Vatican

• 30 January 2010
  VATICAN - World Leprosy Day: develop and strengthen strategies to fight against leprosy, helping those affected to emerge from exclusion and obtain treatment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – An appeal has been made to the international community and authorities of every nation, from the President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, ...
• 26 January 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: “What is needed is new and intense evangelizing activity, directed not only at peoples who have never known the Gospel, but also at those among whom Christianity is present.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In a world characterized by religious indifference and even by a growing aversion towards the Christian faith, what is needed is new and intense evangelizing activity, directed not only ...
• 25 January 2010
  VATICAN - Pope to priests: “May the Lord make all of you enthusiastic heralds of the Gospel in the new 'agorà' which the current media are opening up.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “All priests have as their primary duty the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God, and the communication of his saving grace in the sacraments,” writes Benedict XVI in ...
• 25 January 2010
  VATICAN - Holy Father's message of solidarity to President of Haiti and President of Bishops' Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Church, through her institutions, beyond the great emotion that has been evoked, will continue to accompany those tried in this suffering and, in conformation with her effor ...
• 23 January 2010
  VATICAN - Intentions entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2011 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Here we publish the intentions that the Holy Father Benedict XVI has entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2011. January General: That the riches of the created world may be pres ...
• 21 January 2010
  VATICAN - “Lineamenta” for the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops presented Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Responding to the request made by several Bishops from the region that reaches from Egypt to Iran, the Holy Father Benedict XVI convoked the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Sy ...
• 19 January 2010
  VATICAN - The Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO) begins, focusing on support for clergy in Eastern Europe and Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In this Year for Priests, the 82nd Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO), taking place January 19-20 at the Vatican, will be mainly dedicated to the issued of support ...
• 19 January 2010
  VATICAN - International Center for Missionary Animation reopens: Cardinal Dias dedicates CIAM to Blessed Fr. Paolo Manna Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 16, 2010, the birthday of Blessed Fr. Paolo Manna (1872-1952), a PIME missionary and founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union, the International Center for Missionary Animation ...
• 18 January 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI visits Jewish Community of Rome: “when we succeed in uniting our hearts and our hands in response to the Lord’s call, his light comes closer and shines on all the peoples of the world.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Christians and Jews share to a great extent a common spiritual patrimony, they pray to the same Lord, they have the same roots, and yet they often remain unknown to each other. It is our ...
• 18 January 2010
  VATICAN - Pope at Angelus: “Our proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus will be much more credible and effective the more that we are united in his love.” New appeal for Haiti. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Day of the Migrant and Refugee, religious dialogue with the Jews, and Christian unity were the three main themes addressed by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his discourse at the Ange ...
• 14 January 2010
  VATICAN - Holy Father makes appeal for Haiti, “that these our brothers and sisters who are experiencing a moment of need and suffering may not lack our concrete solidarity”; support of the Church in Italy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the close of the General Audience on Wednesday, January 13, the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched the following appeal for Haiti: “I now wish to make an appeal for the dramatic situa ...
• 13 January 2010
  VATICAN - February 9-11: Jubilee for the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers and the XVIII World Day of the Sick Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church in the Service of Love for the Suffering” is the theme chosen for the celebration of the XXV Anniversary of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers and the XVIII Worl ...
• 12 January 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: “protection of creation is not principally a response to an aesthetic need, but much more to a moral need” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The denial of God distorts the freedom of the human person, yet it also devastates creation. It follows that the protection of creation is not principally a response to an aesthetic need ...
• 11 January 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus recalls that the immigrant is “a person to be respected with rights and duties” and that “there cannot be violence in the name of God” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, January 10, the Holy Fahter Benedict XVI administered the Sacrament of Baptism to a group of infants in the Sistine Chapel. Then, at Noon, he reci ...
• 9 January 2010
  VATICAN - “Whenever our Christians suffer unjustly it is a wound to the Body of Christ in which all believers share.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has sent the following message to His Holiness Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of ...