News

• 27 October 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - United Nations Security Council will meet in Nairobi to discuss peace in Southern Sudan and the situation in Darfur Rome (Fides Service)-The humanitarian crisis in the western Sudan region of Darfur is still at the centre of international attention. While in Abuja, Nigeria, talks between representatives of the Sudanese government and ...
• 27 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - War in eastern Congo: thousands of women silent victims Rome (Fides Service) - Tens of thousands of women and girls in Democratic Congo are victims of rape, according to a report on the situation in eastern Congo issued by the London based Amnesty International as part of a w ...
• 27 October 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Solidarity is building a Catholic hospital in the Nuba Mountains region: now that peace is in sight we must boost missionary activity” Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides Khartoum (Fides Service)- “In 2005 the people of Nuba Mountains will have a Catholic hospital at their service. We are building the hospital thanks to solidarity from many people” Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid ...
• 27 October 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Equal opportunities, struggle against poverty and social exclusion: presence of Australian Catholic community Sydney (Fides Service) - Education, health, social services and development for all. Equal opportunities for all citizens no matter where they live. This is the request launched by Father Peter Norden SJ director of the ...
• 27 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Loppiano, first Focolari Little Town is forty years old: a thousand people from 70 countries live a utopia of peace come true Rome (Fides Service) - The Little Town of Loppiano, the first of 33 Focolari Centres, is marking its 40th anniversary. Situated on the hills of Tuscany not far from Florence it has schools, industries and craft centres a ...
• 26 October 2004
  OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Bishops joint appeal to government to respect and dialogue with Maori Wellington (Fides Service) - The Catholic and Anglican Bishops of New Zealand have issued a joint statement calling on the government to enter an ‘honest’ dialogue with Maori with regard to a new Bill concerning seab ...
• 26 October 2004
  VATICAN - One Family of God within the Diversity of Cultures: new impulse to the pastoral approach to culture Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the 27th to the 30th of October 2004, the African members and consultors of the Pontifical Council for Culture will meet to give a new impulse to the pastoral approach to culture, star ...
• 26 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - From Peru to Italy: Latin American immigrants in many Italian towns make “Señor de los Milagros” procession. The Pope greets a group in St Peter’s Square Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A group of people from Latin America bearing an image of the famous Señor de los Milagros were among the thousands of people gathered in St Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus with Pope John Paul ...
• 26 October 2004
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - New Bishop of Laghouat appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II appointed 26 October 2004 Bishop Laghouat (Algeria) Rev. Father Claude Rault, M. Afr., Provincial Superior of the White Fathers in Algeria and Tunisia. T ...
• 26 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Not only bombs blasts kill”. Christian girls targeted. Strategy evident: frighten Christians and chase them from Iraq Baghdad (Fides Service) - After a week’s strike to protest threats and violence against Christians on the part of Islamic fundamentalists (see Fides 21 October 2004) Christian university students in Mosul have returne ...
• 26 October 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Bishops from Angola, São Tome e Principe: "Today more than ever Angola needs peace in justice... it is time for profound national reconciliation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today more than ever Angola needs peace in justice, rejecting any temptation to violence. I would remind everyone that violence never solves the problems of humanity or settle disputes. ...
• 26 October 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Prison inmates missionaries through prayer in mission month of October Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Even prisoners can be missionaries, I tell my brothers in prison when I meet them every Thursday and Sunday at Kamiti high security prison in Nairobi” Consolata missionary Father Eugenio Fer ...
• 26 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Unexploded bombs found near a church: police alert, concern among Christians in the Moluccas, but people believe in peace Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - “A new explosion of violence must be prevented at all cost. Christians are concerned but they are confident that the local police will manage the situation” Father Carl Bohm, head of Amboina ...
• 26 October 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - More than 80 people killed and many injured in clashes between militant Muslims and police - Some 1.300 arrests, fear of infiltration of radical elements Bangkok (Fides Service) - Tension in southern Thailand where a Muslim minority group has created disorder in recent months exploded yesterday 25 October when a group of about 2,000 attacked a police station in Tai Bai ab ...
• 26 October 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The situation in Angola two years after the civil war: Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference Rome (Fides Service)- “Two years since the end of civil war in Angola, the country is in a phase of reconstruction which is sure to last for a long time Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso of Saurimo who is secretary of the Ango ...