News

• 28 May 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Newly baptised Christians play major role at Pentecost; Pentecost charity party in Tai Pei park Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics received into the Church at Easter played a major part in liturgies on Pentecost Sunday in China, especially in Beijing. During a solemn Mass on Sunday 27 May the newly baptised receiv ...
• 28 May 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Process of beatification for 36 servants of God missionaries in labour camps during the Korean War Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Order of St Benedict of Wagwan has announced the opening of a process of Beatification for 36 Servants of God who died in labour camps and prison camps in the years of the Korean War 1949 to 1 ...
• 28 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We face the great challenge to rediscover marriage as a vocation of love and the sacrament of matrimony as the summit which elevates this calling of a man and a women ”: interview with the only married couple at the Conference Aparecida (Fides Service) - Dr Luis Jensen and his wife Pilar Escudero de Jensen, are representing married couples at 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida. Th ...
• 28 May 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Reconciliation Week: 40 years since referendum gave citizenship to indigenous Australians, full integration still long way off Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Some progress has been made in forty years but much remains to be done for full integration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians say indigenous leaders, heads of civil organisations, ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - A “short cut” to holiness for the priests of the third millennium: “Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort show us how to know, love and serve Our Lord with Mary as our Mother, Model and Guide ” - Testimony by Cardinal Ivan Dias Dublin (Fides Service) - The “Treaty on true devotion to Mary”, written by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) at the beginning of 1700, although addressed to all Christians in general can be especially appl ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (3): Angola, Benin, Burkina-Faso Vatican City (Fides Service) - ANGOLA “Land of Mary”. L’Angola viene chiamata la terra di Maria. The first Catholic missionaries, who were Portuguese, arrived in Angola on, 29 April 1491, and built a church dedi ...
• 26 May 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New impulse for Catholic school identity and mission to evangelise youth: 17th International Organisation for Catholic Education conclusions Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - During the 17th Meeting of OIEC, International Organisation for Catholic Education 21 to 25 May in Santiago de Compostela, in Spain participants listened to reports from the five ...
• 26 May 2007
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Falling cotton prices, crisis for Burkina Faso producers, government intervenes to save main cotton company from bankruptcy Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - There is alarm in Africa for falling prices of cotton the main export for many countries including Burkina Faso. Ouagadougou authorities say, “subsidies granted by countries in the north t ...
• 26 May 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - 27 May: Holy Childhood Day in Peru on the theme “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!” Lima (Fides Service) - For the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru Sunday 27 May is the annual nation Holy Childhood Day. This year the slogan is “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!� ...
• 26 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean seen by the media Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "Your difficult task as communicators is show the world the faces, situations and achievements of the local Churches You will let people at home know what is going on here at Aparecida". This ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Church's mission and our concern as Bishops must be for each and all: I think this should be remembered particularly in this 50th anniversary year of the Encyclical Fidei donum of Pius XII” : Benedict XVI addresses general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address to the participants at the 57th general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference at midday on 24 May in the Synod Hall in the Vatican the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI tol ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - On a pastoral visit Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino takes the Holy Father's solidarity to Cote d'Ivoire and presents the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the 15 to 20 May, at the request of Pope Benedict XVI and at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Cote d'Ivoire, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical C ...
• 25 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY Fr. Gian Battista Zanchi re-elected Superior General of PIME Rome (Fides Service) - On May 24 Fr Gianbattista Zanchi, aged 64 was re-elected Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) by the 44 members of the PIME general assembly meeting in Ariccia, ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (2): Algeria, an ancient Christian and Marian land Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Basilica of Our Lady of Africa stands on a cliff overlooking the bay of Algiers. The church, the construction of which was begun in 1872, is visited by Muslims as well as Catholics. Wom ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - Caritas Internationalis 18th general assembly opens on June 3 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Some 385 Caritas delegates from all over the world will be in Rome to attend the 18th general assembly of Caritas Internationalis, in the Vatican from 3-9 June to discuss the present situat ...