News

• 20 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: “we must not be discouraged, because if many clouds are gathering on the horizon of religious life today, there also exist (indeed they are constantly growing) signs of a providential reawakening which gives rise to consolation and hope.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We are all aware how, in modern globalised society, it is becoming ever more difficult to announce and bear witness to the Gospel. The process of secularisation which is advancing in con ...
• 19 February 2008
  EUROPE/MALTA - National Director of the Pontifical Missions Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 26 October 2007, appointed Rev. Salvador Micallef of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Malta, National Di ...
• 19 February 2008
  AFRICA/GUINEA-BISSAU - Confirmation of National Director of the Pontifical Missions Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 6 January 2008, confirmed the appointment of Fr. Domingos Ca, of the clergy of the diocese of Bissau, as ...
• 19 February 2008
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Auxiliary Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa nominated Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on February 19, 2008, nominated Fr.Joseph Ponniah, Vicar General of the same diocese, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, naming him ti ...
• 19 February 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Thousands of Mexicans attend the National Day for Life and the Family. 100, 000 signatures in support of Human Rights for the Unborn Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - This past Sunday, February 17, a gathering and parade was held for the first Festival for Life within the National Day for Life and the Family in Mexico, organised by the civil organisation ...
• 19 February 2008
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 20th Week for Theological-Pastoral Reflection on the themes from the Aparecida Conference. Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - From February 18-21, the 20th Week for Theological-Pastoral Reflection of 2008 is being organised by the Pontifical Seminary of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the National Institute for Pastoral ...
• 19 February 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Archbishop of Caracas: “I am asking that the political violence may cease and that the rights of all Venezuelan Catholics may be respected.” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela), Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino has made an urgent plea for freedom and calm, for a democratic environment, respect for different opinions, and for an end to t ...
• 19 February 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 60 associations participate in the First National Meeting of Conscientious Objectors to the Education for Citizenship. 24,000 objections signed. Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - With the theme, “Without Fear,” the First National Meeting of Conscientious Objectors to the Education for Citizenship took place on February 16, in the school of Mount Tabor in Pozuelo de A ...
• 19 February 2008
  VATICAN - The Church and society’s response to the increase of homeless: “in them is present the suffering and risen Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church’s engagement with homeless people must be based on the fundamental truth that in them is present the suffering and risen Christ. Following the example of Christ, we need to ...
• 19 February 2008
  ASIA/LAOS - Laos seeing an increase in “sustained tourism,” major resource for the country, offering potential to all south-east Asia Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Steps forward are reportedly being taken towards Laos’ gradual opening to the external world. A “sustained tourism” has begun to take shape, with no harmful consequences for the cultural ...
• 19 February 2008
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Love without limits of religion”: the Archbishop of Tai Pei presides the inauguration of Centre for terminally ill in a Catholic hospital in Luo Dong Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “Love without limits of religion”: with this purpose, the Catholic hospital of Luo Dong opened a new Centre for terminally ill patients, characterised by its being an inter-religious centre. ...
• 19 February 2008
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New Marian Sanctuary, place for worship and pilgrimage, to increase devotion to the Virgin Mary in Oceania Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The unity of a variety of tribes, languages, and Melanesian customs in Papua New Guinea under the sign of the Virgin Mary: this is the spirit of the Marian Sanctuary that is in its final ph ...
• 18 February 2008
  VATICAN - Pope in his Angelus address: “Jesus manifests his glory to the apostles so that they have the strength to face the scandal of the cross and understand that it is necessary to pass through many tribulations to reach the Kingdom of God.” - Appeal for Lebanon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel reading of Jesus’ temptations in the desert, in the First Sunday of Lent, and the event of the Transfiguration in the Second Sunday, “anticipate the Pascal Mystery: Jesus’ ...
• 18 February 2008
  VATICAN - At the conclusion of his Spiritual Exercises, the Pope expresses gratitude to Cardinal Vanhoye: “you have allowed us to listen to the Lord’s voice and in this way, helped us to learn again what His and our priesthood is.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 9 am, on Saturday, February 16, Spiritual Exercises in the presence of the Holy Father Benedict XVI came to an end, in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel in the Vatican. Following the final me ...
• 18 February 2008
  VATICAN - Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, visits India Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A statement from the Holy See Press Office says that upon an invitation made by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical C ...