News

• 17 June 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - CAM 2 bears more fruits: seven new vocations for mission sent by the Church in Argentina to Kazakhstan and Guatemala. Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “God continues to call missionaries, also through American Mission Congresses CAM. He continues to knock on the hearts of Argentinean Catholics giving rise to new missionary vocations. A ...
• 17 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope creates new Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum of the Latins and appoints first Metropolitan Archbishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 3 June 2004, created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum of the Latins separating it from the Ecclesiastical Province of Verapoly (India). ...
• 17 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Reverend Andrew Marak appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Tura Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 3 June 2004, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Tura (India) Reverend Andrew Marak, parish priest of St. Teresa’s parish in Dadengre. T ...
• 17 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The future as it is - new challenge to blood cancer”: European week against Leukaemia Rome (Fides Service) - ““The future as it is - new challenge to blood cancer ” is the name of an awareness campaign organised by the Italian anti-Leukaemia Association (AIL) in occasion of the 9th European Week aga ...
• 17 June 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Laity and youth active agents of evangelisation, thanks to Focolari Movement in Korea Seoul (Fides Service) - The Catholic church Movement of the Focolari is bearing fruit in South Korea, encouraging laity to take part in evangelisation. Recently about 3,700 young people took part in a “Gen Fest” init ...
• 17 June 2004
  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - THE COURAGE OF LOVE!, “ten words inscribed on the human heart”: Wednesday evenings starting on June 23: seven 50 minute programmes on RAI UNO and RAI International. Rome (Fides Service) - There is growing debate about “garbage TV” and “empty” television programmes especially in the Summer season which is just starting. In view of this we present a ‘different’ sort of pro ...
• 17 June 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Young people, please stay in Iraq!” says Iraqi Catholic priest Father Bashar Warda working to keep hope alive Baghdad (Fides) - “Young people please stay in Iraq and help our society develop!”: this was the calllaunched by Iraqi Catholic priest, Father Bashar Warda, aged 32, who teaches in Baghdad at Babel College for Philos ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop Darius Nggawa of Larantuka resigns, he is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Franciscus Kopong Kung, Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 16 June 2004, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Larantuka (Indonesia), presented by Bishop Darius Nggawa, S.V.D., ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New institute of consecrated life opened in Myanmar based on the spirituality of Saint Theresa the Little Flower Hakha (Fides Service) - “Sisters of the Little Way of Saint Theresa”: is the official name of an Institute of Consecrated Life of Carmelite spirituality, founded jointly by Bishop Nicholas Mang Thang, of Hakha dioces ...
• 16 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the General Audience: unwavering trust in God “our refuge and our strength always near in times of anguish…the world and its vicissitudes are governed by the Lord ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 45, which Pope John Paul II commented during his teaching at the Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square, “celebrates the Holy City of Jerusalem, «the City of God, the holy dwell ...
• 16 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses members of the post-synodal Council for the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops: the new chains binding the continent must be broken “a joint effort must be made by all the forces of society, and especially those of the Church already at work with interventions at every level with abnegation and dedication ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “I called the first Special Assembly the "Synod of resurrection and hope" (Ecclesia in Africa, 13) and it was true because already, here and there, we see the first signs of this new bloo ...
• 16 June 2004
  EUROPE - “Now is the time of a new discovery and proposal of the Gospel for our continent”. Conclusions of General Secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe CCEE Meeting in Belgrade Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the same time that the inhabitants of the 25 nations of the European Union were going to the polls for the election of Members of the European Parliament, the General Secretaries of the Bis ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “We have a real opportunity for peace in Southern Philippines ”: analysis by Father Eliseo Mercado, head of the Office for Justice and Peace of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Manila (Fides Service) - “The Philippines has a real opportunity to end the conflict between the government and rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front MILF in the southern islands”: this is the opinion voiced by ...
• 16 June 2004
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islands consolidates social peace and restarts engines of economy and tourism - local Church works to promote social reconciliation and offer psychological assistance to heal traumas caused by violence Honiara (Agenzia Fides) -Solomon Islands is rediscovering life, hope and serenity a year after the arrival of the peacekeepers from Australia who came to restore order and security in a situation of conflict which had la ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Form laity to carry out pastoral and social tasks: urgency for the Church in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Fides Service) - According to Italian missionary Father Giorgio Pasini, PIME, parish priest at St Andrews Catholic parish in Hong Kong, priests and especially parish priests must get out of their offices and c ...