News

• 9 July 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - New Constitution demonstrations stem from fight between president and former political associate Nairobi (Fides Service)- In Kenya a political fight is fast becoming a contest between centre and periphery after recent clashes among police and demonstrators protesting the postponement of the approval of the new Const ...
• 9 July 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Living the family and love with a faith dimension: local Church focuses on education of youth Seoul (Fides Service) - Hedonism, secularisation, moral relativism, are endemic ills in Korean society which often affect the decisions of young Koreans in their personal and social life. With this in mind this year 2004 ...
• 9 July 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New impulse to missione in Asia and Oceania: Christian Brothers take up the challenge Sydney (Fides Service) - The Congregation of the Christian Brothers has decided to give new impulse to evangelisation with new missions in Asia and Oceania, focussing on service to the poor. This was announced by Brother ...
• 9 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Commission for dialogue between Catholic Church and Assyrian Church of the East approves common statement on Sacraments: steps towards unity Thrissur (Fides Service) - Moving towards unity members of the mixed Commission of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East approved a common statement on the Sacraments. The statement will now be examine ...
• 9 July 2004
  AMERICA/CHILE - Italian priest Fr Oreste Benzi in Chile to protect the rights of the Mapuche indigenous people. Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 21 August 2004 the community of Rev. Oreste Benzi (Association John XXIII) will open a camp in Chile. The main objective is to investigate the situation of the Mapuche Indios living in s ...
• 9 July 2004
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Results of legislative elections announced Ulaanbaator (Fides Service) - After some days of protests, the general elections commission has announced the results of parliamentary elections in Mongolia held ten days ago. The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party ...
• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Multi Festival David 2004: a Christian encounter of modern music and art “to translate the Gospel into the language of music” Oviedo (Fides Service) - "Generation Hope" is the slogan of the 19th Multi Festival David 2004 which opened on 8 July in the Spanish town of Los Cabos and will close on Sunday 11. The first Multi Festival David was firs ...
• 9 July 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A decision to send 300 African troops to Darfur, first step towards a continental security system? Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - It is early days yet but could this be a first step towards and African system of security? The decision taken at the end of a conference of heads of states and government of the African Uni ...
• 9 July 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Silent odyssey of forced repatriation to south east Guinea of Guinean emigrants and foreign refugees. Jesuit Refugee Service only NGO present in the area Conakry (Fides Service)- Southern Guinea is living a silent humanitarian emergency as it sees the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Guinean and foreign refugees forced to leave Ivory Coast shaken by a serious political ...
• 9 July 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The local Church calls for a transparent and credible referendum: “We must overcome division and polarisation which have provoked radical reciprocal mistrust” says President of Bishops’ Conference Caracas (Fides Service) - With an opening discourse by Archbishop Baltazar E. Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of Mérida, the 82nd Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference July 7-13 opened in Caracas. Reflecti ...
• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Monasticism builds bridges between religions - Conference on Islam and Christianity organised in Assisi by European Monastic Interreligious Dialogue Commission Rome (Fides Service) - A Conference ‘Islam and Christianity’ organised by the Italian branch of the Commission for Monastic Interreligious Dialogue will take place for 15-18 July at St Joseph’s Benedictine Monaster ...
• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Mission and Missionaries in the Church today - “to evangelise with authenticity demands radical following of the crucified Christ ” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain tells Culture Forum in Barcelona Madrid (Fides Service) - “Evangelising with authenticity means radical following of Christ crucified. It is here that we find the guarantee of ecclesial fecundity” said Archbishop Francisco Pérez, National Director ...
• 8 July 2004
  EUROPE - European Vocations Service meeting concludes: “offer young people courageous and bold ideas that will help them hear Jesus' call to "come and follow me” Strasbourg (Fides Service) - Europe's national delegates for vocations ministry met in Strasbourg from 1st to 4th July 2004 to study the theme Good Master, What should I do? (Lk 18.1): Accompanying young people on the th ...
• 8 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - What lies behind the name Darfur, behind the people in flight? Why are these endless kilometres of sand provoking massacres, raping and famine? Rome (Fides Service)- It is unthinkable that a local dispute between farmers and shepherds, found in many parts of the world, can in a year turn into genocide of civilians. How can a government treat its own people so fe ...
• 8 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The armed groups realise they can never dissuade us in our commitment to oppose violence, indeed we are even more determined and united with the people who are with us and know we are with them and for them”. Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza of Valledupar interviewed by Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - At least 35,000 dead in 40 years of fighting. Fides asked Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza C.M.F., Bishop of the diocese of Valledupar, for testimony on the situation of violence and bloodshed in Co ...