News

• 14 March 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Salesian Nazareth House for Aspirants marks 50 years of nurturing new vocations to religious life and priesthood Yangon (Fides Service) - Recently the Salesian Nazareth House for Aspirants in Anisakan, central Myanmar celebrated its 50 years of service nurturing new vocations to the religious life. Present for the occasion Archbish ...
• 14 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Dioceses all over the country prepare for 1st national Pro Life and Family Congress. Expecting mothers will take part in pro-life march on 20 March Guayaquil (Fides Service) - To combat serious and insistent attacks on life and the family here and all over the world, every diocese in Ecuador is making a major effort to prepare and participate in the 1st Pro Life and ...
• 14 March 2007
  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, ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Itinerary towards prayer of the heart” Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger!I will leave this place and go to my father an ...
• 14 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “A land blessed by God ruined by human greed”: a Congolese miner tells how his country is robbed of its mineral resources Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “When He created the earth, the Lord gave Congo a large quality of different minerals, diamonds, copper, gold, uranium, coltan, cassiterite, as well as others still to be extracted like gas an ...
• 14 March 2007
  AMERICA/HAITI - 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas Meeting aim to strengthen bonds and intensify articulated sharing Port au Prince (Fides Service) - From 19-23 March 16th Port au Prince will host the 16th Latin American and Caribbean Caritas Conference and the 3rd Continental Pastoral-Social Caritas Meeting on the theme "Disciples an ...
• 13 March 2007
  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 ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Statutes of the Shalom Community approved by Pontifical Council for the Laity Vatican City (Fides Service) - About 500 members of the Shalom community, Catholics of all walks of life, priests, couples, single people, arrived in Rome to celebrate Pontifical recognition of the Shalom Catholic Commun ...
• 13 March 2007
  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 ...
• 13 March 2007
  EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - “The challenge of worldwide mission in a changing Europe”: European meeting National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies 16 to 20 March Durham (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in England and Wales are hosting the annual European meeting of National Directors in Durham this weekend (March 16th-20th).The theme for this year’s congress i ...
• 13 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 15 General Chapter of Xaverian Missionaries in June will focus on Xaverian Spirituality Rome (Fides Service) - The 15th General Chapter of the Xaverian Missionaries has been convoked in Italy for six weeks from mid June to the end of July at the Xaverian House in Tavernerio (Como), to reflect on the theme X ...
• 13 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic Church and Modern China: Urban University hosts International Colloquium Rome (Fides Service) - ‘The Catholic Church and Modern China’ was the title of an International Colloquium held on 12 March at the Pontifical Urban University. Among the speakers Fr. Wilhelm K. Muller SVD an expert o ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation of ‘Sacramentum Caritatis’ Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church signed by Pope Benedict XVI is the mature fruit of ...
• 13 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - “It is a challenge to live as authentic Christians” Bishop Oswald Gracias president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India told delegates at preparatory meeting for 2008 Indian Mission Congress Bangalore (Fides Service) - “In India it is a challenge to live as authentic Christians in our own surroundings first, to tell the Good News to our neighbours, other cultures and other religions in a dialogue of life� ...