News

• 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 ...
• 29 April 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - A missionary's testimony from Korogocho, the fourth largest Nairobi slum that is home to 120,000 people Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “Calling to mind the shantytowns of Korogocho – Nairobi (Kenya), its people, and reinterpreting the experience I have had over the course of the many years in which I have lived here, always ...
• 28 April 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI visits Abruzzo's earthquake victims: “Dear friends, my presence among you is intended as a tangible sign of the fact that the crucified Lord is risen and does not abandon you.” L'Aquila (Agenzia Fides) – Hope for the living, prayers for the dead. In brief, this is the message that the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched to the earthquake victims of Abruzzo, in a visit that lasted a matter of ho ...
• 28 April 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Politicians are insensitive to the people's suffering,” Bishops say in calling for food price control to overcome hunger Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The vast majority of our leaders show a blatant insensitivity to the needs of our people. They pursue their own selfish interest, thus nurturing greed and corruption. Goods and wealth which r ...
• 28 April 2009
  MISSIONARY INTENTION - The Pope's Missionary Intention for May 2009: “That the recently founded Catholic Churches, grateful to the Lord for the gift of faith, may be ready to share in the universal mission of the Church, offering their availability to preach the Gospel throughout the world.” Commentary. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Lord Jesus sent the Apostles to preach the Gospel to the entire world. As fruit of the vitality of His Word and the power of His Grace, the Kingdom has extended little by little throu ...
• 28 April 2009
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Condolences for death of Brother Xavier Habig of the Fraternité des Petits Frères del Evangile, in car accident Alger (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaïa in Algeria is deeply saddened by the death of Brother Xavier Habig of the Fraternité des Petits Frères del Evangile (Fraternity of the Little Brothers of the ...
• 28 April 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Church in Ecuador officially launches the National Mission: “The Church is in need of a good house-cleaning.” Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Ecuador officially began the National Mission with a Mass concelebrated in the Basilica “del Voto Nacional,” on April 23, during the celebration of the Plenary Assembl ...
• 28 April 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Priest receives death threats for speaking out against the “de facto decriminalization” of drugs and authorities' indifference towards youth Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Jose Maria Di Paola, better known as “Fr. Pepe,” has received death threats following the recent publication of a document in which local priests denounced the “de facto decrimi ...
• 28 April 2009
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church's solidarity with Christians under attack from the Taliban Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, Director of the National Justice and Peace Commission of the Pakistani Bishops' Conference, has expressed the Church's closeness, solidarity, and desire to offer conc ...
• 28 April 2009
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Another “tsunami” for Tamil civilians suffering from the war Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - “The Tamil civilians affected by the violent conflict underway are experiencing a second tsunami”: this is the advisory being sent out by Fr. Ajith Perera, a priest from Trincolmalee who ha ...
• 27 April 2009
  VATICAN - At the Regina Caeli, Pope expresses his hope that the pilgrimage of those who have come to Rome for the canonizations “can help each one [of you] to 'run' with more joy and energy toward the final 'goal,' toward 'the prize of God's upward calling, in Christ Jesus.'” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, April 26, at the close of the Mass celebrated in Saint Peter's Square for the proclamation of the 5 new saints, the Holy Father Benedict XVI opened his address prior to the rec ...