News

• 27 January 2006
  The Pope’s Missionary Prayer Intention for February 2006: For lay Catholics in mission lands: may they serve their country with ever greater commitment in every field including politics and social assistance Comment by Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jinsuk Archbishop of Seoul Rome ( Fides Service ) - The Church in mission lands is faced with a double challenge, namely to proclaim the Gospel to over two thirds of the world' s six billion people who live without yet knowing or recognising Jesus ...
• 27 January 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical : comment by the founder of S. Egidio Community Prof. Andrea Riccardi Rome (Fides Service) - Modern language has hackneyed many words, include the word “love”. This is a serious impoverishment of the vocabulary of human experience. Yet Benedict XVI with love’s (sage) ingenuity chose ...
• 27 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Blessed Clementina Anuarite Nengapeta Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Clementina Anuarite Nengapeta was born in 1939 in Wamba, in what was Belgian Congo at the time. Her parents were followers of traditional African religions. She was baptised with her mother and ...
• 26 January 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - First annual assembly of PMS Youth delegates will identify basic lines for Missionary Youth Pastoral Lima (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies PMS in Peru have announced that the first annual assembly of PMS Youth Delegates organised in collaboration with the National Missionary Youth office SENAJUMI wil ...
• 26 January 2006
  OCEANIA/ SOLOMON ISLANDS - Holy Name of Mary Seminary in Honiara offers human and spiritual formation to young seminarians of three dioceses Honiara (Fides Service) - Holy Name of Mary Seminary in Honiara is a point of reference for human and spiritual formation. It offers the initial integrated three-year philosophy-theology course, Spiritual Year and the ye ...
• 26 January 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - John Duns Scotus Bible Reading Promotion Centre offers courses on St Mark’s Gospel by means of traditional catechesis but also with latest information techology Taipei (Fides Service) - To help Catholics follow the readings of the Liturgical Year more closely, the John Duns Scotus Bible Reading Promotion Centre in Taiwan has organised a month long special course in February on S ...
• 26 January 2006
  VATICAN - “Unity is our common mission; it is the condition for the light of Christ to spread ever more effectively to every corner of the earth and for men and women to convert their hearts and be saved”: Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Deus caritas est (1 Jn 4,8.16), God is love. Upon this solid rock rests the whole faith of the Church. And in a special way it is the basis of patient striving for full communion among a ...
• 26 January 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Report on the evolution of the family in Spain in the past 25 years: situation worsens, difficulties increase and public administration ever less present Madrid (Fides Service) - Families in Spain face increasing problems while public administration is totally absent, according to a Report on the Evolution of Families presented by Eduardo Hertfelder, president of Spain’ ...
• 26 January 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “No to legalised abortion with the ratification of Maputo protocol” say Catholic Bishops of Uganda Kampala (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Uganda have expressed firm opposition to the introduction in national law of the right to abortion contained in the “Protocol to the African charter on Human and People ...
• 26 January 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Picking up the threads of negotiations for peace: hopes rise after announcement that talks between government and rebels will resume Colombo (Fides Service) - Many groups political, social and religious, including the island’s Catholic community have been working constructively to pick up the threads of peace talks in Sri Lanka. New hopes are rising ...
• 26 January 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Bishops’ bulletin SAR News denounces discrimination against dalits, forced conversions to Hinduism New Delhi (Fides Service) - Life for Tribal Christians in India is increasingly difficult. The Indian Bishops’ bulletin SAR News denounces discrimination and violence against Christian Dalits in particular in two India ...
• 26 January 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Deus Caritas est” central for missionary activity - brief reflection by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - The missionary world has received new, illuminating and essential guidance for its presence in so many different places and contexts. With his first Encyclical the Holy Father Pope Benedict ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - “God himself comes to fill our eros with his agape” : A reflection on Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical, Mgr Massimo Camisasca founder and superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo Vatican City (Fides Service) - What is surprising is not that the first Encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI is about charity and love. Love is the name of God as St John writes in his letter and as the encyclical say ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI’s first encyclical: a comment by Rev Nicola Bux, docent at Puglia Philosophy Faculty. vice director of the Bari Ecumenical Institute “Love’s reasoning” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Christ said to his disciples: unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. In what does this surpassing consist? In ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict publishes first Encyclical “Deus Caritas est” on Christian love:addressed to the bishops, priests and deacons, men and women relgious and all the faithful Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the John Paul II Hall of the Holy See Press Office this morning at midday there was the official presentation of the first encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI "Deus Caritas est" date ...