Vatican

• 10 February 2010
  VATICAN - Catholic Church's work in health care worldwide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest "Statistical Yearbook of the Church" published, the health and social care institutions in the world managed by the Church include: 5,378 hospitals with the majority ...
• 8 February 2010
  VATICAN - “The Church in the Service of Love for the Suffering” - Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers and XVIII World Day of the Sick Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Celebration activities for the XXV Anniversary of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers and XVIII World Day of the Sick, which will close on February 11, will begin tomorrow, Feb ...
• 5 February 2010
  VATICAN - Pope's Message for Lent: “creating just societies, where all receive what is necessary to live according to the dignity proper to the human person and where justice is enlivened by love.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The justice of God has been manifested through faith in Jesus Christ” (Rm 3, 21-22) is the theme for the Message of the Holy Father for Lent 2010. Benedict XVI focuses on the meaning o ...
• 4 February 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at General Audience: “a missionary fire must always burn in the heart of the Church, which drives incessantly to take the first proclamation of the Gospel and, where necessary, to a new evangelization” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The missionary witness of St. Dominic de Guzman, founder of the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominican Friars, was underlined by Pope Benedict XVI during his General Audience on Wedne ...
• 4 February 2010
  VATICAN - Bishops of England and Wales come to pray in Propaganda Fide Chapel where Cardinal Newman was ordained a Catholic priest Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of England and Wales have recently been in Rome, upon the occasion of their first ad Limina visit during the papacy of Benedict XVI, on January 24 – February 4. On their vis ...
• 1 February 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus: “Charity is what distinguishes the Christian,” entrusts all sick and all who work “for a world without leprosy” to Saint Damien de Veuster Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “For now, while we are in this world, charity is what distinguishes the Christian. The Christian’s whole life is summed up by charity: what he believes and what he does. For this reason ...
• 30 January 2010
  VATICAN - Church's missionary commitment to leprosy patients worldwide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The 57th World Leprosy Day which is celebrated Sunday, January 31, draws attention to this disease, which is now treatable, and calls for us to solidarity with our brothers and sisters wh ...
• 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 ...