News

• 26 March 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Catholics ready to welcome World Youth Day Symbols, the Cross and the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholic Church in Solomon Islands is preparing to welcome the symbols of World Youth Day. The World Youth Day Cross accompanied by the Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary which started a ...
• 26 March 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - First meeting of new Standing Committee of the Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar SECAM Accra (Fides Service)- A meeting of the new Standing Committee of the Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) will begin today in Accra, Ghana to conclude on March 30, 2007. It will be th ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rome Declaration on Family Rights to be presented to the United Nations: Family is a factor of “social balance and economic development” Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of the 17th International Congress on the “Family Rights and Responsibilities”, organised in Rome by the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), representatives of 1 ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young Catholics of Rome diocese will gather round their Bishop, Pope Benedict XVI, for a Penitential vigil to prepare for Palm Sunday, 22nd Youth Day Rome (Fides Service) - On Thursday 29 March at 5.30pm, Pope Benedict XVI will meet thousands of young Catholics of Rome diocese in St Peter’s Basilica to prepare for the 22nd Youth Day on Palm Sunday, 1 April. As the P ...
• 26 March 2007
  VATICAN - “It is unthinkable to create an authentic 'common European home' while ignoring the identity of the people of our continent … an identity made up of a collection of universal values which Christianity helped to forge”: the Pope receives participants at COMECE Congress Vatican City (Fides Service) - “It is unthinkable to create an authentic 'common European home' while ignoring the identity of the people of our continent. ... An identity that is historical, cultural and moral, more e ...
• 26 March 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - 100 dead and almost 500 injured: tragic toll of explosions in Maputo munitions store. The Pope prays for the victims Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The explosions on 22 March at a munitions store close to the airport of Maputo, capital of Mozambique (see Fides 23 March 2007), killed a total 100 persons, wounded 492, and robbed 200 more of th ...
• 26 March 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Pennacchio visits diocese of Pathein, ordains three deacons and opens new Pastoral Centre named after Pope Benedict XVI Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A recent pastoral visit by Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, apostolic delegate in Myanmar, to the diocese of Pathein guided by the Bishop Mgr John Hsane Hgyi, was an event of grace, marked by pra ...
• 26 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - “Bishops and priests are ready to suffer, confident that blessed are those of suffer for the sake of justice ”: death of Bishop Bonaventura Luo Jun, of the diocese of Shohchow Shohchow (Fides Service) - Bishop Bonaventura Luo Jun, of the diocese of Shohchow (Shuoxian/Shuozhou) in the northern area of the province of Shanxi (mainland China), situated 340 km south west of Beijing, died on March ...
• 26 March 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church in Mexico raises her voice to protest against penal code reforms to de-penalise abortion and euthanasia and allow same sex marriages: “At stake, is the good of the family, the cradle of society and the Church” Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in Mexico is firmly against penal code reforms to de-penalise abortion up to 14 weeks. The Archdiocese of Mexico City and 50 civil associations, lay Catholics and members ...
• 26 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 1st National Pro-Life And Pro Family Congress vows to promote respect for life, better marriage preparation for young couples, support for married couples and study programmes to include respect for value of human life Guayaquil (Fides Service) - The first pro-life and Por-Family national congress in Ecuador on the theme "The whole truth on Life and the Family concluded with the celebration of the Day of the Unborn Child on March 25. D ...
• 23 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent : The Act of Contrition (6) Vatican City (Fides Service) - God gives his people the Commandments - On Mount Sinai God gives Moses Commandments for the people of Israel on the journey towards the Promised Land. Our modern mentality tends to rejects ...
• 23 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - On Sunday 25 March athletes will set out to carry the Torch of Lolek from Rome to Poland to mark the 2° anniversary of the dearly beloved Pope John Paul II Rome (Fides Service) - For the second year running in commemoration of the dearly loved Pontiff John Paul II who died on 2 April 2005, the Torch of Lolek, as Karol Wojtyla was called when he was a boy, will be carried fr ...
• 23 March 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Explosions at the country’s largest weapons deposit kill 80 and wounds thousands, many of them children Maputo (Fides Service)- “This is the second such incident in this place and the most serious” Fides learned from local Church sources in Maputo where yesterday 22 March at least 80 people died and 360 were injured in ...
• 23 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Christian health workers are well aware of the close and indissoluble bond that exists between their professional service and the virtue of charity to which Christ calls them”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants at plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 22 March in the Vatican Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care. In his talk to them the Pope affirmed that “healt ...
• 23 March 2007
  VATICAN - The tenth anniversary of the death of Mgr. Tiziano Scalzotto, former Under-Secretary and Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - Exuberant, intelligent and jovial man of profound spirituality and charity hidden but just as deep: these few traits suffice to outline the personality of Mgr Tiziano Scalzotto who died on ...