Vatican

• 30 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA “The Hour of the Holy Spirit” , Rev Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart” (Mt 11, 29). These words resound loudly in the hearts of those who wish to be illuminated by the Spirit of God and never tire of sea ...
• 29 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (5) : Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique Vatican City (Fides Service) - Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the world's most Marian countries. Saint Frumentius (4th century) called the first church built in Axum, the capital, Edda Mariam, which means House of Mary. Ma ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (4) : Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt Vatican City (Fides Service) - CAMEROON: Shrine of Our Lady of the Apostles in Mvolye Hill in Yaoundé. REPUBLIC OF CONGO. At Linzolo, at one of the first missions opened in 1883 by Spiritan Missionaries a few km from ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Mozambique: “Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task”, Pope Ben ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Church is by nature missionary and since the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit never ceases to guide her along the roads of the world, to the ends of the earth, until the end of time” Pope Benedict XVI says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer on Pentecost Sunday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The essential and qualifying traits of the Church" was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI's reflection at midday on Sunday 27 May the “great feast of Pentecost”, fifty days after Easte ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (3): Angola, Benin, Burkina-Faso Vatican City (Fides Service) - ANGOLA “Land of Mary”. L’Angola viene chiamata la terra di Maria. The first Catholic missionaries, who were Portuguese, arrived in Angola on, 29 April 1491, and built a church dedi ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - A “short cut” to holiness for the priests of the third millennium: “Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort show us how to know, love and serve Our Lord with Mary as our Mother, Model and Guide ” - Testimony by Cardinal Ivan Dias Dublin (Fides Service) - The “Treaty on true devotion to Mary”, written by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) at the beginning of 1700, although addressed to all Christians in general can be especially appl ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - Caritas Internationalis 18th general assembly opens on June 3 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Some 385 Caritas delegates from all over the world will be in Rome to attend the 18th general assembly of Caritas Internationalis, in the Vatican from 3-9 June to discuss the present situat ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (2): Algeria, an ancient Christian and Marian land Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Basilica of Our Lady of Africa stands on a cliff overlooking the bay of Algiers. The church, the construction of which was begun in 1872, is visited by Muslims as well as Catholics. Wom ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - On a pastoral visit Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino takes the Holy Father's solidarity to Cote d'Ivoire and presents the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the 15 to 20 May, at the request of Pope Benedict XVI and at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Cote d'Ivoire, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical C ...
• 25 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Church's mission and our concern as Bishops must be for each and all: I think this should be remembered particularly in this 50th anniversary year of the Encyclical Fidei donum of Pius XII” : Benedict XVI addresses general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address to the participants at the 57th general assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference at midday on 24 May in the Synod Hall in the Vatican the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI tol ...
• 24 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (1): South Africa, Mary Queen assumed into Heaven, patroness of South Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - South Africa has many Marian Shrine. Some have even received the grace of a apparition of the Blessed Virgin May and are visited by believers from all over southern Africa. In 1952, during ...
• 24 May 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE : After Family Day, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Contra facta non valet argumentum”. The ancient philosophical saying shows all its truth which resists even the most violent and underhand attempts at reductionism. Italy's Family Day ...
• 24 May 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI attends concert "Resurrexi": “For every believer and for every ecclesial community what is important is the encounter with Jesus Christ crucified and risen ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This evening of music was an opportunity to meditate on the central event of our faith: the Resurrection of Christ… Easter is the heart of Christianity. For every believer and for ever ...
• 24 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at general audience reflects on his recent pastoral visit to Brazil: “ it was first of all to give praise to God for the ‘wonders’ worked among the peoples of Latin America, for the faith which has animated their life and the culture for over five hundred years ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “During this general audience I would like to reflect on my recent apostolic journey to Brazil from the, 9 to the 14 of this month. After two years of Pontificate, at last I had the joy o ...