Vatican

• 19 July 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's telegramme of condolence following death of 200 people in air accident in Brazil Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a telegramme sent on his behalf by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI expressed condolences to Archbishop Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Pa ...
• 18 July 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Love dispels all fear - Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grieva ...
• 18 July 2007
  VATICAN - Care for elderly patients: theme of 22nd International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Pastoral City (Agenzia Fides) - Experts from all over the world will meet in the Vatican from 15-17 November for the 22nd International Conference on the theme Care for elderly partients theme of 22nd International Conference or ...
• 18 July 2007
  VATICAN - Cardinal Nicora, Papal Legate for the Papal Basilicas of Assisi, a month after the visit by Pope Benedict XVI: “The Pope reminded us that the ‘mystery’ of Francis can only be understood in Jesus and starting from Jesus” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A month ago on June 17 Pope Benedict XVI made a one day pastoral visit to Assisi. In a preface to a collection of the Pope's addresses on that occasion Cardinal Attilio Nicora, Legate for t ...
• 17 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Hungarian (I) The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Magyar tradition holds that the Country of the Magyars (Magyarország) was founded by Árpád, who led the Magyars into the Pannonian plain in approximately 896 AD, and - according to the ...
• 16 July 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI leads recitation of the Angelus prayer from his holiday home in the mountains: “ Every good Christian knows that holidays are an opportunity to rest the body and nourish the spirit with more time for prayer and meditation ” - and he invites young people to take part in World Youth Day in Sydney 2008 Lorenzago di Cadore (Agenzia Fides) - “I thank the Lord for making it possible for me to spend once again this year a few days of rest in the mountains, and I am grateful for the welcomed given to me here in Lorenzago, ...
• 13 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World - Indonesia (4) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelisation and Catholic Church - Presence of a Nestorian diocese in the 7th century at Barus (west cost of the North Sumatra province). Christianity arrived with Europeans in 16th and 1 ...
• 12 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Indonesian (3) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia, the most populated Muslim country in the world has a population of 209.260.000. The people are 87% Muslims. Christianity 12.5%: Protestant 9.3% (246 denominations, 16.000.000 ref ...
• 12 July 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum cura is an invitation to return to the Catholic form of the liturgy, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father in his Book Jesus of Nazareth underlines the “understanding” which in Luke's Gospel - unlike the other Gospels - Jesus demonstrates towards the Jews: (p 216-217). Is th ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Christ is not enough!” , Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The reality is Christ!” (Col 2, 17). This extraordinary statement by St Paul, set like a precious stone in his magnificent theology, acknowledges the Lord's total supremacy over crea ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - “Compendium Orationum Quotidianarum ad usum fidelium” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In August Fides will publish a Compendium of daily prayers for the faithful in 34 languages. The Compendium has three sections. The 1st section illustrates the importance and necessity of ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Indonesian (2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has more than 700 languages.. Except for the Papuan languages spoken in West Papua and immigrant languages such as Chinese and Arab as the language of the Koran, the languages spo ...
• 11 July 2007
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI authorises final document 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida which he hopes will offer “light and impulse for fruitful pastoral and evangelising work in the years to come," Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today was a Letter from Benedict XVI to bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, in which he authorises the publication of the final document of the Fifth General Conference ...
• 10 July 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Indonesian (1) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To speak of the daily prayers of Indonesian Catholics we must first of all consider the size of the country, the impressive number of official, regional and local languages and many dialect ...
• 10 July 2007
  VATICAN - The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issues document "Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine on the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document with the title "Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine on the Church" which bears the d ...