News

• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic education commitment increases in highly scientific field: new Catholic College run by Pallotine Fathers will train engineers in west India Nagpur (Fides Service) - Education has always been an important field of service for the Catholic community in India. All over the country Catholic schools province high level of education appreciated and sought after an ...
• 13 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Women of the Gospel for Mission ad gentes today” -22 August 30 September 18th general chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters on Evangelisation Rome (Fides Service) - “What is important for me (and this has been the one and only passion of my whole life, and it will be until my death and of which I am not in the least ashamed) is the conversion of Africa, and ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - International Meeting for Missionaries opens today in Chiclayo, “to renew missionary spirit and underline the need to open Mission Centres in diocese and parishes ” Chiclayo (Fides Service) - From 13 to 16 July to mark the 10th anniversary of the Diocesan Mission Centre in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo, there will be an “International Meetings for Missionaries” with the aim o ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinians play side by side in the World Youth Orchestra with its music for hope Jerusalem (Fides Service) - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land. Just when the World Court in the Hague was declaring illegal Israel’s wall built to keep Palestinians out or in, an orchestra o ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To heal the rift between faith and life, Catholic Bishops of Colombia decide to give new impulse to evangelisation and Christian Initiation Bogota (Fides Service) - “Many call themselves Christians but are not interested in following Jesus, the Lord!” the Bishops of Colombia say in a Message issed at the end of their 77th Plenary Assembly in Bogota 5 to ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Promote a culture of honesty, take part in the process of national transformation, build conditions for peace and intensify struggle to uproot corruption: jobs for Catholics in post election Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - Recently in Manila, after the Congress of the Clergy, the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines gathered in assembly to discuss the Catholic community’s role in the country after the 10 May elect ...
• 13 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Higher Institute for Healthcare heads international Consorzio of researchers to develop AIDS vaccine Rome (Fides Service) - Italy will coordinate the first ever network of European and African researchers to develop preventative and therapeutic vaccines for HIV/AIDS. The programme AVIP is sponsored by the European Commi ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “The main challenge is to continue to help flood victims. The flow of aid must not slacken now that there are difficult months ahead" the Catholic Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros told Fides Rome (Fides Service) - The past year has been difficult for the Dominican Republic. Last September a serious earthquake caused much damage especially in two dioceses including Santiago de los Caballeros. The quake was fo ...
• 13 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Persisting concern for humanitarian situation in east Congo and bordering countries. More than 3 million people in need of assistance Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Humanitarian agencies are alarmed at the situaion in Democratic Congo where recent fighting caused at least 85,000 people to seek shelter elsewhere and in many cases in in Rwanda and Burundi (se ...
• 13 July 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Decisive meeting on 29 July to settle Ivorian crisis”. International study voices concern for a possible war between Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali Abidjan (Fides Service)-“People are expecting great things from the meeting among Ivorian parties on 29 July in Ghana. There is hope but also concern”, a qualified Observer in Abidjan, economic capital of Ivory Coast ...
• 12 July 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Pemba Rev. Ernesto Maguengue appointed Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 24 June 2004, appointed Bishop of Pemba (Mozambique) Reverend Ernesto Maguengue of the clergy of Maputo. The Bishop elect was born on 2 August 196 ...
• 12 July 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop Julio Duarte Langa of Xai-Xai resigns, Rev. Lucio Andrice Muandula appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 July 2004 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Xai-Xai (Mozambique), presented by Bishop Julio Duarte Langa, in c ...
• 12 July 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope prays the Angelus from the mountains: “In silence man can hear deep within his conscience the voice of God who renders him truly free. Vacation time can help cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On July 5 Pope John Paul II started a short holiday in Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta. At midday on Sunday 11 July the Pope prayed the Angelus broadcast on radio and television and greeted t ...
• 12 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” This is the slogan of the National Day for the Union of Sick Missionaries celebrated yesterday by more than 600 sick and elderly people Lima (Fides Service) - On Sunday 11 July Peru celebrated a National Day of the Union of Sick Missionaries with the slogan “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” The Day celebrated by mo ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Zen and the entire Catholic community criticise the new education law passed by parliament Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After Hong Kong’s parliament approved a new education law on July 8, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Zen, has openly voiced his disappointment. The Church in Hong Kong had already p ...