News

• 24 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Jihad is exploited to subdue rebel ethnic groups” says a missionary with years of experience in Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service)- “The government of Sudan is used to playing with names in this case it is pulling the wool over the eyes of the international community” a missionary with years of experience in Sudan told ...
• 24 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope grants an audience to the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: “Your presence, animated by religious and missionary fervour, must be a sign and a seed of hope for all you meet” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - This morning at his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II granted a private audience to the members of the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, ...
• 24 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - General Charter of the Comboni missionary Sisters confirms Mother Adele Brambilla come Superior general for another term Rome (Fides Service) - On 23 September the 18th Chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters being held in Rome, elected Mother Adele Brambilla Superior General for another six year term. After the election the chapter memb ...
• 24 September 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan, Bishop of Zhouzhi: meek and humble, ever faithful to the Holy See: under his guidance the diocese developed considerably Zhouzhi (Fides Service) - On September 4 Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan of Zhouzhi in Shaanxi Province, (mainland China), died at the age of 76 comforted by the Sacraments. The Bishop was born on 9 September 1928 and ordai ...
• 24 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian St John of God Brother, the first surgeon to help African children with polio, among winners of 2004 Cuore Amico annual missionary award to be presented on 23 October Brescia (Fides Service) - Until now “Cuore Amico” Fraternity Onlus started in 1991, has assigned its annual missionary award to a priest, a nun and a layperson. This year a Brother has been added to the list. The awa ...
• 24 September 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Inculturating the faith in Europe means opening spaces for transmitting the faith, launching programmes to revitalise Christianity in the cultural spaces of our societies”: National Mission Days conclusions Lisbon (Fides Service) - Europe is fragmented, oblivious of God, dominated by the idolatry of power and possession, according to a statement at the conclusion of the National Mission Days event in Lisbon which this year ...
• 24 September 2004
  Pontifical Urban University Press publishes annual -BIBLIOGRAPHIA MISSIONARIA LXVII 2003. Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Urban University has published its annual Bibliographia Missionaria LXVII 2003. The unique volume offers comprehensive documentation on books and articles on the missionary ...
• 24 September 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In harmony with the Church's annual Brotherhood Campaign, Mission Campaign 2004 focuses on brotherhood and water: “the right to water and respect for creation calls for brotherhood and human solidarity” Brasilia (Fides Service) - For the Pontifical Mission Societies and the whole of the Church in Brazil and the world over, the annual Mission Campaign for the month of October, which has its climax on World Mission Day th ...
• 24 September 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Death toll continues to rise after tropical storm in Haiti: Caritas present with aid and assistance for stricken people all over the island. Port de Paix (Fides Service) - “Yet another calamity, on a scene of poverty, precariousness, social unbalances” Jean Lucien, of Caritas Haiti said in a statement sent to Fides. Jean has just returned from Gonaïves, ...
• 24 September 2004
  AFRICA - Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Congo sign agreement to hasten peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa where 6 million people have been killed in the past 10 years Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Diplomatic initiatives to restore peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa, the scene of years of civil war in Democratic Congo and Burundi continue. Following an agreement between Rwanda and ...
• 23 September 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Mass leads to Mission”: October mission month celebrations in Colombia in harmony with the now imminent International Eucharistic Congress in Mexico Bogota (Fides Service) - As every year the Church in Colombia is about to begin celebrations for the mission month of October which will have its climax on Mission Sunday 24 October, a day marked by the Church all over ...
• 23 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Despite 14.000 missionaries and countless initiatives much remains to be done to ensure that in Italy mission is less preached and more practised”: Interview with Mgr. Giuseppe Andreozzi national Pontifical Mission Societies Director on the eve of the National Mission Congress Rome (Fides Service) - More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the Italian national Mission Congress 27 to 30 September in Montesilvano, Pescara, to reflect on the present missionary situation of the Church in Ita ...
• 23 September 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Fresh outbreak of fighting in north east of Congo causes another exodus of villagers. “The fighting is getting nearer to Goma, the rebel stronghold” local sources told Fides Bukavu (Fides Service) - More than 15,000 people have abandoned their homes because of a fresh outbreak of violence in the south of the eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo, according to the United Nations Mission in ...
• 23 September 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Peace with Indigenous Australians, peace in families, peace among religions: all Australians must cultivate a culture of peace. Australian Bishops issue statement for national Social Justice Sunday 26 September Sydney (Fides Service) - “Peace be with you: Cultivating a Culture of Peace is the title of an 11 page state issued by the Catholic Bishops of Australia in view of the national Social Justice Sunday on 26 September. A ...
• 23 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - X-ray machine installed in Banughapar village dispensary Rome (Fides Service) - In a country whose advanced IT technology makes it a point of reference for many multinational companies and which has the best of space resources at its disposal, including the ability to launch s ...