News

• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week 6 to 12 January: “If we fail to minister to the needs of these newcomers, we fail our Lord himself” Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “From many, one family of God” is the theme of 27th National Migration Week organised by Committee on Migration of the United States Catholic Bishops' Conference. In a letter for the o ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In a New Year Message Bishops' Conference President urges the people to be members of an “active, faithful and credible Church” to make the nation “an example of reconciliation, justice and peace” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In a new year message the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ecuador Bishop Néstor Herrera Heredia, called on the people to be members of “an active, faithful credible Church”, ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Volunteers Operation Colomba (Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII) solidarity with “Indigenous Communities of Peace” in Colombia San Josè de Apartadò (Agenzia Fides) - On January 4th three volunteers of Operation Colomba, Non Violent Peace Corps of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII founded by the late Rev Oreste Benzi, started a visit to Comuni ...
• 7 January 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Year of Health: increase awareness of difficult living conditions of 41% of the world's population with no access to basic medical care Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The New Year is time for making resolutions. The United Nations have chosen 2008 as the official year for a variety of initiatives. The year 2008 will be the International Year of Health, Planter E ...
• 7 January 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Benin City Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 24 December 2007, appointed as Archbishop of Benin City (Nigeria) Bishop Richard Anthony Burke, SPS, until now Bishop of Warri. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fide ...
• 7 January 2008
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Pope creates new diocese of Techiman and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 28 December 2007, created the diocese Techiman (Ghana) with territory taken from the dioceses of Sunyani and Konongo-Mampong, making it suffragan of t ...
• 29 December 2007
  Dossier: The names of pastoral workers, priests, men and women religious and lay catholics Killed during 2007 The names of pastoral workers, priests, men and women religious and lay catholics Killed during 2007 - Panorama of continents - A list which is never complete Biographical notes and circumstances of ...
• 22 December 2007
  DIES NATALIS DOMINI NOSTRI IESU CHRISTI 2007 “Anyone who does not know God, even though he may entertain all kinds of hopes, is ultimately without hope,without the great hope that sustains the whole of life. Man's great, true hope which holds firm in spite of all disappointments can only be God-God who has loved us and who continues to love us 'to the end', until all is accomplished ”.(Spe salvi, 27) Fides News Service wishes you a Blessed Christmas and a happy New Year ...
• 21 December 2007
  VATICAN - “You heard it said but I say to you…” - intervention by Prof. Michele Loconsole on: the “descendance” of Abraham and the children of the promise Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between Jews and Christians, in the light of Vatican II, and above all after John Paul II's visits to the Synagogue of Rome and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, had taken some signif ...
• 21 December 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 22 December: Renewal in the Holy Spirit with the Community Papa Giovanni XXIII parade of prayer and solidarity for the victims of human trafficking and prostitution Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Renewal in the Holy Spirit (RnS) welcomes the parade of parade of prayer and solidarity for the victims of human trafficking and prostitution promoted by the Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XX ...
• 21 December 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - To be ordained at Christmas forty eight new priests of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ including first members from El Salvador and Singapore Roma (Agenzia Fides) - After long years of preparation, 48 Legionaries of Christ will be ordained to the priesthood next Saturday, December 22, at 10:00 a.m. in the basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. These servants of ...
• 21 December 2007
  OCEANIA/MARSHALL ISLANDS - Apostolic Prefect of Marshall Islands appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 21 December 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic of Marshal Islands, presented by Rev. Fr. James C. Gould, SJ., i ...
• 21 December 2007
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “It will be a Christmas of hope for peace and witness, a missionary in the north of Ivory Coast tells Fides Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “It will be a Christmas of hope for peace ” Fr Dino Dussin, PIME missionary in Ivory Coast tells Fides. Fr. Dino, who serves a few villages around Bouaké, in central-northern Ivory Coast ...
• 21 December 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Great expectation in view of "Pro Christian Family event” on 30 December: "we must witness to what we believe in and what we experience at this crucial time when the family is seriously threatened in Spain and all over Europe” the Bishops say Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing expectancy all over Spain in view of the Pro Christian Family even to be held in Madrid on Sunday 30 December, Feast of the Holy Family. The event will coincide with the 25th ann ...
• 21 December 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - The Catholic Church offers a Christmas message of peace for the new year New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - “ Christmas depicts the birth of Jesus Christ and all of us need to receive God in our lives. Each of us should become agents of peace, love and reconciliation. For the people of goodwill, C ...