Vatican

• 29 November 2010
  VATICAN - The Pope's appeal “to promote a culture which always respects human life; to provide favorable conditions and support networks for accepting and developing this culture” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I urge the protagonists from politics, economics and social communications to do everything in their power to promote a culture which always respects human life, to provide favorable con ...
• 24 November 2010
  VATICAN - Communiqué of the Press Office of the Holy See: Episcopal ordination at Chengde (Province of Hebei, Mainland China) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Press Office of the Holy See issued the following communiqué, today, 24 November, reported here in its entirety. “With regard to the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Joseph Gu ...
• 22 November 2010
  VATICAN - The Pope prayed at the Angelus "that in every part of the world religious freedom may be assured for all" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today in Italy, at the invitation of Bishops, ecclesial communities pray for Christians who suffer persecution and discrimination, especially in Iraq. I join this choral invocation to the ...
• 22 November 2010
  VATICAN - The third Consistory of his Pontificate: "In the Church no one is the owner, but all are called, all are invited, all are met and guided by divine grace"  Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday morning, 20 November in the Vatican Basilica, the Holy Father Benedict XVI held an Ordinary Public Consistory, in the form of Liturgy of the Word, for the creation of 24 new C ...
• 19 November 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: “The aim of the ecumenical path remains unchanged, as does the firm commitment in pursuing it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the course of 50 years, it has covered much territory...They are 50 years in which a truer knowledge and greater esteem have been acquired with the Churches and the ecclesial communit ...
• 18 November 2010
  VATICAN - “Important also in the field of health, integral part of each one's existence and of the common good, is to establish a true distributive justice that guarantees to all, on the basis of objective needs, adequate care”: Message from Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Health is a precious good for the person and society to promote, conserve and protect, dedicating the means, resources and energies necessary so that more persons can enjoy it. Unfortuna ...
• 18 November 2010
  VATICAN - Statement from the Holy See Press Office concerning news of an episcopal ordination in China Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office today published, in English, the following “Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ concerning news of an episcopal or ...
• 16 November 2010
  VATICAN - Final Press Release on 7th Colloquium between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Center for Interreligious Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Center for Inter-Religious Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (Tehran, Iran) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (Vatican) held their sevent ...
• 16 November 2010
  VATICAN - Pope addresses Brazilian Bishops: “The Episcopal Conference works as a single body propelling the pastoral solicitude of bishops, whose principal concern must be the salvations of souls, which is also the fundamental mission of the Church.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “With the visit of the West Central Region, a series of meetings with Brazilian bishops which began more than a year ago comes to a close. In a delightful coincidence, the day I addressed ...
• 15 November 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Pontifical Council of Culture: “We need men and women who speak with their lives, who know how to communicate the Gospel, with clarity and courage, with the transparency of their actions, with the passionate joy of charity.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The lives of the saints and martyrs reveal a singular beauty that fascinates and attracts, because a Christian life lived to the full speaks for itself. We need men and women who speak w ...
• 15 November 2010
  VATICAN - At Angelus, Pope calls for “new balance between agriculture, industry and services, so that development be sustainable, and no one go without bread and work” and launches appeal for Haiti Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The current economic crisis must be taken in all its seriousness: It has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global econom ...
• 12 November 2010
  VATICAN - Every Eucharistic Congress “bears in itself an evangelizing inspiration in a more strictly missionary sense,” Pope tells Pontifical Committee of International Eucharistic Congresses Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Task of the Eucharistic Congresses, above all in the present context, is also that of giving a peculiar contribution to the new evangelization, promoting mistagogic evangelization, which ...
• 12 November 2010
  VATICAN - “We need, then, to discover ever anew the urgency and the beauty of the proclamation of the word for the coming of the Kingdom of God which Christ himself preached.” Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini published Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Synod of Bishops forcefully reaffirmed the need within the Church for a revival of the missionary consciousness present in the People of God from the beginning...Consequently, the Ch ...
• 11 November 2010
  VATICAN - “Toward an Equitable and Human Health Care”: XXV International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Toward an Equitable and Human Health Care” is the theme for the XXV International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, scheduled to be held November 18-19 in t ...
• 11 November 2010
  VATICAN - Coadjutor Bishop of the Archdiocese of Nanchang ordained Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, October 31, the Cathedral Church of the Immaculate Conception hosted the ordination of Bishop John Baptist Li Suguang as Coadjutor Bishop of Nanchang in the Jiangxi Province (M ...