News
19 May 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - WHO ANNUAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS: INFECTIOUS DISEASES, SMALL POX, POLIOMYELITIS, TABAGISM, ONLY SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FACING THE WORLD TODAY
Geneva (Fides Service) – The 56th session of the World Health Organisation opens today in Geneva and it will close on 28 May. Every year 192 WHO members states attend this Assembly. On the agenda this year the eliminat ...
19 May 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - FREE SINCE YESTERDAY EVENING ANOTHER HOSTAGE SEMINARIAN KIDNAPPED IN LACHOR ON 11 MAY
Kampala (Fides Service )- Another of the seminarians kidnapped on 11 May by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Lachor, Uganda, is free. The news was confirmed to Fides Service by Archbishop John Baptist Odama of G ...
19 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - SARS: MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH PERSONNEL VOLUNTEER FOR HOSPITAL PASTORAL, BELIEVERS OF ALL FAITHS MAKE JOINT COLLECTION TO FIGHT DISEASE IN HEBEI PROVINCE
ShiJiaZhuang (Fides Service) – Religions in China are making a valuable contribution to the fight against SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. According to information sent to Fides Service by XinDe Faith Catholic b ...
19 May 2003
EUROPE SPAIN - THE PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS: “CATHOLIC COMMUNICATORS MUST PASS THROUGH THE WALLS THAT DIVIDE PEOPLE”
Murcia (Fides Service) – “The world of today is not alien to values, as one might think. Although at times the search for meaning takes inconsistent and commonplace paths, this must not lead us to ignore the anxietie ...
19 May 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - FROM ACEH: “NOT FIGHTING BUT PATIENCE AND REBUILDING TRUST” THE VOICE OF FATHER FERDINANDO FRANCISCAN FRIAR IN THE ONLY PARISH IN THE PROVINCE
Banda Aceh (Fides Service) “We are tragically accustomed to violence. The conflict between the army and the rebels has continued for years with a few brief interruptions. After the imposition of martial law and the sta ...
19 May 2003
AFRICA/D.CONGO - TWO UN PEACEKEEPING SOLDIERS KILLED IN BUNIA, MARTYR CITY VICTIM OF CLASHES BETWEEN LENDU AND HEMA TRIBES
Bunia (Fides Service) – Two members of the UN peace-keeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo MONUC charged with monitoring the cease fire, were found dead about 70 km from Bunia in the north east Congo. The ...
16 May 2003
VATICAN - POPE RECEIVES 12 NEW AMBASSADORS: CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS, INTEREST FOR DIALOGUE AND SOLIDARITY AT THE BASIS OF DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF BUILDING PEACE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Our world is living difficult times, marked by many conflicts of which you are attentive witnesses: this is a cause of concern for many people and prompts the leaders of nations to be ...
16 May 2003
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - CELAM ASSEMBLY – ECCLESIAL SITUATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTINENT: WE CANNOT ALLOW FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD TO BE REPLACED WITH RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE
Tuparenda (Fides Service) – Never before has the Church in Latin American had so many means and opportunities for proclaiming Jesus Christ and helping the faithful to grow in the faith, therefore “we cannot allow our ...
16 May 2003
AFRICA/CAMEROON - SALESIANS IN AFRICA: FIFTY PERCENT LOCAL MEN, A SOURCE OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE TO BE ENCOURAGED
Yaounde (Fides/ANS) – “I think we can look with confidence to the future of Salesian Africa: almost half our confreres are local men. They are the fruits of our Project Africa” said Father Valentin de Pablo regiona ...
16 May 2003
EUROPE/FRANCE - PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS OPENS WEB PAGE ON MISSION IN ASIA
Paris (Fides Service) – The Paris Foreign Missions Society MEP has opened a new web page focussing on mission in Asia. At the address www.mepasie.org you will find information with regard to the history and the mission ...
16 May 2003
ASIA/HONG KONG - PRIESTS VOLUNTEER TO CARRY COMFORT OF SACRAMENTS TO HOSPITALISED SARS PATIENTS
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – No less than forty five priests in Hong Kong volunteered to go to SARS assigned hospitals to administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, in response to a call from the diocese. Af ...
16 May 2003
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CARDINAL SECRETARY OF STATE IN KAZAKHSTAN ON 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORY MAKING PAPAL VISIT
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State, is visiting Kazakhstan from 16-19 May at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and the local Catholic Bishops to mark th ...
16 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - THE ROLE OF CATHOLIC TEACHERS IN INDIA IS TO BUILD HARMONY BETWEEN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS
Bangalore (Fides Service) – Catholic teachers in India have an important role to play in the present social context of polarisation of caste, language, culture and religion: teachers can help create a national consci ...
16 May 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY DIFFICULTIES, REMIND EVERYONE THAT COOPERATION, INDISPENSABLE FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF THE WORLD, IS A DUTY AND A RIGHT FOR ALL THE BAPTISED"
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 11.30 on 16 May in the Sala Clementina in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II received in Audience the participants at the General Assembly of the Supreme Council of ...
16 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA
BENEDICTINES THE WORLD OVER PRAY FOR PEOPLE OF CHINA STRUGGLING AGAINST SARS
Beijing (Fides Service) – The Superior General of the Benedictines, Father Jeremias Schroeder, recently wrote an encouraging letter to Xin-de or Faith, the most widely read Catholic bulletin in mainland China, in which ...
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