News

• 14 February 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Referendum draws ‘yes’ to depenalise abortion: the country’s Catholic Bishops call special Meeting to analyse the results Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Portugal will hold a special meeting 16 February to analyse the results of the referendum on the abortion on Sunday February 11. Abortion won but it will not be binding si ...
• 14 February 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Brazilian Orionini missionaries in Maputo: poor suburban Catholics proudly support parish and priests Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Almost four years since the arrival of the first Orionini missionaries in Mozambique, director general of the Piccola Opera della Divina Provvidenza, Rev. Flavio Peloso, made a pastoral visit to ...
• 14 February 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Catholic Church in Nigeria will carry out a sensitization campaign to educate the people on how to take part in April elections Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church in Nigeria will carry out a sensitization campaign to educate the people on how to take part in the forthcoming general elections, the Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Okog ...
• 14 February 2007
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Three days of Celebrations and prayers at Nyaunglebin for the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Yangon (Fides Service) - Three days of national Marian celebrations brought over 40,000 people to the Marian Shrine of Nyaunglebin, in the diocese of Yangon. The celebrations were presided by Archbishop Charles Maung Bo ...
• 14 February 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We promise to make our prophetic voice heard to denounce falsehood and corruption and to announce the truth”: Catholic Bishops call for reconciliation and respect for the truth Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “We, the members of the Church, lay people, religious, clergy, and bishops, admit our limits and promise to make our prophetic voice heard to denounce falsehood and corruption and to announce t ...
• 13 February 2007
  VATICAN - In his message for Lent 2007 Pope Benedict XVI writes: “Let us direct our gaze to Christ crucified who, dying on Calvary, revealed fully for us the love of God … Contemplating “Him whom they have pierced” moves us in this way to open our hearts to others” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “They shall look on Him whom they have pierced” (Jn 19:37)” is the theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for Lent 2007 presented today at the Holy See Press Office. “Dear Brothers ...
• 13 February 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants in an international congress on Natural Law: “Legislation frequently becomes no more than a compromise between different interests: there is a move to transform into rights private interests or desires which clash with the duties demanded of social responsibility … all juridical law draws ultimately its legitimacy from rooting in natural law” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Late yesterday morning, the Holy Father received in audience participants in an international congress on Natural Law, being promoted by the Pontifical Lateran University. In his address t ...
• 13 February 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - On the way to 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly, third stop at the town where Luther started the Reformation Wittenberg (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred and fifty delegates from churches, Bishops’ conferences, ecumenical organisations, communities and movements will meet from 15-18 February 2007 in the city of Wittenberg (German ...
• 13 February 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Papal Envoy Cardinal Lozano Barragán presides special Mass for World Day for the Sick: There is a logic which, refusing to consider a human life as a value in itself because it fails to correspond to a vision in which material wellbeing, efficiency and productivity become the founding ‘values’ of human existence, opens the way for laws which promote a culture of death. Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea proposed the pastoral care of patients suffering from incurable illnesses as the theme of the Day. The Holy Father Benedict XVI benevolently accepted ...
• 13 February 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 25 years at the service of formation for mission: Juan Pablo II Missiology Centre Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 February the Juan Pablo II Missiology Centre in Buenos Aires celebrated its 25th anniversary and 25 years of activity at the service of Formation priest, religious and lay people in t ...
• 13 February 2007
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Rockhamton diocesan Community lives Year of Evangelisation: Bishop asks Catholics to stop for five minutes prayer at midday wherever they are Rockhampton (Fides Service) - Make an effort for mission, carry the Good News to those who have yet to hear it and announce God’s love to those who suffer or are alone and desperate; evangelise families putting the cul ...
• 13 February 2007
  ASIA/THAILAND - Nakhon Ratchasima celebrates ordination of new Bishop Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - With joy and enthusiasm Catholics in the diocese of Nakhon Ratchasima participated in the Ordination Mass of the new Bishop on February 10. Bishop Joseph Chusak was ordained by his predecessor, ...
• 13 February 2007
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - From Lyons to Algiers under the banner of inter-religious dialogue Algiers (Fides Service)- Cardinal Philippe Barbarin Archbishop of Lyons and Azzedine GACI the president of the Regional Council for the Muslim Cult CRCM of the French region of Rhône-Alpes, will make a five day visit to ...
• 12 February 2007
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Pope creates Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal and appoints first Vicar Apostolic Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI on 10 February 2007 elevated the Apostolic Prefecture of Nepal (Nepal) to the rank of Apostolic Vicariate, with the same name and territory. The Holy Father appointed Rev. ...
• 12 February 2007
  VATICAN - At the Angelus Benedict XVI recalls the connection between Lourdes and human suffering: “It is necessary to support development of palliative treatment and offer integral assistance to give terminally ill people the human support and spiritual accompaniment they need.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his reflections before the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 11th February Pope Benedict XVI recalled the feast day to commemorate the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Saint Bern ...