News

• 1 October 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop of Patna and appoints Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , on 1 October 2007, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Patna (India), presented by Archbishop Benedict John Ost ...
• 29 September 2007
  Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo. Here, after three weeks in the mountains in northern Italy at Lorenzago di Cadore, for a period of rest, he resumed his ...
• 28 September 2007
  VATICAN - Message for the end of the month of Ramadan - “Christians and Muslims: called to promote a culture of peace" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the troubled times we are passing through, religious believers have, as servants of the Almighty, a duty above all to work in favour of peace, by showing respect for the convictions o ...
• 28 September 2007
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Publications, meetings with seminarians and girls in formation on the Fidei Donum Encyclical during October mission month and next Easter the sending of first four Fidei Donum priests to Mauritania Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “In my country we are giving great importance to the celebration the 50th anniversary of the Fidei Donum encyclical” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Guinea Bissau, Mg ...
• 28 September 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Help us stop the violence”: President of Congo asks UN General Assembly Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “United Nations assistance is crucial for the disarmament of foreign armed groups, using force if necessary, and for their repatriation and integration” Joseph Kabila president of Democratic ...
• 28 September 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - Discovery of local coal seams poses basis for launching Kenya's cement industry Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Kenya has good hopes of becoming a coal producer after prospecting in two districts of East Province obtained encouraging results. At present Kenya imports coal from South Africa and the disco ...
• 28 September 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Formation of lay missionaries especially young people in Kerala, key to the future of the Church Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to form Catholic lay persons, young people especially to enable them to play a more active part in the life of the Church in India and be evangelisers in society: this is a priority ...
• 28 September 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Caritas Internationalis launches appeal for peace in Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Internationalis has called for violence in Myanmar to end, for human rights to be respected and for a peaceful solution to the crisis in that country. In an appeal made yesterday th ...
• 28 September 2007
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Medical Mission from Lismore diocese Australia helps Papua New Guinea fight AIDS Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - To help the Catholic community in Papua New Guinea in the effort to prevent and fight HIV/AIDS where the virus is a serious social scourge, Lismore diocese in Australia sent a Medical Missi ...
• 28 September 2007
  AMERICA/PERU -Earthquake emergency in Peru: as time passes the quantity of aid diminishes but the needs of the affected persons do not and normality is still a long way off; Sunday 30 September, special collection in Costa Rica Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Six weeks after the earthquake struck in Peru affecting various towns in South Chico (Ica, Chincha, Pisco, Cañete, Yauyos, Huaytara and Castrovirreyna) the emergency continues because, although mo ...
• 28 September 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Family Week 2007 on the theme “Family, School of Love, Missionary of Life”: the family, patrimony of humanity, one of Latin America's greatest treasures Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - “Family, School of Love, Missionary of Life” is the theme of Chile's national Family Week to be held from the 30 September to 7 October. In a letter to present Family Week, Archbishop ...
• 28 September 2007
  Mass to commemorate Pope Luciani, John Paul I, who died 29 years ago Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The magazine “30Giorni” is organising the celebration of a special Mass in commemoration of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of his death. The Mass will ...
• 27 September 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at his general audience continues his teaching on Saint John Chrysostom: “Despite his sufferings, Chrysostom reaffirmed the discovery that God loves each of us with infinite love, and therefore wishes all to be saved ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his general audience on Wednesday 26 September, continuing his cycle of catechesis on the Apostolic Fathers, Pope Benedict XVI dwelt on the figure of St John Chrysostom, and in parti ...
• 27 September 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Defending the most helpless. Always. Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 24 September 2007 an Italian Court issued a sentence allowing “pre-implant diagnosis” prohibited by Law 40/2004 on assisted procreation. The Court side stepped the law on the ...
• 27 September 2007
  EUROPE - Family Policy Institute warns of demographic winter in Europe caused by abortion, fewer marriages and more divorces: new 2007 Report on the Evolution of the Family in Europe Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 26 September, in Barcelona, Spain Lola Velarde, President of the European network of Family Policy Institutes (IPF), presented the 2007 Report on the Evolution of the Family in Euro ...