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• 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 ...
• 2 May 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentinean Bishops stress the need for serious reflection on social behaviour, rights and duties in view of elections this year Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their 93rd plenary assembly the Argentinean Catholic Bishops issued a statement on the citizens social duties and in view of elections this year underlining the necessity to " ...
• 2 May 2007
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Church of the 3rd Millennium”: Catholic Bishops launch TV project to promote the Values of the Kingdom of God and encourage ongoing creative, objective and ethical reflection Santo Domingo (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic has announced the creation of a television station "The Church of the 3rd Millennium", official media of the local Church which w ...
• 2 May 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations plans to re-launch pro-life youth associations at the national level with National Conference Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations (Provida), founded in Barcelona to promote respect for human life from the moment of conception to natural end, is organising a National Conference f ...
• 2 May 2007
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - United Nations emergency alarm for child victims of conflict and violence Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - While world leaders work on peace processes in the Middle East the children of the region suffer hunger, fear and desperation. Children bear the greatest burden of conflicts in the Middle Ea ...
• 30 April 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI ordains 22 priests for the diocese of Rome: “may the certainty that Christ never leaves us and that nothing can prevent the achievement of His universal plan for salvation, be for you a source of constant consolation and steadfast hope even in times of difficulty” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In St Peter's Basilica on 29 April, the 4th Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday, the Pope told the 22 deacons of Rome diocese he was about to ordain to the priesthood “The ...
• 30 April 2007
  VATICAN - At the midday Regina Caeli prayer the Pope urges the faithful to pray for young men preparing for the priesthood, for Formators at Seminarians and for families “so that in families seeds of the call to the priestly ministry may continue to flower and ripen ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “All the faithful are encouraged to pray especially for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life”: Pope Benedict XVI said as he prepared to lead the recitation of the midda ...
• 30 April 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of May, Month of Mary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Traditionally for Catholics the month of May is the Month of Mary. With this in mind, during this month Fides section on prayer will focus on prayers and devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mar ...
• 30 April 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Almost 500 martyrs to be elevated to the honours of the altar in Rome in the Autumn. Bishops plan national pilgrimage "occasion of grace for the Church and society in Spain" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "You are the Light of the World", is the title of a statement issued by the Spanish Bishops at the end of a recent plenary assembly to announce the beatification in Rome in the Autumn of 498 Span ...