News
6 July 2005
ASIA/INDIA - New Rector appointed for Good Shepherd inter-diocesan Seminary, Coimbatore
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 1 April 2005 appointed Rector of Good Shepherd inter-diocesan Seminary, Coimbatore, Rev. Raphaelna ...
6 July 2005
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We denunce an international plot against life and against the family” the President of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz said as he opened the Bishops’ 79th plenary assembly
Bogota (Fides Service) - Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Archbishop of Bogota and President of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference (CEC), in his address to open the Conference’s 79th plenary assembly taking place in Bog ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Over 400 young people from Taiwan prepare to take part in the 20th world Youth Day in Germany
Tai Chung (Fides Service) - About 400 young people who will go to the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany 11-21 August, recently took part in a day of preparation for the major Church event. The day focused on vario ...
6 July 2005
AFRICA/CHAD - The start of the rain season may prevent 10,000 refugees in central Africa from receiving assistance warns United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR
Rome (Fides Service)- In southern Chad operators of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR are urging the competent authorities to transfer about 10,000 refugees who fled here from the Central African Repu ...
6 July 2005
AFRICA/NIGER - “Thanks to international aid Niger is coping with a serious food shortage” Archbishop Michel Christian Cartateguy of Niamey told Fides
Niamey (Fides Service)- “At last international aid is helping to alleviate the suffering of the people of Niger” said Archbishop Michel Christian Cartateguy of Niamey, capital of Niger battling with a serious food sh ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - With a new mission in Yangon Franciscans intend to bring the Gospel to Myanmar
Yangon (Fides Service) - To carry the Gospel in the spirit of St Francis to the people of Myanmar, mountain people in particular, a community of Friars Minor will soon open a new mission in Yangon the capital. The missio ...
6 July 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries working with dying AIDS patients draw new hope for these most unfortunate people on the planet thanks to an Italian AIDS vaccine which has passed first tests
Rome (Fides Service) - New hope and gounded this time for people of Africa suffering from the scourge of AIDS which threatens most people living in precarious conditions comes from an Italian TAT protein based AIDS vacci ...
6 July 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - 400 million children have no access to clean water, 270 million have no healthcare and 124 million are deprived of school; every year 50,000 contract leprosy: Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau launches “Restore Infancy” campaign
Rome (Fides Service) - AIFO has launched a concrete programme to restore infancy and hope to millions of the world’s children living in situations of poverty, war and neglect and who want only to play, go to school and ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - To legalise homosexual unions “is ridiculous, it offends the family and the children in particular” says Superior of Tajikistan Catholic Mission. “Our people ask how can we explain such an aberation to our children”
Dushanbe (Fides Service) - “The Catholic mission in Tajikistan is deeply concerned about the proposal to give homosexual unions the same status as marriage and the right to adopt children. Unfortunately we learn that ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/CAMBODIA - New Catholic primary school opened in Phnom Penh: the local Church ever more committed in the field of education
Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in Cambodia is committed to promoting human, cultural and spiritual growth of young Cambodians. According to the Salesian bulletin ANS recently the Daughters of Mary Axil ...
6 July 2005
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Tragic consequences of operation “restore order” presented to UN and AU representatives in a report by the Peace and Justice Commission Commissione of the Jesuits in Zimbabwe
Harare (Fides Service)- “Hundreds of thousands of people have no shelter. Children are deprived of education. The lives and security of the homeless are at risk”. This was the opening statement of a report issued by ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission denounces abuse of anti-blasphemy law: Christians and Hindus falsely accused
Lahore (Fides Service) - There is concern in Pakistan after recent episodes with regard to a return to the anti blasphemy law. Several religious and human rights organisations including the Catholic Bishops’ Justice an ...
5 July 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - After Java another case of polio registered in Sumatra
Rome (Fides Service) - A polio test on a child on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has been confirmed positive. This is the first case registered outside the larger island of Java since a new outbreak of the disease was ...
5 July 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - World Health Organisation launches new global plan 2006-2010 to eliminate leprosy
Rome (Fides Service) - The United Nations World Health Organisation has issued a strategy 2006-2010 for reducing the leprosy burden and sustaining leprosy control activities.
The approach used by the new strategy repre ...
5 July 2005
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope creates new diocese of Sindhudurg and appoints first Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 5 July 2005 established the diocese of Sindhudurg (India), with territory taken from the diocese of Poona, making it suffragan of the Metropolitan See ...
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