Vatican

• 6 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: “Being credible witnesses to the Risen Christ, with respect for others, seeking dialogue but above all loving as we are loved by Christ” Rome (Fides Service) - Concluding the first two days 4 and 5 May of the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies during which national PMS directors from all over the world reflected on missionary acti ...
• 6 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI presides special Mass for the 5th Centenary of the Foundation of the Pontifical Swiss Guard: “To be a Swiss Guard means to be loyal without reserve to Christ and the Church and ready to give one’s life for this” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, May 6th 2006, in St Peter’s Basilica Pope Benedict XVI presided a special concelebration of Mass to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Swis ...
• 5 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies reflect on the proclamation of the Gospel in a multicultural society Rome (Fides Agency) - The proclamation of the Gospel in a multicultural society was the theme faced by the 114 National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), representing as many countries in the world, on ...
• 5 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Buddhists and Christians at the service of humanity”: the Message of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue for the Day of Vesakh 2006 Vatican City (Fides Agency) - The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent a message to the Buddhists for the Day of Vesakh, the most important Buddhist celebration. This year the countries of Theravada tradit ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Obedience of Faith” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Obedience of Faith”. Unity as a gift from heaven to recognise and make visible through full adhesion with personal freedom and Belonging, as a fundamental category of understanding ou ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office with regard to the episcopal ordinations in continetal China Vatican City (Fides Agency) - This morning the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, released the following statement to the journalists: "I can inform you of the position of the Holy See r ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe opened the PMS General Assembly: “Our main mission, as National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies, is to bend down, like good Samaritans, over our brothers’ necessities, especially over the poor and the needy” Rome (Fides Agency) - “Our missionary activity is the effort we put in our work to make people know that God is love […]. Dear brothers, this is our main mission as National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societ ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “By means of the apostolic ministry Christ himself reaches those called to the faith. The distance of the centuries is overcome and the Risen Lord offers himself living and working for us in the today of the Church and the world. This is our great joy.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the subject of the Church for catechesis at the general weekly audiences. On Wednesday 3 May he dwelt for the second time on the significance and value of Apost ...
• 3 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pontifical Mission Societies: “official organ for missionary cooperation of all the Churches and all Christians” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) “rising spontaneously from the People of God as private apostolic initiatives of the laity, they transformed adherence of the faithful to Christ in ...
• 3 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Holy Father’s message to participants at European Meeting "Restoring Europe’s Soul": “Only by safeguarding and valuing to the full the legacy of values handed on by its forebears can Europe write a new page in its history respecting the dignity of every human person and banning definitively abuse and violence of human rights” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI addressed, through Cardinal Angelo Sodano secretary of state, a Message to the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for In ...
• 3 May 2006
  VATICAN - Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies opens tomorrow in Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow 4 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and president of the Supreme Committee of the Pontifical Mission Societies Crescenzio ...
• 2 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI visits shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love: “from this Shrine I repeat the call made in the encyclical Deus caritas est: let us experience love and in this way cause the light of God to enter into the world” Rome (Fides Service) - “It is a great comfort for me to be here today to recite the Holy Rosary with you at the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love which expresses the devout affection for the Blessed Virgin Mary rooted ...
• 2 May 2006
  VATICAN - New Church Book of Statistics Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2004 and comparison of data with the Church in 1978 Vatican City (Fides Service) - The new «Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae» Church’s Book of Statistics (31 December 2004 - prepared by the Church’s central statistics office and printed by the Libreria Editrice Vatic ...
• 2 May 2006
  VATICAN - “The resurrection of Christ is the central fact of Christianity, the fundamental truth to be reaffirmed with vigour at all times, because to deny it … or transform into a purely spiritual event, would mean to deny our very faith” says Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City (Fides Service) - The numerous points for reflection offered by the Liturgy in the Season of Easter strengthen believers’ faith in the resurrection of Christ: this was the subject of the reflection Pope Be ...
• 28 April 2006
  VATICAN - General Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies 4 to 12 May Vatican City (Fides Service) - The General Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies will start on May 4 with an opening address by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of ...