News

• 6 March 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Survey on the importance of the faith and the defense of the Church's teachings in the public debate and in daily life Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The leading Catholic magazine in Poland, “Niedzela,” with headquarters in Czestochowa, has recently published a survey on the importance of the faith and the defense of the Church's te ...
• 6 March 2009
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Appeal from the Bishop of Limon: “it is time to find a lasting solution to the flooding problem” Limon (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Jose Rafael Quiros of Limon has issued a statement along with the priests of the diocese, showing his concern for the difficult situation in which a large number of families in the dioces ...
• 6 March 2009
  VATICAN - Pope's encounter with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome (4) - The relationship between the Word of God and Marian devotion, indulgences, and other devotions in general Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As is customary at the beginning of Lent, on Thursday, February 26, the Holy Father Benedict XVI met in the Blessings Hall in the Vatican with the parish priests and clergy of the Diocese o ...
• 6 March 2009
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Launching of the Continental Mission in the country: “we should recover our missionary identity, our missionary zeal” Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Panama declared itself to be in a “permanent state of mission” this past March 1, with the official launching of the Continental Mission, at the foot of the statue of Chr ...
• 6 March 2009
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Catholic Bishops focus Lenten Pastoral letters on the Family Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – Putting God back at the centre of the family, always a privileged place for encountering the Lord and handing on the faith: this is the recurrent theme in Lenten Pastoral Letters issued by Catho ...
• 5 March 2009
  WORDS OF DOCTRINE : Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello -Lent: a time of judgement Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Lenten season, with all its history of biblical and Christian tradition, its theological meaning and liturgical origin, is also, necessarily, a time of judgement. The traditional practi ...
• 5 March 2009
  VATICAN - Pope's Message to the youth: “If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him k ...
• 5 March 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father Benedict XVI to visit the Capitol Building and Monastery of Santa Francesca Romana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has published the program for the Holy Father Benedict XVI's visit the Capitol Building and the Monastery of Santa Francesca Romana in Tor de Specchi, which will ...
• 5 March 2009
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishop of Aitape resigns Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 5 March 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Aitape (Papua New Guinea), presented by Bishop Austen Robin Crapp, ...
• 5 March 2009
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Pontifical Mission Societies offer support to faithful in Pakistan Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Australia are making an effort to provide support, solidarity, encouragement, and prayer for the Catholics in Pakistan. For years now, they have been w ...
• 5 March 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - First National Encounter of Youth Missionary Coordinators in the Year of Pauline Jaricot, July 22, 2009 - July 22, 2010 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On February 20 – 23, in Brasilia at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, the First National Encounter of Youth Missionary Coordinators (JM) was held. Fides learne ...
• 5 March 2009
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: auto-financing the Church, financing seminaries, presentation of “The Illustrated Bible, with Commentaries” Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Paraguay will continue their 184th Ordinary Plenary Assembly until Friday, March 6. In a press conference, they presented the main points from their third session, which was ce ...
• 5 March 2009
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “The ruling is necessary, but it is not enough on its own as it only covers a small part of the crimes committed,” a missionary tells Fides, in commenting on the recent verdict for rebels from Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – On February 25, the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone found 2 commanders from the United Revolutionary Front (RUF) guilty of crimes committed during the civil war that concluded in 2002 (see ...
• 5 March 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - International Crime Court orders arrest of Sudan President Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “We have no word of the incidents or the violence against foreign presence in Sudan, nor against the Church; there are only various demonstrations taking place in the streets of Khartoum, in ...
• 5 March 2009
  VATICAN - Pope's encounter with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome (3) - Importance of the liturgy; the Bishop of Rome and the Petrine Ministry Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As is customary at the beginning of Lent, on Thursday, February 26, the Holy Father Benedict XVI met in the Blessings Hall in the Vatican with the parish priests and clergy of the Diocese o ...