Vatican

• 26 November 2003
  VATICAN – MESSAGE FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II TO SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS: “RESPOND PROMPTLY TO THE LORD’S CALL! BE JOYFUL WITNESSES AND ENTHUSIASTIC APOSTLES OF THE GOSPEL TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II addressed a Message to Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, Archbishop of Guatemala, President of the Second American Mission Congress taking place in Guatemala City 25 to 3 ...
• 24 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS NEW CARDINAL MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Pope John Paul II has appointed Members of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples the following Cardinals created on 21 October 2003: Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (Presid ...
• 24 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS: “LOOKING AT CHRIST ‘PANTOCRATOR’, AS THEEASTERN LITURGY SAYS, HIGHLIGHTS THE MISSION OF BELIEVERS CALLED IN A VARIETY OF MINISTRIES AND CHARISMA TO COOPERATE IN THE BUILDING UP OF HIS KINGDOM” Vatican City (Fides Service) – As usual on Sunday 23 November Pope John Paul II came to his study window to pray the midday Angelus with people gathered in St Peter’s Square, who were several thousand. “Today, the ...
• 21 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" PLENARY: “THE CHURCH TENDS NOT ONLY TO THE MATERIAL NEEDS OF THOSE IN DIFFICULTY… WITH SIMPLICITY AND PASTORAL PRUDENCE SHE DOES NOT HESITATE TO BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST, WHO REVEALS THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER, TENDER AND LOVING” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Love of God and neighbour is a direct manifestation of the Church’s fidelity to her Lord who ‘gave himself up for us’ (Eph 5, 2). The Church was born from the pieced heart of Jes ...
• 21 November 2003
  VATICAN - AMERICA IS EVANGELISING AMERICA AND EVEN REACHING BEYOND ITS CONTINENTAL FRONTIERS Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 25 to 30 November 2003, the 2nd American Mission Congress, CAM 2, will take place in Guatemala. This major ecclesial event will be attended by more than 3000 delegates from every cou ...
• 20 November 2003
  VATICAN - “A VAST FIELD FOR NEW EVANGELISATION” THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND ITINERANT PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The work of promoting the wellbeing of the many men and women who for various reasons do not live in their homelands represents a vast field for the new evangelisation to which the who ...
• 19 November 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “WITH US IN SUFFERING AND IN DEATH, CHRIST NOW DRAWS US TO BE WITH HIM IN HIS GLORY, BLESSING US AND CALLING US TO SHARE IN HIS ETERNITY Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II met visitors who had come for his Wednesday Audience on October 19 in the Paul VI Hall. This week his teaching on the psalms of Vespers, focussed on the Canticle Fil 2,6 ...
• 18 November 2003
  VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: “WE VOICE THE CHURCH’S CONCERN FOR THE WORLD’S 175 MILLION MIGRANTS AND 40 MILLION REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning, 18 November, the 5th International Conference on the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itiner ...
• 18 November 2003
  VATICAN - ANNUAL MESSAGE TO ALL MUSLIMS FROM PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE ON THE OCCASION OF ‘ID AL-FITR, FEAST WHICH CONCLUDES RAMADAN: CONSTRUCTION OF PEACE FOLLOWING THE TEACHING OF BLESSED JOHN XXIII Vatican City (Fides Service) – To mark the Feast of ‘Id al-Fitr, 1424 A.H. / 2003 A.D.) which closes the Muslim Ramadan month of prayer and fasting Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald President of the Pontifical Counci ...
• 18 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS INDIAN BISHOPS: “ANY SEMBLANCE OF A CASTE-BASED PREJUDICE IN RELATIONS BETWEEN CHRISTIANS IS A COUNTERSIGN TO AUTHENTIC HUMAN SOLIDARITY, A THREAT TO GENUINE SPIRITUALITY AND A SERIOUS HINDRANCE TO THE CHURCH’S MISSION OF EVANGELISATION” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “It is not enough that the Christian community hold the principle of solidarity as a lofty ideal; rather it must be seen as the norm for human interaction” Pope John Paul II told a gro ...
• 17 November 2003
  VATICAN - PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE CARDINAL MARTINO DECLARES: “AS POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS SO OFTEN SAID UNEQUIVOCALLY, NO JUSTIFICATION CAN BE GIVEN TO INDISCRIMINATE MASSACRE OF HELPLESS AND INNOCENT VICTIMS ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Referring to the tragic bombing in Istanbul, also on behalf of participants at a Seminar taking place at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the Vatican on Leo XIII and the Ho ...
• 17 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS: “ONCE AGAIN TERRORISM HAS COMMITTED ITS TERRIBLE ACT, PARTICULARLY DEVASTATING IN IRAQ AND TURKEY.... I RENEW MY FIRM CONDEMNATION ALSO FOR EVERY TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE HOLY LAND... THE HOLY LAND NEEDS NOT WALLS BUT BRIDGES!” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Once again in the past few days, terrorism has committed its terrible act particularly devastating in Iraq and in Turkey. As I continue to pray for the victims, I confirm my spiritual ...
• 14 November 2003
  VATICAN - LEO XIII AND PEACE CONVENTIONS PROMOTED BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE AND THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF THIS GREAT POPE Vatican City (Fides Service) – In history’s passage from the 19th to the 20th centuries and the definitive turn towards modernity, the impulse given by Pope Leo XIII to a new presence and activity of the Holy See at ...
• 14 November 2003
  VATICAN - “IT IS IMPORTANT TO PROPOSE TO PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR, FIGURES AND EXPERIENCES THAT HELP THEM TO GROW AT THE HUMAN, PSYCHOLOGICAL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL LEVEL”, POPE JOHN PAUL II ADDRESSES 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to participants at the 18th International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for t ...
• 13 November 2003
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK STARTS ITS 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “DEPRESSION” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Some 600 participants, health experts, cardinals, bishops and laity gathered in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican for the 18th International Conference organised by Pontifical Council for ...