News

• 7 January 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Rodè opens 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus: “maintain and develop your charisma, in order to be and to show yourselves to the world as contemplatives in action ” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, Monday 7 January, a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist in the Church of Gesù in Rome, presided by Cardinal Franc Rodé, Prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecra ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends a Letter to the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Kenya: “Violence is futile as a means of resolving problems… the country needs peace that is based on justice and brotherhood ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following tragic events in Kenya, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, asked Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to address a letter to Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nair ...
• 7 January 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Signs of hope: most Kenyans want peace and are praying incessantly for peace; criminal as well as political interests behind the clashes” a missionary tells Fides Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “There are small signs of hope which show that the majority of Kenyans want” Fr. Luigi Anataloni, a Consolata missionary told CISA Catholic News Agency in Nairobi. Calm has returned after tra ...
• 7 January 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan ordained (Ningsia) Yinchuan (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 21 December 2007, Rev. Joseph Li Jing was ordained coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan (Ningsia), principal city of the region of Ningxia, south west of Beijing. The Bishop was ordained with ...
• 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 ...