News

• 9 May 2007
  VATICAN - Annual General Assembly Pontifical Mission Societies - “In a fraternal atmosphere we have assigned subsidies to the many local Churches for numerous pastoral educational and charitable projects some in remote almost forgotten areas” Archbishop Hoser said at the end of the Assembly Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday 8 May marked the closing of the General Assembly Pontifical Mission Societies held at the Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano, just outside Rome. Instead of the customary Pastoral Session of the ...
• 9 May 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “No to abortion, yes to government development plan. We are ready to co-operate with the authorities to educate the people to denounce crime and violence” say Catholic Bishops at the end of Plenary Assembly Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- A proposed bill on abortion; the challenges of Mozambican society today; the government programme to fight poverty; criminality, were some of the issues examined by the Catholic Bishops of Mozambi ...
• 9 May 2007
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - “The phenomenon of immigration in fact poses forcefully the moral necessity to work for a new international economic order” Bishop Marchetto says at Colloquium on Pastoral Care of Migration in Africa Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church “mother and teacher” with special concern for people in difficulty, shares the path of those who leave Africa often risking their lives to emigrate to Europe in search of ...
• 9 May 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel Delly says “Iraqi Christians must be guaranteed full rights of citizenship ” Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal in favour of Iraqi Christians was addressed to political and religious authorities in Iraq and the rest of the world by Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly during ...
• 9 May 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Young Catholics in Immaculate Heart of Mary parish call peers to mission: “Come let's proclaim the Gospel!” Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “ Come let's proclaim the Gospel ” is the call launched by young Catholics of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish, in the 7th deanery of Tai Pei archdiocese to their peers during a recent meetin ...
• 9 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops of Brazil express affection, communion, loyalty and gratitude to Pope Benedict XVI for choosing their country to host the 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean and urge contemplative religious to accompany the event with prayer Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - All America is preparing to live the great ecclesial event of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean. Final preparations are being made at the Na ...
• 9 May 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - “5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean is called to give new impulse to evangelisation in this vast eminently Catholic region of the world”: message from president of Peruvian Bishops' Conference Lima (Fides Service) - Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, OFM, of Trujillo pesident of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference said a press conference in view of the imminent opening of CELAM 5 "in continuity with the ...
• 9 May 2007
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 4 May 2007 confirmed Rev. Fr. Winfried Deing OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies f ...
• 8 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Superiors General: “ in you I thank the immense army of witnesses to Christ's love who operate on the frontiers of evangelisation, education and social charity”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing Superiors General, representing 794 families of women religious operating in 85 different countries all over the world Pope Benedict XVI whom he received in audience on Monday 7 ...
• 8 May 2007
  VATICAN - PMS Annual General Assembly: Pontifical Mission Society of Holy Childhood receives more offerings to help children in need Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After a day's rest on Sunday, the work of the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies at the Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano just outside Rome, resumed on Monday 7 May with a repor ...
• 8 May 2007
  VATICAN - PMS Annual General Assembly: new impulse for Pontifical Missionary Union called to be the "soul of the PMS ” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union, Fr. Vito del Prete, PIME, was the last to give his annual report on the past year's activity which included to important events: the 50º ...
• 8 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (6) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 21 February 1858: 6th Apparition. “The Lady appears early in the morning to Bernadette who is accompanied by about a hundred people. The local doctor tells the story: «Bernadette ...
• 8 May 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 13th general assembly of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions PIME Communion and Mission “ad extra” in the 3rd Millennium Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A prayer Vigil in the evening of Sunday 6 May at the Casa Divin Maestro in Ariccia, Rome, opened the work of the 13th general assembly of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions PIME which ha ...
• 8 May 2007
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Salesians in Albania: assistance and development programmes for Rom and Gypsy youth Tirana (Fides Service) - To promote respect for human rights in Albania the Italian NGO Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (VIS) connected with the Salesians has launched a programme with the title “All Differ ...
• 8 May 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Diamond producers form association Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- African Diamond Producers Association ADPA founded in November 2006 is taking its first steps. ADPA held its first meeting at the end of April in Luanda, capital of Angola, where its head offices ...