News

• 26 June 2006
  VATICAN Pope Benedict XVI Angelus: “authentic devotion to the Sacred Heart retains all its validity and attracts souls who thirst for the mercy of God who find therein the inexhaustible source from which to draw the water of life …” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “significant liturgical solemnities” which crown the 12th Sunday of ordinary time, 25 June, were recalled by Pope Benedict XVI in his midday reflection before the Angelus prayer wit ...
• 26 June 2006
  AFRICA - Over 250 eye operations restore sight to people in Togo and Ghana: AFMAL mission reports Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Concluded an Italian mission to “restore sight”: 240 cataract operations and about 2,400 medical examinations for eye problems and other conditions. For twelve days doctors of AFMAL (Associaz ...
• 26 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - At the Family Fair at World Meeting of Families “Aid to the Church in Need” proposes Children’s Bible and Aid Campaign for Child Soldiers in Sudan Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - As part of initiatives for the 5th World Meeting of Families in Valencia, Spain, 1-9 July, the Catholic agency Aid to the Church in Need, through its local Spanish branch will present two stan ...
• 26 June 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - More effort needed to see that Church teaching on AIDS reaches the people: in 25 years African Bishops issue some 80 pastoral letters and statements on the question Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “There is still much hesitation in the church to offer pastoral care to those living and dying with HIV/Aids,” said Fr Robert Vitillo, special advisor on HIV/Aids to the Catholic charity, C ...
• 26 June 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Two years of evangelisation and solidarity in Valparaíso: “may every Christian realise the urgency of spreading the Good News and knowledge of communion with Jesus Christ and the brothers and sisters expressed especially in Christian love Valparaíso (Agenzia Fides) - “Be bold, announce Christ. He is Life!” is the title of a 2006-2007 pastoral plan issued by the diocese of Valparaíso Chile which has proclaimed two years of Evangelisation and Solidari ...
• 26 June 2006
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Panabaj community emergency: 100 families in danger every night after Octoberlandslide buried the area Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 5 October 2005 a landslide buried the Tzutujil Maya village of Panabaj, Santiago Atitlàn, Guatemala, leaving 600 families homeless, 100 dead, 600 missing, 77 widows, 25 orphans of both parents ...
• 26 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - “Family and marriage pastoral care is our eternal task” says a Beijing priest active in this sensitive field Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - “Family and marriage pastoral care is our eternal task because it concerns the future of the Christian community and promotes inculturation” said a priest in Beijing active in the field of p ...
• 26 June 2006
  AFRICA - Sierra Leone and Burundi first countries to benefit from UN development programme to consolidate peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Civil war can be stopped. Burundi and Sierra Leone were the countries chosen to benefit from a development programme promoted by the United Nations newly formed Peacebuilding Commission charged wi ...
• 23 June 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD Mgr Massimo Camisasca - “A True Man” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Anyone reading texts published by the Holy See since Vatican II concerning the formation of priests or young men called to the priesthood cannot fail to be struck by the ample space given ...
• 23 June 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict addresses participants at the annual Meeting of Aid Agencies for Eastern Catholic Churches: “Our first and fundamental task is to persevere in confident prayer to the Lord … in addition there must be brotherly concern able to fund new and unexpected ways to meet the needs of those people ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “This meeting today gives me an opportunity to thank God for the apostolic work carried out in these years by the disciples of Christ in the Middle East committed, despite many difficulti ...
• 23 June 2006
  VATICAN - Final Message of the 17th plenary session of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People on the theme: "Migration and Itinerancy from and towards Islamic majority Countries” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today was the final Message of the 17th plenary session of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, which was held in the Vatican from May ...
• 23 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian missionaries in Angola: “The fundamental objective is evangelisation so the message of the Gospel may progressively fecund the different areas of political, economic and cultural life of Angolan society ” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church in Angola can enrich the pastoral renewal of the Church in Italy with its joyful and festive and actively participated liturgies; commitment of the laity, catechists in particular; ...
• 23 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Awareness of the importance and the urgency of mission ad gentes, as the primordial duty of the Church, is ever deeper”: says Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe takes part in Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates Javier (Agenzia Fides) - The Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates and Diocesan Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies organised in Javier Navarra, Spain to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavie ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ouagadougou Seminary celebrates ordination of 22 deacons, and institution of 36 readers and 26 acolytes from Burkina, Niger and Mali Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 June at St John Baptist Seminary in Ouagadougou, 22 young men, including two Camillians and two Redemptorists, were ordained deacons; another 36 seminarians including 6 Camillians were ...
• 23 June 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Education and healthcare for children in Tamil Nadu Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Madrid based Fontilles Association to Fight Leprosy, Spain has offered 116 boys and 114 girls in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu the chance to go to school and receive an education which will a ...