News

• 24 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Saturday 27 November 2004, 8th National Food Collection Day: sharing basic necessities in order to share the meaning of life. Rome (Fides Service) - This year’s national Food Collection Day, involving 4,000 supermarkets all over Italy, including 200 in Lazio region and 130 in the city of Rome alone, scheduled for 27 November, was presented th ...
• 24 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - People are still dying in northern Uganda despite recent negotiations Gulu (Fides Service)- “We are waiting with great expectation. There is an atmosphere of cautious hope, although the situation is still unsettled” said a missionary in Gulu, in northern Uganda ravaged for many years t ...
• 24 November 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur recent developments Rome (Fides Service) - There are reports of fresh fighting in the western Sudan region of Darfur tormented by months of civil war. Today, 24 November, the Sudan Liberation Army one of the two anti-government rebel moveme ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Seminars, prayers, marches to increase awareness during “Peace Week” in Mindanao 25 November to 1 December Manila (Fides Service) - “A reconciled family is an agent of reconciliation” is the theme of a Peace Week organised in Mindanao 25 November 1 December, launched by the Bishops Ulama Forum comprising Catholic and Prot ...
• 24 November 2004
  VATICAN - “Rediscovering the authentic image of the parish" theme of Pontifical Council for the Laity plenary assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Rediscovering the authentic image of the parish" is the theme of the 21st plenary assembly Pontifical Council for the Laity which opens today in the Vatican. The theme takes its inspirat ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Outbreak of Dengue: 14 dead and 60 admitted to hospital in Sumatra Rome (Fides Service)- Fourteen people have died and about sixty have been admitted to hospital in Medan, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in a violent outbreak of Dengue or break bone fever. The hospitalised patient ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Stop the political feud which is bloodying the country: essential condition for re-launching peace process Colombo (Fides Service) - It is necessary to stop the long series of political homicides in order to give new impulse to peace talks in Sri Lanka, local Church sources told Fides. Although the cease fire is respected, m ...
• 23 November 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope appoints new auxiliary Bishop of Bukavu Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, appointed, 22 November 2004, Auxiliary Bishop of Bukavu (Democratic Congo) Mgr. François Xavier Maroy, Vicar General of the same archdiocese assigning ...
• 23 November 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, appointed on 22 November 2004 Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela (Democratic Congo) Father Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M. Cap., Vice-Provincial of his religious O ...
• 23 November 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe addresses Seminarians in Yangon, Myanmar: “The vocation to the priesthood is the most wonderful ‘adventure’ God offers a man” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his homily addressed to Seminarians at St Joseph’s Major seminary in Yangon this morning, 23 November, during his pastoral visit to a number of countries in south east Asia, Cardinal ...
• 23 November 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - info: Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of Cardinal Sepe’s pastoral visit to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some information on Thailand. Area 513,115 sq. km Population: 63,500,000 (density ...
• 23 November 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “I am grateful to the Pope for this act of confidence in me” the newly appointed Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela in Congo told Fides Rome (Fides Service)-“I am deeply moved by my appointment as Bishop of the diocese of Bokungu-Ikela” Capuchin Father Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M. Vice-Provincial of his religious Order in Democratic Congo told Fi ...
• 23 November 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cease fire in Darfur violated. Government declares state of emergency Khartoum (Fides Service)- Peace seems unattainable in Darfur, the martyred north western region of Sudan where a violent civil war has raged for many months. On Sunday 21 November fresh fighting caused some 30,000 people ...
• 23 November 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Some 5,000 participants expected for Missionary Feast in Guatemala City to mark first anniversary of CAM 2 and open local initiatives for the Year of the Eucharist Guatemala City (Fides Service) - At least 5,000 people from parishes all over the archdiocese are expected to gather for a great Missionary Feast on Sunday 28 November in Guatemala City to encourage missionary vocations ...
• 23 November 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Season of Advent and Christmas a good time to rediscover mission in the family: call from National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Australia Sydney (Fides Service) - Christmas is a time for giving and “getting involved in charity can be a very rewarding experience for families, especially at Christmas” Father Terence Bell National Director of the Pontific ...