News

• 16 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - First volume of “ Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate” Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate have published the first volume in French of “Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: France at the time of the Founder ...
• 16 July 2004
  VATICAN - “...will we soon be dominated by a new race built in a laboratory? Who will be father and mother, I? You? And tomorrow who will be our parents?” These questions posed by professor Edmund Pellegrino, former President of Catholic Universities in America recently on Italian television, are answered for Fides by Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice President della Pontifical Academy for Life: “The being is the border for man to remain human and the principle of humanity to remain integral, indeed to be promoted by all ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The advent of the Neolithic era in the history of humanity led man out of the caves and set him to conquer the world; man became a shepherd and a farmer, he learned to work metal and bui ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan and its wars: less conventional arms (hunger) less conventional soldiers (children). Fides spoke to Mill Hill missionary who has just published a book on Sudan and its conflicts “Travelling With Soldiers and Bishops” Khartoum (Fides)- “The civil war in Sudan is a complex war. It is too simple to describe it as a conflict between ideologies of North and South ” Mill Hill missionary Fr Mathew Haumann in Sudan told Fides. Fr Haumann ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Pastoral and social-charity work in Popokabaka diocese south west Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Schools, medical centres and soon a Radio station are the main services offered by the Catholic diocese of Popokabaka in south west Congo, according to the local Catholic news agency DIA. Pop ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops meet Christian members of parliament: religious discrimination must stop; India’s Catholics have a role in society New Delhi (Fides Service) - Efforts to eliminate religious discrimination, offer equal opportunities to all religious communities, lift pressure on India’s Christians, promote development of poorest people: these were ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 1,300 seminarians in the tiny community of 600,000 MyanmarCatholics, which prepares missionaries for central Asia Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is rich in vocations, Bishop Nicholas Man Thang, Bishop of Hakha diocese told representatives of Aid to the Church in Need organisation. The Bishop was recen ...
• 16 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - The rosary and a statue of Our Lady are the banners of a successful Great City Mission, ‘put out to sea’ in Lima, capital of Peru Lima (Fides Service) - Praying a Dawn Rosary is a custom which is increasingly popular among families Lima as part of the City Mission “Put out to Sea”. Very early before dawn more and more people gather at home or i ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Peace talks for Darfur start in Ethiopia S. Egidio community observers among those present Rome (Fides Service)- “The fact that the talks are taking place is already a good sign” Vittorio Scelzo, a S. Egidio Observer to a meeting between the government of Sudan and the two rebel movements fighting governme ...
• 16 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “We cannot win the battle with AIDS unless we win the war on TB”. Tomorrow Fides Dossier on main killer for HIV+ patients and the complex situation of TB which strikes mainly the Continents of poverty. 9 million cases each year Rome (Fides Service) - In his first address to the World Conference on AIDS in Bangkok former South African president Nelson Mandela said that to fight AIDS it is necessary to fight TB which kills more than 5,000 people ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage and charity: Tian Jin pilgrims to Cang Zhou offer spiritual and material help to local orphans Tian Jin (Fides Service) - Recently a group of 220 people from Xi Kai parish in Tian Jin, not far from Beijing, went on a pilgrimage to Cang Zhou in Hebei province led by assistant parish priest Father Li Dong. According ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Already 20,000 enrolments for European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with the theme: "Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope" Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - " Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope " is the theme of the 2004 European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela which draws young people from all over the continent. ...
• 15 July 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Church in France engages in mission via web site run by lay Catholics Paris (Fides Service) - The Mission of the Chaldean Catholic Church born of the preaching of St Thomas the Apostle and which has its cradle in Iraq, has begun a mission via the Internet with a new web site www.mission-ch ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini International Migration Institute offers theological and sociological formation on themes of Migration and a new Masters Rome (Fides Service) - “We are very happy that our Institute has been recognised by the Congregation for Catholic Education. We intend to continue our work of studying the different migratory realities, from two approa ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Amidst drought and corruption Kenya’s political crisis deepens Nairobi (Fides Service) - The President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki has warned of the threat of drought but his call was all but ignored by the local media more interested in the debate in course since the British representati ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Former East German factory workers occupy German Embassy in Maputo for a few hours Maputo (Fides Service)- The occupation of the German embassy in Maputo by a group of forty people was “a demonstration out of exasperation over a situation of impasse which has dragged on for years ” according to loc ...