News

• 10 May 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - “Promoting journalism based on authentic values” Fr Adolf Washington new president of the Indian Catholic Press Association Bangalore (Fides Service) - Journalism which is neither scandalistic nor sensationalistic; which fosters respect for the human person, human dignity and rights, promotes justice and solidarity, fights to eliminate discri ...
• 10 May 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Two new Auxiliary Bishops for Melbourne, Australia's largest Catholic diocese Melbourne (Fides Service) - Catholics in Melbourne are celebrating the recent appointment of two new Auxiliary Bishops Bishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Bishop Peter Elliot, to flank Archbishop Denis Hart in the pastoral ...
• 10 May 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “At this crucial hour for our country lay Catholics must take an active and responsible part in the organisation of the political community”: Message from Archbishop of Quito in view of next Constituent Assembly Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Quito and his two Auxiliary Bishops issued a message in view of a forthcoming Constituent Assembly which will discuss "issues which are fundamental for the individual, for the fa ...
• 10 May 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE “The light of Christ uplifts and gives meaning to the suffering caused by recent disasters in our country”: Catholic Bishops of Mozambique assure local Church's commitment to assist victims Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- “As disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Bishops of his Church we cannot fail to express sincere human and Christian solidarity with our brothers and sisters affected by these tragedies” the ...
• 10 May 2007
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Ramos-Horta will be the new President of East Timor, official elections results still to be announced Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing Prime Minister, Nobel peace prize winner José Ramos-Horta, will be the new president of the Republic of East Timor. Temporary results of the 8 May election announced with 90% of the votes ...
• 9 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - God's glory is resplendent in Mary , Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the month of May the Church is especially attentive to the words of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, “do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2, 5). These were the last of the few words of Mary reco ...
• 9 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (7) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tuesday 23 February 1858: secret, 7th Apparition. “Despite disappointment that there had been no apparition on the 22 February, between 150 and 200 people went to the Grotto at six o-cloc ...
• 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 ...