Vatican

• 26 January 2012
  VATICAN-Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for the World Mission Day 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides publishes Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Day, which this year will be celebrated on Sunday, October 21on the theme "Called to radiate the Word of truth": HOLY FATHE ...
• 24 January 2012
  VATICAN - Out of contemplation springs forth, with all its inner power, the urgent sense of mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Learning to communicate is learning to listen and contemplate as well as speak, and this is especially important for those engaged in the task of evangelization: both silence and word are ...
• 23 January 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope’s best wishes to the Countries which celebrate the Lunar New Year: "May the new year be marked by justice and peace" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In these days, various countries of the Far East will celebrate the Lunar New year with joy - said the Holy Father Benedict XVI at the Angelus on Sunday, January 22 -. In the present world ...
• 20 January 2012
  VATICAN-"Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion": the Pope to U.S. Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The direct opposition of powerful new cultural currents "to core moral teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition "but increasingly hostile to Christianity as such", along with the attempt ...
• 19 January 2012
  VATICAN - The lack of unity among Christians prevent an announcement of the Gospel more effectively Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the modern ecumenical movement was born, more than a century ago, there has always been a clear recognition that the lack of unity among Christians hinders the effective announcement ...
• 16 January 2012
  VATICAN - Pope: "Migrants are not only recipients but are also witnesses of proclaiming the Gospel in the contemporary world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Millions of people are involved in the phenomenon of migration, but they are not numbers! They are men and women, children, the y ...
• 13 January 2012
  VATICAN-The Holy Father’s intentions for prayer, entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for the year 2013 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides)-The Holy Father’s intentions for prayer, entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for the year 2013 January General:That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the ...
• 10 January 2012
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to the Diplomatic Corps, "in many Countries Christians are deprived of fundamental rights and sidelined from public life" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Religious freedom is "the first of human rights, for it expresses the most fundamental reality of the person. All too often, for various reasons, this right remains limited or is flouted". ...
• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN - More than 300 dioceses in the world celebrate Pauline Jaricot, pioneer of the mission ad gentes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 dioceses in the world, in five continents, will celebrate on 9 January, the 150th anniversary of Pauline Jaricot’s death: this is what Father Timothy Lehane Barrett, Secreta ...
• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN-Archbishop Fernando Filoni among the Cardinals named by the Pope, together with two Asian Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Angelus on the solemnity of the Epiphany, January 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI announced for February 18 a Consistory in which he will proceed to the appointment of 22 ...
• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN-The Pope to the Missionary Childhood: "May your heart be open to the world, as the heart of Jesus" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, during the Angelus on January 6, recalled the Day of Missionary Childhood: "I highlight that the Epiphany is also the Children's Missionary Day, organized by t ...
• 5 January 2012
  VATICAN - "Boys and girls, make yourselves heard, without shame and uncertainty always trusting in God", the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood urges all boys and girls Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we are in 2012, the year of Faith wanted by the Holy Father. Boys and girls, you belong to Missionary Childhood and therefore you believe in the role you have been entrusted, to bear ...
• 2 January 2012
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: "Educating men and women in peace is part of the mission received from Christ, it is an integral part of evangelization" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "For the ecclesial community, educating men and women in peace is part of the mission received from Christ, it is an integral part of evangelization, because the Gospel of Christ is also th ...
• 28 December 2011
  VATICAN - Christmas Message: " May the Lord come to the aid of our world torn by so many conflicts which even today stain the earth with blood" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "On this Christmas 2011, let us turn to the Child of Bethlehem, to the Son of the Virgin Mary, and say: 'Come to save us!' Let us repeat these words in spiritual union with the many people ...
• 23 December 2011
  VATICAN - The crisis of the Church in Europe, the Pope indicates Africa, where despite the problems, "the joy of being Christian is always experienced" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "As this year draws to a close, Europe is undergoing economic and financial crisis which is ultimately based on the ethical crisis looming over the Old Continent ... The essence of the cris ...