News

• 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 ...
• 23 March 2007
  ASIA/KOREA - The Pope appoints auxiliary Bishop of Daegu Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 23 March 2007 appointed Rev. Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil, until now editor of the Maeil Catholic newspaper, auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Daegu (Ko ...
• 23 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops denounce spreading culture of death which robs man of his fundamental rights and dilutes society’s awareness of the value of life and the dignity of every human person : Message for the annual Day for Life Madrid (Fides Service) - In a message for the national Day for Life in Spain, March 25th , the country’s Catholic Bishops write “As the Bishops of the ‘People of Life’ we denounce a spreading culture of death and ...
• 23 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “We must raise our voices to unmask interpretations which dare to put aside the truth of the Gospel on the grounds that it is culturally outdated and inadequate for the problems of our epoch”: Cardinal Cipriani addresses Pro Life and Family Congress Guayaquil (Fides Service) - With the participation of over 3,000 people Ecuador is holding its first National Pro Life and Pro Family congress in Guayaquil in 6 different parishes. The first conference was given by ...
• 23 March 2007
  AMERICA - Numerous initiatives all over the continent for Pro-Life Day Sunday 25 March: prayers, demonstrations, marches, publications Rome (Fides Service) - Latin American countries are preparing to mark Pro-Life Day Sunday 25 March with numerous activities to underline the sacredness of the gift of life and the need to protect life in all its stages. ...
• 22 March 2007
  VATICAN - “The figure and works of Justine mark the early Church’s firm decision for philosophy and reason rather than the religion of the pagans”: the Pope’s catechesis on Saint Justine the most important Christian apologist of the 2nd century Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his catechesis on the Apostolic Fathers, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his audience teaching on Wednesday 21 March to the figure of Saint Justine, philosopher and martyr, “the mo ...
• 22 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Act of Faith (5) Vatican City (Fides Service) - God, Creator and Father gives his commandments to his children. After creating man and woman in his own image a likeness God put them in the Garden of Eden where he used to visit them and s ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - “Address spiritual hunger in mission work before material needs”: Annual European Meeting for National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies Durham (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 March 25 national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Europe met for their annual assembly, this year hosted by St Cuthbert's College Ushaw, in the city Durham, in nort ...
• 22 March 2007
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Freetown and Bo Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 March 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone) presented by Bishop Joseph Henry Ga ...