News

• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - 3 die of hunger in camp for former rebel soldiers in Burundi Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Three former rebel soldiers died of hunger in a camp for former rebel militia in north east Burundi. The news was reported by the Burundian army chief of staff. “The members of the FDD (For ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “More financial transparency or aid will stop”: World Bank issues stern warning to Liberia’s interim government Monrovia (Fides Service)- The World Bank issued a serious warning to Liberia to take steps to prevent corruption and show more financial transparency. This emerged after a visit to Monrovia by Shengman Zhang World Bank m ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Don Massimo Camisasca shares with Fides thoughts on the death of don Luigi Giussani Rome (Fides Service) -With Don Luigi Giussani the lives of thousands and thousands of people have moved over the past fifty years. This happened because he did not fear the movement which the winds of God caused in him, ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Expectation for meeting of different Franciscan realities gathered in assembly Rome (Fides Service) - “The Eucharist: Sacrament of Communion” is the theme of the 29th General Assembly of the Union of Conferences of Franciscan Provincial Ministers of Italy, a body of 60 Superiors at the head of ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Government cease fire expires today but “negotiations continue” says Internal Minister Kampala (Fides Service) - The government’s cease fire with the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA rebels in northern Uganda ends today, (see Fides 17 February 2005). However a government spokesman said talks with the guerril ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Italian post tsunami aid in Sri Lanka: volunteers for development (VIS) and Italy’s national civil protection unit sign two agreements Colombo (Fides Service) - Two Italian development programmes in tsunami affected Negombo and Trincomalee have started as a result of an agreement between the Italian civil protection unit and Salesian NGO Volontariato In ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “If only the conflicting parties would see how the people suffer!”: director of Indonesian Catholic Bishops’ “Crisis and Reconciliation Service” says to Fides Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - “Peace is possible if both sides (government and rebels) would only see how the people suffer”: Father Ignazio Ismartono, SJ, head of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference Crisis and Recon ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - All is calm in the Moluccas but missionaries warn against possible infiltration of terrorists Ambon (Fides Service) - The situation is calm in Ambon, capital of the Moluccas Islands in eastern Indonesia, apart from some minor episodes of violence in a few outlying islands. However security forces are still on the ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA On the Feast of the Chair of Peter Chinese Catholics confirm fidelity and communion with the Pope and the universal Church Beijing (Fides Service) - This morning on the occasion of the Feast of the Chair of Peter during morning Masses in various churches in China priests encouraged those present to pray especially for the Successor of Peter ...
• 22 February 2005
  VATICAN - “The human person must be recognised and respected whether healthy, infirm or disable.” Pontifical Academy for Life starts 11th Assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Academy started its 11th assembly yesterday, 21 February during three days of intense work it will consider the theme of “quality of life and ethics of health”. In a me ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY Collaborate in the mission of the Church in every area of society. This is the goal of Communion and Liberation, started in Milan in 1954 by don Luigi Giussani and today present all over the world. Rome (Fides Service) - Communion and Liberation is a Church movement and its main goal is mature Christian education of its members and their collaboration in the mission of the Church in every area of society. It began ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - For the first time in 9 years 50,000 mothers take to the streets to celebrate international Women’s Day in a city for years at the centre of a conflict whose principal victims were women of all ages Bukavu (Fides Service)- “At last after 9 years, yesterday 8 March, women were free to celebrate international Women’s Day in the streets” said Xaverian missionary Fr. Luigi Lo Stocco, director of Radio Maria Malia ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop of Khulna resigns, the Pope appoints new Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II on 19 February 2005, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Khulna (Bangladesh), presented by Bishop Michael Atul D’Roza ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/VIET NAM The Pope appoints new Auxiliary Bishop of Hue Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II on 19 February 2005, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Hue (Vietnam) Reverend François Xavier Le Van Hong, parish priest, responsible for ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/VIET NAM - Archbishop of Hanoi resigns, the Pope appoints new archbishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, on 19 February 2005, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Hanoi (Vietnam), presented by Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham � ...