News

• 8 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Church in Korea commemorates its national martyrs, proudly honouring brothers and sisters who died for the faith Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea’s martyrs, the founding members of the Catholic Church in that country, are always commemorated with gratitude and joy as a precious heritage by Catholics throughout the peninsula. Recentl ...
• 8 October 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A mystery mutiny announced by the Premier. Could next year’s election bring hope to a country on the brink of collapse, a people left to fend for itself? Bissau (Fides Service)- “The revolt seems to be over but doubts and concern remain” local sources in Bissau, capital of Guinea Bissau, after the recent army revolt (see Fides 7 October 2004). “Since yesterday eveni ...
• 7 October 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD - New rector of St Luke major inter-diocesan seminary in N’Diaména Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed 8 July 2004, Rector of the St LUke’s major inter-diocesan seminary in N’Djamena, in ...
• 7 October 2004
  AFRICA/ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, confirmed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has confirmed 24 August 2004, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Central African Rep ...
• 7 October 2004
  VATICAN - Year of the Eucharist: tomorrow, to mark the publication of the Pope’s latest Apostolic Letter, Fides opens a new section on the Year of the Eucharist October 2004 - October 2005 with information Papal teaching on the subject, Eucharistic Congresses, Synod of Bishops, how the Year will be celebrated around the world... Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow, 8 October when Pope John Paul’s latest Apostolic Letter for the Year of the Eucharist will be made public, Fides opens a new section (www.fides.org) offering information in view ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christians of many confessions in the Middle East are closer thanks to a new web site opened by the Middle East Council of Churches Jerusalem (Fides Service) - The Middle East Council of Churches has opened a new web site to facilitate contact and exchange of information in a spirit of ecumenism friendship and collaboration among all the Christians ...
• 7 October 2004
  AFRICA - Peace in Africa focus of African Nobel Prize Winners in Dakar Dakar (Fides Service)- A loud call for peace in Africa came yesterday 6 October from African Nobel Prize winners meeting of Dakar, capital of Senegal. Guests invited included premier Nobel for peace 1993, South Africans ...
• 7 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY -Yet another lethal heritage of modern warfare: Campaign to ban Cluster bombs reaches Italy Rome (Fides Service) - An international Campaign to ban cluster bombs has reached Italy. Cluster bombs, yet another lethal heritage of modern warfare, are small explosive bomblets carried in a large cannister that opens ...
• 7 October 2004
  The Pope makes history: the life and the pontificate of Pope John Paul II on DVD Rome (Fides Service) - The first in a series of five DVD on the life and pontificate of Pope John Paul II will be on sale at newspaper stands in Rome from Friday October 8, with every copy of the Italian daily Il Giornal ...
• 7 October 2004
  VATICAN - “A bridge between tradition, which we want to keep alive and not under glass, and modern day production of music which draws inspiration from the great values and transmits them” Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, President of Pontifical Commission of the Cultural Heritage of the Church told Fides. Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of a Press Conference to present the 3rd International Festival of Sacred Art and Music, Fides interviewed Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, President of Pontifical Commission of ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Network of radio stations for peace broadcast messages of reconciliation and solidarity over the air in Southern Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - In the southern Philippines civil and religious leaders and many independent organisations are striving with various initiatives to build a culture of peace starting with families, workers, schoo ...
• 7 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - International Theological Pastoral Symposium prelude to 48th International Eucharistic Congress opens with Solemn concelebration of Mass Guadalajara (Fides Service) - A solemn concelebration of Mass presided by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City opened an International Theological Pastoral Symposium on the Eucharist at Guadalajara ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan, shows paintings in Hong Kong: an encounter of cultures Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Father Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan is not only a scholar of international fame he is an excellent painter and poet. This French born Jesuit is known for ...
• 7 October 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Apparent calm in Bissau after a military revolt in which the staff officer and army spokesman were killed. Latest episode of violence in the country of hunger Rome (Fides Service)- “There is apparent calm in teh city no soldiers to be seen, but not many children have gone to school, most families felt it was safer to keep them at home” local sources in Bissau who ask not ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Global Council of Indian Christians calls on government to eliminate nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies from politics and society New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Global Council of Indian Christians has called on the central government to take special legislative measures to eliminate from politics and social customs in India all trace of nationalis ...