ASIA/ISRAEL - Order of St John of God 125 years of mission in Nazareth
Nazareth (Fides Service) - Celebrations on March 8 for the 125 years of presence of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers in Nazareth coincided with the founder’s feast day. A special mass for the occasion was presid ...
14 March 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Sibolga
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 14 March 2007 appointed Fr Ludovikus Simanullang, O.F.M. Cap., Capuchin Provincial at Sibolga Bishop of Sibolga (Indonesia).
Ludovikus Simanullang, ...
AFRICA/KENYA - Ghanean White Father killed on mission
Nairobi (Fides Service)- A White Father, a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Africa, was shot dead on Saturday 10 March in Nairobi, Kenya. Fr. Martin Addai was in his car on the Mombasa Road in the South ...
VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Acts Faith, Hope, Charity and Sorrow (I)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Quasi modo geniti infantes: rationabiles, sine dolo lac concupiscite” (1 Peter 2,2) (“Like new-born babies all your longing should be for milk-the unadulterated spiritual milk-which ...