News

• 27 March 2007
  AMERICA/HAITI - Continental Caritas Meeting concludes with election of new direction, next meeting in Argentina Port au Prince (Fides Service) - The 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas week-long Meeting in Porta au Prince Haiti, on the theme "Disciples and Missionaries o ...
• 26 March 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus: “Mary’s reply to the angel is prolonged in the Church … missionary martyrs bear witness to Christ’s love which is stronger than violence and hatred” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Annunciation, narrated at the beginning of the Gospel of St Luke, was a humble, hidden event - no one saw or was aware that it happened, only Mary -, but at the same time it was dec ...
• 26 March 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope makes a pastoral visit to the parish of Saint Felicity and Children, Martyrs: “on our Lenten path … may we be accompanied by the certainty that God never abandons us and that His love is a source of joy and peace; a power which impels us to walk the path of holiness, even to martyrdom if necessary” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the 5th Sunday of Lent, March 25 Pope Benedict XVI visited the Roman parish community of Santa Felicita e Figli martiri. In his homily the Pope spoke about the “mission of every par ...
• 26 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope appoints Coadjutor Bishop of Budjala Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 26 March appointed Rev. P. Philibert Tembo Nlandu, C.I.C.M., former Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in a Kinsha ...
• 26 March 2007
  VATICAN - “I urge you to continue on this path, with profound personalised faith, deeply rooted in the Church the living Body of Christ”: the Pope addresses pilgrimage organised by Communion and Liberation Movement to mark 25th anniversary of papal approval Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The late John Paul II … gave you this consignment: «Go into the whole world carrying the truth, beauty and peace encountered in Christ our Redeemer». Don Giussani made these words th ...
• 26 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - The Act of Contrition (8) Vatican City (Fides Service) - To resolve never to offend God and to do penance…this is the decision of the sinner aware of his moral and spiritual sinfulness: we promise never to offend God again and like the prodigal ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Believers and non consider the Catholic Church “the voice of human rights”: Spanish branch of Aid to the Church in Need mission in Eritrea Madrid (Fides Service) - One of many projects undertaken to mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation the Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need ACN is a project to assist Eritrean Christians proposed by ACN Spa ...
• 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 ...