News

• 6 October 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - More diplomatic efforts to solve crisis in Darfur: British Premier in Khartoum, Libyan leader Gheddafi calls regional min-summit Khartoum (Fides Service)- British Prime Minster Tony Blair starts a five-day visit to Sudan today, 6 October. He will meet the Sudanese President Omar al-Bechir and Vice president Ali Osmane Mohamed Taha and one central ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians targeted: dramatic cry for help and crude tragedy of a story of death raise concern...what can be done? Ninive (Fides Service) - Iraqi Christians have launched a pressing call for help: “Save us, they are killing us! We are being persecuted” a Chaldean Christian in the Al-Baker district of Ninive in northern Iraq not f ...
• 6 October 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching: “The future, not only of a dynasty but of humanity, is guaranteed precisely because the couple offers the world new persons...in our day the West is often incapable of entrusting its life to the future through the generation and protection of new persons” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Reflecting on Psalm 44,11-18 - “The Queen and Bride” (Vespers Monday 2nd week. Reading: Ps 44,11-12.14-15.18) during his teaching at the Wednesday general Audience in St Peter’s Squar ...
• 6 October 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Tension in northern Burundi: at least 1000 Tutsi flee to Rwanda to escape violence Bujumbura (Fides Service) - Although more than one thousand Burundi Tutsi have taken refuge in Rwanda to escape violence, neither the national press nor by the Burundian government have made any reference to the events, ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/QATAR - Qatar will soon have its very first Christian churches. Happy local Catholics give warm welcome to Holy See representative on pastoral visit Doha (Fides Service) - “We are very happy. For years we have been waiting for this moment” local Catholics told Bishop Bernardo Gremoli, Vicar Apostolic for Arabia when he visited them recently and announced that wor ...
• 6 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Leaders of 10 different religious communities gather in Mexico City Catholic cathedral to pray for world peace on Saint Francis’ day Mexico City (Fides Service) - On October 4, the feast day of St Francis of Assisi leaders of ten different religious communities gathered in the Catholic cathedral of Mexico City to pray for peace in the world. The openi ...
• 6 October 2004
  In Assisi 8 to 10 October: AFRICA MISSION - COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT: national meeting on the theme “from giving … to going” Rome (Fides Service) - The 32nd National Meeting “Africa Mission - Cooperation and Development” will take place in Assisi 8 - 10 October at Domus Pacis house in S. Maria degli Angeli to reflect on the theme “fro ...
• 6 October 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Social justice should be a priority for voters”: urges Bishop Saunders chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council Sydney (Fides Service) - Questions of social justice must be a priority for voters on October 9, when Australians will elect a new Prime Minister. The Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Ch ...
• 6 October 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Health care alarm in northern Ivory Coast with rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS. Local Catholic Church supplies medical personnel and supplies to isolated areas Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The healthcare situaiton is critical” local church sources in northern Ivory Coast area in the hands of New Forces rebels for two years now. “The public health system has collapsed. Hospi ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese pilgrims to Lourdes share joyful pilgrimage memories strengthening faith, authentic Christian life style and desire to go on pilgrimage Beijing (Fides Service) - For a group of Chinese Catholics from the Immaculate Conception parish in Beijing last month’s pilgrimage to Lourdes will be a lasting memory. They had such a moving story to tell on their ret ...
• 6 October 2004
  VATICAN - RSS: new tool for evangelisation via the Internet: click to read Fides News without a browser Fides Service - From today thanks to RSS (Really Simple Syndication), you can read Fides News items as they are ready. This new service is operated by a “feed reader” programme which at regular intervals takes thes ...
• 5 October 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Australia inaugurates revised web site more dynamic and user-friendly Sydney (Fides Service) - Catholic Bishops of Australia have a new web site to meet the needs of the Church and be ever more attentive and present in the mass media and new technology spaces for evangelisation. The new w ...
• 5 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Regional Meetings of Bishops in preparation for 5th General Conference of the Latin American Bishops’ Conferences in February 2007: New Evangelisation in Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico City (Fides Service) - The 5th General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, with the theme “Disciples of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church for New Evangelisation in Latin America and t ...
• 5 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Europe, where are you for Africa? Between globalisation and terrorism”. New cycle of CUAMM Saturday ‘Doctors for Africa’ study days Rome (Fides Service) - October 9 will be the first in the new cycle of CUAMM Saturday study days organised by CUAMM ‘Doctors for Africa’ to share with the general public reflections elaborated on themes and questions ...
• 5 October 2004
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - CCEE Bishops discuss the significance of Christianity in Europe: a new Commission for “Evangelisation and Dialogue” with other Churches, religions, beliefs and cultures Leeds (Fides Service) - The event - a four-day assembly of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) at Hinsley Hall, Leeds - was the biggest gathering of senior Catholic bishops in Britain since the Synod ...