News

• 4 May 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Young people from all over the country reflect on 'Education for Life', discussing AIDS and the Media Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Following the last one organised for young couples and families recently the diocese of Honiara hosted a seminar on Education for Life for young people from Catholic schools, parishes, movements ...
• 4 May 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Situation desperate: more than one third of the people in Mogadishu abandoned the capital in the past two months Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it intends to accelerate food supplies to at least 100,000 of the 365,000 people forced to abandon their homes in Mogadishu because of f ...
• 4 May 2007
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Health authorities keep careful watch on Dengue which has already infected 27,000 people in the country Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty days after announcing a state of emergency the national health authorities in Paraguay have said they will continue to keep close watch to prevent the outbreak of dengue from spreading. ...
• 4 May 2007
  VATICAN - Month of Mary, Month of May - «QUÉ SOY ERA IMMACULADA COUNCEPCIOU» 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (3) Vatican City (Fides Service) - 3rd Apparition THURSDAY 18th FEBRUARY «The third time was the following Thursday: some important people said I should take with me paper and pen and ask the Lady if she had something t ...
• 3 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI continues his general audience teaching on Origen and his ever valid teaching on prayer and the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI chose the teachings of Origen on prayer and the Church as the subject of his weekly teaching during the general audience on Wednesday 2 May in St Peter's Square where des ...
• 3 May 2007
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina open web site a new channel for evangelisation Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina has its own we site since April 30. National Director Rev. Fr. Tomo Knezevic told Fides that it is hoped the web si ...
• 3 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Catholic Church in Brazil has stopped losing members, and the country is still home to the largest Catholic population in the world Río de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report issued by the Getulio Vargas Foundation although in the 1990s Brazil saw a drastic decline in its Catholic population, the soul drain has stopped and the numbers ha ...
• 3 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ There is urgent need for reflection and deeper awareness of who we are and what we offer to the world: and from this depends our qualified manner of exercising the mission of the Church.”: interview with Archbishop Odilo P. Scherer Archbishop of Sao Paulo and secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil. Aparecida (Fides Service) - Ten days before the opening in Brazil of a major Catholic Church event CELAM 5, the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops' Conferences, Fides interviewed CELAM 5 Secr ...
• 3 May 2007
  VATICAN - Month of Mary, Month of May - «QUÉ SOY ERA IMMACULADA COUNCEPCIOU» 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - 2ND Apparition SUNDAY 14th FEBRUARY «The second apparition was on the following Sunday. I went because I felt inwardly drawn to return to the place. But my mother had forbidden me to go ...
• 2 May 2007
  Pope Benedict XVI's May prayer intention: “That good and enlightened formation staff for Major Seminaries and Institutes of Consecrated Life may never be lacking in mission territories”. Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Pontifical Missionary Union secretary general Vatican City (Fides Service) - A scarcity of vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life in the older Churches is compensated by a flourishing of the former in the young Churches in mission territories. Hundreds ...
• 2 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for 13 plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “ only love for neighbour can inspire within us justice at the service of life and the promotion of human dignity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Three specific challenges facing the world today, environment and sustainable development, full justice, the values of the spirit, were identified by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in ...
• 2 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The golden thread of life” by Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. 'Peace be with you,' he said. Then he sp ...
• 2 May 2007
  VATICAN - «Qué era Immaculada Councepciou» The 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (1) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1850. Four years later in the small French town of Lourdes, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a little girl Bernad ...
• 2 May 2007
  AFRICA/MALI - “Political activity is not promoting one's own career but rather the common good” says Catholic Bishops in a statement on presidential elections Bamako (Agenzia Fides)- “And if we were to re-establish politics?” was the title of issued by the Catholic Bishops of Mali on the occasion of the recent presidential elections. The statement, of which Fides received ...
• 2 May 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Apostolic Delegate visits diocese of Kengtung, which has just held diocesan synod Kengtung (Fides Service) - The Catholics of the diocese of Kengtung, east Myanmar recently had the joy of a visit by the Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio. The Delegate was warmly welcomed to the Cathedr ...