News

• 3 December 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Humanitarian situation ever more desperate. A sea of homeless people from the north is pouring into the outlying districts of the capital Abidjan” PIME missionary told Fides Rome (Fides Service)- In a statement sent to Fides the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions PIME has launched an appeal for solidarity and aid for the people of Ivory Coast. “It is two years now - since September ...
• 3 December 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Unemployment, illiteracy, hunger and run down health services challenge missionaries in Norte Lunda diamond area Luanda (Fides Service)- Lunda Norte was the last of Angola’s provinces to be evangelised. The first missionaries settled here in the early 20th century at Mussuco, in the far north west but because the area was vast, ...
• 3 December 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “In the Church of Christ no difficulties are insurmountable when love, justice and peace meet”: 23rd Ecumenical Conference of Bishop Friends of the Focolare Movement guests of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Rome (Fides Service) - On Friday 26 November forty Christian Bishops, Orthodox, Syro-Orthodox, Apostolic Armenians, Anglicans, Lutherans and Catholics of various rites, coming from 18 different countries met in Nicaea wh ...
• 2 December 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - “The Feast day of St Francis Xavier and the exposition of his relics offer an opportunity to rediscover our great missionary tradition”: Catholic Archbishop of Goa told Fides. Hindus and Muslims join Christians to venerate the Catholic saint Goa (Fides Service) - “The Feast day of St Francis Xavier at this time when his relics are exposed for veneration is an opportunity to rediscover our great missionary tradition” the Catholic Archbishop of Goa Mgr Fel ...
• 2 December 2004
  VATICAN - “The Church in Cambodia is still a small minority, this situation calls us to take our missionary duty towards our non Christian brothers and sisters seriously” Cardinal Sepe says during his pastoral visit to Phnom-Penh Vatican City (Fides Service) - “My heart is filled with gratitude to God our Father for this day and this opportunity to visit your noble country, Cambodia, and to celebrate with you this Eucharist to offer thanks to G ...
• 2 December 2004
  VATICAN - “Mary of Nazareth welcomes the Son of God into History”: 21st International Mariological Congress to mark 150th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Mary of Nazareth welcomes the Son of God to History” is the theme of 21st International Mariological Congress organised by the International Pontifical Marian Academy to mark the 150th ...
• 2 December 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Members of Asian Parliaments unite to rid the continent of poverty, hunger and terrorism Islamabad (Fides Service) - Representatives from more than 30 countries in Asia, from Turkey to Japan, are taking part in an Assembly of Members of Asian Parliaments in Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss major challenges fa ...
• 2 December 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA -“A new idea for Africa”: new professional training centre for young Kenyans in Malindi diocese Malindi (Fides Service) - On Sunday 5 December the Mons. Guglielmo Motulese Professional Training School will be opened at the Pastoral Centre of Malindi diocese. The centre will offer in 5 trades for boys and girls: coo ...
• 2 December 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Eastern Congo hope mixed with fear that war may resume Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We welcome international pressure on Rwanda not to invade eastern Congo” local sources in Bukavu, main town in South Kivu, where tension has risen since the Rwandan government said it inten ...
• 2 December 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Our goal is to sow seeds of peace in the hearts of the people” said Father Tonino of Radio Pacis, the country’s 5th Catholic broadcaster inaugurated at the end of November Kampala (Fides Service)- “It was our Bishop Frederick Drandua who chose the name Radio Pacis because our main goal is to work to promote peace” the Radio’s director Italian Comboni missionary Father Tonino Pasoline ...
• 2 December 2004
  ASIA/HONGKONG - Hong Kong Catholic doctors teach health care in Taunggyi diocese in Myanmar Hong Kong (Fides Service) - A medical team of four Hong Kong doctors and a nurse recently returned from a mission in Myanmar, where, in Taunggyi diocese, one of the poorest in the county, they trained missionaries and lo ...
• 1 December 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the Wednesday Audience: “As the Lord rules the world in truth and justice (cf. Ps. 35:7), likewise the king, his visible representative on earth according to the Biblical perspective, must imitate God’s actions. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 71, one of the ‘royal psalms’ meditated by the Fathers of the Church and reinterpreted in a messianic key, was the subject of the Pope’s teaching at his general Wednesday audien ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/CAMBODIA -info Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of a visit by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some information ...
• 1 December 2004
  VATICAN - “Now, it is our turn to continue the same mission initiated in this territory long time ago!” Cardinal Sepe said from the first Catholic mission in Thailand and Chiang Mai Cathedral Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his pastoral visit in South East Asia the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, visited the church of St Joseph at Ayutthaya, the first Catholic mission in T ...
• 1 December 2004
  VATICAN - Pontifical Council for the Laity publishes “Register of International Associations of Lay Catholics”: 123 associations all over the world with millions of members Vatican City (Fides Service) - In response to a call by Pope John Paul II to make a list of associations of lay Catholics in the world which receive official approval of the Holy See, the Pontifical Council for the Laity ...