News

• 3 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Legion of Mary members in Taiwan join in celebrating the country’s 150th anniversary of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 members of the Legion of Mary in Taiwan, especially in Tai Pei, have participated in the annual Congress 2008 that took place on March 15. According to Christian Life Weekly, the weekly ...
• 3 April 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Summer formation courses on dialogue and peace in the Sisilah oasis Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - Learning about oneself, learning about others’ religious beliefs, studying, finding common ground, acting in a certain way in favor of dialogue, reconciliation, peace...these are the objecti ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - “Remembering Karol”: John Paul II, three years after his death Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the passing of our beloved John Paul II, and on the occasion of the publishing of the paperback version of the book, “A Life with Karol” written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Apostolic Exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis” is the theme of a permanent formation course in the Diocese of Chia Yi Chia Yi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Apostolic Exhortation “Sacrementum Caritatis” is an excellent theological work on the mystery of the Sacrament of Thanksgiving and for pastoral meditation.” These were the opening w ...
• 2 April 2008
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New community of consecrated laity in Broken Bay Broken Bay (Agenzia Fides) - New religious and lay communities are springing up in the Australian Church; evidence of this is the new community of lay consecrated women that has been officially announced in the Diocese o ...
• 2 April 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Life and the Dignity of the Human Person” Congress April 3-5, organized by the Bishops’ Conference Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops’ Conference has organized the first “Life and the Dignity of the Human Person” Congress, scheduled to take place April 3-5 in the Major Seminary. The Congress will begi ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Living an authentic faith”: a guidebook for catechumens Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Korean adults who take interest in the Catholic faith and begin the journey to Baptism is constantly on the rise. In order to help them, as well as those who simply have a curiosity ...
• 2 April 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI on the 3rd anniversary of the death of John Paul II: “Let us thank the Lord for giving the Church this faithful and courageous servant... May the Church, following his teaching and his example, continue faithfully and without compromise her evangelising mission ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The date of April 2nd remains impressed on the memory of the Church as the day that the servant of God Pope John Paul II departed from this world … and today too, just as three years a ...
• 2 April 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Divine Mercy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the light of merciful Jesus we are invited to treasure the gift of grace of Easter we have just celebrated. Faith in the Risen Lord was renewed especially in those who took to heart the ...
• 2 April 2008
  ASIA/INDIA - “Christian-phobia” virus still not eradicated Goa (Agenzia Fides) - Repeated episodes on various continents, India especially, would seem to indicate that the virus of Christian-phobia has not yet been eradicated, said Redemptorist priest Fr Desmond de Sousa of Goa, ...
• 2 April 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Among the objectives of general assembly of Bishops: a Church which is alive, faithful, credible; commitment to helping the poor; foster the presence of God in society; intensify pastoral care for the family and for life Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Mexico have gathered for their 85th general assembly 31 March to 4 April. The Assembly opened with a Mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe, presided by Bishop Carlos Agui ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The heroic acts of a simple man: Giovanni Palatucci, the last police chief in Fiume Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Giovanni Palatucci was a young man from the province of Avellino (Italy) who gave up his medical carrier to become a policeman, as a vocation. During the Second World War, while he was in charge of ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The positive results of collaboration between science bioethics: Study Day in “Bambino Gesu” Hospital Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, April 1, a group of researchers in genetics met in the “Bambino Gesu” Children’s Hospital in Rome, to present and discuss some of the cases that have shown the positive results of ...
• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells the Salesian General Chapter: “The predilection for and commitment to young people, so characteristic of Don Bosco’s charism, must be translated into a similar commitment to the involvement and formation of families.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The appeals addressed to us by young people, especially their questions on fundamental problems, indicate their intense desires for full life, authentic love and constructive freedom. Th ...
• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - The Church and the paths of the Christian community (1) - “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were ...