News

• 22 November 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - “One who loves life in fact instead of taking it, gives it, instead of it keeping it for self, puts it at the service of others. Loving life means not denying it to anyone, not even to the smallest and most defenceless person, the unborn child, even the child with serious a disability”: Italian Bishops’ message for 29 Pro Life Day Rome (Fides Service) - “Life to be Desired and Loved” is the title of a message in view of the 29th Day for Life in Italy first Sunday of February, 4 February 2007 issued by the Standing Council of the Italian Bishop ...
• 22 November 2006
  Ecumenical Prayer in the Basilica di San Bartolomeo all’Isola Tiberina in memory of seven Anglican Melanesian Brothers, killed in Solomon Islands in 2003 Rome (Fides Service) - On Thursday 22 November at 7pm at the Basilica di San Bartolomeo on the Isola Tiberina, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council f ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD: Ecclesiastical Archives (1) Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To use an image, in my opinion appropriate, an ecclesiastical archive can be compared to a family photograph album. It is an album which speaks of our history and although it refers to the ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Gospel Values and Cultures: The Challenge of witnessing the Christian Faith in Indian Cultures”: Cardinal Poupard presides meeting of directors of Catholic Cultural Centres in India Goa (Agenzia Fides) - “Gospel Values and Cultures: The Challenge of witnessing the Christian Faith in Indian Cultures” was the title of a keynote address given by Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Co ...
• 21 November 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop of Benin City Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 21 November 2006 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Benin City (Nigeria), presented by Archbishop Patrick Ebosel ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives the President of Italy on official visit: “Church and State, although quite distinct, are both called, according to their respective mission and proper aims and means, to serve man, receiver and agent of the salvific mission of the Church and citizen of the state” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Church and State, although quite distinct, are both called according to their respective mission and proper aims and means, to serve man who is both receiver and agent of the salvific mi ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, addresses Italian President: “Even those who do not share the Christian faith regard the Pope as the Spokesman for highest moral instances and heed his calls for respect for human dignity, promotion of peace and development and sincere collaboration among peoples, religions and cultures” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the meeting with the Pope, in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace, the President of Italy Mr Giorgio Napolitano met on Monday 20 November, the Diplomatic Corps accredited t ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “The Catholic Church though the faithful has always cared for people with infectious diseases”: President of Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care presents next international conference on "Pastoral aspects of the treatment of infectious diseases." Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 November at the Holy See Press Office, the presentation took place of the annual international conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care. The conference, ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Enclosed monastic life: importance and significance for the world today, reflections by enclosed Benedictine nuns at S. Maria di Rosano Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone admires the beauty of a splendid rose bush or the sumptuous majesty of a great oak tree, but how many think of the root below these wonders of nature? Everyone knows the root is in ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Monks and nuns of enclosed orders are visible signs of God’s tent in the world: contribution from the Poor Clares at Otranto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, on 21 November in Italy believers are urged to celebrate the Day Pro Orantibus, to recall those men and women who still today choose to live for God alone at the margins of hu ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - A Day to recall those who help build the Kingdom of God through a contemplative life: 3,534 convents of enclosed nuns in the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was Pope Pius XII who instituted on 21 November 1953, on the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the “Day Pro Orantibus”. On this recurrence the faithful ar ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Convents and monasteries of contemplative life are an ‘oasis’ where man, a pilgrim on earth, can more easily draw from the sources of the Spirit and quench his thirst on his way. These apparently useless places are indispensable, like the green ‘lungs’ of a city”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus stresses the importance of the enclosed religious life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Holy Mary in the Temple, 21 November, the Church celebrates the “Day pro Orantibus” and recalls with prayer and concrete aid communitie ...
• 20 November 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - at least 200 Chinese Catholics attend Third Worldwide Chinese Pastoral and Evangelization Convention in Singapore - Message from the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - After lengthy and careful preparation the Third Worldwide Chinese Pastoral and Evangelization Convention on the theme " The Chinese Descendants: Subjects of Evangelisation" opened in Singapore ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Music can lead to prayer “it invites us to lift our mind to God to find in Him the reasons for our hope and the strength to face the difficulties of life”: Pope Benedict XVI’s address after a Concert in his honour given by the Philharmonic Quartet Berlin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Soloists playing together demands of the individual not only commitment of all one’s technical and musical ability to execute one’s own part, but at the same time the ability to list ...
• 18 November 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Tension in Antananarivo after a night of shooting. Fides first hand chronicle Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- The situation in Madagascar is uncertain after a night of gunfire in the capital in the early hours of the morning Saturday 18 November near Ivato Military Base adjacent to Antananarivo airp ...