News

• 12 July 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Missionaries of the Sacred Heart mark 83 years of spiritual care, healthcare, technical training Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC are marking 83 years of service in Democratic Congo. “These have been eighty three years of fruitful service ” according to the local Catholic news a ...
• 12 July 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - New SIGNIS-Bolivia Branch to co-ordinate and coach Catholic communicators to have more social impact La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 July in La Paz, Bolivia, there will be the official launching of a new SIGNIS-Bolivia Branch, (Association of Catholic Communicators). The initiative was first taken by the Catholic Bishops ...
• 12 July 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Statement from Inter-Faith Council of Leaders (IFCL) in Zamboanga: “ We invoke the teachings of our Holy books, the Qur’an and the Bible, and ask those who hold Fr. Bossi to keep him safe and release him immediately” Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The members of the Inter-Faith Council of Leaders (IFCL) in Zamboanga, a reality promoted by the movement for dialogue Silsilah, issued the following statement with regard to the abduction of ...
• 12 July 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Summer school holidays "re-charge" spiritual energies with formation in the faith and experience of service to others Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A group of sixty university students in the diocese of Chang Sha, in the south Chinese province of Hu spent a week taking part in prayers, pilgrimages, Mass and sharing under the guidance of thr ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI authorises final document 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida which he hopes will offer “light and impulse for fruitful pastoral and evangelising work in the years to come," Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today was a Letter from Benedict XVI to bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, in which he authorises the publication of the final document of the Fifth General Conference ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Indonesian (2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has more than 700 languages.. Except for the Papuan languages spoken in West Papua and immigrant languages such as Chinese and Arab as the language of the Koran, the languages spo ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - “Compendium Orationum Quotidianarum ad usum fidelium” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In August Fides will publish a Compendium of daily prayers for the faithful in 34 languages. The Compendium has three sections. The 1st section illustrates the importance and necessity of ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Christ is not enough!” , Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The reality is Christ!” (Col 2, 17). This extraordinary statement by St Paul, set like a precious stone in his magnificent theology, acknowledges the Lord's total supremacy over crea ...
• 11 July 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - St. Ottilien Archabbey 'firemen monks' mark foundation centenary St. Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) - The Volunteer Fire Brigade at St. Ottilien Archabbey in Germany will celebrate the centenary of its founding on 14 July. St. Ottilien's is a Benedictine monastery in Emming near Eresing and ...
• 11 July 2007
  AFRICA - New Regional body to coordinate energy policies in Southern Africa Roma (Agenzia Fides)- To cope with rising fuel prices, the countries of southern African have decided to join forces and coordinate their national energy policies. The Southern African Development Community, SADC decided ...
• 11 July 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Pontifical Mission Societies in Congo issue new vademecum for missionary animation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Democratic is about to issue a handbook on missionary animation to increase awareness among the faithful that all Catholics are called ...
• 11 July 2007
  ASIA/KOREA - Religious Leaders Make a Joint Pilgrimage to Religious Sites Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - From July 2 to 3, 2007, religious leaders in Korea made a joint pilgrimage to historical sites of each religion in Gyeongsangbuk-do area to promote interreligious harmony. It was the first kind of ...
• 11 July 2007
  AMERICA - CELAM thanks enclosed religious for supporting 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida with their prayer: "continue to pray that the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean may heed the call to mission" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In a Letter addressed to men and women members of enclosed orders CELAM thanked the religious for accompanying with prayer the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Lat ...
• 11 July 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Over half a million Chinese children are HIV+ or AIDS orphans Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Half a million Chinese children are either orphans of parents who died of AIDS, or they are infected by HIV, or they live with HIV + parents. UNICEF reports that about 140,000 children have los ...
• 10 July 2007
  VATICAN - The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issues document "Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine on the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document with the title "Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine on the Church" which bears the d ...