News

• 6 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - “Evangelisation in India in the Third Millennium” theme of National Meeting for Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies from 14 to 17 September Bangalore (Fides Service) - “Evangelisation in India in the Third Millennium” is the theme of a National Meeting of diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in India to be held in Bangalore 14 t ...
• 6 September 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Youth gives signals of hope in the tormented region of Mindanao: Christians and Muslims unite making concrete requests Cagayan de Oro (Fides Service) - Peace is what the large Island of Mindanao in the Philippines needs more than anything else today. Peace means economic development, social stability, a return of tourists, in a word, th ...
• 6 September 2004
  ASIA/NEPAL - Curfew lifted: demonstrations for tolerance and solidarity in Nepal’s capital: Hindus, Muslims, Buddhist monks, Catholic priests and religious and many lay faithful join street march Kathmandu (Fides Service) - Yesterday in Kathmandu the same streets and squares which only a few days ago were the scene of angry protest and violence, some 5,000 people including representatives of the different religio ...
• 6 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Negotiations between Sudan government and rebels in Darfur continue. International community discusses new UN resolution to end violence. A few thousand refugees, out of more than 100,000, return to the region Khartoum (Fides Service)- Negotiations between the government of Sudan and the two guerrilla movements in Darfur, Justice and Equality Movement and Sudan Liberation Movement continue in Abuja (Nigeria) under the aegis of ...
• 6 September 2004
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Christian churches in Zimbabwe unite to respond to criticism: “it is our pastoral and Christian obligation to call for the immediate repeal of draconian unjust and repressive legislation” Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Churches in Zimbabwe have united to reprimand government over state-orchestrated attacks against the church. Eight groups of different confessions signed the statement. “We, the ecumenical chur ...
• 6 September 2004
  VATICAN - 118 Newly appointed Bishops from mission territories start seminary organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. Cardinal Sepe says “You Bishops are the builders of this Church which has begun a new millennium of her history ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This encounter is expression of the Congregation’s sincere communion with each of your particular Churches as well as providing an opportunity to meet you personally. The aim of our Se ...
• 4 September 2004
  FIDES BACKGROUND INFO- Map of religions in areas where fundamentalism is most violent Vatican City (Fides Service) - There are many crisis areas in the world where religious fundamentalism acts as a catalyser for civil war, ethnic conflict, uprisings. In the present international situation in which terror ...
• 3 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - As part of the Festivities and Papal pilgrimage/visit to Loreto: a Hundred Metres for Peace: 4.500 km relay race to offer the world a message of peace and hope Loreto (Fides Service) - Yesterday afternoon, 2 September in Loreto runners began the first lap of a special relay race which will conclude with the arrival of Pope John Paul II on Sunday. This ‘record’ relay race or ...
• 3 September 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA As part of the “Week for Peace”, Regional Humanitarian Conference to examine situation in Andes area and problems provoked by armed conflict in Colombia Bogota (Fides Service) - As part of the “Week for Peace” 5 to 12 September which will be marked all over Colombia this year, a Regional Humanitarian Conference will be held on the theme “Humanitarian Situation and ...
• 3 September 2004
  VATICAN - On Sunday the Pope will beatify a Spanish priest, assistant to Catholic Action in Spain and two lay members of the Association: Alberto Marvelli and Pina Suriano Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 5 September Pope John Paul II will travel to Loreto for the conclusion of a meeting-pilgrimage organised by Catholic Action where he will celebrate Mass and beatify a Spanish prie ...
• 3 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Theological update on challenges facing mission today: 9th Course of ongoing Formation for men and women Missionaries promoted by the Pontifical Salesian University UPS starts on 20 September Rome (Fides Service) - The theology faculty of the Pontifical Salesian University UPS is holding the 9th Course of Missiology which offers qualified updating of topical themes which challenge missionary activity and witn ...
• 3 September 2004
  AFRICA - Could the massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi in mid August be one of the causes for the increasingly precarious situation in Burundi and Congo? An authoritative opinion Rome (Fides Service)- “African massacres, tribal massacres”. How often the western media dispose of yet another massacre of innocent civilians in this way, offering no help towards discerning the reasons for what wou ...
• 3 September 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on official visit to China clinches cooperation deals for tourism, energy, fishing, trade and investments Beijing (Fides Service) - In keeping with tradition for a newly elected president to visit neighbouring countries at the start of the mandate, on September 2 President Gloria Arroyo, elected in May, started an official t ...
• 3 September 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA “We Are Sent”, Archbishop of Melbourne issues Pastoral letter and opens new Office for Evangelisation Melbourne (Fides Service) - The Archbishop of Melbourne, Mgr Denis Hart sees Evangelisation s a major a pastoral priority and has taken steps to promote the spread of the Good News of Christ. He has started the month of ...
• 3 September 2004
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - United Nations repatriation programme brings one million Afghans home from Iran: returning professionals and experts promise for the future Kabul (Fides Service) - About one million Afghans who had fled to neighbouring Iran are back in the own country hoping to resume life as normal. This is thanks to an operation of voluntary repatriation started in April 2 ...