News

• 21 July 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD by Massimo Camisasca - “Education to gratuitousness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gratuitousness is a fundamental dimension of the life of the priest. To educate to it is even more necessary today, in an epoch in which, according to the current mentality, an untruthful ...
• 21 July 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - The Pope appoints Bishop of Yamoussoukro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 21 July 2006, appointed Bishop of Yamoussoukro (Côte d'Ivoire ) Bishop Joseph Aké, until now titular Bishop of Castello di Tratoporto and auxiliary Bishop ...
• 21 July 2006
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The Pope appoints metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 21 July 2006 appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa (Côte d'Ivoire) Archbishop Barthélémy Djabla, until now Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte-d’Ivo ...
• 21 July 2006
  AFRICA/D. CONGO - Catholic Bishops’ Message: coming elections, at stake, “the life or death of our country” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “May transition end in national harmony” is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Democratic Congo on 20 July. In the document signed by Archbishop Laurent ...
• 20 July 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - “The truth of the family” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The understanding of the human person, man and woman, and the union of the same which receives a juridical form is no longer univocal. This is deducible once again from the interventions of ...
• 20 July 2006
  VATICAN - “Common points must be found to converge commitment to protect the habitat the Creator has prepared for the human person, on whom He has impressed his image.”: Message from Benedict XVI to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Amazon River, Source of Life" is the title of the 6th Symposium held 13 to 20 July in Brazil as part of the programme "Religion, Science and the Environment" promoted by Ecumenical Pa ...
• 20 July 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Bishop Paul Guo Wenzhi, emeritus of the Apostolic Prefecture of Tsitsihar: a man of silence, firm and faithful in his ministry as a Bishop Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 29 June 2006, the emeritus Bishop of the apostolic prefecture of di Tsitsihar (Qiqihar), in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, Bishop Paul Guo Wenzhi, died at the age of 89 after a l ...
• 20 July 2006
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Rector appointed for Paul VI Major Inter-Diocesan Seminar in diocese of Bafoussam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 26 May 2006, appointed Rector of Paul VI Major Inter-Diocesan Seminar in diocese of Bafoussam (Cameroon), Reverend Benoît Kala of the ...
• 20 July 2006
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - What is needed is authentic conversion to overcome present disorder in every field the seedbed of violence: Dominican Bishops launch appeal after plenary assembly Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their 44th plenary assembly the Catholic Bishops of the Dominican Republic addressed a message of encouragement and hope to all Dominicans of good will, with the title "Yes t ...
• 20 July 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Ecumenism, social questions, prayer in latest issue of Catholic Australia web newsletter Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The latest issue of Catholic Australia electronic newsletter focuses on Ecumenism, Social Questions and the importance of Prayer for every Christian with numerous articles, contributions and int ...
• 20 July 2006
  AFRICA - African Communities in Rome and the pastoral support of the Church (3) - Mauritius, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Not only Catholics frequent the Mauritius community which meets every second Sunday of the month at the Convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Succour in via Merulana 170. "This is an opportunity - c ...
• 20 July 2006
  VATICAN - Sunday 23 July: Pope Benedict XVI calls day of prayer and penance to implore God to grant the gift of peace in the Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the grave situation in the Middle East the Holy See Press Office has been asked to communicate the following: 1). The Holy Father is following with great concern the destini ...
• 20 July 2006
  ASIA/LEBANON - In Lebanon dramatic situation of 700 homeless. Caritas and UN High Commission for Refugees provide aid Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of refugees in Lebanon is serious with over 700,000 displaced persons fleeing for safety in other parts of the country or in Syria since 12 July when the violence started. The Unite ...
• 19 July 2006
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, then prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 March 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Puerto Ric ...
• 19 July 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Local Pontifical Mission Societies office assists earthquake victims in diocese of Bandung Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies office in Indonesia is helping with the work of assisting the victims of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami on 17 July on the island of Java in the district of B ...