News

• 5 April 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Putting Pope John Paul II teaching into practice: Catholic Medical Centre Hogar San Camilo cares for HIV+ children and adults, and promotes solidarity and respect for AIDS patients Lima (Fides Service) - Hogar San Camilo is an important point of reference point for people with AIDS and their families in Peru. The Centre, opened ten years ago, it has assisted 12,000 people directly and indirectly. I ...
• 5 April 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Chinese Catholics in Hawaii recite the Rosary to accompany the Pope on his last earthly journey Hawaii (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics in Hawaii learned of the Pope’s death as they were reciting the rosary for Pope John Paul II. “To accompany the final lap of his earthly journey we recited the Rosary his fa ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Ex-patriot Iraqi Chaldean Catholics on their way to Rome to pay last tribute to Pope John Paul II Paris (Fides Service) - “We are making the journey to show our love for John Paul II and to render him tribute. We are grateful to the Holy Father for all that he did for the Chaldean Catholic Church and for all Iraqis ...
• 5 April 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - Togo declares National Mourning for John Paul II: grieving Catholics fill churches Lome (Fides Service)- “Our whole nation is mourning the passing of John Paul II” Father Carlos Olympio, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Togo told Fides. “Grieving Catholics attend the praye ...
• 5 April 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Thousands expected to attend Requiem Mass for John Paul II in Bukavu at the same time as the Funeral Mass in Rome Bukavu (Fides Service)- “We have organised a death watch for the Pope” said Xaverian Father Luigi Lo Stocco, Director of Radio Maria Queen of Peace in Bukavu, east Democratic Congo. “We are in profound communion ...
• 5 April 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholics of Hong Kong offer prayers and acts of solidarity in memory of the Pope: special collections for tsunami victims Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The Catholic diocese of Hong Kong has urged Catholics to make the passing of Pope John Paul II an occasion for showing generous solidarity with those in need, according to Kong Ko Bao, the dio ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Pope close to missionaries, and who wanted an ever more missionary Church Rome (Fides Service) - The Pope was close to missionaries and they were close to him sharing the same missionary zeal, Fr Wilhelm Steckling Superior General of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate present in many p ...
• 5 April 2005
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “For us, John Paul II was a Dominican born in Poland” says Fr Luis Rosario Pena, the responsible for youth pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo Santo Domingo (Fides Agency) - “The news of the disease and death of John Paul II has reached the Dominican Republic as if it struck one of its dearest children” Fr Luis Rosario Pena, responsible for youth pastoral c ...
• 5 April 2005
  ASIA/IRAQ - The “Mandeian” believers, a very ancient community of so-called “Christians of Saint John the Baptist”, expected at the Pope’s funeral Stockholm (Fides Agency) - At the Pope’s funeral there will also be the “Mandeian” believers, belonging to an ancient cult connected to Saint John Baptist, which is present in Iraq and in diaspora communities in se ...
• 5 April 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - He was also a Pope for the Sikh: the acknowledgment of the Indian believers with a turban New Delhi (Fides Agency) - The Sikh believers in India pay homage, respect and honour to John Paul II, as they say in a message sent to Fides by a few Sikh leaders. Also Manmohan Singh, the present Prime Minister of the ...
• 5 April 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The bishops of southern Africa mourn the Pope who asked for forgiveness for the slave trade carried out in the name of Christianity Pretoria (Fides Agency) - “His death, after he bore his sickness with dignity and faith, put an end to 26 years of pontificate. During these years he has guided the Church with extraordinary charisma”. In a message s ...
• 5 April 2005
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - “Your Father has died: we share your mourning”. Algerian Muslims offer their condolences to the local Catholics Algiers (Fides Agency) - “Your Father has died: our condolences”. With these words the Algerian Muslims share the mourning of the small local Catholic Community for the death of Pope John Paul II. Sources of the Whit ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pax Christi: the Pope’s high esteem for us Rome (Fides Agency) - The Pope has always shown high esteem for Pax Christi. He even expressed it explicitly during a private audience granted in 1995 for the fiftieth anniversary of Pax Christi International: “Movemen ...
• 5 April 2005
  VATICAN - John Paul II: review of the world newspapers, Tuesday, April 5th Vatican City (Fides Agency) - The massive media coverage of John Paul II, called “the Great” by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, continues. Three days after his death the newspapers of the whole world open their first page wi ...
• 5 April 2005
  ASIA/IRAQ - “I felt loved like a son” says Syrian Catholic Bishop of Mosul released by kidnappers after John Paul II intervened Baghdad (Fides Service)- Syrian Catholic Bishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of Mosul released by his captors thanks also to an immediate intervention by Pope John Paul II says Iraqi Catholics are grieving and mourning the p ...