News

• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Clericus Cup athletes will attend Papal General Audience tomorrow Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - An important appointment awaits the participants in the second Clericus Cup event: on Wednesday 5 December representatives of each of the 16 teams in the championship will take part in the ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation of 70th Bibliographia Missionaria at the Pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 6 December, at 5pm at the Pontifical Urban University (Newman Hall) in via Urbano VIII, 16 (Roma), the University Library and the Urban University Press will present the 70th vo ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - The missionary nature of the Church in post-Council Magisterium (part 2) - by Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his first Deus caritas est (25 December 2005) wrote: The task of the Church is to communicate this divine love through the vivifying action of the Spirit. "The Spirit ...
• 4 December 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Freedom to believe or not to believe in Him. Comment by Prof. Michele Loconsole - From the editor's desk: Letter to missionaries, MISNA news agency 10th birthday- Archbishop Bruno Forte: authority is condition of the Church's “synodality”, Comment on the Document of Ravenna by the Mixed Catholic-Orthodox Commission. - The evangelical perspective is the key to the promotion of women, says Papal Nuncio in India. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tell me who is your God and I will tell you who you are. It is known in the ambit of the phenomenology delle religions, that the spiritual experience man has inherited from his forefathers ...
• 4 December 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - Towards the Synod in October and the Year of St Paul: “The Bible in the Family” Niedziela Catholic weekly offers monthly 'gift' to priests for the Christmas blessings of homes Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for the Synod on the Word of God to be held in October 2008 in Rome, and on the occasion of the Year of St Paul, Czestochowa based Niedziela Catholic weekly is promoting a " B ...
• 4 December 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Subsidies for farmers end famine: even the New York Times praises the small African country for its “interventist” policies Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- Malawi has worked two miracles: it has managed to become a food exporter, although until 2005 its people were starving, and it has convinced an important international media to question the val ...
• 4 December 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Associations of French speaking and English speaking Bishops' Conferences of West Africa, about to merge: meeting in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The associations of French speaking and English speaking Bishops conferences of west Africa, up to now two distinct bodies have decided to merge. During a Meeting 5 to 9 December in Abuja, in Nig ...
• 4 December 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - St Joseph's Major Seminary in Yangon celebrates 50th Jubilee with ordination of 34 deacons Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - For fifty years it has formed young priests for the local Church: St Joseph's Major Seminary in Yangon recently celebrated its golden Jubilee with a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist preside ...
• 4 December 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - “Renewing knowledge of the Christian life” was the theme of a retreat organised by Yang Jia Pu parish in the diocese of Tai Yuan Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Over 200 Catholics from the parish of Yang Jia Pu, in the diocese of Tai Yuan, took part in a retreat on the theme “ Renewing knowledge of the Christian life ” given by the parish priest R ...
• 4 December 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New John Paul II Life and Family Centre opened in Brisbane Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - A new John Paul II Centre for the Family and Life was recently opened by Archbishop John Bathersby in Brisbane. The Centre will deal with issues regarding life and the family, research sand stu ...
• 4 December 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuela rejects constitutional reform: this 'no' means 'no' to hatred, division, clashes and 'yes' to peace and reconciliation Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Contrary to forecasts, in Sunday's referendum in Venezuela 'no' votes won by a small majority: votes against the reform were 2% higher than those in favour. The voting took place in a climate of ...
• 4 December 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops of Durango province call citizens to "protect life and work with firmness and conviction to ensure every human person has access not only to a better quality of life but a life worthy of the children of God ” Durango (Agenzia Fides) - In a message issued at the end of their fifth meeting the Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Durango assume the commitment for renewal launched by the 5th General Conference of the Counc ...
• 4 December 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Service of tele-translation for foreigners at hospitals in the Canary Islands Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Canary Islands health service plans to provide a new tele-translation service in the Island's 8 hospitals and 31 clinics to communicate with patients in 49 languages. This new service offered b ...
• 3 December 2007
  The Pope's missionary prayer intention for December: “That the Incarnation of the Son of God, which the Church celebrates at Christmas, may help the peoples of Asia recognise Jesus as the One sent by God, the only Saviour of the world ” Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Our mission is to re-propose the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God and son of man, to the world, for a future of peace, love and justice. With these words pronounced a year ago Cardi ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Man and the world need God- the true God! - otherwise they cannot hope. Science does much for the good of humanity - undoubtedly - but it cannot save it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the first Sunday of Advent, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his reflection before the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the significance of the Advent Season wh ...