News

• 15 December 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Christmas celebrations are a wonderful opportunity to evangelise on the great values of the family”: Archbishop of Leon sends his people a special Christmas message Leon (Agenzia Fides) - In a special Christmas Message addressed to the diocese of León, Archbishop José G. Martin Rabago says that Christmas celebrations are a “wonderful opportunity to evangelise on the great values ...
• 15 December 2006
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Salesian Cooperator considered authentic witness of honesty and justice killed in ambush Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 December 34 year old Johnny Morales, a Salesian Cooperator in Guatemala was killed in an ambush. Rev Stjepan Bolkovac, SDB, Central Delegate of the Association of Salesian Cooperato ...
• 15 December 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Message for 23rd Caritas Sunday: give yourself, reach out to the hungry, the neglected, the sick Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Peace Be With You All in this Land’ is the title of a message issued by the country’s Catholic Bishops on the occasion of South Korea’s 23rd Caritas Sunday 17 December. The president of t ...
• 15 December 2006
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - After devastating the west, floods strike in the east, thousands of homes evacuated, people living on pirogues Bumba (Agenzia Fides)- The consequences of climate change are ever more serious in Africa. After Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea now the eastern regions of Democratic Congo are being devastated by torrential rains a ...
• 15 December 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops concerned for treatment of Religious Instruction in schools. New subject “Education to Citizenship” is state interference with the moral education Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain have expressed concern for treatment of Religious Instruction and the new subject of Education to Citizenship introduced by the government. In a statement dated 14 December i ...
• 15 December 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Intense preparation for 2nd Diocesan Mission Congress in Tang Shan (Yong Ping) diocese next year in November Tang Shan (Agenzia Fides) - To nourish the mission spirit born of the 1st Asian Mission Congress, the 3rd Meeting of Overseas Chinese Catholics and a Seminar on Priesthood, Evangelisation and Media promoted by Faith bull ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas CHRIST ANNOUNCED IN THE SCRIPTURES - Announcement and Fulfilment (5) Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH « For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. » (Isaiah 9, 5). ...
• 14 December 2006
  December 2006 The Holy Father’s missionary prayer intention: “That missionaries all over the world may live their vocation to be faithful followers of Christ with joy and enthusiasm” Comment by Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church, from the beginning, has been the depositary of the Message of Salvation entrusted to her by Jesus Christ through the Apostles and at the same time the duty to preach the Lord’ ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - Timothy and Titus “teach us to serve the Gospel with generosity knowing that this involves a service to the Church”: Pope Benedict XVI illustrates the figure of two of St Paul’s co-workers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Vatican Basilica this morning, the Holy Father met with faithful from dioceses in the Italian region of Calabria, accompanied by their bishops who are in the process of completing th ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Primacy of Peter Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church should return to the courage and the intellectual strength of the early centuries and launch a new rational challenge in all fields. What attracted pagans, and not only in the fi ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for World Day of the Sick 2007: “Once again the Church turns her eyes to those who suffer and calls attention to the many incurably ill on every continent, particularly in places where poverty and hardship cause immense misery and grief ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father's Message for the 15th World Day of the Sick was made public on December 13. The event is due to be celebrated in Seoul, South Korea on February 11, 2007, Feast of Our Lady ...
• 13 December 2006
  AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - New Rector for St Augustine’s inter-diocesan seminary for philosophy in Kalonda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 October 2006, appointed Rector of St Augustine’s inter-diocesan major seminary for philosophy in K ...
• 13 December 2006
  AFRICA/ R.D. CONGO - Appointment of rector of Saint Cyprian major inter-diocesan in Kikwit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 20 October 2006, appointed rector of Saint Cyprian major inter-diocesan in Kikwit (R.D. Congo), Rev. Alb ...
• 13 December 2006
  VATICAN - WALKING TOWARDS CHRISTMAS - Announcement and Fulfilment (4) Rome (Fides) - BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY Isaiah 7, 14 : « Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.». Luke 1, 31-32, 34-35) : « ...
• 13 December 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Commemoration of 60 Loyola Jesuit College students killed a year ago in Port Harcourt air-crash Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- A special Mass was celebrated on Sunday 10 December for the repose of the souls of the 60 students at Loyola Jesuit College Karu, Abuja (Nigeria) killed a year ago in an air crash in Port Harcourt ...