News

• 7 July 2004
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “With its lies the government is pushing half of the population towards poverty!” says Archbishop Pius Ncube Bulawayo, second largest town in Zimbabwe Harare (Fides Service)- “People have nothing to eat. People are dying because the government is lying ” Archbishop Pius Ncube, Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest town said in his discourse f ...
• 7 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - India’s Bishops welcome government’s promise to draft a law to protect religious minorities- Link Fides: to origins of Christianity in India New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have welcomed the government’s decision to draft a law to protect religious minorities in India. The spokesman of the Bishops’ Conference Father Babu Joseph, ...
• 7 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Desperation, violence against exhausted people fleeing from a war without end. Latest report by UN High Commission for Refugees Khartoum (Fides Service)- Despite a cease fire signed in April by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups fighting in the western Sudan region of Darfur continues to cause thousands of civilians to flee their homes, ...
• 7 July 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “We risk epidemics because the streets are lined with tons of refuse. What are the NGOs and UN in the city doing?” an Italian missionary in Monrovia asks Monrovia (Fides Service)- “We have peace but the country still lacks essential services. It is enough to take a look at the streets in the capital filled with refuse which no one collects” Father Mauro Armanino, Ital ...
• 7 July 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Country has 5 million people HIV + and 600,000 have no access to anti-retroviral treatment Pretoria (Fides Service) - In South Africa more than 5 million people are HIV+ and one out of every mother is HIV+ which means that each year 70,000 children are born HIV+. Only 25% of the population can afford to pay an ...
• 6 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - On the horizon a second round of voting for Indonesia’s president Jakarta (Fides Service) - There will probably be a second round of elections for presidency in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country with 230 million people 87% Muslim. About 80% of the more than 150 mill ...
• 6 July 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Day against sexual abuse and violence on the feast day of Saint Maria Goretti Sydney (Fides Service) - A day of prayer and awareness promotion to eliminate sexual abuse and violence was held in Australia to mark 6 July feast of Saint Maria Goretti. The initiative, launched by the Catholic Women� ...
• 6 July 2004
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Bishop Paul Michael Boyle of Mandeville resigns , Bishop Gordon Dunlap Bennet appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 6 July 2004, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Mandeville (Jamaica), presented by Bishop Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. ...
• 6 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Reawaken and strengthen faith and missionary witness of young Peruvians to help them respond with greater generosity and courage to the challenges of new evangelisation”: about 2,000 young people expected to take part in 3rd National Youth Mission Congress in Arequipa. Arequipa (Fides Service) -Arequipa, Peru’s “white city” will host from 4 - 8 August at San Jose College the 3rd National Youth Mission Congress with the slogan “Young person your life is mission!”. To reawaken ...
• 6 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Opera Don Orione: Rev. Flavio Peloso new Director General. Miguel Esser from Chile new Co-ordinator general of Orione lay movement Ariccia (Fides Service) - This morning 6 July the 12th chapter general of the of the Sons of Divine Providence elected a new Director General in the person of Rev. Flavio Peloso, 7th successor of Saint Luigi Orione canon ...
• 6 July 2004
  UNITED NATIONS/UNAIDS - UNAIDS issues two yearly report on AIDS in 2004 Rome (Fides Service) - In view of the 15th World Conference on AIDS in Bangkok from 11 to 16 July, UNAIDS, the United Nations’ department for fighting AIDS, published a two yearly report on AIDS in 2004. The report gi ...
• 6 July 2004
  EUROPE/SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO - International Symposium opens celebrations to mark Carmelite centenary at Sombor Sombor (Fides Service) - To mark 100 years of Carmelite presence in Sombor, a town with a population of 50,000 in the Vojvodina region situated about 150 km north west of Belgrade, 18 speakers from 4 different countries ...
• 6 July 2004
  UNITED NATIONS - The world has 1.3 billion smokers. Tobacco kills 5 million each year. International law imminent Rome (Fides Service) - The World Health Organisation has said that a tobacco control treaty adopted in 2003 will become an international law before the end of this year 2004. Tobacco kills almost five million people eac ...
• 6 July 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - “We will do everything in our power and within the limits of the Church’s mission to save the process of transition”: message from Catholic Bishops of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A strong position in favour of the country’s transition process has been taken by the Catholic Bishops of Congo. The process began in June 2003 with the formation of an interim national unity ...
• 6 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops, shepherd of God’s people have “the duty to look at the signs of the times in the reality of the country and to take care to illuminate, on the basis of faith, the situations in which the people of God live”. Bishops’ Conference plenary discusses Problems and challenges of Colombian society Bogota (Fides Service) - “Evangelisation and Christian Initiation” is the theme of a plenary assembly of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference opened yesterday 5 July at the Conference’s offices in Bogota. Cardinal P ...