News

• 23 June 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic schools offer education to Gospel values from which the nation stands to gain Seoul (Fides Service) - The importance and specific nature of Catholic education emerged recently during a symposium on Catholic education held in Seoul on the theme “Religious instruction in Catholic Schools”, organ ...
• 23 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Probable run-off between former Presidents Malam Bacai Sanha and Joao Bernardo Vieira Bissau (Fides Service)- There will probably be a run-off between Malam Bacai Sanha and Joao Bernardo Vieira considering the results, not final, after a first round of presidential elections on Sunday 19 June in Guinea Bi ...
• 23 June 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - In a message for 45th anniversary of independence Catholics Bishops say the people deserve to be told why the June 30 elections have been postponed Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Our conscience as Bishops and citizens urges us to defend the dignity of the human person created in the image of God. Our compatriots face a future of uncertainty, increasing insecurity and ...
• 23 June 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sodano to confer solemn Blessing on new Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St Paul in Rome(Basilica of St Paul’s outside-the-walls) Rome (Fides Service) - Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s secretary of state will confer the solemn Blessing on Abbot Edmund Power OSB newly appointed Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St Paul today 23 June during a s ...
• 23 June 2005
  VATICAN - Living Sunday Liturgy in a spirit of mission: ideas for a “Missionary Comment for Sunday Liturgy” at CIAM web site Vatican City (Fides) - CIAM (International Centre for Missionary Animation) based in Rome near St Peter’s offers priests, religious and laity a series of reflections on Sunday Liturgy in a missionary spirit. These text ...
• 23 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Diocesan delegates for missions and directors of Pontifical Mission Societies discuss ‘Prospects for mission in Asia and greater attention for youth’ Madrid (Fides Service) - A meeting in Madrid of those responsible for Spain’s missionary activity closed today. On Tuesday 21 at the invitation of the Bishops’ Commission for Missions there was a National Day for Dio ...
• 23 June 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - A Church “communion of communities” in the Pacific Ocean: Fides speaks with the Archbishop of Honiara Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Our job is to help the Church in Solomon Islands stand on its own feet ”, Archbishop Adrian Smith of Honiara capital of Solomon Islands told Fides. The Archbishop, of Irish origin, is ...
• 23 June 2005
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Impeachment for President Bingu wa Mutharika. “Democracy is threatened” says a missionary in a country on the brink of famine, Lilongwe ( Fides Service)- “After eleven years of democracy, following 30 years of dictatorship, we appear to be threatened with a return of the past” said a missionary in Malawi where today 23 June, a motion was pre ...
• 22 June 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope comments on Psalm 123: “The Almighty sides with victims and the persecuted who cry to him day and night” - the Pope confirms convocation of 2nd Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 123 “is a hymn of thanksgiving raised by the whole community of worshippers who praise God for the gift of liberation … a hymn to thank the Lord for escaped dangers and to implore ...
• 22 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Another convent attacked in Bihar - Cardinal Toppo speaks to Fides: “Let’s not generalise: India is still an example of tolerance and harmony” New Delhi (Fides Service) - Despite a recent appeal from the Catholic Bishops of India to the government to guarantee more protection for religious minorities, another episode of violence upset the Catholic Church in Ind ...
• 22 June 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “American Moslems can help promote better understanding between East and West” Imam Yahya Hendi Moslem chaplain Georgetown University, Washington told Fides Rome (Fides Service)-“Yes there is a difference between Moslems in the United States and those in many European countries” Imam Yahya Hendi Moslem chaplain Georgetown University, Washington DC told Fides. The Imam is ...
• 22 June 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - “We offer words of comfort to all. May Mary Queen of Peace protect the destiny of our country”: Catholic Bishops address the nation Lome (Fides Service)- "The unprecedented and difficult situation before and during presidential elections on 24 April may have discouraged many. But to give way to discouragement would only make things worse. Help can on ...
• 22 June 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI ‘deeply saddened’ by the death of Cardinal Jaime Sin Archbishop emeritus of Manila: Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sends condolences Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI expressed his grief for the death of Cardinal Jaime Sin Archbishop emeritus of Manila who died in the early morning of 21 June. In a telegramme of sympathy ...
• 22 June 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Power sharing between people who live along the Nile and those who don’t is the reason for Sudan’s conflicts” a Comboni missionary tells Fides Khartoum (Fides Service)- “I am sadly not surprised that after the western region of Darfur now also eastern Sudan threatens to explode” Italian Comboni missionary Fr Giovanbattista Antonini, with years of experience ...
• 22 June 2005
  EUROPE/AFRICA - The Church in Togo wants to make the nation’s difficult situation known to public opinion, it calls for help for the people in danger of losing courage: final Message issued after Meeting between Italian missionaries and local Church in Togo Lome (Fides Service) - “The Church in Togo would like to make a gift to the Church in Italy of its festive liturgy, the vitality of its communities which strive to become self supporting, the valorisation of the laity, ...