News

• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - “Museums can help foster a culture of peace if, retaining their nature as temples of historic memory, they are also places of dialogue and friendship”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses International Conference to mark 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church has always supported and promoted art in the world considering its language a privileged means for human and spiritual progress … The expansion in time of the Vatican Museum ...
• 18 December 2006
  AFRICA - Africa adopts crisis warning system Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The African Union has adopted a 24 hour continental crisis monitoring system which will supply advice and suggestions to the AU presidency with regard to potential crisis and threats to peac ...
• 18 December 2006
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Towards presidential mandate extension. Human Rights organisations denounce police force abuse Harare (Agenzia Fides)-“The government of Zimbabwe has adopted a control system of the colonial era” said Catholic Archbishop Pius Alick Ncube of Bulawayo commenting the presentation of a report on abuse committed b ...
• 18 December 2006
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 27 October 2006, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Slovenia for a five ...
• 16 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: CHRIST ANNOUNCED BY THE SCRIPTURES- Announcement and fulfilment (7) Rome (Fides Service) - BETHLEHEM TOWN OF DAVID David is anointed King by Samuel, in Bethlehem where his family lived and where he tended the flocks, (1 Samuel 16,). « But you Bethlehem, Ephrata… from you will be bor ...
• 16 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives new Patriarch of Alexandria of Copt Catholics: “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News”” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News”: Pope Benedict XVI sa ...
• 16 December 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - “A chance to initiate the process of healing, to forgive and reconcile with one another in the interest of peaceful co-existence now and in the future”: the Bishops of AMECEA express satisfaction for Great Lakes Summit Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We, wish to express our appreciation to the Heads of States and Governments, of the Great Lakes Region for their initiative to come together to reflect and discuss matters of common good for ...
• 16 December 2006
  AFRICA/NIGER - Thanks to record cereal harvest in 2006 Niger overcomes food crisis. Still struggling Angola will boost agriculture Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Good news for Africa's agriculture. This year Niger, affected by a serious food shortage (see Fides 21 September 2005), has a record harvest with a surplus of 457,237 tons. According to the loc ...
• 16 December 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Only from peace and with peace is it possible to have respect for human dignity and rights” Catholics Bishops say in Christmas Message Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In a message for Christmas the Catholic Bishops of Colombia make a strong appeal to the people to reject all forms of violence. “Celebrations for the joyful feast of Christmas - the Bishops wri ...
• 16 December 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Conception parish in Yi Chang diocese celebrates 100th anniversary: towering church cross now a city symbol Yi Chang (Agenzia Fides) - The towering cross belonging to Immaculate Conception parish in Yi Chang diocese, Hu Bei province of China has become a city symbol and a point of reference for the whole town. The parish, whic ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (6) Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. The prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, about 740 BC announces the future glory of Jerusalem at the time humiliated by Sennacherib, and ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Rome’s university students: “The Eucharistic mystery is the privileged point of convergence for the different ambits of Christian life, including that of intellectual research” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for Christmas at the end of a special Mass for students at the many universities in Rome celebrated by Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini in St Peter’s at 5pm on 14 December, Pop ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, they sign a Common Declaration: “It is our common responsibility to overcome, in love and truth, the many difficulties and sad experience of the past”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his address to His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, received in audience in the Vatican on December 14th, said “Greece and Rome intensifi ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD - “The priest: first son and then father of many” Mgr Massimo Camisasca Vatican City (Fides Service) - For twenty two years I have been involved in the formation of young men for the priesthood and I have followed in detail the itinerary of over a hundred priestly vocations, authentic or onl ...
• 15 December 2006
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Advent of prayer and assistance for the poor and the excluded Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Papua New Guinea have intensified prayer and charitable works in the Season of Advent. In the parishes, often run by missionary congregations, priests, religious and laity gath ...