News

• 2 June 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Preparing for CAM 3: 3,000 families from 87 parishes who will host participants begin their missionary formation Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Preparations continue for the celebration of the Third American Missionary Congress (CAM 3), which will take place in Quito (Ecuador) on August 12-17. The participants will be provided accommoda ...
• 2 June 2008
  VATICAN - Decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, authorizing a special permission for the celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul” in the jubilee year, 2,000th anniversary of his birth Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office issued the following decree on May 31, 2008, from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. “The Apostle St. Paul, who pro ...
• 2 June 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Foundation “Centesimus Annus-Pro Pontifice”: “The focus of all economic planning...should always be the person, created in the image of God and willed by Him for the care and administration of the immense resources of creation.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Harmonious development is possible, if the economic and political decisions placed in effect take into account the fundamental principals that make them accessible by all people. I am ...
• 2 June 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “No to violence! No to xenophobia!,” declare Mozambican Bishops in a message on preventing retaliation for the violence against immigrants in South Africa Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – “As Pastors of the local Church in our country, we wish to manifest our profound concern for the situation of the relatives of Mozambican residents in the neighboring country of South Africa, ...
• 31 May 2008
  Dossier - The Pontifical Council for Culture Introduction The history of the Pontifical Council for Culture Aims and tasks Structure Activities INTERVIEW with Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture ...
• 30 May 2008
  VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I say to you …” -intervention by Prof. Michele Loconsole: Jesus is Jewish and always will be Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Very often, especially in the past, the Christian community forgot to teach that Jesus was a Palestinian Jew; to all effects a member of the Jewish religion. Still today, more than 40 years ...
• 30 May 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Italian Bishops: “For us Bishops, for our priests, for catechists, and for the entire Christian community, the educational emergency assumes a very specific form: that of the transmission of the faith to the new generations." Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “In Italy, as in many other countries, there is a strong sense of what we could call an authentic ‘educational emergency,’” said the Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 29, in a meeti ...
• 30 May 2008
  VATICAN - Program of Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Journey to Sydney for the 23rd World Youth Day Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has released the program for the Apostolic Journey of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to Sydney, Australia, for the 23rd World Youth Day. The Pope will depart from ...
• 30 May 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope tells new Ambassadors: “The international community is also called to act -- over and above simple justice -- by showing its solidarity with the poorest and ensuring a better distribution of wealth.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 29, the Holy Father received the Letters of Credence of nine new ambassadors to the Holy See (Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, Chad, Bangladesh, Belarus, Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria). ...
• 30 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Association meets in anticipation for the National HCA Congress commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Association’s presence in the country Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – On May 27, at Warsaw’s John Paul II Museum, a gathering for children of the Holy Childhood Association was held with representatives from the city’s grammar schools. A report on the event w ...
• 30 May 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - National Migration Conference: July 28-31, 2008, with the theme: “Renewing Hope, Seeking Justice.” Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) – The National Migration Conference 2008 will take place July 28-31 in Washington, D.C., with the theme: “Renewing Hope, Seeking Justice.” The Conference is sponsored by the Migration ...
• 30 May 2008
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops reaffirm their commitment to fight for life, in the face of the Supreme Court decision to allow the use of frozen embryos for scientific research Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops’ Conference (CNBB) has issued a statement expressing their regret for the Supreme Court’s decision to allow researchers to use embryos reserved for in vitro fertilizat ...
• 30 May 2008
  ASIA - Food emergency continues due to an increase in the cost of rice; speculations and natural disasters are among crisis’ causes Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The increase in the cost of basic food items on a worldwide level is having more and more drastic affects on the lives of millions of people. This is the most alarming and dramatic announcement o ...
• 30 May 2008
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Fighting between the Presidential Guard and rebel soldiers: crisis worsens and the population continues to face more difficulties Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – “We are trapped inside our houses. The people do not dare to go out and the businesses and offices are all closed. Every so often, a gun shot is heard in the distance,” Fides was informed ...
• 30 May 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Archbishop Giacomo Zhao Ziping: firm in his principles, with respect and dialogue for all, working for the formation of the clergy and the promotion of religious life. Tsinan (Agenzia Fides) – On May 18, 2008, at nearly 96 years of age, Archbishop Giacomo Zhao Ziping of Tsinan (Jinan), in the province of Shandong (continental China), passed away. The news of his death came as a surpr ...