News

• 17 March 2005
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “Eucharist sign of unity and bond of Charity”: Lenten Message in the Year of the Eucharist. “The Family of God must always be a community which grows in the one spirit united in the one bond of love” Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service) - The Eucharist as a sign of unity and bond of charity was the theme of a Lenten Message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Tanzania in this Year of the Eucharist in which the Bishops call on ...
• 17 March 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Portuguese Missionários dà Boa Nova celebrate 75th anniversary. “The activity of the laity in the Church is very important today and so we aim to involve more and more lay persons in missionary work” Superior General Fr. Antonio José da Rocha Couto speaks with Fides Vatican City (Fides Service) - This year the Portuguese Society for Missions (Missionários dà Boa Nova) founded 3 October 1930, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. As part of celebrations, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, P ...
• 17 March 2005
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Climate of tension in Central Africa waiting for results of first round of presidential and legislative elections Bangui (Fides Service)- “The Central African Republic is in a climate of tension waiting for the results of the first round of legislative and presidential elections”, a local source in the capital Bangui, told Fide ...
• 17 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian violence: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announces a speech to Parliament and a letter to the leaders of the states of the federation asking them to take suitable measures New Delhi (Fides Service) - A speech to raise the problem in front of parliament and an official letter to the chief minister of every state of the Indian Federation: these measures were announced by India’s Prime Mini ...
• 17 March 2005
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - 10,000 young people for a national meeting for World Youth Day, in former separatist region Casamance. “a meeting under the banner of peace” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Dakar (Fides Service)- “Ziguinchor, main city of Casamance, was chosen to give a clear signal of support for peace” Fr Giuseppe Giordano, OMI, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Senegal and Maur ...
• 17 March 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Foreigners and NGOs must not leave Aceh we need them to help with reconstruction”: tsunami refugees fear they will be alone to fend for themselves Aceh (Fides Service) - If, almost three months after the tsunami in south east Asia, the actual emergency stage has ended, now greater international efforts are needed for reconstruction and the resettlement of refugees. ...
• 17 March 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The challenges of Justice Peace in Asia: missionaries, religious and lay people operating in Catholic communities all over the continent focus on human rights Lahore (Fides Service) - Democracy, sustainable development, impact of the tsunami, refugees human rights, religious fundamentalism were the main topics at the 6th Work Shop for Justice and Peace Operators in Asia held ...
• 16 March 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes between Somali clans in Kenya: at least 28 killed. At the root, a fight over meagre water resources in arid region Nairobi (Fides Service) - These sort of clashes happen all the time in Somalia, only this one was in Kenya” Fr Eugenio Ferrari, IMC, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya told Fides with regard ...
• 16 March 2005
  VATICAN - “We all have the sublime vocation and grave responsibility to see that the proclamation of the Good News resounds everywhere with joy”: Cardinal Sepe celebrates Mass in Propaganda Fide chapel for Portuguese Missionários dà Boa Nova marking the 75th anniversary of their foundation Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning 16 March Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP), presided a special Mass in the chapel of Propaganda Fide, to celebrate t ...
• 16 March 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Tension in Burundi: UN High Commission for Refugees sounds the alarm Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Tension is rising in Burundi after the explosion of mortar bombs in the capital Bujumbura thrown by rebels of the National Liberation Forces (FNL). A warning with regard to the situation in Bu ...
• 16 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops in Rajastan oppose anti-conversion law and call for a signature campaign Jaipur (Fides Service) - Christian Bishops in Rajaastan state north west India, have opposed the local authorities’ proposal to introduce a law to ban religious conversion in that state. The state is governed by the Hi ...
• 16 March 2005
  OCEANIA/ISOLE SALOMONE - “Young people, build a new community in Solomon Islands”: Radio Don Bosco broadcasts seminar to promote moral and cultural renewal in the Pacific Honiara (Fides Service) - Radio Don Bosco, a new community radio non commercial started its activity only recently but it is already in full swing working to spread a message of hope and peace across the waters of the so ...
• 16 March 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - The problem leprosy cannot be tackled in an isolated manner it must be part of an integrated health programme for basic health services. AIFO in China Rome (Fides Service) - According to updates published by AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici Raoul Foillerau), Association of the Friends of Raoul Foillerau, in recent years control of leprosy in endemic countries has obta ...
• 16 March 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace between government and Muslim separatists more difficult after militants of Abu Sayyaf terrorist group were killed when police intervened to suppress Manila prison revolt Manila (Fides Service) - What happened in a Manila prison yesterday could complicate relations between Muslim groups in the Philippines and the government. On March 14 militants of the Islamic fundamentalist group Abu Sa ...
• 15 March 2005
  AMERICA/CANADA - Canadian ecumenical delegation representing various Christian churches and communities visits Mexico to assess effects of ‘free trade’ on the people of Mexico, the poorest in particular Ottawa (Fides Service) - From 11 to 19 March a ecumenical delegation from Canada of representatives of various Christians is in Mexico to assess the effects on the people of Mexico of free trade, propose alternatives and ...