News

• 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 ...
• 21 December 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “A Light comes into the world ” Korean Bishops' messages for Christmas 2007 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Light which comes to illuminate the world and God's love for the poorest and humblest people were the themes of Christmas messages issued by the Catholic Bishops of Korea. Jesus Christ comes t ...
• 21 December 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - For Iraqi Christians Christmas of hope and precariousness with growing numbers of displaced persons in the north Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi government has declared the Christian feast of Christmas December 25 a national holiday. This year, Christmas comes only a days after the Muslim feast of the Sacrifice. Although Iraqi ...
• 21 December 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops' Christmas Message and wishes to families “intensify the spirit as the cradle of life and love…and reaffirm commitment for peace and justice ” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico have urged to people to “reaffirm at Christmas commitment for peace and justice”, in response to Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Peace Day on 1 January 2008. ...
• 21 December 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops' Christmas Message: “Only honest and respectful dialogue which is learned in the family, will thwart the temptation to resort to violence and open the way for just solutions ” Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - “May the Child Jesus bless us with his grace, give peace to our hearts and lead us on the path of dialogue so that life in families and in society there may be more respect the dignity of eve ...
• 20 December 2007
  VATICAN Benedict XVI addresses young members of Catholic Action Italy: “ God became man to show us the way, indeed becoming a child, he became himself the 'way' also for you children” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus is the way which leads to true life, life without end. It is a path which is often narrow and uphill but, if we let ourselves be drawn by Him, it is always wonderful like a mountai ...
• 20 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope's teaching: “We Christians must be the first to reaffirm with profound and genuine conviction the truth of the Nativity of Christ, to witness to all our awareness of an unheard of gift... the source of the duty to evangelise which is proper to the communication of this ‘good news" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his teaching at the general audience on Wednesday 19 December to the mystery of Christmas. “If on the one hand Christmas brings us to commemor ...
• 20 December 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Sternsinger” Jubilee: for the 50th year running for half a million 50 Missionary Childhood boys and girls Christmas is a time for solidarity with their brothers and sisters around the world Aachen (Fides Service) - For the 50th time around the 6th of January the feast of the Epiphany, German boys and girls, members of the German branch of the Pontifical Missionary Childhood Society Sternsinger, will take pa ...
• 20 December 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - During its 35th General Congregation starting 7 January the Society of Jesus will elect a new Superior General and discuss future apostolic challenges Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The General Curia of the Society of Jesus has announced that it will start its General Congregation on Monday 7 January. This will be the 35th General Congregation of the order founded in 1540. Mo ...
• 20 December 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “I hope a strong populist line imitating Zimbabwe will not prevail ” says a missionary in South Africa Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- “Corruption is widespread in South Africa and the new accusations against Zuma come as no surprise, except for the timing perhaps …” said a missionary in South Africa, where Mokotedi Mpshe ...
• 20 December 2007
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - “Christmas of prayer and mission for Mongolia's 415 Catholics”, Bishop Wenceslao Padilla Prefect Apostolic, tells Fides Ulanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Although December 25 is a working day in Mongolia, the small local Catholic community will celebrate Christmas with intense prayer and joy and missionary initiatives. Bishop Wenceslao Padill ...
• 20 December 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New on-line journal for Australian Catholic students in view of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Catholic Students Association has launched a new on-line edition of its two monthly journal New Springtime. The publication aims to be “a journal of faith, culture and society” ...