News

• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit Hospital San Giovanni Battista: “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will we will experience the power of his love” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will, we will experience the power of His love. Hospitals and nursing homes, precisely because the inmate ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent “Advent is a favourable time for rediscovering hope, not vague or false, but certain and confident, since it is ‘anchored’ in Christ, God made man, the rock of our salvation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope. Every year this fundamental attitude of the spirit is rekindled in the hearts of Christians as they prepare to celebrate the great feast of ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs: “What is needed, in fact, is a spirit of solidarity conducive for promoting as a body those ethical principles which, by their very nature and their role as the basis of social life, remain non-negotiable” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To express gratitude and appreciation for what they do collaborating actively with Papal Representatives at Interantional Organisations and render still closer and more effective this share ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - On the feast of St Francis Xavier, Fides is 80 years old Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides News Service of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started its activity in December 1927 immediately after the feast of the Patron Saint of the missions, St Francis Xa ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - “You were told, but I tell you…” -intervention on Christian-Jewish dialogue by Prof. Michele Loconsole Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ You have heard how it was said…but I say to you…”, these famous words of Jesus are recurrent in his earthly preaching, especially with regard to the Jewish religious leaders; and ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Blog by Andrea Tornielli: The Encyclical on Christian Hope - Blog by Luigi Accattoli: Benedict and the self-critique of modern Christianity - Marco Tosatti: In his Encyclical the Pope writes his own divine comedy. - Palazzo apostolico.it: Ratzinger's encyclical, between the hereafter and hope. An Oblate in Thai prisons Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical on Christian Hope: Not elements of the cosmos, the laws of matter which definitively government the world and man, but a personal God who governs the starts, that is the uni ...
• 3 December 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cooperators and members of Opus Dei in Denmark, in Lebanon and Galicia activate local versions of the Opus Dei web site Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With Danish, Arab and Galician, the number of languages in which Opus Dei offers information on the reality and news of Church reality represented by Opus Dei is now 27. In fact the net offers 61 c ...
• 3 December 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bible Week closes: suggested reflections for Advent 2007 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The purpose of Bible Week held in Korea was to offer the faithful suggestions for living a fruitful Advent. The theme discussed by experts and the faithful was “Seed and Lamps for the World”, ...
• 3 December 2007
  AFRICA/TOGO - Bishop of Aného appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2007 appointed as Bishop of Aného (Togo) Rev. Isaac Jogues Agbémenya Gaglo, until now diocesan administrator of Aného. Rev. Isaac Jogu ...
• 3 December 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Tezpur resigns, Successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 3 December 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Tezpur (India), presented by Bishop Robert Kerketta, S.D.B., in con ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - New Head of Office at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 1 December 2007, appointed Bureau Chief at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Rev. Mgr. Ermes Giovanni Viale, until now an official ...
• 1 December 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Jubilee Year for the 25th anniversary of the apparitions in Kibeho, presided by Cardinal Ivan Dias and a report on Rwanda's ecclesial situation Kibeho (Agenzia Fides)- “We are very grateful to Cardinal Ivan Dias prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for coming to preside the Mass to close a special Jubilee year for the 25th anniversary ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved': second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI presented this morning Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI with the title "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved' was presented this morning, November 30 during a press conference at the John Paul II Hall o ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Bishop Macram Max Gassis: Bakhita, an amazing sign for Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid in Sudan, speaking to Fides on the occasion of the canonisation of Josephine Bakhita (1 October 2000), said: “Bakhita is a symbol of ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - John Paul II: the life of Saint Josephine Bakhita “ inspires the firm resolve to work effectively to free people from oppression and violence ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing the Bishops of Sudan received for their ad limina visit on 15 December Pope John Paul II mentioned the figures of two intrepid witnesses to the faith, “two holy individuals who ...