News

• 25 June 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Espíritu y Carisma’", 25 years of evangelisation through the press to bring people closer to the Word of God Parana (Fides Service) - The aim of ‘Espíritu y Carisma’, magazine which marked its 25th anniversary on June 23, is to “help the world know, accept and love Jesus as the only Lord and Master and to be 'the sword o ...
• 25 June 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Local community of Opus Dei celebrates Mass of thanksgiving to God for its founder Saint San Jose Maria Escrivá Taipei (Fides Service) - To celebrate the feast day of founder of Opus Dei Saint Jose María Escrivá canonised by Pope John Paul 6 October 2002 in Rome, the local Opus Dei community in Taiwan, guided by Rev. Rolando Sia ...
• 25 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Kerala’s “barefoot missionary” proclaimed “Venerable”, first step towards sainthood Palai (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church of Syro-Malabar rite in Kerala, southern India has obtained recognition of one of its apostles: the Holy See has given the title of Venerable to Father Augustine Thevarparambil ...
• 25 June 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Only justice brings real peace. I will tell this to the American Secretary of State when he comes to Sudan” said Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid Khartoum (Fides Service)- “The fact that Mr Colin Powell is coming to Sudan is a positive sign. I want to meet him, to plead the cause of the weakest members of our country” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Sudanese Catholi ...
• 25 June 2004
  EUROPE/POLAND - Priests, men and women religious laity and seminarians reflect on missionary commitment in their respective communities in the light of the post synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in Europa”. Warsaw (Fides Service) - As in the past, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland will hold an annual Course of Missionary Animation Grade 2, from June 28 to July 4, Father Jan Piotrowski, national director of the Pont ...
• 25 June 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - France’s annual national pilgrimage to Lourdes led by Cardinal Barbarin will include a special pilgrim this year, Pope John Paul II Paris (Fides Service) - Last year Pope John Paul II received an invitation from the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Bishop Jacques Perrier and Bishop Jean-Pierre Ricard President of the French Bishops’ Conference, to vis ...
• 25 June 2004
  VATICAN - “Sport and Tourism, two Vital Forces at the Service of Reciprocal Understanding”: Pope John Paul II issues Message for the Church’s 25th World Tourism Day Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The event tourism should be seen not as one of many events of human activity but as a phenomenon inserted in a unitary and community understanding of humanity and society”, a projectio ...
• 25 June 2004
  VATICAN - “Tourism at the service of the meeting of peoples”: 6th Congress on Pastoral of Tourism Vatican City (Fides Service) - The 6th International Congress on Pastoral of Tourism organised by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples will be held 5 to 8 July 2004 in Bangkok, ...
• 25 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - ACN Italian branch presents Report 2004 on Religious Freedom in the World Rome (Fides Service) - On Friday 25 June the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need ACN presented its 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World ,with the objective of speaking up for the victims of violence, abu ...
• 25 June 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Message for Day of Prayer and Reconciliation and Unity of the Korean People Seoul (Fides Service) - “Break down the wall between north and south Korea and plan seeds of justice peace and joy in Korean hearts”: this is the call launched by Bishop. Lucas Kim Woon-hoe, president of the Korean ...
• 24 June 2004
  EUROPE - A new historic responsibility for the Church in Africa and Europe: in November a Symposium in Rome of African and European Bishops Rome (Fides Service) - The Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) and the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), with the patronage of the Congregation for the Evangelisation o ...
• 24 June 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “In Peru, today… Mission is alive!”: slogan chosen for National Mission Exhibition in Lima next October to promote awareness of missionary work in all its variety Lima (Fides Service) - Peru’s National Mission Centre, under the Commission for Mission of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference, informed Fides that enrolment has started for missionary Congregations and Institutes who w ...
• 24 June 2004
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - First Bishop of Trujillo dies in tragic car accident, funeral tomorrow June 25 Trujillo (Fides Service) - Bishop Virgilio López Irías, O.F.M., appointed first Bishop of Trujillo Honduras in 1987, was killed in a car accident on June 22. Virgilio López Irías was born in La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula ...
• 24 June 2004
  VATICAN - It has been announced that Pope John Paul II will go to Lourdes on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II will make a two day pilgrimage to Lourdes on the 14 and 15 August on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. T ...
• 24 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope receives participants at a meeting of the Union of Aid Agencies for Eastern Catholic Churches: “Your visit brings to mind the situation of the Christian communities in the Churches of the East, in our times sorely tried because of wars, terrorism and other difficulties ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Your visit brings to mind the situation of the Christian communities in the Churches of the East, in our times sorely tried because of wars, terrorism and other difficulties.” Receivin ...