News

• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Italian edition of Pope Benedict XVI's New Encyclical “Spe salvi” included with December 9th issue of Catholic weekly “Famiglia Cristiana” - Collect and recycle mobile phones to support development programmes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian version of Pope Benedict XVI's new Encyclical XVI “Spe salvi” (Saved by Hope), to be made public at the Holy See Press Office on Friday 30 November, will be included with t ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Reality comes before ideology, including that of “gender”. Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Never before as in these times of proclaimed ecological sensitivity, only on the nature of man everything and the opposite of everything can be said and done. Especially in the western area ...
• 29 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “I am working myself out of my job: I want to make sure women are no longer reduced to slavery:” a staff member of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII tells Fides Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “We are really grateful to Pope Benedict XVI for including a powerful appeal for an end to slavery in his Message for the next World Day for Migrants and Refugees ” said Gianpiero Cofano of the ...
• 29 November 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Symposium on Catholic Social Doctrine reflects on new needs of integral development in new world scenarios Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - An International Symposium on Catholic Social Doctrine organised by the Spanish Bishops' Commission for Social Pastoral care will be held at the Paul VI Foundation in Madrid 30 November and 1 Dec ...
• 29 November 2007
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Hope for peace is stronger scepticism” a Catholic missionary in the north of Ivory Coast tells Fides Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides)- “Ivory Coast continues to swing from hope and scepticism, but I am convinced the former is going to win” says a Catholic mission in the northern Ivory Coast city of Bouaké. “Scepticis ...
• 29 November 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mangichi Diocesan Youth Day at the first Catholic Mission: “Our young Christians of today have rediscovered their roots” said a local Italian missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “Persistent heat of 40 degrees for the past few weeks, did not dissuade young people in the diocese of Mangochi from taking part in the Diocesan Day for Youth. Our youngsters take part in many ...
• 29 November 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Retreat at Beijing seminary marks 10th year of lay formation courses in response to Vatican II's Ad Gentes decree Beijing (Agenzia Fides) -To promote faith formation and particular missionary formation for the laity in the Church of the third millennium and forming missionaries for the diocese of Beijing and to mark the 10th year of ...
• 29 November 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Two bishops and a priest safe and sound after attempted kidnapping at a Manila hotel Manila (Agenzia Fides) - At attempted kidnapping at a hotel at financial heart of Manila staged by a group of soldiers calling for the resignation of President Gloria Arroyo, ended without bloodshed. The kidnapping was t ...
• 29 November 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Professional training schools: boom of applications Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Schools and training schools are channels of charity through which the Catholic community Cambodia promotes socio-cultural of the young people, and therefore the nation, helping to build a so ...
• 29 November 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Reconciliation with North Korea ever nearer: this is the hope of the Catholic Church Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In South Korea there are growing hopes for national reconciliation and reunification with North Korea. The Catholic community does its part to assist the poverty stricken brothers and sisters in t ...
• 29 November 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - First meeting of Special Commission for Great Continental Mission called by 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean last May in Aparecida Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Commission set up for the implementation of the Great Continental Mission called by 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean la ...
• 29 November 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - As tension rises in the country, the local Catholic Church calls national prayer campaign "For life and reconciliation among Bolivians ” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Bolivia between government and opposition increases as strikes called in six of the country's nine regions continue. On Monday activists started a hunger strike against the President o ...
• 29 November 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - WYD, a turning point and new impulse to Youth Pastoral Care in Australia Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Australia's network of Catholic diocesan youth pastoral co-ordinators is working intensely in view of the 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney in July next year. The event is expected to have a major i ...
• 29 November 2007
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New Bishop of Bereina appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 29 November 2007, appointed as Bishop of Bereina (Papua New Guinea), Bishop Rochus Josef Tatamai, M.S.C., until now titular Bishop of Accia and Auxiliar ...
• 28 November 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - "With Jesus, history will never be the same again" , Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The personal story of every believer from the first real encounter with Jesus, undergoes a profound change, it will never be the same again: it becomes a story of salvation! It is no longer ...