News

• 22 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday 24 October, World Mission Day an appointment to savour communion with more than a thousand local Churches in mission territories all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - " Hungry for bread, hungry for God " is the theme chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy for World Mission Day 24 October. It is also the underlying theme for formative activities of ...
• 22 October 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani encourages participation in World Mission Sunday: "Although our own local Church has many needs, we cannot be indifferent to the many spiritual and material needs of many less fortunate brothers and sisters” Lima (Fides Service) - In view of Mission Sunday October 24t Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru, recently encouraged Peruvian Catholics to make a special effort to celebrate the day in a ...
• 22 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Concern in India as HIV/AIDS continues to spread Rome (Fides Service) - In India only 2 AIDS patients out of every 100 (12,000 out of 555,000) have access to antiretroviral therapy. More than half who do have access stop therapy after the first year, mainly because of ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Mosul Christian university students strike to protest Islamic fundamentalist violence Baghdad (Fides Service)- “In the face of continued violence against Christians with deep regret Christian university students have staged a strike” a Catholic priest in Mosul Father Nizar Semaan told Fides. “Faced ...
• 21 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Public spending for development: Ethiopia spends 3 dollars per person for healthcare while most industrialised countries spend over 2,000 dollars per person Rome (Fides Service) - The gap between industrialised countries and poor countries continues to expand, aid to the third world is diminishing and the little that does arrive is insufficient. This was the tragic situatio ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christians in Beirut organise torchlight march to show solidarity with Iraqi Christians Beirut (Fides Service) - Lebanon’s Christians are staging a new action of solidarity with Christians in Iraq. This evening the Christian community in Beirut will hold a torchlight procession as a demonstration of sympa ...
• 21 October 2004
  VATICAN - On Sunday 24 October on behalf of Pope John Paul II Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, head of the Vatican’s Mission Department, will preside World Mission Day Mass in St Peter’s preceded by a Saturday prayer vigil in Santo Spirit church near the Vatican Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 24 October on behalf of Pope John Paul II Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, will preside World Mission Day mass at the Altar ...
• 21 October 2004
  VATICAN - Via live TV link with Malta the Pope addresses clergy gathered for International Congress for Priests: “The Lord calls you to be his apostles first of all through holiness of life. It is up to you to make resound everywhere the power of the Gospel’s word of truth the only word which can work a profound change in the heart of the human person and give peace ” La Valletta (Fides Service) - At 11am this morning October 21 thanks to a live Television link with Malta Pope John Paul II addressed participants at an International Congress for Priests 18-23 October at the Mediterrane ...
• 21 October 2004
  AFRICA - Conflict and dialogue between Islam and Christianity discussed by Catholic Bishops of Africa and Germany committed to enhancing communion between Churches of the two continents and fruitful relations with Muslims Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Catholic Bishops of Africa and Germany met in Akosombo, Ghana, west Africa between October 10 and 16 to “enhance communion among the Churches on our two continents and strengthen the witness to th ...
• 21 October 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Preparations for 3rd American Mission Congress (2007) start with meeting of PMS national directors and presidents of mission commissions Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The first preparatory meeting for CAM 3, the third American Mission Congress scheduled for 2007 in Ecuador, was held from 11 to 13 October 2004 at the head offices of the Council of Latin America ...
• 21 October 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Each day 500 people die of AIDS: country acquires patent to produce ‘copies’ of antiretroviral drugs Rome (Fides Service) - A Kenyan pharmaceutical company has been given permission to use the patent of a major European company to produce generic antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS. In exchange the European company w ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Valuable social commitment of Hong Kong’s Don Bosco Charitable Foundation in mainland China Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - For almost six years the Don Bosco Charitable Foundation DBF registered in Hong has assisted youth in mainland China with programmes of education, professional training and assistance for poor ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Newly installed government faced with concerning signs of interreligious tension in eastern Indonesia Jakarta (Fides Service) - As the new government led by newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, settles down to work, reports from the eastern Indonesian region of Sulawesi give rise to concern. In 2000-2002 Sul ...
• 21 October 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - More than 8,000 attend funeral of Catholic priest killed in ambush: “the priest was a target” local sources told Fides Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “We have lost another man of peace” said a priest who attended the funeral of Father Gerard Nzeyimana from Bururi diocese killed in an ambush on 19 October. The funeral was held in Bururi ...
• 20 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - AIDS in Africa, access to treatment: Brother Dr. Fiorenzo Priuli St John of God Hospitaller Brothers, WHO expert for tropical diseases Rome (Fides Service) - Almost 30 out of 90 million Africans are affected by HIV/AIDS. Recently the World Health Organisation approved a programme to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS led by Brother Fiorenzo Priuli, a medical Do ...