News

• 24 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean “The Saints are precious fruits of the evangelisation of our Latin American continent” Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Horacio Valenzuela of Talca, Chile, spoke about the importance of the witness of the saints for the Church and especially for the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Bishops ...
• 24 May 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - National Family Week “The Family: first school of discipleship and mission ” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Family: first school of discipleship and mission is the theme of the National Family Week 2007 which the Church in Colombia will hold from 8 May to 3 June. The theme is in keeping with that o ...
• 24 May 2007
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Preparations for Conference on Inter-religious Dialogue in Asia and the Pacific, 29 to 31 May Waitangi (Fides Service) - Final preparations are being made for a Conference on Inter-religious dialogue in Asia and the Pacific to be held in Waitangi, New Zealand, 29 to 31 May. The Conference, organised with the help ...
• 24 May 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Bishop of Molegbe resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 23 May 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Molegbe (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Bishop Ignace Ma ...
• 23 May 2007
  VATICAN AVE MARIA - Mary, the Bride of the Spirit - Rev Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the time between Ascension and Pentecost the Church calls the faithful to be in prayer in the Upper Room, especially in front of Jesus in the Eucharist, to prepare to receive the Holy Sp ...
• 23 May 2007
  VATICAN - The month of Mary «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (18) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Thursday 16 July 1858: 18th and last apparition. Mary's call comes unexpectedly while Bernadette is praying in the early evening in the parish church. Because by order of the authorities th ...
• 23 May 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Relics of Saint Teresa of Lisieux visit Lyons: Meeting on “Missionary Creativity from the 19th century to our day ”, World Missions Week, meeting of Fidei Donum priests and many other events at the House of Pauline Marie Jaricot Lyons (Agenzia Fides) - Since the inauguration of the newly restored home of Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799- 1862), the young girl from Lyons who founded the first of the Pontifical Mission Societies, the Society for the Pr ...
• 23 May 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Saturday 26 May diocese of Mangochi celebrates installation of Bishop Alessandro Pagani Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- Bishop elect Alessandro Pagani will be ordained and installed in his diocese of Mangochi, in Malawi on Saturday 26 May. “The celebration is expected to be attended by many people” said Monfo ...
• 23 May 2007
  ASIA/JAPAN - With regard to constitutional amendments the Catholic Bishops religious freedom and separation of Government and Religion must be respected Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - “Give to Cesar what belongs to Cesar and to God what belongs to God”: the Catholic Church in Japan recalls that for a correct harmony between government and religion it is useful to follow th ...
• 23 May 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New Pastoral Centre for Vietnamese immigrant workers. Catholic religious orders organise assistance for immigrants Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnamese immigrant workers in Korea have a new social and pastoral centre where they can meet, share experience, pray together and take part in social, cultural and spiritual activities. The Vie ...
• 23 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “The Conference will help re-launch the Church's mission to evangelise. This s second evangelisation 500 years after the first must be a new springtime for the Church ”: interview with Archbishop Roberto Octavio of San Juan Aparecida (Fides Service) - Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, tells Fides about the importance of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean ...
• 23 May 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Building the dignity of all men and women ”: inspired by the Gospel and the Church's Social Doctrine Social Week seeks solutions to country's principal problems Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Building the dignity of all men and women is the theme of Social Week being held from 21 to 24 May at the Catholic University of Ecuador. The event, organised by the Bishops' Social Pastoral Commi ...
• 23 May 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Ecumenism makes progress in Oceania: 20 May - 3 June Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and Prayers for Reconciliation Sydney (Fides Service) - Two weeks of intense ecumenical prayer in the Pacific from 17 May to 20 May the Church in Oceania celebrates the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and from 20 May to 3 June Prayers for Re ...
• 22 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Christian faith, which is shared by the majority of Rwandans, if lived coherently and fully, is a real help in overcoming a past of errors and death,”: Pope Benedict XVI Message to the President of Rwanda Vatican City (Fides Service) - Made public today was a Message, dated April 3, from the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, for that country's annual day of national mourni ...
• 22 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (17) Vatican City ( Fides Service) - Wednesday 7 April 1858, miracle of the candle: 17th apparition. “Our Lady called Bernadette in the evening of April 6. The news that Bernadette was going to the Grotto spread and about ...