News

• 6 December 2005
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - 450th anniversary of the presence of the Church in Cambodia: pastoral visit by Papal nuncio Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - The first missionary to set foot in Cambodia in 1555 and start evangelising was Dominican missionary Fr. Gaspar De Cruz. To celebrate 450 years of Catholic presence in this small nation in In ...
• 6 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Orionina Family organises international mission congress : 8 - 11 December 90 delegates from 4 continents will reflect on the situation and prospects of orionina mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 December at the Casa "Divin Maestro" in Ariccia (Rome), there will be an international Mission Congress “To the ends of the earth - La Piccola Opera on Mission: pastoral care and fr ...
• 6 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “ll Rischio Educativo” by Mgr Giussani: “This is a book which helps Christians discover reasons for faith and non Christians discover reasons for life” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presented yesterday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome the book “Il Rischio Educativo” (The Education Risk) by the late don Luigi Giussani. Speakers at the meeting organised by the se ...
• 5 December 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Society of Jesus starts Jubilee Year for 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro and to commemorate St Ignatius of Loyola 450 years after his death: a year of Christian renewal in the footsteps of the great Spanish missionary Pamplona (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 3 December the Society of Jesus opened a Xaverian Year to mark three important dates for Jesuits: 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506) and to ...
• 5 December 2005
  ASIA/JAPAN - The Pope accepts resignation of Bishop of Kagoshima and appoints successor Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2005 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kagoshima (Japan) presented by Bishop Paul Shinichi Itonaga in ...
• 5 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Winter spiritual renewal course for priests will be held in Jerusalem Rome (Fides Service) - Love cannot fail or limit itself or become bored. It must be renewed every day. This is what happens among one particular category men in love: priests “lovers of God”. They too must renew the ...
• 5 December 2005
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawi in the grip of famine and institutional chaos sees timid signs of hope according to local missionary: “it has started to rain, people are sowing every kind of available seed, what is a more a political solution may be in sight” Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “Christmas is coming and the end of a particularly difficult year for Malawi is near and people want desperately to see a point of return, a return to a rule of law, to good government, to a l ...
• 5 December 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus prayer recalls that “religious freedom is far from guaranteed effectively and everywhere” and asks those present to pray “that every man and women may realise to the full the religious vocation inscribed in the depth of every being” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the spirit of Advent, when “the ecclesial Community prepares to celebrate the great mystery of the Incarnation it is called to rediscover and deepen its personal relation with God”, ...
• 5 December 2005
  VATICAN - “It is necessary to announce with new enthusiasm that the Gospel of the family is a path to human and spiritual fulfilment...and to help people realise the intrinsic evil of abortion” Pope Benedict XVI tells presidents of Latin American Bishops’ Commissions for the Family and Life Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on Saturday 3 December received in audience participants in the meeting of presidents of the Latin American Bishops’ Commissions for the Family and Life. The meeting is being ...
• 5 December 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Bishops: Nostra Aetate marked a turning point in inter-religious dialogue Sydney (Fides Service) - “Nostra Aetate marked a turning point in inter-religious dialogue” the Catholic Bishops of Australian said in a statement issued at the end of a recent meeting in which they said the Council ...
• 5 December 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Message from Bishop Zen after participation in the Synod on the Eucharist: may the family put the Eucharist at the centre of life Hong Kong (Fides Service) - On his return from Rome where he took part in the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Church’s Life and Mission Bishop Joseph Zen Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong shared ...
• 5 December 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - New Catholic Directory of India: valuable aid for Catholic communities and tool for evangelisation New Delhi (Fides Service) - The 2005 edition of the Catholic Directory of India was released recently in New Delhi by Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, archbishop of Ranchi and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
• 5 December 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - Appreciation of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew for the Holy Childhood Meeting for Countries of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe held for the first time in Greece: “May your work bear fruit for the good of little ones and the glory of the Most Holy Trinity” Corfu (Fides Service) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I sent a brief message of appreciation and congratulations to participants at the 5th Holy Childhood Meeting for Countries of the Mediterrane ...
• 5 December 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe on pastoral visit to Ho Chi Minh City archdiocese: “St Francis Xavier responded generously to the Lord’s command, crossing the world to announce Christ. Today the missionary situation is no better” Ho Chi Minh City (Fides Service) - The pastoral visit to Vietnam of Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 November touched the archdiocese of Ho ...
• 3 December 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Novembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Among the most significant interventions by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI during the month of November we mention an address given on 25 November on the occasion of the inauguration of the Academic Year of the Univer ...