News

• 23 November 2004
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The figure of the priest, the Year of the Eucharist and Africa’s Year of the Bible, the fight against AIDS were some of the topics discussed by the Catholic Bishops of Madagascar during their recent plenary assembly Antananarino (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Madagascar recently met in the capital Antananarino, for the annual assembly of the local Church Bishop Gustavo Bombin Espino of Tsiroanomandidy reported to Fides. T ...
• 23 November 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - HanDan diocese welcomes 23 new Sisters of the Holy Spirit and the Mother of God: 1,500 attend celebration Han Dan (Fides Service) - Recently in Han Dan diocese a local congregation of women Religious, Sisters of the Holy Spirit and the Mother of God, welcomed 23 new professed Sisters, celebrating the highest number of perpe ...
• 23 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Fight against AIDS, pastoral care for families, free schooling for poor children: Syro-Malabar Synod pinpoints commitments Cochin (Fides Service) - To intensify efforts to fight AIDS, give more attention to family pastoral, continue to offer free schooling for poor children were three priority commitments pinpointed by the Syro Malabar Catho ...
• 23 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Convention of European University Students and pilgrimage of Icon Maria Sedes Sapientiae just returned for Gt. Britain: preparations for 20th World Youth Day in Germany Rome (Fides Service) - As every year Pope John Paul II will preside the annual December Mass for Rome’s university students in St Peter’s on 14 December. A full agenda of initiatives has been planned in preparation f ...
• 23 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - World AIDS Day: awareness campaign focuses on women. Initiatives, photograph exhibition organised by Spallanzani Institute in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - On the occasion of World AIDS Day on 1 December the Spallanzani Italian national institute for infectious diseases in Rome which specialises in treatment and research on HIV/AIDS, has organised a s ...
• 22 November 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims together run New Centre for children in need in southern Philippines Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - Joint efforts of Christians and Muslims in Zamboanga in the southern part of Mindanao in the southern Philippines has led to the opening of a new Centre for poor children and families. The ne ...
• 22 November 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope recalls the Lumen Gentium Constitution promulgated 40 years ago by Vatican II: “a milestone on the Church’s pilgrimage along the roads of the modern world”. Appeal to support communities of contemplative life Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Today, the last Sunday of the Liturgical Year, we celebrate the solemnity of Jesus Christ King of the Universe. It was to Him that the Council Fathers looked when they promulgated on 21 ...
• 22 November 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Courageous Catholics in Iraq continue to rebuild destroyed churches” Catholic priest in northern Iraq told Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The week was dramatic and very difficult for everyone here” Father Nizar Semaan, a Catholic priest in the northern city of Mosul, told Fides with regard to violence in over the past few days ...
• 22 November 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe pastoral visit in Myanmar: “The Feast of Christ, King of the Universe, reminds each one of us that, as disciples, we form part of his Kingdom which we want to extend to the whole world and, in particular, to this Nation Myanmar.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 20 November, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, started a pastoral visit to a few countries in south east Asia. He arrived ...
• 22 November 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Africa: pouring of refugees from one state to another continues to threaten stability in countries such as Liberia, trying to recover from a dramatic civil. At least 13,000 Ivorians have fled to north eastern Liberia Monrovia (Fides Service)- “So far the flow of Ivorian refugees has not caused tension although local radios have appealed to United Nations forces in Liberia to be on guard to prevent Ivorian militia from recruiting am ...
• 22 November 2004
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Catholic media operators and journalists discuss freedom of expression and mass media at the service of peace Dacca (Fides Service) - Freedom of expression as a fundamental right in every society, media at the service of peace and harmony, the importance of sharing of information among countries in Southern Asia were some of the ...
• 22 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - In Europe tropical diseases, TB, skin infections are ever more frequent Rome (Fides Service) - In Europe in the past four years cases of tropical diseases have steadily increased in number: cases of TB and skin diseases caused by parasites and mycosis have doubled. The latest figures were pr ...
• 22 November 2004
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “The fight was with poachers not Sudanese guerrillas” local sources told Fides commenting an army intervention in which 16 people were killed after an attack on a village a hundred kilometres from the Sudanese border Bangui (Fides Service) -“Local media and government authorities say it was a battle with poachers, not Sudan guerrilla groups” said local Church sources in the Central African Republic where on Friday 19 November 16 ...
• 22 November 2004
  VATICAN - “Those who destroy the family, the fundamental tissue of human co-existence, fail to respect its identity and distort its duties and cause in society a profound wound and irreparable damage”: the Pope said in an address to the Plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family Vatican City (Fides Service) - Addressing participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family on 20 November, Pope John Paul II said: “The family, founded on marriage, is a natural and irrepla ...
• 20 November 2004
  VATICAN - Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Sepe on pastoral visit in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, is making a pastoral visit to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia to meet the local Catholic co ...