News

• 16 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese New Year offers opportunity for inter-religious dining and dialogue Beijing (Fides Service) - Celebrations for the Lunar New Year in Beijing provided an opportunity to promote inter-religious dialogue. In fact the communities of the main religions in China, Taoist, Buddhist, Christian an ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Missionaries in northern Uganda build home to protect for high-school girls from violence Gulu (Fides Service)- “I am here with the workmen, we are building a home for high-school girl pupils”. Loud and clear the voice of a missionary working in northern Uganda reaches Fides from the most forgotten region ...
• 15 February 2005
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - The social situation, stability and solidarity focus of 5th annual meeting of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe are to meet in Sarajevo from 25-27 February. The nations represented - Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Sain ...
• 15 February 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Galle Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has, 15 February 2005, appointed Bishop of Galle (Sri Lanka) Bishop Harold Anthony Perera, until now Bishop of Ratnapura. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 15/2/2005 ...
• 15 February 2005
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - New Rector appointed for São Pio X Inter-Diocesan seminary in Maputo Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 December 2004, appointed Rector of São Pio X Inter-diocesan Seminary in the archdiocese of Ma ...
• 15 February 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church in front line to provide emergency aid following floods in six states of Venezuela: at least 16,000 people homeless Caracas (Fides Service) - Venezuela is facing an emergency following torrential rains and floods over the last week affecting six states in the west and centre of the country and in the Andes region (Carabobo, Vargas, ...
• 15 February 2005
  To mark the 150th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception a new edition of “Biblioteca Mariana” by Rev. Ippolito Marracci first published in 1648 to be presented in Rome on 19 February Rome (Fides Service) - To mark the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and the 4th centenary of the birth of Father Ippolito Marracci, Marian theologian and author, the Order o ...
• 15 February 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - "Be a Light for all to see" says former parish priest now Bishop of Auki at blessing of new parish at Noro attended by Christians of various denominations Honiara (Fides Service) - After years of challenge and hard work the Catholic Community at Noro, Gizo diocese Western Province, Solomon Islands, proudly witnessed the fruit of their efforts as they dedicated their new ch ...
• 15 February 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Political tension must stop, or we risk a civil war” warn Catholic Bishops of Zambia Lusaka (Fides Service)- In a statement dated 15 February on ‘Concerns of Governance’ the Catholic Bishops of Zambia voiced concern for the future of the country. “As Church leaders, we are concerned by the endemic ...
• 15 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Local Church’s intervention to help process of disarmament, demobilisation and reinsertion of militia: Meeting in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A meeting to discuss how the local Church in Democratic Congo can help in the programme for disarmament, demobilisation and social reinsertion of troops involved in civil war started yesterday, ...
• 15 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Saint Thomas Mount” shrine in Malayatoor, Kerala, celebrates 'international pilgrimage centre' status Cochin (Fides Service) - Saint Thomas Mount in the Malayattor mountains, Kerala where Saint Thomas the Apostle is said to have prayed and meditated, celebrated its new status of International Shrine on 13 February with a ...
• 15 February 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL “The murder of Sister Dorothy highlights the need to disarm hands and spirits without succumbing to intimidation, making a patient effort to promote a culture of peace” say Catholic Bishops of Brazil Brasilia (Fides Service) - Following the brutal assassination of American born Sister Dorothy Stang of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame on 12 February in Anapu in the south west region of the state of Para, ...
• 15 February 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Islamic separatists organise bomb blasts in various parts of the country: “Dialogue must be resumed: violence can only bring death”, a missionary tells Fides Manila (Fides Service) - “We condemn all forms of violence and terrorism. It is urgent to resume dialogue. Violence can only bring death. The separatist rebels must lay down their weapons and the army must not seek rev ...
• 14 February 2005
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Pope appoints new Vicar Apostolic of Darien Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 February 2005, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Darien (Panama) Reverend Father Pedro Hernandez Cantarero, C.M.F., Director of the Claretian Centre o ...
• 14 February 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Bishop of Cabinda resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 11 February 2005, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Cabinda (Angola), presented by Bishop Paulino Fernandes Madec ...