News

• 5 September 2007
  VATICAN - A message of hope for the maritime community “Hope is the sure and steadfast anchor of the soul. This hope, for us Christians, has a name: Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord. ” - Final statement of the 22nd International Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We pledge to remain in solidarity with the People of the Sea as witnesses of Hope, through Proclamation of the Word, Liturgy and Diakonia and to advocate a consequent maritime humanism. ...
• 5 September 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - In Mary's Nativity we are all born anew, Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The month of September is marked on the liturgical calendar by a special presence of the Blessed Virgin, beginning with the commemoration of her birth, on 8th September. It is a joy to thin ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Just one moment with Missio …look at Cristo, open your hearts and give love ”: Pontifical Mission Societies Austria ready to greet Pope Benedict XVI and take the opportunity of the Papal Visit to promote a programme to help former child soldiers in Uganda to return to a normal life Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - With a new web site (www.missio.at), a short video-clip to be broadcast on Friday 7 September in the frame of the Papal Visit, and a campaign with 400 posters put up all over the capital of Austr ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria, former confessor of Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaks of the holy woman in a series of daily radio programmes: “to everyone she met she gave the same attention, care, respect and love” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The September 5th 2007 is the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, only six years after her death. The only non member o ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Discovering the Face of Christ in every Prisoner”: 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral (ICCPPC) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 5 to 12 September the 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral is taking place in Rome at the Casa La Salle in via Aurelia Nuova 472-476) on th ...
• 5 September 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO “Who is funding for the new war in Congo?” a missionary asks in a dramatic report to Fides Goma (Agenzia Fides)- Fides received a dramatic report from a missionary in north Kivu, Democratic Congo, where fierce fighting between the regular army and the rebels led by Laurent Nkunda has continued for several days ...
• 5 September 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Celebrations to commemorate Mother Teresa di Calcutta on the 10th anniversary of her death Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - “Everyone remembers her with affection. Mother Teresa è is still an important figure for the Catholic Church in India, the memory of her example is still vivid she was a person of great sign ...
• 5 September 2007
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Salesians in Bethlehem and the Wall: the peoples desire peace and brotherhood Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The wall of separation in the Holy Land continues to cause suffering to the local people and to the religious communities. Following a decision by Israel to build a Wall of Separation in the P ...
• 4 September 2007
  Mariazell - Pope Benedict XVI visits the Marian Shrine in the heart of Europe Mariazell - Pope Benedict XVI visits the Marian Shrine in the heart of Europe Fr. Burkhard Feuerstein FSO Part 1 - The Shrine of Mariazell - geographical position and origin Part 2 - The Miraculous image of Mariazel ...
• 4 September 2007
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly: Sibiu Europe's ecumenical capital from 4 to 9 September Sibiu (Agenzia Fides) - The Romanian city of Sibiu, in central Transilvania, proclaimed, together with Luxembourg, European capital for culture 2007, from 4 to 9 September will also be the “capital” of all the Christ ...
• 4 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Renewal in the Holy Spirit: goals attained by 2007 Summer formation programme Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “You will receive power from the Holy Spirit who will come down on you and you will be my witnesses …” (Acts 1,8) is the theme of a 6 day course in Spiritual exercises for priests, deacons an ...
• 4 September 2007
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Heavy fighting in a district of the capital between two rival factions of the National Liberation Forces, thousands of homes abandoned Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting broke out this morning in the Buterere district, in north Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. The fighting was between two rival factions of the National Liberation Forces, FNL, ...
• 4 September 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The “curse” of petroleum: what happened to the 400 billion dollars booked by the Nigerian government since 1960? Rome (Agenzia Fides)- The issue of the distribution of oil revenues is at the centre of Nigeria's political life. For decades Nigerians living in the south (mainly Christians) where most of the oil fields are situated, h ...
• 4 September 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria will reform its oil sector: “We want to create a company which is competitive abroad ” Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - General restructuring of Nigeria's oil section will follow the approval by the federal government of a National Gas and Oil Policy. On the basis of the new plan the Nigerian National Petroleum C ...
• 4 September 2007
  ASIA/NEPAL - International Union of Catholic Press UCIP will hold a Conference in Nepal Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - A courageous decision has been taken by the International Union of the Catholic Press UCIP, based in Geneva, to organise a Conference in Nepal, a country which even recently experienced seriou ...