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• 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 ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil - “Starting afresh from Christ in every area of missionary activity; rediscovering in Jesus the love and salvation given to us by the Father through the Holy Spirit: this is the substance and lifeline of the bishop's mission” São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - In the evening of Friday 11 May Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Vespers with 400 Brazilian bishops in the Cathedral of Sao Paulo Catedral da Sé dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation. In his ...
• 11 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil - “Let us give thanks to God for the lasting benefits obtained through the powerful evangelising influence that the Holy Spirit impressed upon so many souls through Frei Galvão” Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - At an open air Mass at the Campo de Marte, in Sao Paulo in the morning of Friday 11 May Pope Benedict XVI canonised the first Brazilian born saint Friar Antonio di Sant'Anna Galvão and he sa ...
• 10 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI Brazil - “Your country is to serve as a cradle for ecclesial proposals which, God willing, will give the Continent new missionary vigour and impulse” São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - In the early afternoon of Wednesday 9 May the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, arrived at São Paulo/Guarulhos airport welcomed by the President of Brazil, and political, civil and ecclesial a ...
• 10 May 2007
  VATICAN - International Congress 50th anniversary Fidei Donum Encyclical - Lights and Shadows along a path of fifty years, looking to the future; Fidei Donum in Latin America Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The International Congress to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Fidei Donum Encyclical continued in the afternoon of Wednesday 9 May (see Fides 21/4/2007), with a historical-critical ...
• 10 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (8) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Wednesday 24 February 1858: penance, 8ª apparition. “Bernadette, we are told by M. Estrade, just after falling into ecstasy went to put her ear to the rock and then like someone receivin ...
• 10 May 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - 'Family Day', alias Dies Familiae, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Vatican City (Fides Service) - In just over forty eight hours there has been convoked in Rome a 'Family Day': expression chosen by Italian lay Catholics backed by the Bishops' Conference and no few non-denominational ass ...