News

• 4 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - First day of school in Iraq, photos of Saddam removed from text books: eyewitness tells Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)- Catholic Iraqi priest Rev. Nizar Seeman told Fides about the first day at school in northern Iraq. It is 7.45 in the morning I am in front of the elementary school. I see boys and girls, many ar ...
• 4 October 2004
  OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Small Catholic community in New Zealand offers highly appreciated quality education: Bishop of Auckland speaks with Fides Auckland (Fides Service) - The Bishops of New Zealand are grateful to the Pope and his collaborators in the curia for their encouragement and concern. Although the Church in New Zealand is small it is fully committed to ...
• 4 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Hindu network to bring peace to travailed region of north eastern India the scene of violence and bomb blasts: Catholic Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil takes concrete action in Assam Guwahati (Fides Service) - The Catholic Archbishop of Guwahati in Assam state is fully committed to keeping peace and preventing any return of indiscriminate violence in north eastern India. Archbishop Thomas Menamparamp ...
• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops of India open news-website www.theindiancatholic.com: everything you ever wanted to know about the history, service and mission of India’s Catholic community New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Media and Information Office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI announced the launching of a news-website on October 1, 2004 to provide information on the Catholic faith, ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Bishop of Ndola appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 1 October 2004, appointed Bishop of Ndola (Zambia) Bishop Noel O’Regan, S.M.A., until now Bishop of Solwezi (Zambia). (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 1/10/20 ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Coadjutor Bishop of Lusaka appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 1 October 2004, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Lusaka (Zambia) Bishop Telesphore Mpundu, until now residential Bishop of Mpika (Zambia). (S.L.) (A ...
• 1 October 2004
  VATICAN - Feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux opens Missionary month of October with its culminating event on 24 October World Mission Day: “Eucharist and Mission” open the Year the Eucharist Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), proclaimed patron of the missions with St Francis Xavier in 1927, is the first day of the Missionary month of October which will ...
• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Padilla, Prefect of Prefecture Apostolic Ulaanbaator in Mongolia, shares his missionary experience Taipei (Fides Service) - Recently Catholics in Taiwan heard about missionary work in the mysterious and fascinating country of Mongolia when Bishop Padilla, formerly a missionary in Taiwan and today Prefect of Prefecture ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 10 million dollar programme to disarm rebels fails, only 32 men hand weapons to UN troops. UN mission in eastern Congo expires today. Towards an agreement to extend its mandate and boost its numbers Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A French proposal to send another 5,900 UN peacekeepers to Congo and extend its mandate has met with approval. The UN mission in Congo MONUC, consisting of 10,500 men deployed in the east of th ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Eucharist: source and summit of mission”, 1st European Meeting of Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups in preparation for the Year of the Eucharist Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 10 October Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups from all over Europe, a fruit of the 15th Word Youth Day held in Rome in 2000, will be in Rome for the 1st European Meeting. At the end of t ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - new European University of Rome: Fides puts three short questions to Father Paolo Scarafoni, Rector of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College Rome (Fides Service) - The eternal city has its first European University of Rome a private college with full state recognition. The promoters are the Legionaries of Christ, a religious institute of men founded in Mexico ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “Referendum on new Constitution postponed for technical reasons” according to Fides sources Bujumbura (Fides Service) -“The referendum on the new Constitution was postponed for reasons which were purely technical and have nothing to do with politics” local sources in Bujumbura, capital Burundi, told Fides w ...
• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Missionary month of October looking towards North Korea and laity as chief agents in the Church’s mission Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Support for missionary activity, with prayer, sacrifice and material offerings is important because it helps sustain and nourish the whole Church” Bishop Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong, President of ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Closing message from National Mission Congress: “time for the Church in Italy to start a new stage on its missionary journey” Rome (Fides Service) - “In recent decades the Church in Italy has made a missionary journey rich in fruits but the time has come to start a new missionary stage”. This statement is part of a Message issued at the end ...
• 30 September 2004
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Coadjutor Bishop of Palmerston North resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has, 30 September 2004, accepted the renunciation of the office of Coadjutor of the diocese of Palmerston North (New Zealand) presented by Bishop Owen Jo ...