News

• 16 October 2006
  AFRICA/ COTE D’IVOIRE - The Pope creates the diocese of Agboville (Cote D’Ivoire ) and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 14 October 2006, created the diocese of Agboville (Cote D’Ivoire), with territory taken from the diocese of Yopougon, making it a suffragan of the arc ...
• 16 October 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope appoints Cardinal Dias member of Special Council for Asia of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, a member of the Special Council for Asia of the General Secretariat of the ...
• 16 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Overcoming hatred with love” message to Hindus for the Feast of Diwali 2006: Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Overcoming hatred with love” is the title of a message to Hindus for the Feast of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, written by Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council f ...
• 13 October 2006
  VATICAN - Sunday 15 October the Holy Father Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass in St Peter’s Square during which he will give the Church four new Saints Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 15 October at 10am the Holy Father Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass in St Peter’s Square during which he will give the Church four new Saints: Mexican Bishop Rafael Guízar Valenci ...
• 13 October 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias presides Concelebration of Mass «De Spiritu Sancto» for the inauguration of the new academic year at the Pontifical Urban University: “it is not enough to study in the library or in the classroom, we must live at the school of the one and only Master, the Lord Jesus Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am truly happy to celebrate with you for the first time as Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Urban University this solemn Mass to invoke the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the new ac ...
• 13 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Governments must honour promises made with regard to debt relief and social and economic development programmes”: Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, addresses 61st session of UN General Assembly, New York (Agenzia Fides)- Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, addressing the second committee of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, which is considering ...
• 13 October 2006
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Pontifical Mission Societies in Switzerland choose Madagascar as symbol country for missionary month of October and Mission Sunday Fribourg (Agenzia Fides) - “In every country the month of October must be considered the month of universal mission. The penultimate Sunday, called Mission Sunday, is the apex as the feast of Catholicity and universal ...
• 13 October 2006
  ASIA/THAILAND - “The Asian Mission Congress: a challenge for the Churches of Asia”, says Fr. Saturnino Dias, Secretary of the Evangelisation Office of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church is missionary by nature and she received the missionary mandate from the Risen Lord. The essential element of the mandate is the proclamation of the Word”: this is the spirit ...
• 12 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at the Wednesday Audience: Simon the Cananaean and Juda Thaddaeus “help us rediscover again and again the beauty of the Christian faith and never tire of living it and bearing strong and serene witness to it” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The apostles Simon the Cananaean and Juda Thaddaeus were the subject of the Pope’s reflection during the weekly audience in St Peter’s Square on Wednesday 11 October where thousands of ...
• 12 October 2006
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “The dignity of the human person object of God’s love and the centre of our pastoral activity” says President of the Catholic Bishops Conference Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “The main challenge for the Church in Zambia is evangelisation because the Christian message brings a profound change to life” Fides was told by Bishop George Telesphore Mpundu, Coadjutor of Lus ...
• 12 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - World Congress of Catholic TV: “Cooperation is essential and urgent to build the Church of our day " says Fr. Lombardi; “Catholics from all over the world have come to this Congress to discuss how to make Television a channel of evangelisation” says Cardinal Rouco Varela Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of the World Congress of Catholic Television in Madrid, 10 - 13 October being attended by representatives from about 50 different countries, started with an intervention by Prof. F ...
• 12 October 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE rev. Nicola Bux and rev. Salvatore Vitiello - The “fundamental coordinates” for mission in Italy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In Germany Pope Benedict XVI spoke of his experience of meetings with Bishops from all over the world: “The bishops tell me with gratitude about the generosity of German Catholics […] N ...
• 12 October 2006
  AMERICA/CUBA - World Mission Sunday in Cuba “prayer of thanksgiving for the many missionaries who have come from other countries to share the life of our Church and our country” Quemado de Guines (Agenzia Fides) - “Let us offer God a prayer of gratitude for the many priests and men and women religious who have come here from other countries with great generosity to share the life of our Church ...
• 12 October 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Church in Bolivia concerned about new Education Bill : “a totalitarian vision of education the opposite to a democratic vision” Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Tito Solari of Cochabamba, in a message “The Shepherd’s Voice”, expressed concern for a new Education Bill presented to Parliament (see Fides 17/7/2006; 21/7/2006). "we are c ...
• 12 October 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “You evangelise”: meetings and catechesis in preparation for Mission Sunday. Children can be “little missionaries” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - “You are a Christian, a missionary, you evangelise. You are called to bear witness to the Gospel all through life” is the theme of meetings organised at the Lahore Catholic Catechetics Centre ...