News

• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments Today: reflection by Giovanni Cantoni, Italian national regent of Catholic Action: association of lay Catholics to encourage the study and diffusion of the Church’s Social Teaching Rome (Fides Service) - “1. «If you love me, keep my commandments» (Jn. 14, 15). The rule given by the Lord Jesus is susceptible to a descriptive historical transcription on the part of a «non protagonist»: observer ...
• 30 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - Mission Cross Pilgrimage and Study Meetings involve young people in Lima and Callao in preparation for the Third National Youth Mission Congress Lima (Fides Service) - In view of the imminent opening of Peru’s 3rd National Youth Mission Congress 4 to 8 August in Arequipa, with the theme “Young man your life is mission”, delegations all over the country enga ...
• 30 July 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ugandan Religious report to Parliament on war in northern Uganda Kampala (Fides Service)- As a “sign of concern for the people in the north victims of civil war” Catholic Religious in Uganda recently presented the national parliament with a report on the war in northern Uganda. Th ...
• 30 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Caritas- Mbujimayi brings relief to humanitarian crisis in Kasai, southeast Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The second Congolese war (1998-2003) affected mainly the eastern regions of Democratic Congo RDC, including east Kasai in the south east of the country where in recent years thousands of people ...
• 30 July 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Heze diocese mourns its Bishop Joseph Wang Dian Duo: ten months of the year he would visit parishes on his bicycle encouraging the people in the faith and administering the Sacraments Heze (Fides Service) -Bishop Joseph Wang Dian Duo, O.A.R Bishop of Heze, Tsachow, mainland China died of a heart attack at the age of 83 on Tuesday 27 July. Born on 3 February 1921, on leaving school in 1938, Joseph en ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: “They should be applied, lived and interpreted in their old and ever new vitality and wisdom says Paola Bignardi, national president of Catholic Action Italy in exclusive article for Fides Rome (Fides Service) - “The times we are living appear ever less capable of “adapting the walls of the earthly city to those of the heavenly Jerusalem ”, to use an expression dear to the heart of Giorgio La Pira. I ...
• 29 July 2004
  VATICAN - On-the-spot investigation at Yaounde by President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of the Sick and Healthcare Workers Cardinal Lozano Barragan, in view of next Catholic World Day of the Sick dedicated to AIDS patients Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Christ Hope for Africa” will be the theme of the 13th Catholic World Day of the Sick on 11 February in Yaounde in Cameroon. Recently Cardinal Lozano Barragan President of the Pontifica ...
• 29 July 2004
  AFRICA/TOGO - Passport returned to Togo Opposition leader thanks to mediation by S. Egidio Community Rome (Fides Service) - The Rome based S. Egidio Community which has often mediated in difficult situations in Africa and elsewhere in the world has achieved another success. Yesterday Wednesday 28 July at the Sant’Egid ...
• 29 July 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - More clashes in east Congo. Fides say reported figure of 300,000 displaced persons is exaggerated Bukavu (Fides Service)- The situation is uncertain and confused in South Kivu, the eastern region of Democratic Congo where, according to international media sources, more than 300,000 people are fleeing Kahele, 60 km fr ...
• 29 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: ‘thoughts’ shared by Luigi Bobba, President Italian Christian Workers Association Rome (Fides Service) - The idea of dedicating a television programme to the Ten Commandments was certainly original and provoking. Provoking because our culture is heavily affected by an eleventh commandment: “do not f ...
• 29 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Violence in the name of God: debate in the Muslim world programme on Italian television Rome (Fides Service)- People are still being killed in the name of a God who never asked for human sacrifices. Unarmed hostages are abducted and executed by improvised courts, which pass death sentences on the basis of s ...
• 29 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Seminar on “Eucharist, Sacrament of Salvation”, in preparation for the Year of the Eucharist announced by Pope John Paul II Ahmedabad ( Fides Service) - The Church in India has welcomed Pope John Paul II’s decision to call a Year of the Eucharist October 2004 - October 2005 and is planning various initiatives to prepare and celebration this ...
• 29 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Sri Lanka's Peace in danger: mutual trust teeters between government and rebels -Catholic Bishops urge parties “persevere on the path to peace” Colombo (Fides Service) - Hopes for peace in Sri Lanka are the lowest they have been for two years, the vice foreign minister of Norway Vidar Helgesen said after a few days of meditating talks between the parties in conf ...
• 29 July 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Schools register increasing number of non-Catholic pupils Brisbane (Fides Service) - The quality of Catholic education is convincing more and more families, regardless of their religion, to choose a Catholic school for their children: about one quarter of the pupils at Catholic ...
• 29 July 2004
  Dengue: World Health Organisation fears that the annual infection rate may reach the 50 million mark. In Panama first mortal case since 1995, developments around the world. Rome (Fides Service) - Dengue or “break bone” fever continues to spread in many countries in the world as the number of people infected rises at an alarming rate. Dengue, which has influenza type symptoms, strikes ma ...