Vatican

• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - On the feast of St Francis Xavier, Fides is 80 years old Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides News Service of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started its activity in December 1927 immediately after the feast of the Patron Saint of the missions, St Francis Xa ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs: “What is needed, in fact, is a spirit of solidarity conducive for promoting as a body those ethical principles which, by their very nature and their role as the basis of social life, remain non-negotiable” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To express gratitude and appreciation for what they do collaborating actively with Papal Representatives at Interantional Organisations and render still closer and more effective this share ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent “Advent is a favourable time for rediscovering hope, not vague or false, but certain and confident, since it is ‘anchored’ in Christ, God made man, the rock of our salvation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope. Every year this fundamental attitude of the spirit is rekindled in the hearts of Christians as they prepare to celebrate the great feast of ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit Hospital San Giovanni Battista: “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will we will experience the power of his love” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will, we will experience the power of His love. Hospitals and nursing homes, precisely because the inmate ...
• 3 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Man and the world need God- the true God! - otherwise they cannot hope. Science does much for the good of humanity - undoubtedly - but it cannot save it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the first Sunday of Advent, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his reflection before the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the significance of the Advent Season wh ...
• 30 November 2007
  SPECIAL - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello SPE SALVI, the second Encyclical of His Holiness Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A magnificent fresco on Christian hope, the new Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI: Spe Salvi facti sumus, “In hope we were saved” (Cf Rom 8,24) is the title and I wager it will occupy no ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Thailand-Myanmar: a baby girl at the meat market is worth 15 euro - A new director for the Vatican Museums: Antonio Paolucci Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the web site “Dio: pace o dominio”: Testimony from a missionary in a village in northernThailand-Myanmar. Remember the teaching of Don Oreste? "Prostitution is the effect of the most ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Josephine Bakhita, the slave who became the first Sudanese saint, cited as an example in Pope Benedict XVI 's new encyclical Spe salvi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Josephine Bakhita, the first Saint of Sudan and the first African woman to be raised to the honour of the altars without being a martyr, is cited as an example in Spe salvi the second encyc ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - “Without ignoring or downplaying our differences as Christians and Muslims, we can and therefore should look to what unites us,”: the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI relies to open letter from 138 Muslim religious leaders Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 13, for the occasion of the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr), a group of 138 Muslim religious leaders sent an open letter to the Holy Father Benedict XVI and to o ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - John Paul II: the life of Saint Josephine Bakhita “ inspires the firm resolve to work effectively to free people from oppression and violence ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Addressing the Bishops of Sudan received for their ad limina visit on 15 December Pope John Paul II mentioned the figures of two intrepid witnesses to the faith, “two holy individuals who ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - Bishop Macram Max Gassis: Bakhita, an amazing sign for Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid in Sudan, speaking to Fides on the occasion of the canonisation of Josephine Bakhita (1 October 2000), said: “Bakhita is a symbol of ...
• 30 November 2007
  VATICAN - "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved': second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI presented this morning Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The second Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI with the title "Spe salvi" - 'in hope we were saved' was presented this morning, November 30 during a press conference at the John Paul II Hall o ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Reality comes before ideology, including that of “gender”. Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Never before as in these times of proclaimed ecological sensitivity, only on the nature of man everything and the opposite of everything can be said and done. Especially in the western area ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Italian edition of Pope Benedict XVI's New Encyclical “Spe salvi” included with December 9th issue of Catholic weekly “Famiglia Cristiana” - Collect and recycle mobile phones to support development programmes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian version of Pope Benedict XVI's new Encyclical XVI “Spe salvi” (Saved by Hope), to be made public at the Holy See Press Office on Friday 30 November, will be included with t ...
• 29 November 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope calls young migrants to be “ protagonists as of now of a world where understanding and solidarity, justice and peace will reign.” - Papal Message for 94th World Day for Migrants and Refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The vast globalisation process underway around the world brings a need for mobility, which also induces many young people to emigrate and live far from their families and their countrie ...