News

• 26 February 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops’ Conference examines the situation and takes action in helping flood victims Quito (Agenzia Fides) - “All of us Ecuadorians realize the support of the Catholic Church, not only in the national level, but on a universal level, just as His Holiness Benedict XVI has shown, with his appeal for inte ...
• 26 February 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops ask the new National Assembly of the Popular Power to safeguard the common good of the country and the peace Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In their Ordinary Assembly, “at the close of which we received Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone SDB, Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, sent to our country by the Holy Father to pre ...
• 26 February 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Second Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities to reflect on the Continental Mission, in the spirit of Aparecida Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On February 28 - March 2, in Bogota (Colombia), the Second Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities will be held. The event will be organized by the Department of Ecclesial Communion a ...
• 26 February 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Opinion poll in the Catholic weekly, Niedziela, on the Sacrament of Reconciliation Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The most popular Catholic journal in Poland, “Niedziela,” based in Czestochowa, has recently published the results of an opinion poll that was taken regarding the practice of the Sacrame ...
• 26 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI, in the audience with participants of the international congress of the Pontifical Academy for Life: “the firm and constant ethical condemnation of all forms of direct euthanasia, in keeping with the centuries-long teaching of the Church.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Close by the Incurable Sick Person and the Dying: Scientific and Ethical Aspects,” was the theme for the international Congress held by the Pontifical Academy for Life, for the occasio ...
• 26 February 2008
  VATICAN - The great vitality of the Church in Oceania maintained by the Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in Oceania”; the continent prepares for World Youth Day in Sydney Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The particular Churches in Oceania show an unquestionable vitality maintained by the Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in Oceania,” which has been translated and printed into many of the ...
• 26 February 2008
  VATICAN - Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office released a communique saying that from 2 to 9 March, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone will - at the invitation of the religious and civil authorities - ...
• 26 February 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Tai Yuan starts a Youth Center to intensify youth ministry Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - 150 youth delegates from the parishes of the Diocese of Tai Yuan, in the province of Shan Xi, continental China, have come together for the grand opening of a Youth Center in the Diocese. The c ...
• 25 February 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope in the Angelus address: “let us too open our hearts to the confident hearing of the word of God to meet, like the Samaritan woman, Jesus, who reveals his love to us” - Appeal for Ecuador Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Prior to the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, February 24, Pope Benedict XVI focused his reflection on the dialogue that unfolds between Jesus and the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn. 4:5-42), ...
• 25 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses the Roman Parish of Santa Maria Liberatrice: “Jesus wants to lead us, as He did the Samaritan woman, to profess our faith in Him with determination, so that we may also proclaim and testify to our brothers the joy of meeting Him” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, February 24, at 9am, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made a pastoral visit to the Parish of Santa Maria Liberatrice, in Rome’s Testaccio district, in commemoration of the centenni ...
• 25 February 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The example of two Canossian Sisters: a long life dedicated to the missions in education and holiness Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Philomena Liu and Sister Erminia Castilho, two Canossian Sisters, who have dedicated their lives to missionary service in education and health, returned to the Father’s House in Janua ...
• 25 February 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope presents his “Letter on the Urgent Task of Education” to the Diocese of Rome: “even in our times, educating towards the good is possible” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We have come together here because of our common search for the good of the new generations, for the growth and future of the children that the Lord has given this city. We are also move ...
• 25 February 2008
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “The ceasefire agreement is a great outcome that opens the path to lasting peace,” Archbishop of Gulu tells Fides Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - “This is a great outcome and we are confident that soon there will be an all-inclusive peace agreement signed,” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, in Uganda’s north, told Agenzia Fides ...
• 25 February 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Half the country under a declared state of emergency due to extreme floods. Holy Father makes appeal to “fraternal solidarity” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Ecuador is worsening every day, due to the extreme flooding that the country has been experiencing in the past few days. The population is witnessing record precipitation levels, ...
• 25 February 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - John Paul II monument inaugurated in the same place where he celebrated his first mass in the country 10 years ago with the missionary sending of a group of children of Missionary Childhood Santa Clara (Agenzia Fides) - “Santa Clara, the city that on January 22, 1998, witnessed the celebration of John Paul II’s first Mass in Cuba, dedicated to the family, where the Messenger of Truth and Hope invited th ...