News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...