Vatican

• 24 January 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s message for World Communications Day: The Formation of Children and the Formation of the Media Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for his message on the occasion of the 41st World Communications Day on May 20. In the messa ...
• 23 January 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe: Estonia(I) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Brief History. The forefathers of present day Estonians were Esti tribes organised in small states vaguely federal in the first century AD. In 1219 King Waldemar II of Denmark invaded north ...
• 22 January 2007
  VATICANO - The Holy See Press Office statement following Meeting on the situation of the Catholic Church in China. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office today released the following statement at the close of a meeting held in the Vatican from January 19 to 20, on the situation of the Catholic Church in China. "Pop ...
• 22 January 2007
  VATICAN - “It is necessary to proclaim the integral message of Salvation, so it may impregnate the roots of culture and be incarnated in present day Latin America in order to respond better to its needs and legitimate aspirations.”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants at Pontifical Commission for Latin America plenary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 20 January in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received the 50 participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America presided by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...
• 22 January 2007
  VATICAN - “Ecumenism is a profound dialogical experience, listening and speaking to one another, getting to know one other better; this is a task for everyone, especially spiritual ecumenism based on prayer and sharing among Christians as far as this is possible at the moment”: the Pope’s reflection at the Angelus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 21 January, in the middle of the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity", before leading from his study window the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer with the crowds gathered in ...
• 20 January 2007
  EUROPE - Pope Benedict XVI will meet European and Asian university Students on March 10 Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 March 2007 at 4pm in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, European and Asian university students will gather for a prayer meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on the theme “Intellectual Char ...
• 20 January 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope Benedict XVI visits Almo Collegio Capranica and stresses the importance of formation, “The quality of the clergy depends on the seriousness of its formation…Serious human, cultural and spiritual formation, open to the needs of the times and places” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the feast on 21 January of Saint Agnes the Patron Saint of Almo Collegio Capranica seminary in Rome Pope Benedict XVI received in audience on Friday 19 January the members of R ...
• 19 January 2007
  VATICAN “In pastoral activity carried out for Gypsies, humanitarian aid and the truth of the Gospel must go together hand in hand, and the elements of justice, brotherly love and equality should be part of them.”: final document following study meeting of National Directors of Pastoral care of Gypsies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 - 12 December 2006, a Study Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, on the “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, Careful Examination of the Docume ...
• 18 January 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it would not seem out of place to reflect on what should be an acquired fact in every ecclesial sphere: the clear and unequivocal ...
• 18 January 2007
  VATICAN - “I encourage you to live these days in prayerful listening to the Spirit of God, in order to make significant steps on the path towards full and perfect communion among all Christ’s disciples”: the Pope’s general audience and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his Wednesday audience on 17 January, the day before the start of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18 to 25 January involving Christians all over the worldk Pope Benedi ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - The Christian Family and Education at the centre of Plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America 17 - 21 January Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Christian family and education in Latin America is the theme of a plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America taking place in the Vatican 17 to 21 January. The ma ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The Lord Jesus accompanies people in their daily lives, thanks also to the Church present in the community, in schools, in the airports, in train stations and on the roads and streets, by means of a pastoral care of meeting and welcome”: “On the road to sustainable mobility” Meeting on Pastoral Care of the Road promoted by Pontifical Council for pastoral care of migrants and itinerant peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Where human beings are, with their joys and sorrows, there is the Church, with its pastoral presence. Ecclesial attention for human mobility, however, does not end with a presence of a g ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : “Mary in the Heart of every Christian” Rev Luciano Alimandi - Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of the Mother of God in our lives is closely connected with the plan for sanctification and transformation which the Father, in Christ, has for each of us. Christ’s words “ ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - The people of Asia and new challenges in the light of Catholic Social Teaching: Continental Conference in Bangkok present the Compendium of the Church’s Social Doctrine 25 to 27 January Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Amidst old and new forms of dehumanising poverty and senseless violence, as well as materialist and hedonist individualism, and in the framework of an extraordinary emerging economic growt ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - Abbey of St Paul’s outside the Walls organises Celebrations for annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, major closing event Ecumenical Vespers presided by Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The service to further Christian unity offered by the Benedictines monks at the Abbey of St Paul’s outside the Walls in Rome is a response to the special ecumenical mandate entrusted to t ...