News

• 14 June 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The “Missionary world” 50 years since the publication of the Encyclical Fidei donum by Pius XII, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we put God to one side “in the name of things more important ” such as major social questions, “it is precisely these supposedly more important things that come to nothing. It is n ...
• 14 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Benedict XVI goes to Assisi to announce with St Francis the simplicity of the Gospel in a complex world”. Tomorrow Fides will publish an ample contribution by Fr. Pietro Messa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 June the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the conversion of Saint Francis. Tomorrow Fides will publish a ...
• 14 June 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Testimony of martyrs who died while forgiving, a great sign of hope: 498 Spaniards martyred in the 1930s to be beatified in Rome on 28 October Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification of 498 Spaniards martyred for love of Jesus Christ during religious persecution in the 1930s will take place in Rome on 28 October this year. The beatification was announced by ...
• 14 June 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Official report on 50 years of Fidei Donum priests in Italy to be presented at 4th National Meeting for Directors and Collaborators of Diocesan Mission Centres Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “They will go out and preach everywhere on a mission without frontiers. ” is the title of the 4th National Meeting for Directors and Collaborators of Diocesan Mission Centres To be held in 17 ...
• 14 June 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan, UN and AU agree to deploy 19,000 peacekeepers in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Sudan has reached an agreement with the African Union and the United Nations Organisation to deploy a 'hybrid' peace-keeping force in the western Darfur region devastated by civil war since 2003 ...
• 14 June 2007
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Programme warning: only a prompt intervention can save 400,000 people in Lesotho from famine Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Lesotho has urgent need of international aid to avoid a serious food shortage caused by rising cereals prices since the principal harvest was destroyed by one of the worst droughts in the past thirt ...
• 14 June 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA - National Symposium on the Theology of the Body, the real meaning of love, marriage and the family Edmonton (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics, parents and educators and young couples especially, will take part in a 1st National Symposium on the Theology of the Body 15-16 June in Edmonton, Alberta organised by the Catholic O ...
• 13 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Jesus is Lord. Education to the faith, to discipleship to witness”: Pope Benedict XVI inaugurates Rome Diocese Annual Assembly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the evening of Monday 11 June Pope Benedict XVI went to the cathedral of Rome the Basilica di San Giovanni in Lateran to inaugurate the Annual Assembly of the diocese of Rome on the th ...
• 13 June 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Close to the Heart of the Son is the Heart of the Mother”, Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church, in this month of June, giving us the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, wishes us to understand the consequential devotion to Our Lady traditionally lived in the Maria ...
• 13 June 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Festival, prayer and reflection on mission for 1,300 children at National Meeting of the Pontifical Society for Holy Childhood Latina (Agenzia Fides) - About 1,300 boys and girls, members of the Holy Childhood Association in Italy from dioceses all over the country will travel to Latina, near Rome, for a National Holy Childhood Day at the parish ...
• 13 June 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The dignity of workers must be respected but the right to strike should not endanger lives” say Catholic Bishops in South Africa where the public servants strike is causing a deteriorating situation effecting especially school children and hospital patients Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has expressed concern at the deteriorating situation of the public servants strike. In a SACBC statement sent to Fides the Bishops ...
• 13 June 2007
  AFRICA - CERNA Bishops conclude Ad Limina visit Rome (Agenzia Fides)- The Bishops and Vicars General of the Regional Bishops Conference of Northern Africa CERNA send Fides a report on their ad limina visit to Rome which concluded on 9 June. Last week Fides interviewed ...
• 13 June 2007
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Course of missionary animation and spirituality for young people: it is a necessity and a priority to know foundations and criteria for evangelisation Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Some 60 youth leaders from parishes in Guatemala City will take part in a Course of missionary animation and spirituality for young people organised by the Pontifical Mission Socities in ...
• 13 June 2007
  AMERICA/CHILE - Sunday 1 July Communications Day in Chile: “necessity of moral judgement with regard to the quality of programmes watched by children adolescents and the impact these programmes have ” Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 1 July Chile will mark the annual Communications Day with the same theme for reflection used in the rest of the Church "Children and the Media: a challenge to Education". To help diocese ...
• 13 June 2007
  AFRICA/CONGO - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 14 April 2007 appointed Rev. Yvon Bienvenu Mabanza, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Brazzaville, Nat ...