News

• 28 September 2004
  ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides Lahore (Fides Service) - “We are very pleased that president Musharraf will have a meeting with the Pope. This will be good for the Church in Pakistan and for the whole country” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission” is the title of a 74 page ‘Bischofswort’ (Bishops’ Word) issued by the Catholic Bishops of Germany at the end of their Au ...
• 27 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Bishops strongly condemn this attack on Catholic Sisters, in Kerala yesterday” the spokesman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, Fr Babu Joseph Karakombil told Fides. “W ...
• 27 September 2004
  October 2004: “That the due presence of Catholics in national life and in the media of the Latin American continent may increase” Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention. Comment by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the post-synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in America”, Pope John Paul II encourages lay Catholics to be fully aware of their dignity as baptised Christians and he calls on bishops and p ...
• 27 September 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda will host 15th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of East Africa Kampala (Fides)- Uganda will host the next Plenary Assembly of AMECEAthe Association of Bishops’ Conferences of East Africa . According to CISA Catholic news agency in Nairobi Kenya, the Ugandan Bishops are preparing t ...
• 27 September 2004
  VATICAN - At his midday Angelus reflection the Pope says “personal resources must be used not selfishly but with solidarity”: to guarantee justice and development with solidarity is the “way to guarantee the world a future peace” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence, Pope John Paul II reflected on the Sunday Gospel on the parable of the rich man and the p ...
• 27 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope grant audience to Papal Nuncios in Africa: “continue to be witnesses of communion, helping to overcome tensions and misunderstandings and the temptation of particularism, and to strengthen a sense of belonging to the one and undivided People of God” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 September at the end of the morning in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II gave a special audience to Papal Nuncios from Africa taking part in a meeting ...
• 27 September 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 50 Congregations of men and women religious in Peru take part in 1st National Mission Exhibition : “In Peru today…Mission is alive!” Lima (Fides Service) - As part of celebrations and initiatives for World Mission Day 25 October, the National Mission Centre of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference has organised the first ever National Mission Exhibition ...
• 27 September 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Mine fields prevent return of Angolan refugees difficult: air lifts to repatriate 4,000 from Namibia Rome (Fides Service) - The first in a series of air lifts to repatriate Angolan refugees to Huambo in central Angola organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in collaboration with the International Or ...
• 27 September 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Super tuberculosis: new forms of antibiotic resistant. Every year 8.7 million contract TB and 2 million die Rome (Fides Service) - New forms of antibiotic resistant TB could cause a global epidemic: a few modifications would enable them to spread rapidly. Researchers in the United States engaged in two separate studies revea ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - BSE warning: blood transfusions could spread human form of mad cow disease, British Health Ministry warns Rome (Fides Service ) - The Brutish Health Ministry has warned that some 6,000 patients who received blood transfusions in the UK since 1999 could be exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob NV, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
• 27 September 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - How to make “Christian hope” credible in the context of conflict in Colombia: theme for discussion at 9th National Theology Congress 7 to 9 October Bogota (Fides Service) - “Reflect on Christian hope from the theological and pastoral point of view in the present context of conflict in Colombia and to offer guidelines for activity to promote the Christian experienc ...
• 27 September 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Help uproot culture violence among youth: the Church’s contribution Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Recently Archbishop Brian Barnes Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, PNG called for more attention to youth policies and a specific national service to study and fight the widespr ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - National Mission opens today: first conference - “a changing world” - by Senegal’s minister of scientific research Rome (Fides Service) - Some 1600 people have gathered for Italy’s 3rd National Mission Congress at Montesilvano, Pescara, 28-30 September on the theme “Communion and Co-responsibility for Mission”. The congress is ...
• 24 September 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - Initiatives for the Month of the Bible include “Exhibition of the Christian Book”: the smallest Bible in the world among the books on show Lima (Fides Service) - As part of the “Month of the Bible 2004” 31 August to 3 October, the Office for Catechesis, Biblical Pastoral and Pastoral Care of Indigenous Peoples of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference has ...