News
29 November 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “People are getting their breath back after the assaults a few days ago” source in Mosul told Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Things are a little quieter thank goodness. Some parts of the city are calm although in other districts fighting continues” Father Nizar Semaan told Fides, after contacting people in the nor ...
29 November 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - Catholics committed to fighting AIDS: Caritas Australia funds three new centres
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church is in front line to fight the scourge of AIDS in Papua New Guinea. There is a spreading epidemic of HIV/AIDS which concerns doctors, scientists and civil and religious a ...
29 November 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishops focus Advent Messages on Eucharist, Life and the Family
Seoul (Fides Service) -Eucharist, Life and the Family were the main focus of Advent Messages issued by Catholic Bishops in Korea, and in view of this special Year of the Eucharist, called by Pope John Paul II, the Bisho ...
29 November 2004
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Election campaign lively but not violent. Expectation outcome for presidential elections on 1 December
Maputo (Fides Service)- The country is living a build up towards elections charged with tension but so far without unrest, local sources in Maputo the capital told Fides with regard to preparations for presidential elect ...
29 November 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radio Veritas programmes in Urdu are a point of reference and encounter for peaceful co-existence in Pakistan
Lahore (Fides Service) -Radio Veritas programmes in Urdu broadcast in Pakistan are a highly appreciated source of information on the Catholic Church in Pakistan and its services to promote peace, respect for human rights ...
29 November 2004
AFRICA - Nairobi UN Conference ONU on the tragedy of land mines. It costs a little more than 3 dollars to kill. Angola may still have as many as 6 million mines
Rome (Fides Service)- Antipersonnel mines are a major problem in Africa and elsewhere but in recent years some progress has been made in efforts to reduce the threat which these insidious weapons represent for civilians. ...
29 November 2004
VATICAN - The Pope grants a special audience to Rev. Oreste Benzi and the Pope John XXIII Community on the 30th anniversary of the opening of the first Family-Home: “To give genuine love to others, love must be first drawn from God.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, 29 November Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to members of the "Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII", association founded by Rev. Oreste Benzi. In his address the Pope s ...
27 November 2004
VATICAN - The Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople preside ecumenical celebration in St Peter’s: “I will never tire of striving resolutely and determinedly to restore communion among Christ’s disciples”, the Pope said.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Beloved Brother, I will never tire of striving resolutely and determinedly to restore communion among Christ’s disciples because I desire, in response to the will of the Lord, to be th ...
27 November 2004
VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe addresses Thai Bishop: “As we are at the beginning of the Third Millennium, I can only remind that the Church in Thailand is called to a new missionary momentum”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Addressing the Bishops of Thailand on Friday 26 November in Bangkok, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, assured them of the Pope’s wa ...
27 November 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - International Congress on Religious Life ends today: “we must aim for quality witness and commitment to evangelisation and human promotion” says José Maria Arnaiz
Rome (Fides Service) - "Passion per Christ Passion for Humanity" was the theme of a six day International Congress in Rome attended by 850 religious, representing more than one million men (200,000) and women (800,000) m ...
27 November 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - Cease fire in northern Uganda extended
Kampala (Fides Service)- The Ugandan government has decided to extend to 30 November the unilateral and geographically limited cease fire in northern Uganda with regard to the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA which has engag ...
27 November 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Interreligious Forum gives impulse to Anti-Death Penalty activity
Seoul (Fides Service) - Religions in Korea have launched a camping to promote awareness and support for the abolition of the death penalty. A forum of 7 religious communities, including the local Catholic Church, some pr ...
27 November 2004
ASIA/INDIA - More than 10,000 pilgrims visit Bom Jesus basilica every day to venerate relics of St Francis Xavier
Goa (Fides Service) - Every day more than 10,000 pilgrims, far more than expected, flock to venerate the relics of Saint Francis Xavier on show at the Bom Jesus Basilica in God. The exposition of the relics of this great ...
27 November 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Four thousand new HIV+ cases ever year in Italy, a new case every two hours and one out of every two persons infected is unaware: 18th National AIDS Meeting
Rome (Fides Service) - Italy’s 18th National Anlaids Meeting will be held in Milan 28-30 November in view of World AIDS Day. Anlaids is the National Association for the Fight against AIDS.
According to Italian infect ...
27 November 2004
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - 45,000 AIDS patients: Health Ministry intervenes to purchase anti-retroviral drugs
Rome (Fides Service) - The reported number of Africans who have contracted AIDS this year 2004 is 3.1 million and the number of those who died of AIDS in Africa is 2.3 million. In Sierra Leone the minister of Health has ...
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