News

• 18 May 2007
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Basilica of the Annunciation offers Personal Light and Prayer service via the Internet Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - To give Christians all over the world the joy of lighting a candle and receiving a special blessing from one of most loved Holy Places in the world, the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth ...
• 18 May 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - New Constitution must recognise and protect dignity of every human person, value of the family and human life, and the right to education the Bishops say Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With an April 15 majority vote Ecuadorians expressed support for the proposal of president Rafael Correa to form a Constituent Assembly to draft a new Constitution. In a recent statement the Catho ...
• 18 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CELAM 5 - “The Church in Latin America and the Caribbean must be resolutely missionary and go out in search of lost Catholics and all those who know little or nothing about Jesus Christ”: leading members of the Roma Curia address the Conference Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The first week of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean was marked by fraternal communion with reflects not only the special ecclesial atmospher ...
• 18 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Bio-ethics at the service of the Missions”: interview with Fr. Giuseppe Buono, PIME, co-author of a book which analyses points in common between the work of a bio-ethicist and that of a missionary Rome (Fides Service) - What do a missionary and a bio-ethicist have in common? Apparently nothing. One dedicates his whole life to spreading the Gospel in brotherly charity and the other - especially if he is the person ...
• 18 May 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Evangelising text messages: 21st century Salesians sight new spirituality Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - From 18 to 20 May the Salesian Education Directors of the Australia-Pacific region will meet in Melbourne for their annual conference to reflect on the motivations and gifts of Salesian spirit ...
• 18 May 2007
  AFRICA/ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Rector appointed for St Mark Major inter-diocesan Seminary in Bangui Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 26 January 2007, appointed Rev. Gabin Eric Mbika of the diocesan clergy of Berberati, Rector of St Mark's ...
• 18 May 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Rector appointed for St Francis Xavier Pontifical inter-diocesan Seminary in Poona Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 31 March 2007 appointed Rev. Pradeep A. Sequeira, SJ. Rector of the Pontifical St Francis Xavier inter-di ...
• 16 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA- “The lights of Fatima on the world” - Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today is the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima. With her heartfelt call for conversion and penance she is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions” ...
• 16 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (13) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tuesday 2nd March 1858: 13th Apparition. Go and tell the priest to build a chapel here and to have people come in procession." At the end of her ecstasy on this fifteenth apparition, Ber ...
• 16 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Camillian Fathers elect new Superior General: Fr. Renato Salvatore, former Vicar general, for the next six years Ariccia (Fides Service) - The 56th General Chapter of the Ministers of the Infirm (Camillian Fathers) gathered in plenary assembly at the Casa Divin Maestro di Ariccia (see Fides 7/5/2007 and 10/5/2007), elected a new Su ...
• 16 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “A Home away from Home”: Sunday 20 May 16th edition of the “Festival of Peoples” organised by the Scalabrini Missionaries and the diocese of Rome with the ethnic communities Rome (Fides Service) - “A Home away from Home”: is the theme of the 16th edition of the “Festival of Peoples ”, an initiative which has been held for the last three years in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in Rom ...
• 16 May 2007
  AFRICA/MALI - “Our intention is not to impose the Gospel but to proclaim it with our lives” President of Bishops Conference in Rome for ad limina visit tells Fides Rome ( Fides Service)- “We wish to be leaven to make the dough rise, a little light to illuminate civil society and institutions, living and spreading the Good News with good example and concrete works” said Bishop J ...
• 16 May 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - “Emergency School ”: open air lessons for children of displaced families (Phnom Penh) - To provide schooling for poor children in danger of growing up unable to even read or write Catholic religious and laity connected with the Salesian Community in Cambodia promote initiatives for basic scho ...
• 16 May 2007
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Voluntary return to Batticaloa Batticaloa (Fides Service) - While civil war continues to produces more violence and victims every day there are timid attempts to help people in Sri Lanka, especially in the north and north east, return to normal life. ...
• 16 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CELAM 5 in Aparecida- “All of us here are called to live an experience of Church and to make our contribution to an event which will be most important for the future of Latin America ”: says Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re as work commences Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean began with an address by the president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America Ca ...