News

• 12 May 2007
  AFRICA - In addition to trafficking in human persons, trafficking in drugs: West Africa prey to trans-national crime Madrid (Agenzia Fides)- A constant flow of cocaine from Latin America to Europe passes through west Africa. This picture emerged from an international meeting on drug trafficking being held in Madrid organised by the go ...
• 12 May 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Local Year of the Family: 25 families attend "Parents to Children handing-on the faith" meeting; family building web site opens new page Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “The Family Hands on its Treasure” was the title of a meeting of formation in the faith in the family organised recently at St Benedict parish by Hong Kong's diocesan commission for catech ...
• 12 May 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We must never tire of praying and working for peace!” says President of Bishops' Conference on the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima and her Message of Peace, Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga of Tunja president of the Colombia ...
• 12 May 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The local Catholic Church launches special programme for young people's wellbeing Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in South Africa has launched a special programme called “Youth Alive”, to promote comprehensive wellbeing of young people. Archbishop Buti Tlhagale di Johannesburg, presid ...
• 12 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil - “ It is not enough to care for the body, we must adorn the soul with the most precious divine gifts acquired through Baptism.” Guaratinguetà (Agenzia Fides) - After meeting a community of Poor Clare Sisters and celebrating Mass at the Fazenda da Esperança in Guaratinguetá, Pope Benedict XVI had a meeting with the community gathered with Brot ...
• 12 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict in Brazil - "It is Our Lady who teaches us to pray. She helps us to open our minds and hearts to the power of the Holy Spirit who comes to be shared with the whole world ” Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - In his homily after the recitation of the Holy Rosary on Saturday 12 May at the vast Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil, the Holy Father used intense words and moving contents to turn ...
• 12 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict in Brazil - “With your silent prayerful self-offering, an eloquent silence that the Father hears, proclaim the message of love that conquers sorrow, drugs and death ” Guaratinguetà (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 May, after celebrating Mass in the Chapel of the Bom Jesùs Seminary in Aparecida, Pope Benedict XVI went to visit the Fazenda da Esperança at Guaratinguetá which cares for young ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil - “My appeal to you today, young people present at this gathering, is this: do not waste your youth. Do not seek to escape from it. Live it intensely. Consecrate it to the high ideals of faith and human solidarity” São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - In the afternoon of Thursday 10 May, Pope Benedict XVI left the monastery of São Bento and went to Paulo Machado de Carvalho municipal sports ground in Pacaembu for a meeting with young peo ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - International Congress 50th anniversary Encyclical Fidei Donum - “ If we stop being concerned for the mission to evangelise and stop sharing our resources to meet the needs of the people of God, we stop being the Church of Jesus Christ”” Rome (Fides Service) - Starting from the Most Holy Trinity, the heart and source of mission, Cardinal Gaudencio B. Rosales, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines intervened on 9 May at the International Congress to mark the ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - International Congress 50th anniversary Encyclical Fidei Donum - “Fifty years on we belive the Fidei Donum mission still has much to say and give to our communities” Rome (Fides Service) - On the second day of the International Congress 50th anniversary Encyclical Fidei Donum (see Agenzia Fides 21/4/2007) the participants listened to a conference by the secretary general of the Ital ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - International Congress 50th anniversary Encyclical Fidei Donum - “With continual encouragement from the magisterium may there rise up in the younger Churches a new wave of enthusiastic Fidei Donum missionaries”, although this form will never become the norm for missio ad gentes in the future” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Hubert Bucher of the diocese of Bethlehem, South Africa, intervened on the second day of the Congress, 10 May with a paper on “Elements to reshape the identity of Fidei Donum priests” an ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN -The Bible in the Cultures of Peoples: International Conference at Pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I find it most opportune that you faculty has chosen to reflection in the “The Bible in the Cultures of Peoples”, to demonstrate the riches of the sacred text in the encounter with t ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (9) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Thursday 25 febbraio 1858: water from the source, “for sinners”, 9ª apparition. “Immaculate Mary on that day wanted Bernadette to humble herself. For those who cared to watch and lis ...
• 11 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops once again condemn “any attempt to legalise abortion and manipulation of human embryos for therapeutic ends " Itaci (Fides Service) - In a statement issued at the end of the 45th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil, the Bishops voice solidarity with the people, especially the poor and the suffering and ...
• 11 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Pope will visit over 2,000 former drug addicts at Hope Farm, one of many authentic centres of detoxication and re-evangelisation Guarantinguetá (Fides Service) - Over 2,000 former drug addicts will welcome Pope Benedict XVI to Hope Farm in the Sao Paulo district of Guarantinguetá on Saturday 12 May. The Hope Farms initiative, supported by the Ca ...