News

• 1 September 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Rev. Gregory Joseph van Dyk appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 8 July 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in South Africa for ...
• 1 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Exemplary Catholic father dies at 102 after bringing up a family of 13 and giving the Church two bishops, two priests and two women religious Mangalore (Fides Service) - Mr Emmanuel D’Souza, Catholic lay man very active in his local church in the diocese of Mangalore, Karnataka died recently at the age of 102. Besides being a family man and a teacher, Emmanu ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living a year with a difference” with Jesuit European Volunteers JEV: 32 young people start commitment as Jesuit Volunteers which will take them to various parts of the world Munich (Fides Service) - “A year with a difference” starts today, 1 September 2004, for 32 young adults who have signed up for a preparatory Course to work with the Jesuit European Volunteers JEV. According to a repo ...
• 1 September 2004
  VATICAN - “The Church needs Catholic Action” the Pope writes in a message to participants at International Congress of the Catholic Action Association Vatican City (Agenzia Fides)- “Today once again I would like to say: the Church has need of Catholic Action! Remembering must be merely a nostalgic returning to the past it should stimulate new awareness of the preciou ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Go out with enthusiasm to embrace your mission!” Cardinal Sepe said during the Mass to open the Catholic Action International Congress. “You are missionaries of daily life and bearers of hopes which are strong and founded” Rome (Fides Service) - “The task of announcing Jesus Christ Church falls to the Church as such, the whole Church and therefore to each one of her sons and daughters. Therefore we all, because of baptism are sent like C ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage”. Catholic Action International Congress opens in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage!” This call which the Pope John Paul II addressed to delegates attending the 11th Assembly of Catholic Action Italy on 26 Apr ...
• 1 September 2004
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - New hopes for release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor in prison in Saudi Arabia for his Christian faith says Middle East Concern Riyadh (Fides Service) - There are new hopes for the release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor, a Catholic working in Saudi Arabia arrested and imprisoned because of his faith earlier this year. Daniel Hoffman, direc ...
• 1 September 2004
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Mission continues: vocations flourish in the Pacific Islands Papeete (Fides Service) - Thanks to years of missionary activity in this local Church and the high quality of formation offered at the major seminary Our Lady of Pentecost in Tahiti, there is a steady rise in the number ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Catholic Bishops voice the closeness of the entire Church in France to the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, to their families and to all journalists: “we share their anxiety and their hope”. A call to French Catholics to unite in prayer. Paris (Fides Service) - Solidarity with the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot taken hostage in Iraq has been voiced by the Catholic Bishops of France in two different statements. The President of ...
• 31 August 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Rev. Father Guillermo A. Morales Martinez appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 16 July 2004, appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Mexico for a fi ...
• 31 August 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Rev. Patrick M. Kabba appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 24 June 2004, appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Liberia for a f ...
• 31 August 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Initiatives and activities for a special national Eucharistic and Marian Year opened by the Church in the Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - The Church in the Philippines has just opened a special Eucharistic and Marian Year August 2004 to September 2005. The announcement of the Year was made by the Bishops after a plenary assembly in ...
• 31 August 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Word of God brings hope to prisoners facing death penalty or life imprisonment at Kamiti high state security prison Nairobi (Fides Service) - Recently in Nairobi, the DSP Sisters, Daughters of Saint Paul, succeeded in carrying the Word of God to 4000 detainees at Kamiti maximum security state prison. In agreement with the chaplain the ...
• 31 August 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest stabbed to death in Kerala: local Church deeply shaken New Delhi (Fides Service) - Catholics in Kerala, south west India, are deeply shaken after a priest, Father Job Chittilappilly aged 71, was murdered his home next to the parish church of Our Lady of Grace in the town of ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Making a fresh start from Loreto with new vigour for our missionary work”: presentation of Pope John Paul s meeting on Sunday in Loreto with Catholic Action members from all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - During a press conference to present a special meeting next Sunday, September 5, in Loreto, of Catholic Action members from all over the world with Pope John Paul II, Paola Bignardi president of Ca ...