News

• 17 February 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Three days after bomb blasts people still afraid - President Gloria Arroyo may be given special powers Manila (Fides Service) - While there is no let up in guerrilla warfare in the Sulu islands, the rest of the country is on the alert after the three bomb blasts on 14 February. Tension shows no sign of diminishing and fea ...
• 17 February 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado holds 6th Assembly in Lima on the theme “Lay Catholics helping to build a better world” Lima (Fides Service) - “Lay Catholics helping to build a better world” is the theme of the 6th assembly of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado which started on 14 February at the Santa Rosa House of Spiritual ...
• 17 February 2005
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Concerning scarcity of formation, accompaniment and sending of lay missionaries ad gentes says 3rd Continental Lay Missionaries Meeting in Final Statement Panama (Fides Service) - “Basis and Processes for integral formation of laity for mission ad gentes” was the theme of the 3rd Continental Lay Missionaries Meeting ECOLMI 3 held 26-30 January in Panama. The meeting, ...
• 17 February 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Italian Capuchins in Venice celebrate 100 birthday of most senior confrere in the world. Testimonial of a life given for Africa Rome (Fides Service) - On February 12 the Capuchin community in Conegliano nel Veneto celebrated the 100 birthday of Father Alberto Bertoldo, the most senior Capuchin in the world. “Father Alberto wins hearts with his ...
• 17 February 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Through its New Evangelisation Fund the Spanish Bishops Conference provides 300,000 Euro for pastoral programmes in 21 mission territories Madrid (Fides Service) - During a recent meeting in Madrid the Standing Committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference CEE approved a proposal put forward by the Consultant Commission of the New Evangelisation Fund to gr ...
• 17 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ever more isolated LRA rebels threaten to kill negotiator in favour of surrender: the army comes to his rescue. A comment for Fides Gulu (Fides Service). “This is a highly positive fact which could mark a turning point in the conflict” a local Church source in Gulu (Northern Uganda) told Fides with regard to the surrender of Sam Kolo, chief negot ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA AND SÃO TOMÉ - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 30 December 2004, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Angola and ...
• 16 February 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 80,000 Catholics attend National Eucharistic Congress in Myanmar Yangon (Fides Service) - More than 80,000 Catholics gathered for the 2nd National Eucharistic Congress of Myanmar held for three days, 11-13 February at a Marian Centre in Nyaunglebin, in the diocese of Yangon. Catholic ...
• 16 February 2005
  ASIA/KAZAKSTAN - On mission to “bear witness to the faith and sow the Gospel in the steppe lands of Kazakstan”: Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga of Karaganda diocese speaks with Fides Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are a young Church, which is growing. We are on the way, we have the enthusiasm of our young people and we strive to bear witness to the faith and sow seeds of the Word of God in the ...
• 16 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Charity of Christ towards migrants: ethnic mobility calls religious life to reflect on mission ‘at home’ Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of an annual course on Pastoral for Migrants women religious participants of various nationalities affirmed “We cannot simply choose to ignore the immigrants in our towns and in our pa ...
• 16 February 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - “National Youth Mission 2005”: young Chilean Catholics reach out to evangelise their peers. New web site offers information on mission Santiago (Fides Service) - Preparations for National Youth Mission 2005, organised by Chilean Youth Pastoral Office with the slogan “You are my brother”, are at the final stage and will end on March 25. The Youth Mis ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - “We are waiting to hear a government statement that the crisis is over” says Fides source in Togo Lome (Fides Service)- “We are waiting to hear a government statement that a positive solution has been found” said a local Church source in Lomé, capital of Togo, a country in crisis over the successor of its Presid ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/GHANA - Exploited child workers on Lake Volta rescued and rehabilitated by international programme Accra (Fides Service)- Another 114 children have been rescued from forced labour in Central Ghana thanks to a programme of the International Organisation for Migration IOM. The children were victims of traffickers withou ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - School meals, health and education in Sahel: Italian initiative in support World Food Programme. 1.250 tonnes of rice for about 200,000 people Rome (Fides Service) - According to a Report on Millennium Development Goals in Guinea Bissau 124 in every 1000 children die before the age of 1 and 203 before the age of five. Infant mortality affects 822 out of every ...
• 16 February 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Thousands gather at Nyaunglebin Marian shrine for recitation of the rosary and special Mass on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Yangon (Fides Service) - Thousands of Burmese Catholics made their way to the Marian Shrine in Nyaunglebin, diocese of Yangon for the recitation of the Rosary and a special Mass on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of L ...