News

• 2 March 2007
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Abdoulaye Wade wins presidential elections in first round Dakar (Agenzia Fides)- It is official, outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade was re-elected in the first round of presidential elections in Senegal on 25 February (see Fides 23 and 28 February 2007). Yesterday aftern ...
• 2 March 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young Catholics from South Korea pray with World Youth Day Cross at frontier with North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics of South Korea lived an intense and significant moment of prayer and recollection recently when they carried the visiting Youth Day Cross as far as Freedom Bridge which marks the ...
• 2 March 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Family Day Sunday March 4 foster awareness and support for the unity and value of the family in society, in the Church and among its own members Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 4th March Catholics in Mexico will celebrate Family Day with various initiatives underline the importance and value of the family. The main aims of the Day include: present, promote a ...
• 2 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New Ley Organica de la Educacion fails to respect fundamental rights and introduces young consciences to moral relativism and gender ideology Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Ley Organica de la Educacion and respective Royal Decrees and the fundamental rights of Parents and Schools” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Council of the Conference of S ...
• 2 March 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Spiritual books best sellers at International Book Fair in Tai Pei where twelve Catholic communications groups were present Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - For the past eight years the Catholic community in Taiwan has been a regular participant at Tei Pei’s traditional International Book Fair. At this 15th edition of the Fair 12 Catholic communic ...
• 1 March 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Fundamental elements of the Roman Liturgy (3) Gregorian Chant, silence and … the Altar Bell Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gregorian Chant, also because of the fact that the cantors are not the centre of attention, is in keeping with the spirit of the Roman Liturgy, as Icons are for Byzantine Liturgy. Father Ja ...
• 1 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 7th Station: JESUS FALLS FOR THE SECOND TIME Rome (Fides News Service) 7th Station: JESUS FALLS FOR THE SECOND TIME V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Book of Lamentations. 3:1-2,9,16 ...
• 1 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Assassinated missionaries: hope for the world”: 24th March Youth Movement Day commemorates martyred missionaries with prayer and fasting Rome (Fides Service) - For the last 15 years for Catholics in Italy and other countries March 24th, the date of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, of San Salvador in 1980, has been a day to commemorate miss ...
• 1 March 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Anonymous elderly Buddhist lady of modest means donates 23 million Taiwan dollars to Catholic Cancer Care organisation Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) - A love which knows no boundaries between faiths was how Kao Hsiung diocesan ShanTao Catholic Weekly describes the generosity of an elderly Buddhist lady, who signs herself simply, a disciple ...
• 1 March 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Life at Saint Jean Marie Vianney major seminary in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Although modest in size and number of students, Saint Jean Marie Vianney major Catholic seminary in Phnom Penh organises various events and initiatives for youth groups on different occasions ...
• 1 March 2007
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Intense church mobilisation to reach victims of worst floods in recent decades: 39 casualties and at least 350,000 homeless La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - In repeated serious floods in eastern Bolivia, mainly Santa Cruz, Beni, and parts of Cochabamba and La Paz, since December due to "el Niño", at least 39 people have died, over 350,000 are homele ...
• 1 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “We must denounce a spreading culture of death and in the light of the Gospel and Church teaching reaffirm the whole truth on life and the family”: Lenten Letter from Apostolic Vicar of Napo Napo (Agenzia Fides) - In a Pastoral letter for Lent Bishop Paolo Mietto Vicar Apostolic of Napo in Ecuador explains the reason for the first National Pro Life and Pro Family Congress to be held at the end of March in Gu ...
• 1 March 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Stop arguing and work for the good of the nation”: Catholic Bishops tells statesmen calling for free and transparent elections Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church in Nigeria appealed to President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice president Atiku Abubakar to stop their public dispute, come to an agreement and work for the common good. In a press ...
• 1 March 2007
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - The Pope appoints new Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte-d’Ivoire Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 1 March 2007, appointed Rev. Paulin Kouabenan N’Gname, until now vicar general of the diocese of Bondoukou (Cote d’Ivoire) Bishop of San Pedro-e ...
• 28 February 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “A Heart in Love with God’s Will” Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Not my will but yours be done” (Lk 22, 42)! At the hour of his agony in the Garden of Olives, Jesus repeats words which had nourished him all through his life here on earth, precisely ...