News

• 21 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - English speaking Orionini missionary Delegation concludes meeting: vocations flourish in India, special pastoral care for Hispanic and Brazilian immigrants in Boston, United States Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting for representatives of the ‘Mother of the Church’ English speaking Orionini missionary Delegation held at the Curia general Opera Don Orione in Rome concluded yesterday 20 March. The ...
• 21 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent: The Act of Contrition Vatican City (Fides Service) - «O My God». The Creed is a compendium of Divine Revelation. God is One God in Three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity. «God is Love», we are told by St John ...
• 21 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - The Act of Contrition (4) Vatican City (Fides Service) - «O My God», «Patrem Immensae Majestatis»: in the Te Deum hymn we sing the Holy Church proclaims thy glory Father of Infinite Majesty. It is indispensable to remember Who it is we addres ...
• 21 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Experts on the Family meet in Rome to discuss family policies and sign “Rome Declaration on Family Rights and Responsibilities” for presentation to the United Nations Organisation Rome (Fides Service) - Family Rights and Responsibilities is the theme of the 17th international meeting on the family organised by the International Federation for Family Development IFFD on the 23 and 24 March at the H ...
• 21 March 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - A flower in the desert in north west Kenya: Franciscan Missionaries of Mary educate Turkana girls at Homecraft Centre Nairobi (Fides Service) - Education for girls is a new concept among the Turkana people in north west Kenya a harsh desert land where the community struggles for survival in the face of drought, famines and cattle rustli ...
• 21 March 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In preparation 9th National Missionary Youth Congress : “Young people, disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ” and the challenges of the new millennium Guadalajara (Fides Service) - “Young people, disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ” is the theme of the 9th National Missionary Youth Congress held every three years and organised by the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
• 21 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Abortion is dangerous, mortal for many African women Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Africa 4.2 million dangerous abortions are carried out every year and in 30,000 cases the mother dies. Abortion can kill when it is performed by non qualified personnel and/or in non hygienic ...
• 17 March 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells participants at a course promoted by Apostolic Penitentiary: “the task of the priest and the confessor is principally this: to lead every man and woman to experience the personal love Christ has for them, to meet Him on the path of life as Paul met Him on the road to Damascus” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Today’s meeting offers us the opportunity to reflect together on the importance also in the present day of the sacrament of Penance and the necessity for priests to prepare as they pro ...
• 17 March 2007
  VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT: the Act of Contrition (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - When we make an Act of Faith, Hope, Charity and Contrition we begin with the words «O My God», we address a Person in whom we believe! «I believe in God» («credo in Deum», the Creed. ...
• 17 March 2007
  AFRICA/CONGO - International speculation assaults Congo Brazzaville Brazzaville (Fides Service) - “Vulture funds” are assaulting the resources of Congo Brazzaville. Reportedly speculative funds are buying poor countries’ foreign debts for next to nothing (ten cents per dollar) beca ...
• 17 March 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino receives Honorary Degree in Philosophy from Fu-jen Catholic University of Taiwan Taiwan (Agenzia Fides) - The Fu-jen Catholic University of Taiwan has conferred an honorary degree in philosophy on Cardinal Renato R. Martino for his outstanding contribution to the elaboration of thought particularly ...
• 17 March 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - 26th edition of Youth Easter Mission offers young people an opportunity to live Easter in a spirit of mission: “it is not enough to be Christ’s disciples we must be his missionaries” Lima (Fides Service) - To increase missionary awareness and spirit among young Peruvian Catholics the national Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS and its Youth Without Frontiers Movement JSF, is organising th ...
• 17 March 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are the Church it is time to share": 3rd national Church-support campaign 17 and 18 March in dioceses throughout the country Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - "We are the Church it is time to share" is the theme of the 3rd national Church-Support campaign next weekend in dioceses throughout the country 17 and 18 March promoted by the Argentinean ...
• 17 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - the Catholic community celebrates St Joseph patron saint of missions in China: Chinese Catholics are deeply devoted to St Joseph Beijing (Fides Service) - Catholics in China dedicate the whole of the month of March to Saint Joseph and flock in their thousands to St Joseph’s Mount Pin Yin Shrine to venerate the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ...
• 17 March 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “Dialogue is the only way to end this crisis”: joint statement from the country’s Christian leaders Harare (Agenzia Fides)- The leaders of Christian Churches in Zimbabwe have appealed to the nation to dialogue as a means of resolving the current crisis. An Ecumenical Peace Initiative statement sent to Fides reads “Ou ...