News

• 7 July 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Man must stop violence, it can never reach goals or carry a message”, says the head of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Oblate Missionaries of Immaculate Mary in the Philippines after bomb blasts in London Manila (Fides Service) - “The bomb blasts in London make us reflect one again on the subject of violence. Although as yet there is no confirmation that these were terrorist attacks, one’s mind immediately returns to ...
• 7 July 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Church movements and associations a sort of “blood transfusion” for the Church in Australia, meet with an eye on World Youth Day in Germany Melbourne (Fides Service) - Lay movements, assocations and communities born since the Second Vatican Council are a new resource for the Church which give new vitality and strength. They are a bit like a blood transfusion ...
• 7 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Do not be afraid of new tehcnology!”: the Church in Korea ever more committed to using the media. UTV first Korean TV on the Internet Seoul (Fides Service) - “Do not be afraid of new tehcnology!”: said Pope John Paul II in his letter for Communications Day this year “Rapid development”. The Church in Korea intends to respond to this challenge b ...
• 7 July 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The international community has made praiseworthy efforts to restore peace and promote democracy in Burundi, now it must support development Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “New and promising scenes appear after the victory in the elections of the National Council for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD)” said local sources in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi afte ...
• 6 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Thank you John Paul II !” In Cologne photos sent by 10,000 people from 100 different countries form a giant mosaic of photograph pixels producing an enormous portrait of John Paul II in memory of the “father” of World Youth Days Cologne (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne 11-21 August, one major attraction will be a giant portrait of the late Pope John Paul II with Cologne cathedral in the background. The por ...
• 6 July 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Immaculate Mary leads us to the Eucharist and the Eucharist leads us to Mission”: theme of 2nd national Holy Childhood Congress 4 -7 August Lima (Fides Service) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru has started preparations for the 2nd national Holy Childhood Congress to be held 4 -7 August at Trujillo. “Immaculate Mary leads us ...
• 6 July 2005
  VATICAN - At the general audience the Pope recalled that “predestination” to be children of God “implicates brotherhood with Christ, the Son par excellence and an attitude of intimacy with the heavenly Father whom we may invoke as Abba, “dearest father’ Vatican City (Fides Service) - Canticle “God our Saviour” (cfr Eph 1,3-10), vespers Monday week 3 (reading: Eph 1,3.7-8), was the subject of the teaching given by Pope Benedict XVI during the general audience this mo ...
• 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 ...