News
25 November 2004
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Long wave of a cyclone in March now has Madagascar in grip of hunger. Exasperation triggers bomb explosion as protest.
Antananarivo (Fides)- “People are literally starving and in this situation acts of violence in protest can be an extreme and violent sign of widespread desperation” said Father Leonardo, head of the Salesian House in ...
25 November 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Voices of hope mixed with fear of war in Bukavu
Bukavu (Fides Service) -“People in Bukavu knew about the visit by a United Nations delegation and they were interested. But unfortunately, because the delegation was delayed and only stayed a few hours the delegates, t ...
25 November 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - All that was feared has happened: when domestic tension override international interests. Another of Africa’s cease fire agreements violated
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Only a firm intervention by the international community can stop the war in Darfur” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, of El Obeid (Sudan), told Fides commenting the violation of the cease fire in ...
25 November 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - Nyahururu diocese mourns Vicar General
Nairobi (Fides Service)- The diocese of Nyahururu is mourning its Vicar General, Rev. Daniel Kariuki. Here is the statement issued by the diocese: “Our diocese of Nyahururu is again in mourning. Father Daniel Kariuki, ...
25 November 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Federation of Asian Bishops Conference discusses< Communicating through inter-religious dialogue
Bali (Fides Service) - About 30 bishops and 40 priests and lay persons, Delegates of Bishops Commissions for social communications and Commissions for inter-religious dialogue from all over Asia, are meeting in Bali, Ind ...
25 November 2004
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Central America present Bishops with “Memories of CAM 2” and examine Central American Mission ad Gentes Plan: developments and goals reached
San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) - This morning the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Central American countries, members of the Central American Mission Commission, will address an assembly ...
25 November 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Love, Hope and Faith in Family Health Care: International Federation of Catholic Doctors holds 13th Congress
Taipei (Fides Service) - The 13th Congress of the International Federation of Catholic Doctors is starting its 13th Congress today, 26 - 27 November to reflect on the theme, Love, Hope and Faith in Family Health Care to ...
25 November 2004
Charity Concert in aid of Senegal on the Tiber Island organised by the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers
Vatican City (Fides Service) - An evening event devoted to solidarity has been organised for Friday 26 November on the Tiber Island at the St John of God Hospital by the Order’s press office on the occasion of the 25th ...
24 November 2004
VATICAN - “Reduction of the price of the anti-viral drugs needed to treat HIV/AIDS patients; intensification of information campaigns in order to avoid mother/child transmission of the virus; greater attention for most vulnerable social groups.” Message for World AIDS Day from the President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health workers and the Sick
Vatican City (Fides Service) - December 1 is World AIDS day. A recent study showed that women are physically more liable to become infected than men. This year the United Nations Organisation programme for AIDS UNAIDS d ...
24 November 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “With his divine "fullness", but also through shedding his blood on the Cross, Christ "reconciles" and "restores" all things in heaven and on earth…recreating the original harmony, willed by God in accordance with his loving plan of life.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The great Christological hymn from the Letter to the Colossians (cfr Col 1,3.12-20), which extols “the glorious figure of Christ, heart of the liturgy and centre of the entire life of the ...
24 November 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Here in Iraq things are improving for religious minorities. Everyone looks forward with optimism to the elections and a future of peace” a Chaldean monk told Fides
Mosul (Fides Service) - After recent episodes of anti-Christian violence in the capital Baghdad and in the third largest city Mosul, the situation for religious minorities appears to be improving a Chaldean monk in Mosul ...
24 November 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Saturday 27 November 2004, 8th National Food Collection Day: sharing basic necessities in order to share the meaning of life.
Rome (Fides Service) - This year’s national Food Collection Day, involving 4,000 supermarkets all over Italy, including 200 in Lazio region and 130 in the city of Rome alone, scheduled for 27 November, was presented th ...
24 November 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - People are still dying in northern Uganda despite recent negotiations
Gulu (Fides Service)- “We are waiting with great expectation. There is an atmosphere of cautious hope, although the situation is still unsettled” said a missionary in Gulu, in northern Uganda ravaged for many years t ...
24 November 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur recent developments
Rome (Fides Service) - There are reports of fresh fighting in the western Sudan region of Darfur tormented by months of civil war. Today, 24 November, the Sudan Liberation Army one of the two anti-government rebel moveme ...
24 November 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Seminars, prayers, marches to increase awareness during “Peace Week” in Mindanao 25 November to 1 December
Manila (Fides Service) - “A reconciled family is an agent of reconciliation” is the theme of a Peace Week organised in Mindanao 25 November 1 December, launched by the Bishops Ulama Forum comprising Catholic and Prot ...
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