News

• 8 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope leads prayers for the children killed in Beslan and all innocent children abused by adults: This is the “anguished cry of childhood offended in its dignity”. Prayers for justice and peace in the world include the safe return of Italian women social workers taken hostage yesterday Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today, the liturgical feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, during his general audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II said once again that it is the duty ...
• 8 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Carrying the Bible to remote areas of India: Centre for research and translation of Sacred Scripture has a special mission Bangalore (Fides Service) - In Bangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka besides various industries and famous institutes of research there is also the World Bible Translation Centre WBTC which has the mission ...
• 8 September 2004
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - Warning and appeal from Papal Nuncio in Georgia: “We need ideas and means to ensure that the whole of the Caucus region does not turn into a powder keg”. Caritas Georgia (southern Ossezia) helps children in Beslan, northern Ossezia as well as exhausted displaced persons in its own region Rome (Fides Service) - “The massacre of the innocents a few days ago in northern Ossezia shook the world. But not to be forgotten either are more than 3,000 women and children in southern Ossezia, Georgia, who fled vio ...
• 7 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for new Bishops - Archbishop Mons. Nikola Eterovic Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops illustrates the institution: “The Synod of Bishops is a valuable fruit of the Council” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The post synodal exhortation ‘Pastores gregis’: an example of synodal method”: was the subject of a talk which the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, Archbishop Nikola Ete ...
• 7 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for new Bishops - “The Good News of Jesus Christ can and must be proclaimed through the press, radio, television and the Internet” says Archbishop John P. Foley Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The proclamation of the Good News of Jesus Christ is the most important communication which human beings can receive and so our main responsibility is to communicate this news in the bes ...
• 7 September 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Free antiretroviral therapy: Taiwan government policy appears successful. Annual average rate of new cases of HIV drops from 0.391 to 0.184 Rome (Fides Service) - Thanks to the Taiwan government’s decision to give HIV+ patients free access to antiretroviral therapy or HAART, the rate of transmission of the virus has dropped by 53 per cent. Recent research ...
• 7 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: parties continue talks in Abuja. Crux of the problem disarmament of all the armed groups present in this western Sudan region Khartoum (Fides Service) - While in Abuja, Nigeria negotiations between the Sudanese government and the two rebel movements in Darfur, the international community is discussing measures to be taken with regard to Khartou ...
• 7 September 2004
  AFRICA/GHANA - Catholic Bishops of Wet Africa urge respect for democracy and good government, conditions for development and peace Accra (Fides Service) - “The Church and good governance” was the title of statement issued at the end of the 10th plenary assembly of the English speaking Catholic Bishops of West Africa who form the AECAWA. They wer ...
• 7 September 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Archbishop of Manila would like Congress to pass a “religion tax” to help support the Church and other religious communities, as in some European countries Manila (Fides Service) - The Catholic Archbishop of Manila, Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales has suggested that the Church and the people of the Philippines would benefit from a “religion tax” similar to legislation in c ...
• 7 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - The Pontifical Mission Societies, “a central pillar of the bridge which the Church is building towards peoples and religions through evangelisation and dialogue”: Father Fernando Galbiati, PIME Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The existence and the activity of the Pontifical Mission Societies are an important reality in the Church today” said Father Fernando Galbiati, PIME, Secretary General of the Pontifica ...
• 7 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA Christians and other believers come together to pray and rejoice at the memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, on 7th anniversary of her death, first since her beatification Calcutta (Fides Service) - All over the world the Missionaries of Charity, the Sisters of Mother Teresa, were joined by well-wishers in their prayers and joyful commemoration of the Mother 4 and 5 September, the 7th anni ...
• 7 September 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Seminars of formation and awareness campaigns to promote respect for human rights and the human dignity of every person: tireless efforts of Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Church in Pakistan Lahore (Fides Service) - In a country where Muslim fundamentalist groups are active, the local Catholic Church is tireless in its efforts to promote a culture of peace, the encounter of civilisations and social and inte ...
• 6 September 2004
  VATICAN - Contemplation, communion, and mission: John Paul II assigns tasks to Catholic Action in a Loreto. “Today, through the event of the beatification of these three Servants of God, the Lord says to you: the greatest gift you can give to the Church and the world is holiness.” Vatican City (Fides) - On Sunday 5 September Pope John Paul II left his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo by helicopter to fly to Montorso valley near Loreto, where he presided a Concelebration of Mass on the occasion ...
• 6 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “I wish to say thank you to the Vatican and also to the people of Italy for important moral support in these days. All together in fact we must say “no” to terrorism”: statement by Orthodox Bishop Feofan of Ossezia opens 18th Meeting of “Religions and cultures: the courage of a new humanism” organised by S. Egidio Community Milan (Fides Service) - An unexpected address opened the 18th Meeting of “Religions and cultures: the courage of a new humanism” organised by S. Egidio Community being held at Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan until tomor ...
• 6 September 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “With social justice peace is possible”- initiatives for National Peace Week started yesterday: promoting peace, human rights and reconciliation Bogota (Fides Service) - A National Peace Week with the theme “With Social Justice Peace is Possible” started on Sunday 5 September in Colombia. The goal of the initiative is to “develop actions involving the diffe ...