News

• 7 November 2006
  AFRICA - Asia courts Africa: South Korea signs 10 billion dollar contract with Nigeria Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Asia and Africa are ever closer. After the Beijing summit between China and 48 African countries (see Fides 6 November 2006) now South Korea is hosting a Korea-Africa Meeting in Seoul on 8 November ...
• 7 November 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - For mission in a context of globalisation and religious pluralism India’s Jesuits retrace the steps of their fathers, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabre New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In view of more significant and effective missionary activity in the Indian context, the Jesuits of India organised a meeting at the National Catechism Centre in Bangalore to focus on three fo ...
• 6 November 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus says there is no need to fear the death of the body “because it is sleep from which one day we will reawaken. Whereas the death to be feared is that of the soul” - Appeal for peace in the West Bank: may bloodshed be stopped, may efforts to provide humanitarian aid be intensified and may negotiations resume immediately Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again on Sunday November 5, following the commemoration of all the dead on All Souls Day, death seen with the eyes of faith was the subject of Pope Benedict’s midday Angelus reflecti ...
• 6 November 2006
  VATICAN - The Holy Father celebrates Mass for the repose of the souls of the cardinals and bishops who died during the past year: “Each was called in the Church to make his own and put into practice the words of the Apostle Paul “Life to me, of course, is Christ,” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today we have gathered around the Lord’s altar to celebrate Mass for the repose of the souls of the cardinals and bishops whom God called from this life during the past year. As we hea ...
• 6 November 2006
  VATICAN - “To have meaning in relation to the Kingdom of God, the fatigue of study and teaching, must be sustained by the theological virtues” the Pope recalls during his visit to the Pontifical Gregorian University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the morning of Friday 3 November Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to the Pontifical Gregorian University. After a moment of personal prayer in the university chapel the Holy Father wen ...
• 6 November 2006
  VATICAN - “How to announce Christ to European tourists, to visitors to Europe, to those in any way connected with the world of Tourism?” -Meeting for European National Directors for Pastoral Care of Tourists Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Tourism, Transversal Reality: Pastoral Aspects” is the theme of a Meeting for European National Directors for Pastoral Care of Tourists organised by the Pontifical Council for the Pasto ...
• 6 November 2006
  AFRICA/RWANDA -Local Catholic Church holds Jubilee year to mark the 25th anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kibeho Kibeho (Agenzia Fides)- “The apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Kibeho and the message were without a doubt a source of heavenly blessing for the Church, an opportunity for new evangelisation of society today” ...
• 6 November 2006
  VATICAN - Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, writes a letter to the president of Social Weeks in Spain for XL edition Vatican City (Fides) - The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent a letter to Prof. José Tomás Raga Gil, president of Social Weeks in Spain on the occasion of the opening of the XL edition on the t ...
• 6 November 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Cloning is “an affront to human dignity” says Cardinal George Pell while parliament discusses proposed new therapeutic cloning laws Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - “Pro-cloners put scientific or commercial curiosity ahead of human life” said Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, with regard to proposed new therapeutic cloning laws being discussed ...
• 6 November 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Catholic Church in Venezuela holds Family Embracing Week 2006 reflecting on documents of the national Church Council and the World Meeting for Families in Spain last July Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “The Family, First and Principal reality” is the slogan of the annual Family Embracing Week 2006 organised 6-12 November by the Catholic Church in Venezuela. This year the Week is based on t ...
• 6 November 2006
  AMERICA/CUBA - Bishops discuss local Church’s contribution to CELAM 5, adequate Baptism pastoral and celebrations for 400th anniversary of the finding of the lost image of Our Lady of Charity Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In plenary assembly 4-8 November the Catholic Bishops of Cuba will discuss among other things, preparation for the 5th General Conference of CELAM (Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conference ...
• 6 November 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics in Bangalore form special group to pray for and sustain vocations to the priestly and religious life Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Bangalore have formed a special group to pray for and sustain vocations to the priestly and religious life. Bangalore is in the south western Indian state of Karnataka. Families, ...
• 6 November 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Religion and Culture Festival promotes harmony and dialogue in Korea and collects funds for needy North Koreans Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The 10th Religion and Culture Festival in Korea organised by the Korean Council of Religious Leaders was held recently on the theme “Believers Efforts to Promote the Culture of Sharing and Dona ...
• 3 November 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD by Mgr Massimo Camisasca - “Called to be fathers in the Church” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Paternity is imitation of God. Since Jesus Christ revealed the last word of history that God is Father and therefore the essence of the Being is paternity, the likeness of God in man is pre ...
• 3 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates All Saints Day: “being a Saint means: living close to God, living in his family. This is the vocation of all of us, heavily underlined by the Second Vatican Council and today re-proposed for our attention in a solemn manner ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The liturgy invites us to share the heavenly happiness of the saints, to taste this joy. The saints are not a small group of elected persons, but rather a countless host towards which th ...