News

• 10 February 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Maria, your priests want to see Jesus " theme of 5th International Retreat for Priests Monterrey (Fides Service) - "Maria, we your priests want to see Jesus" is the theme of a 5th International Retreat for Priests organised by the Archdiocese of Monterrey in collaboration with Catholic Charismatic Renewal ...
• 10 February 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Christians who take part in efforts to promote peace and solidarity become valid channels of evangelisation”, says Pope John Paul II in a message to the Church in Brazil for the 2005 Fraternity Campaign Brasilia (Fides Service) - In a message on the occasion of Brazil’s Fraternity Campaign 2005 Pope John Paul II said the Campaign organised every year by the local Church for the past forty years, and this year extended ...
• 10 February 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “May peace encourage cultural renewal and eventually bring democracy” says missionary in Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service)- “There will be a real turning point for the country only if the peace process triggers cultural renewal which will eventually bring democracy. But this will take time” a missionary with yea ...
• 9 February 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Archdiocese of Seoul launches mission to America: priests, religious and lay people on mission for new evangelisation Seoul (Fides Service) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul has set up a new office Catholic Seoul Mission to promote evangelisation in America. In addition to the Korean Foreign Mission Society, established by the Korean ...
• 9 February 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Lent forces us to come to terms with the ‘tsunami’ of sin and evil in our lives” Archbishop of Melbourne says in Lenten Letter 2005 Melbourne (Fides Service) - Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne has said that “parishes communities and individuals have been deep in prayer and practical and financial support for those who had their livelihood destroy ...
• 9 February 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Young people begin to sign up for pilgrimages to Germany for Word Youth Day 2005 Taipei (Fides Service) - Young people in Taiwan anxious to take part in the World Youth day celebrations in August in Cologne, Germany, may enrol from 30 January to 28 February for a place on one of 8 pilgrimages. The 8 ...
• 9 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christians and Muslims will work together to care for “tsunami orphans”: running new Children’s Home in Aceh Aceh (Fides Service) - In Indonesia a mission sent by the Youth Off the Streets Association based in Sydney, which provides assistance and education for abandoned children, has reached an agreement with one of the main I ...
• 9 February 2005
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops’ Conference signs important co-operation agreement with the Ministry for Education to re-launch the country’s school system San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) - On Wednesday 2 February at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica, an agreement for co-operation to develop joint programmes, exchange experience and vari ...
• 9 February 2005
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Minute of Mission radio ‘pill’ of missionary animation produced by Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador informs, forms and animates Quito (Fides Service)- Minute of Mission is a ‘radio pill’ lasting 60 seconds containing a brief, accurate and incisive message on the activities of the Church with testimonials from Ecuadorian missionaries ad gentes ...
• 9 February 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - part of the country wants “a return to constitutional rules to allow the country to vote” Lome (Fides)- Protest on the part of the Opposition continues in Togo with two days of “dead country” with schools, offices and shops closed. Togo has still not recovered after the death of President Gnassingbe Eyade ...
• 9 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Pray for the conversion of hearts” says a Catholic Bishop in the Democratic Republic of Congo according to DIA new agency of the Congolese Bishops’ Conference Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Pray for peace. This is the call for Lent launched by Bishop Stanislas Lukumwena, Bishop of Kole, in the centre of Congo, according to the news Agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference DIA. ...
• 8 February 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - “Unreal silence increases people’s fear” say Fides sources in Lome capital of Togo following death of President Eyadema in power for 38 years Lome (Fides Service)- “A ghost city wrapped in unreal silence which only increases the fear of the people”. This is how Fides sources describe the situation in Lome, capital of Togo, following the death of President ...
• 8 February 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - German Bishops launch annual Lenten Campaign: “United we share. United we fight disease” Friburg (Fides Service) - “United we share. United we fight disease” is the theme of the annual Lenten Campaign launched by Misereor, the humanitarian agency of the Catholic Bishops of Germany, which will open offici ...
• 8 February 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Youth Day on the theme “We have come to adore Him”, in preparation for World Youth Day in Germany Caracas (Fides Service) - The Church in Venezuela will celebrate the 2nd National Youth Day on 13 February, David Miguel Gonzalez, executive director of department for youth and university pastoral of the Venezuelan Bis ...
• 8 February 2005
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “We are witnessing a renewed involvement of the international community. We thank God for this”: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem issues Lenten Message 2005 Jerusalem (Fides Service) - “We are witnessing a renewed involvement of the international community. We thank God for this. We ask him to strengthen the leaders in their new visions” Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Mi ...