News

• 7 September 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 60,000 victims every year and 60 million people in 36 Sub-Saharan countries risk infection by sleeping sickness Rome (Fides Service) - Every year sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly, reaps thousands of victims and there is still no effective treatment to fight the disease. A sleeing sickeness alarm has been sounded in sout ...
• 6 September 2005
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria holds 3rd voluntary replenishment mechanism meeting in London Rome (Fides Service) - During the third and final meeting of the replenishment in 2005, hosted by the UK in London, donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria met to discuss funding needs for 2006 ...
• 6 September 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Catholic Radio Mosi-o-Tunya in Livingstone diocese granted full broadcast permit Livingstone (Fides Service) - Radio Mosi-o-Tunya, which belongs to the Catholic diocese of Livingstone in Zambia, has at last otained from the ministry of information and broadcasting services permission to resume its br ...
• 6 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian priest fidei donum missionary in Brazil for 30 years is murdered in his parish Pinerolo (Agenzia Fides) - Rev Giuseppe Bessone, a fidei donum priest ‘given’ by the Italian diocese of Pinerolo (Italy) for mission in Brazil, was murdered during the night on 2 September in his parish house at S. A ...
• 6 September 2005
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - In the Year of the Eucharish “Eucharistic Youth Festival Festival” in Mongolia offers opportunity for meeting and evangelisation Ulan Bator (Fides Service) - About 150 young Mongolians gathered for a Eucharistic Youth Festival Festival organised by the local Church in Hangait, 20 km north of the capital Ulan Bator. The four day festival consisted ...
• 6 September 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In the Year of the Eucharist the Legion of Mary celebrates 50 years of activity in Korea Seoul (Fides Service) - To celebrate 50 years of activity the Legion of Mary group organised, in this Year of the Eucharist, a National Congress in Seoul on the theme 'Living the Year of the Eucharist with Mary'. Some 13 ...
• 6 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Following the murder of the vicar general of Tezpur diocese local Catholic community denounces increasing violence Tezpur (Fides) - Catholics in the north east Indian state of Assam are still under shock after a priest in the diocese of Tezpur was found stabbed to death at the Bishop’s House. The murder took place during the night ...
• 6 September 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Salesians in America and Italy help hurrican victims: reparing schools priority New Orleans (Fides Service) - From the stricken city of New Orleans local Salesians involved with numerous other organisations in rescue work, aid and rebuilding, called on their counterparts in Italy for help. VIS Volun ...
• 6 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Theology faculty Pontifical Salesian University offers 10th ongoing formation course for missionaries starting 19 September Rome (Fides September) - The theology faculty of the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome is offering its 10th course of ongoing formation for men and women missionaries. The course consisting of a theological update o ...
• 6 September 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Operation School Books” diocesan Pastoral Centre helps families in difficulty Hong Kong (Fides Service) - As the school year is about to begin in Hong Kong once again this year in collaboration with the diocesan Pastoral Centre the Catholic cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and various parish ...
• 6 September 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Bishops denounce culture of corruption which uses nation’s structures of power for its own benefit substituting power schemes for the debate of ideas Brasilia (Fides Service) - On the occasion of a national holiday September 7 the Catholic Bishops of Brazil issued a statement expressing concern for widespread suffering caused by serious on-going corruption at all leve ...
• 5 September 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI calls the entire Church to be involved in preparation for the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist “with prayer and reflection, giving value to every opportunity, event and meeting”. He also has a special word for hurrican victims in the United States and people in Iraq Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - In his reflection before the Angelus prayer on Sunday 4 September Pope Benedict XVI called the entire Church to feel involved in preparation for the Synod of Bishops 2-23 October on the ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Local Church promotes courses for secondary school students on prevention of HIV/AIDS Patna (Fides Service) - Illness can be prevented with proper knowledge of self. With this conviction Sewa Kendra the Social Service Centre of Patna archdiocese in the north east Indian state of Bihar on the border with N ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics in Kerala open new Internet site: modern pulpit for evangelisation Kochi (Fides Service) - Catholic Bishops in Kerala state, south west India, have launched a web site on the Internet to improve the Church’s use of this means of communication which offers a valuable channel for evange ...
• 5 September 2005
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Government signs United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees Kabul (Fides Service) - Afghanistan, a country that used to be one of the world's largest producers of refugees and asylum seekers has joined the United Nations 1951 Convention with regard to the Status of Refugees and r ...