News

• 23 June 2008
  VATICAN - “Do not be afraid to preach Christ among your peers”: exhortation of the Holy Father in his video-message to the youth gathered at the International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I encourage you to continually meditate on this ‘great mystery of faith,’ as we proclaim it in every Mass, following the consecration.” This was the invitation of the Holy Father ...
• 23 June 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - March for Life: “True laicism is that which listens to reason, not one that is dominated by irrational imposition of a political nature.” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – “We place ourselves at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe to thank her for the gift of life and reaffirm the truth of human life, in a world that ignores what science has proven: that the ...
• 23 June 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - June 26, International Drugs Prevention Day, “The Christian World’s Commitment to Drug Prevention” will be implemented Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The National Pastoral Office for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction (PANAD) has asked that all dioceses join in celebrating the International Drugs Prevention Day on June 26. The President and Dir ...
• 23 June 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Zarate-Campana: “the Pauline Year is a perfect time to confirm our faith, grow in the testimony of life, and reaffirm our belonging to the Church.” Zarate-Campana (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Oscar Domingo Sarlinga of the Diocese of Zarate-Campana (Argentina) has written a Pastoral Letter on the inauguration of the Pauline Year, which will take place on June 28. In hi ...
• 23 June 2008
  VATICAN - The identity and mission of Catholic radio Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Over 60 representatives from Catholic radio broadcasters from all over the world gathered in Rome on June 19-21 for a congress organized by the Pontifical Council for Social Communication ...
• 23 June 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Opposition leader’s announcement of withdrawal from the presidential race causes strong criticism of Mugabe regime Harare (Agenzia Fides) – “In present circumstances a free and fair vote is impossible.” With these words, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai, announced on June 22 that he woul ...
• 23 June 2008
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “Now, dialogue for tolerance and mutual respect,” Bishops plea, following the peace accord between the government and two main rebel forces in the country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – “We hope and pray that political dialogue respects the established conditions that the parties have agreed to.” This is the wish of the Bishops of the Central African Republic expressed in ...
• 21 June 2008
  Instrumentum mensis Maii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum On the first Saturday of the month, May 3, the Holy Father Benedict XVI ha presided the recitation of the Holy Rosary in the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome. On 7 May in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican the China ...
• 20 June 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells Pakistan’s Bishops: “...you exercise a special mission as preachers of the Gospel and as agents of love and peace in the Church and in society.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The seeds of the Gospel, sown in your region by zealous missionaries in the sixteenth century, continue to grow despite conditions that sometimes hinder their capacity to take root,” ...
• 20 June 2008
  VATICAN - Pope’s appeal asking that “the Middle East and especially the Holy Land, Lebanon, and Iraq may be offered long-awaited peace and social stability in respect of the fundamental rights of the person, including authentic religious freedom.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI expressed his gratitude for the substantial support offered “to the specific mission of the Bishop of Rome in overseeing universal charity” through loving ...
• 20 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Among the Italian Bishops’ Cultural Plan for the Pauline Year, is a website dedicated to St. Paul’s Letters Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Pauline Year, the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) has drawn up an entire schedule for the year, for all the local Churches, that offers a new and intelligent way to liv ...
• 20 June 2008
  AMERICA/CANADA - Update on the 49th International Eucharistic Congress Quebec (Agenzia Fides) – Some 11,000 pilgrims, nearly 50 cardinals, and over 100 Bishops have been attending the 49th International Eucharistic Congress that began in Quebec City (Canada) on June 15, and is still under ...
• 20 June 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop of Lima publishes new edition of the Minor Catechism, for the Great Mission of Lima Lima (Agenzia Fides) – With the celebration of the Great Mission of Lima, begun in the Archdiocese of Lima on April 28 of this year, the Archbishop offered the faithful a new edition of the “Minor Catechism.” This ...
• 20 June 2008
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Members of Congress in El Salvador unanimously sign the “Book of Life,” promising to defend life from conception to natural death. San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – On June 5, 2008, all of El Salvador’s Congressional representatives signed the “Book of Life” in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador. The “Book of Life” is a ...
• 20 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - “Wherever His Love is, there also is the Lord Himself”: the diary of Sr. Ji, written in the tent where she worked among the earthquake victims of Sichuan Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – “We are Catholic religious, from various religious congregations from the different dioceses and provinces.” This was the response given by Sister Ji Yong-Jing, of the Congregation ...