News

• 28 March 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “…And the virgin's name was Mary” Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - “…and the virgin's name was Mary! The first title the Gospel attributes to Mary is “virgin”, because only in virgin, immaculate, soil could the Son of the Father be conceived. The W ...
• 28 March 2007
  VATICAN Prayers for Lent - Act of Contrition (10) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Confession - «…this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found. (Luke 15, 24). Sin is not simply an offence which can be wiped away like writing on a blackb ...
• 28 March 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Families based on marriage, protection of life from conception to natural death, more equality in work opportunities and resources, respect and welcome for emigrants: Cardinal Ricard addresses French Bishops’ Conference Plenary Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - In view of elections in France in April Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of France recalled certain basic principles. Addressing a plenary assembly ...
• 28 March 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nation wide Palm Sunday church collections in aid of projects to defend Amazon peoples and region Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Next Sunday April 1, Palm Sunday, special collections in churches all over Brazil are part of the annual Lenten Fraternity Campaign devoted this year to a project to help the peoples and the r ...
• 28 March 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Daily 13 hours of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Saints Peter and Paul Catholic parish in Yuan Lang responds to Pope Benedict XVI’s exhortation Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the consecration of a new chapel dedicated to Saint Pio da Pietrelcina, the Catholic parish of Saints Peter and Paul in Yuan Lang, diocese of Hong Kong, inaugurated daily A ...
• 28 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - I call on Somali leaders to have a sense of responsibility with regard to the suffering of their people” says Catholic Bishop Apostolic administrator of Mogadishu where furious fighting has resumed Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)-“The situation is very sad because no one seems to want dialogue or peace. The players in this crisis have adopted a maximalist attitude which has plunged Somalia into chaos” says Bishop Gio ...
• 27 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - The Act of Contrition (9) Vatican City (Fides Service) - 'I resolve with the help of God’s grace never to sin again.' Saint Paul speaks of this inner struggle which we often lose: « In my inmost self I dearly love God's law, but I see that act ...
• 27 March 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Encyclical Deus Caritas Est theme of Summer Catechism for Children: “Teaching children to love at an early age” Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI Deus Caritas Est will be the main theme for Summer Catechism courses this Summer organised by Son of Man Religious Formation Group in Taiwan. Accord ...
• 27 March 2007
  AMERICA - The Presidents of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences called for final preparatory meeting before CELAM 5 General Conference in Brazil in May Bogota (Fides Service) - Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile and President of CELAM the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America has convoked the Presidents of Latin Ameri ...
• 27 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Media education requires formation in the exercise of authentic freedom, says President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, at the 5th World Summit on media for Children Johannesburg (Fides Service)- Archbishop John Foley, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, spoke at the Opening of the 5th World Summit on media for Children, held in Johannesburg, South Africa. ...
• 27 March 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Crisis heightens, episodes of violence, spectre of domestic terrorism Harare (Fides Service)- The crisis in Zimbabwe is ever more serious. The people are desperate. In the past few days there were attacks with rudimental firebombs. The local police said that during riots in Harare on 24 Ma ...
• 27 March 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Local Church talks with Federal Government about opening Catholic schools to ensure high-school education for Aboriginal youth Sydney (Fides Service) - With criticism mounting over the number of Indigenous students missing out on high school education, the Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell, said that the local Church is negotiating with ...
• 27 March 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “If we save the family we are rebuilding humanity” in his Holy Week Message Bishops’ Conference president says life, family and peace must be protected Bogota (Fides Service) - The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga of the diocese of Tunja has called for more protection for life, the family and peace. In a ...
• 27 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Archbishop of Delhi calls Sonia Ghandi to cleanse her party of elements of fundamentalism New Delhi (Fides Service) - Congress Party with its centuries old democratic, secular tradition, tolerant, respectful of individual freedom and human rights should cleanse itself of poisonous elements of fundamentalism ...
• 27 March 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Permanent Peoples Tribunal accuse Arroyo government and army of violation of human rights The Hague (Fides Service) - The civil society of the Philippines has reported its government and the army for serious violation of human rights. The report was filed in The Hague during a 21 - 25 March session of the Per ...