News

• 13 March 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Muslim and non Muslim Australians in dialogue at Old Parliament House, Cardinal George Pell Archbishop of Sydney was there Canberra (Fides Service) - To discuss the place of Muslims in Australia some 340 non Muslim and 40 Muslim Australians were chosen from a representative sample of 1,400 Australians to take part in a 2 day meeting at Old P ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - The programme of our next reflections Vatican City (Fides Service) - Our Prayers for Lent so far have presented in different languages the texts of the hymns Ave Regina Caelorum and Stabat Mater and the complete Stations of the Cross as celebrated in Rome on ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Christ calls us to counter to evil with a serious examination of conscience and commitment to purify our life … individuals and societies which live without ever questioning their style of life are destined to ruin”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus Vatican City (Fides Service) - Conversion was the subject of the Pope’s reflection before the midday Angelus prayer in Sunday 11 March focussed on the Sunday Gospel and Jesus’ warning: "
• 12 March 2007
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Catholics mourn Marist missionary Bishop Gerard Francis Loft who died a month ago in his native New Zealand Honiara (Fides Service) - “Jesus said to Simon Peter: do not be afraid from now on you will be fishers of men” (Lk 5, 11). This promise made by Jesus after the “miraculous catch of fish”, was fulfilled in the lif ...
• 12 March 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - On-line request for suggestions and ideas in view of great Continental Mission to follow 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences in May Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations continue for CELAM 5, the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences in Aparecida, Brazil, 13 to 31 May. The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, wi ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI and European University Day: “Intellectual charity can unite the existential journey of young people who live far apart but nevertheless feel connected with each other at the level of interior research and witness ” Vatican City (Fides Service)- In the late afternoon of Saturday 10 March in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI addressed university students taking part in the 5th European University Day on the theme "Int ...
• 12 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - The family in Europe is in danger. Highly aggressive anti-Christian legislation and groups refuse to recognise the family as a value and a juridical good to be protected. The transcendent dimension of the human person is ignored. Rome (Fides Service) - "The Family: the Future of Europe" was the theme of a European Conference on the Family organised by the Institute for Higher Studies on Women of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rom ...
• 12 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Hundreds of families will have new homes at Cardinal Etsou Peace City in memory of the late Cardinal Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Over 900 families displaced by civil war in Congo will soon move into brand new homes in Cardinal Etsou Peace City in an advanced stage of construction in the Mokali district, in east Kinshasa c ...
• 12 March 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “We are each called by name for mission and evangelisation”: Archbishop of Tucuman Pastoral Letter on the Sacrament of Confirmation Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - "Lord, May Your Promise Come True in Us" is the title of a Pastoral Letter issued by Archbishop Luis H. Villalba of Tucuman archdiocese in Argentina focussed on the Sacrament of Confirmation wit ...
• 12 March 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Commission for Peace and Human Development stresses urgency of empowerment of women: much remains to be done to promote women's rights in Pakistan Lahore (Fides Service) - Denouncing various forms of violence against women in Pakistan including domestic violence, deprivation from the voting right and denial of equal opportunities, the local Commission for Peace and ...
• 12 March 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Increasing number of Korean Catholics in overseas communities , but there is still room for mission Seoul (Fides Service) - According to Statistics of Overseas Korean Catholics published by the Korean Bishops’ Committee for the Pastoral Care of Migrants, the number of practicing Korean Catholics in overseas Catholic ...
• 10 March 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The Bishop of Quelimane resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 10 March 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Quelimane (Mozambique) presented by Bishop Bernardo Filipe Governo ...
• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - The diocesan investigation into the life, virtues and fame of holiness of John Paul II will conclude in the Cathedral of Rome on 2 April the 2nd anniversary of the death of the late Pontiff Rome (Fides Service) - The diocesan investigation into the life, virtues and fame of holiness of John Paul II will conclude on 2 April in the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of Saint John in the Lateran. This was announc ...
• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Much of what is transmitted in various forms to the homes of millions of families around the world is destructive. By directing the light of Christ’s truth upon such shadows the Church engenders hope.”: Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 9 in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which is presided by Archbishop John P. Foley “U ...
• 10 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Meeting the challenges in our province: security and economic development with respect for human rights and the environment” Catholic Bishops of Katanga Kinshasa (Fides Service)- In a message bearing the title “May our hope not be disappointed” the Catholic Bishops of the province of Lubumbashi, Katanga southern Congo, encourage the people and rally the national lead ...