News

• 31 May 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in China celebrate Corpus Christ with great fervour and in great numbers Rome (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics celebrated the annual feast of Corpus Christ with great fervour and in great numbers. In a letter for the occasion published earlier Archbishop Cheng of Taipei encouraged Catholic ...
• 31 May 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “Thank you Holy Father for your encouragement. We confirm our commitment to work for peace in our country” the Bishops of Burundi said at the end of their Ad Limina visit Rome (Fides Service)- At the end of their Ad Limina visit 23 to 28 May, the Catholic Bishops of Burundi issued a statement in which they thank the Holy Father Benedict XVI for his warm welcome, for listening carefully t ...
• 31 May 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA “Take the next step” towards Aborigines: Catholic commitment in National Week for Reconciliation Sydney (Fides Service) - A series of public initiatives and events, testimony, meetings of formation and reflection, artistic performances focused on reconciliation between the white community and the Aborigines characte ...
• 31 May 2005
  AMERICA/CUBA - Being a “missionary Church”, growing in missionary spirituality, proclaiming the Gospel everywhere, start Missionary Youth groups: resolutions of the first Missionary Meeting in Cuba Havana (Fides Service) - “Let us make the pilgrim Church in Cuba a missionary church” said Bishop Juan García Rodríguez chairman of the Cuban Bishops’ Commission for Mission during the 1st National Mission Meetin ...
• 31 May 2005
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - “Clementina Cantoni: why is there no general mobilisation?” asks the president of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan calling for the release of the Italian volunteer “kidnapping is against the precepts of any religion” Lahore (Fides Service - “Not much is said about the kidnapping of Clementina Cantoni. In Pakistan there is hardly any mention of it. There has been no general mobilisation among world media as in the cases of other ho ...
• 31 May 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Charles Taylor is only the tip of the iceberg of what is happening here in Liberia” a missionary told Fides Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Former President Charles Taylor is an example of the situation in Liberia in recent years” Fr Mauro Armanino (Provincial SMA) in Monrovia told Fides. “Although Taylor is wanted by the Uni ...
• 31 May 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Tension and disorder in Karachi: Christian leaders call on government to guarantee more security and promote social and inter-religious harmony Lahore (Fides Service) - There is tension in the southern Pakistan port of Karach where violent disorder followed a suicide bomb on 30 May which devastated the Mandinatul Ilm Shiite mosque in the district of Gulshan-e-I ...
• 31 May 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Calm replaces tension of past few days Bissau (Fides Service)- “At last calm has returned and the electoral process has started again” said local Church sources in locale Bissaucapital of Guinea Bissau where tension rose after former president Kumba Yala ...
• 30 May 2005
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope appoints Bishop Coadjutor of Okigwe Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 28 May 2005 appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Okigwe (Nigeria) Bishop Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu transferring him from the titular see of Sabr ...
• 30 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Benedict XVI closes 24th Italian National Eucharistic Congress: “The one and the same Christ is present in the Eucharistic Bread everywhere in the world. This means we cannot encounter him alone without all the others. We can only receive him in unity. The consequence is clear: we cannot communicate with the Lord unless we communicate among ourselves” Bari (Fides Service) - “I wanted to be here with you today to celebrate with particular emphasis the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and so pay homage to Christ in the Sacrament of his love and at the same time to strength ...
• 30 May 2005
  VATICAN - "The Church will never stop saying that marriage and the family are part of God’s plan and nothing can replace them or act as a substitute for them": The Pope confirms the convocation of 5th World Meeting of Families in Spain in 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed the convocation of the 5th World Meeting for Families promoted by the Catholic Church to be held in the first week in July 2006 in Valencia Spain with the th ...
• 30 May 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Premier’s Party declared winner of May 15 elections. But Opposition says battle is not over Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The political situation in Ethiopia remains uncertain after the independent electoral commission announced that the May 15 elections had been won by the Party led by Prime Minister Meles Zen ...
• 30 May 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Radio, a channel for ‘understanding among peoples’; youth formation seminar: Catholic radio network can strengthen national unity Honiara (Fides Service) - Using radio to communicate and promote understanding among peoples and cultures, dialogue and sharing. This was the theme of a seminar for youth hosted by Solomon Islands Broadcasting Company S ...
• 30 May 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - There exists a sort of “international club” which aims to promote social aberrations, hedonist sex as a life style, a new sort of feminism which fails to realise that maternity is God’s most valuable gift to women and upholds homosexuality as a sexual option: Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima interviewed by Fides Lima (Fides Service) - In view of repeated attempts by certain Latin American governments to approve laws which attack human life and the family, Fides asked the opinion of Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop ...
• 30 May 2005
  VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children’s ‘Happy Hospital’: Special anaesthetics and operating theatre Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The child has a right to the least invasive and least painful means of diagnosis and therapy” according to article 8 of the Charter of Patient’s Rights at the Bambino Gesù Children� ...