News
12 March 2004
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Meeting of Pontifical Mission Societies Diocesan Directors: analysis of missionary progress during the year 2003 in the different dioceses and study of CAM2 conclusions
Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Argentina held a National Meeting for diocesan directors in Buenos Aires 2 and 3 March. The meeting, chaired by National Director Rev. Father Jairo Cald ...
12 March 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - AIDS, the disease today: “there is an AIDS of the rich and an AIDS of the poor ” says Italian Camillian Brother Grigoletto in mission in Burkina Faso
Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of 2002, according to estimates by UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation WHO, 42 million of the world’s people were living with AIDS. In 2002 alone 5 million people contracted HIV/A ...
12 March 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Christians request is granted: Good Friday will remain a bank holiday in Karnataka state
Bangalore (Fides Service) - The governor of Karnataka in India has said that Good Friday will remain a Bank Holiday, as requested by the local Christian community in that state. Fides received the news from Bangalore dio ...
12 March 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslims and Christians called to share solidarity projects: 430 people attend meeting organised by the Catholic Bishops’ Commission for Interreligious Dialogue
Kasur (Fides Service) - Working together on solidarity projects is a way to strengthen relations between Christians and Muslims: this was affirmed by an interreligious assembly of more than 430 people including Muslim an ...
11 March 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly audience teaching: “To counter all forms of evil the just man puts faith, goodness, forgiveness and the offering of peace ”.
Vatican City (Fides) - “We are in the presence of a regal psalm of ancient Israel proclaimed in the temple of Zion during a solemn rite. It invokes divine blessings on the king...” with these words Pope John Paul II ...
11 March 2004
VATICAN - Holy See Press office statement with regard to arrest of Chinese Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 10 at the end of the morning the Director of the Holy See press office, Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, released the following statement:
“The Holy See learned with concern and sadn ...
11 March 2004
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A referendum, contemplated by the Constitution, can serve, in times such as these, to catalyse and relieve tension
Caracas (Fides Service) - The situation in Venezuela today is terribly complex because of evident polarisation in almost all sectors of national life and this makes it extremely difficult to speak of it, and “almost im ...
11 March 2004
VATICAN - The Pope prays for victims of terrorist attacks in Madrid
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope John Paul II has voiced his deep grief and sympathy to the people of Spain after the string of bomb blasts in Madrid’s underground this morning in which 170 people were killed and at ...
11 March 2004
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria’s religious leaders stress the importance of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue for solving serious social problems
Abuja (Fides Service)- “Being a good Christian or a good Muslim necessarily implies brotherly love, compassion, truth, justice and equality in relationships with others”. This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops of ...
11 March 2004
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “The commencement of the work of a Special Court for Sierra Leone is another step in the process of a return to normality” says Catholic Bishop of Makeni
Freetown (Fides Service)- “This is another step in the process of a return to normality for Sierra Leone” Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi, Bishop of Makeni, told Fides referring to the official opening yesterday, 10 March, of ...
11 March 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - “Allô Elections”: new Catholic two-monthly periodical will follow electoral campaign preparing for Congo’s elections in 2005
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Provide media support for various initiatives taken by the local Catholic Church in view of elections scheduled for 2005: this is the objective of “Allô Elections”, a brand new two-monthly ...
11 March 2004
AFRICA/MALI - 100 eye operations in 10 days, restoring the sight 100 Africans is the result of a first “Restore Light” mission of St John of God Brothers
Rome (Fides Service) - 100 eye operations in 10 days, restoring the sight 100 Africans, men women and children, blinded by untreated cataracts. This was the result of the first humanitarian mission of ‘Restore Light’ ...
11 March 2004
ASIA/INDIA - “Christian are small in numbers but they can be important for the vote in India. We hope that fundamentalist Hindus do not prevail ”: Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in India speaks to Fides
Bangalore (Fides Service) - “In the coming elections the Christian community, though a minority in India can play a vital role in some parts of the country. In some places the votes of Catholics can even affect the fi ...
11 March 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 400 people die Dengue fever in the past year in 32 of Indonesia’s 38 provinces
Rome (Fides Service) - It is the rains season and Indonesia is suffering from an epidemic of Dengue fever, or beak bone fever, which can be mortal. The fever is raging in 32 of Indonesia’s 38 provinces but the highest ...
11 March 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Building a culture of peace and reconciliation: Lenten commitment in Jayapura diocese
Jayapura (Fides Service) - A Lenten campaign to build reconciliation and tolerance has been launched in Jayapura diocese in the Indonesian province of West Papua, (or Irian Jaya), affected by violence and fighting as the ...
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