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (Swaz ...
• 15 April 2009
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops ask for forgiveness for the sins committed by members of the Church and renew their commitments made in their ordination as Bishops Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – The Permanent Council of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Paraguay has issued a statement in regards to the recent news that revealed that the current President Fernando Lugo had a child w ...
• 15 April 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Youth Standing Up Against Violence” is the motto for Citizens' Week 2009 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Youth Pastoral Ministry of Brazil is calling on all youth in the country to participate in the Citizens' Week 2009, which will began yesterday, April 14, and runs until April 21, with the ...
• 15 April 2009
  AMERICA/CHILE - Continental Mission on the Internet: videos for promoting this time of grace and a guide for the Continental Mission in Chile Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – With dynamic resources for evangelizers, the Church in Chile has updated their special website for the Continental Mission. It is a missionary spirit in the Church of Latin America a ...
• 15 April 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Diocesan Church Day on April 18, to help appreciate the treasure of the Catholic faith Tuxtla (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Tuxtla will celebrate “Diocesan Church Day” this April 18, as a day of thanksgiving, with the goal of “appreciating the treasure of the Catholic faith, coming together ...
• 15 April 2009
  ASIA/CHINA - Easter in Chinese Catholic communities with the administration of the Sacraments of Christian Initiation; 5 priests ordained in Feng Xiang Rome (Agenzia Fides) – According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, Chinese Catholics lived Easter in a sign of communion with the Holy Father and the Universal Church, joyfully witnessing the fruits of evangelizati ...
• 15 April 2009
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Sister Greta Educational Center for deaf children: from a shack to a rehabilitation center Kelaniya (Agenzia Fides) – At 40 km from the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, the Education Center for Hearing Impaired Children has been functioning since 1982, serving children who are hard of hearing. The Center came ...
• 15 April 2009
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - UN High Commissioner for Refugees helping Somalis returning to Mogadishu, where the situation remains unstable Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – While the international community focuses its attention on the hijacked sea vessels under the control of Somali pirates, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued ...
• 15 April 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The faith of Mary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices with which to go and anoint him. And very early in the morning on the first day of the wee ...
• 13 April 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Regina Cæli: “ The whole Church rejoices, expressing her sentiments by singing: "This is the day of Our Lord Jesus Christ” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – On Easter Monday 13 April, the Holy Father Benedict XVI led the recitation of the Regina Cæli with the faithful gathered in the courtyard of his Summer Residence at Castel Gandolfo: � ...
• 12 April 2009
  VATICAN - “From the depths of my heart, I wish all of you a blessed Easter. To quote Saint Augustine, “Resurrectio Domini, spes nostra - the resurrection of the Lord is our hope” (Sermon 261:1).” : the Pope's Easter Greetings Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Easter Sunday the Holy Father Benedict XVI addressed an Easter Message to the whole world, a message of hope: “Jesus rose again so that we, though destined to die, should not despair ...
• 12 April 2009
  VATICAN - On Easter Sunday the Pope says: “ let us open our spirit to Christ, who has died and is risen in order to renew us, in order to remove from our hearts the poison of sin and death, and to pour in the life-blood of the Holy Spirit: divine and eternal life” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Easter Sunday, 12 April, Pope Benedict XVI in his homily reflected on St Paul's words ‘Christ, our Passover,, has been immolated!’(1 Cor 5,7), which “ already contain, in an impr ...
• 11 April 2009
  VATICAN - “ The Lord’s saving hand holds us up, and thus we can already sing the song of the saved, the new song of the risen ones: alleluia!”: Benedict XVI during the Easter Vigil Mass Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At 9pm in St Peter's Basilica on Saturday 11 April the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the solemn Mass of the Easter Vigil. During his homily the Pope dwelt on the Gospel and the Apost ...