News

• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - “Enough with the bloodshed, enough with the violence, enough with the hatred in Iraq! Beloved Iraqi people, lift up your heads and let it be you yourselves who, in the first place, rebuild your national life!” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “beautiful witness of fidelity to Christ, to the Church and his people” of the late Chaldean Archbishop of Mossul, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, who met his tragic fatal end just d ...
• 17 March 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics have lived an intense Lent of preparation, with works of charity, for Holy Week and Easter Sunday Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics have been living a spiritually intense Lent in preparation for Holy Week and Easter, through prayer and works of fraternal charity, in union with the Universal Church. According t ...
• 17 March 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Science for Man”: inauguration of the new Biomedical Campus in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, March 14, in Trigoria (Rome), the new site of the Biomedical Campus University of Rome founded in 1993 as an apostolate of the Prelature Opus Dei, was inaugurated. The new campus occupie ...
• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - Promulgation of the Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints: among them are Fr. Clemente Vismara, missionary in Birma for 65 years; Capuchin Fr. Mariano, apostle of the television; and the founder of the “Knights of Columbus” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 15, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI received Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, Prefect for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience during which the Holy Father authori ...
• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - “Archbishop Rahho took up his cross and followed the Lord Jesus, thus he contributed to bringing justice to his martyred country and to the whole world, bearing witness to the truth”: Holy Father’s homily in the funeral mass for the Archbishop of Mossul Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the Passion of Christ, we see the fulfillment of this mission, when He, faced with an unjust condemnation, bears witness to the truth, remaining faithful to the law of love. On this s ...
• 17 March 2008
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - New Archbishop of Freetown and Bo appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 15, 2008, appointed Fr. Charles Edward Tamba, of the clergy of Kenema and Rector of St. Paul’s Major Seminary in Freetown, as Archbishop of Freetown ...
• 17 March 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - New Bishop of Bellary appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 15, 2008, appointed Fr. Henry D’Souza, of the clergy of Mangalore and executive secretary of the media office of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of ...
• 17 March 2008
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Medical dispensary in Baidoa, where the 2007 Holy Thursday Mass collection was sent by Pope Benedict XVI, serves 170 people a day Mogadiscio (Agenzia Fides) - One year after the contribution made by Pope Benedict XVI from the collection taken up at Holy Thursday Mass in 2007 (see Fides 2/4/2007), this outpatient facility run by Caritas Somalia has ...
• 17 March 2008
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishops call for a correct “sexual education towards love, in accord with our condition as rational beings and in an effort to strengthen the institution of the family” Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Permanent Committee of the Panamanian Bishops’ Conference has recently published a statement manifesting their perspectives on the two draft bills that are trying to be introduced in t ...
• 17 March 2008
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Message from the Bishops’ Conference on upcoming elections and an analysis of the country’s and the Church’s situation Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay recently held a Plenary Assembly in conjunction with the Major Superiors of Religious Orders in Paraguay, during which they analyzed and reflected on the contents of the ...
• 15 March 2008
  Instrumentum mensis Februarii pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontificis Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum During the usual annual visit to 'his' seminary, on the first day of February, the Feast of Our Lady of Trust, Patroness of the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, Benedict XVI underlined the call to holiness which especial ...
• 14 March 2008
  VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (sixth part) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...
• 14 March 2008
  VATICANO - Holy Father’s telegram for the death of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, Archbishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Upon receiving the news of the death of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, Archbishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans, Iraq, who was kidnapped on 29 February, Benedict XVI sent the following telegra ...
• 14 March 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Chiara Lubich concludes her earthly life, dedicated to spreading universal brotherhood in efforts to unite the human family in Evangelical charity Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “In a serene climate, of prayer and deep emotion, Chiara Lubich ended, at the age of 88, her earthly journey tonight, 14th March 2008, at 2 am in her home in Rocca di Papa (Rome), where she had r ...
• 14 March 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Pastoral guidelines from the Bishops regarding the Government Constitution: “create a climate of openness, make room for dialogue, facilitate social accord, reestablish legality La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Just days before Holy Week 2008, the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia has issued a document entitled, “That the people may have life,” in which they offer a series of pastoral guidelines on th ...