News

• 29 October 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Rumours of war. “No one here has disarmed, indeed, all have rearmed and if war resumes it will be a blood bath” local sources told Fides Abidjan (Fides Service) - Tensions grows in Ivory Caost since the New Forces rebels accused the President, Laurent Gbagbo, of wanting to take rebel controlled areas with force. At a press conference in Bouake, the main ...
• 29 October 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “before becoming activity, mission is contemplation and willingness to be part of God’s plan and goodness” the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil said at the 1st Missionary Congress organised by the archdiocese of Vitoria (ES) Vitoria (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Vitoria closed twelve months of reflection and intense activity including forum, formation, sharing of experience and other events organised for a special “Year of Mission� ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, president of Bishops’ Conference, visits Fides: “We are not afraid of attacks on Christians by Hindu fundamentalists: this only strengthens our faith and we view the future of the nation with optimism” New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - At a time when Hindu attacks on Christians in India continue, the Catholic Church in India continues to bear witness to Christ and looks ahead with Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, Archbishop of Ra ...
• 28 October 2004
  Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention for November 2004: That all those who work in the missionary will never forget that personal holiness and intimate union with Christ are the source of the efficacy of evangelisation. Comment by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Dean emeritus of the College of Cardinals Vatican City (Fides Service) - We all know that in his long pontificate and even recently Pope John Paul II has elevated numerous men and women, priests and consecrated persons, members of religious families to the honou ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - 3,300 doctors, nurses in hospitals health centres serving the country’s poor Rome (Fides) - CHAI, an Indian Catholic Healthcare NGO one of the most important in the world in the sector, has organised a campaign to guarantee “universal access to basic health care services for the poor and the ex ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Mission Sunday with Missionaries” celebration in Seoul Cathedral. “The authentic Christian is always missionary” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “On Mission Sunday with Missionaries” was the title of a Meeting for representatives of male and female religious congregations in South Korea held in Seoul Cathedral on 24 October Mission Sun ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - “Ai Min Hospital” built and managed by German Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing Beijing (Fides Service) - The latest missionary endeavour of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing (Germany) is the well equipped modern Ai Min Hospital in Mei he kou, a town in north eastern China in Ji Lin on ...
• 28 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - 4.000 Italian charismatics at 28th Renewal in the Spirit Conference Rome (Fides Service) - Animators of the Italian branch of Renewal in the Spirit charismatic movement from all over the country will attend the 28th Renewal in the Spirit Conference in Rimini, 29 October to 1 November, to ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Thank you Holy Father for your words of comfort: you have strengthened our faith and hope” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Iraqi Christians are grateful to the Pope for his words of encouragement which strengthen our faith and hope amidst so much hardship and suffering” Fr Nizar Semaan, a Catholic priest in Mosu ...
• 28 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Bukavu main town in eastern Congo hub of political activity. Tomorrow Bukavu commemorates Archbishop Munzihirwa murdered in 1996 Bukavu (Fides Service) - Leading government members continue to visit Bukavu the main town in South Kivu, in the east of Democratic Congo. Last week vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo spent the morning in Bukavu “ ...
• 28 October 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Were trucks of arms confiscated in rebel controlled zone for president’s supporters or was it simply a provocation? Catholic Bishops appeal for peace Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The situation is so confused that there are at least 20 versions of the truth”, a local source in Bouake told Fides. Bouake is the main town in the hands of New Forces rebels in Ivory Coast ...
• 27 October 2004
  VATICAN - At the general Audience the Pope teaches on second part of Psalm 48 which “condemns Illusion generated by the idolatry of wealth and riches” and launches an appeal for Iraq: “I encourage Christians to continue with generosity to offer their fundamental contribution to promote reconciliation of hearts” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Illusion generated by the idolatry of wealth and riches is “a constant temptation for humanity: by grasping money thought to possess invincible power, people deceive themselves even that ...
• 27 October 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Rosary Congress: an opportunity to meditate on the mystery of Christ through the eyes of Most Holy Mary Seville (Fides Service) - An international Rosary Congress organised by the Mount Sion Confraternity in collaboration with the Dominican Province of Andalusia will be held from 28 to 30 October in Seville (Spain) on the ...
• 27 October 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Let us help the Pope to make sure that the Gospel of Jesus reaches all people, especially those who have never heard it”: during Mission Sunday Mass Papal Nuncio encourages missionary activity Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Hundreds of people, mainly young people and children, from over the country crowded into Guatemala City Cathedral for Mass on World Mission Sunday presided by Archbishop Bruno Musaro, Pap ...
• 27 October 2004
  “A Euro to Help a Child”: Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome launches 3rd fund raising campaign to open a new ward Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8th the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome will launch a 3rd fund raising campaign with the motto “A Euro to Help a Child” involving 35,000 tobacconists and lottery ...