News

• 14 June 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Twelve hour adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to mark Corpus Christi: Chinese Catholics welcome with enthusiasm the Year of the Eucharist announced by the Pope Beijing (Fides Service) -All over China Catholics celebrated the annual Feast of Corpus Christi, some on Thursday 10 June and the rest on Sunday 13 June. A priest in Beijing told Fides about the celebrations: “Sunday c ...
• 14 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Faced with misinformation supplied by those who want war, we must let the moderates have their say” say Fides sources in Bukavu Bukavu (Fides Service)- The situation of uncertainty remains in Bukavu main town in south Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after rebel General Laurent Nkunda threatened to take back the city unless a commissio ...
• 12 June 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Vicar apostolic Izabal, Bishop Luis Maria Estrada Paetau resigns and Rev. Gabriel Peñate Rodriguez appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 June 2004 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal (Guatemala), presented by Bishop Luis Maria Est ...
• 12 June 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD - Rev. Joachim Kouraleyo Tarounga appointed Bishop of Moundou Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II has, 3 June 2004, appointed Bishop of Moundou (Chad) Reverend Joachim Kouraleyo Tarounga of the clergy of Doba, Rector of the Major Seminary of N’Djamena ...
• 12 June 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Reverend Joseph Nguyen Chi Linh appointed Bishop of Thanh Hoa Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 21 May 2004, appointed Bishop of Thanh Hoa (Vietnam) Reverend Joseph Nguyen Chi Linh, presently Professor at Nha Trang Major Seminary. The Bishop ...
• 12 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Form laity for mission in Communications: an antidote to spreading Hindu fundamentalism in Orissa State News Delhi (Fides Service) - An eight month formation course in communications for lay missionaries and catechists in Orissa, has been organised by the Orissa Catholic Regional Communications Centre, in agreement with th ...
• 12 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Local Church in Goa committed to protect nature Goa (Fides Service) - The Church in Goa is determined to help protect creation. “Priests, men and women Religious and lay Catholics are called to restore balance in relations between man and nature in Goa”: this call ...
• 12 June 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - President Putin praises Catholic Church’s commitment for street children in Russia Königstein (Fides Service) - With the help of Aid to the Church in Need, pontifical right aid agency, a new church was recently opened in the small town Beresniki, in the Ural Mountains in European Russia. The church de ...
• 12 June 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Katiba Kama Ilivyo”, Catholic radio programme in Nairobi informs people about final draft of new Constitution Nairobi (Fides Service)- “Following a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops in March we wanted to help people understand the contents of the final draft of the new Constitution” Jesuit Father Ludwig Van Heucke tol ...
• 12 June 2004
  EUROPE - Only by voting in these elections will Catholics be able to help build a European Union of men and women committed to bearing the fruit of Christian values, putting themselves at the service of all for the sake of a Europe of the human person, in which the face of God is reflected”: Europe’s Catholics Bishops issue statement in view of elections . Brussels (Fides Service) - “An opportunity to make our values real” is the title of a Statement of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community in view of the Elections to the European Parliam ...
• 12 June 2004
  VATICAN - “Carry Christ to every environment of daily life” is the mission of Cursillos of Christianity Mons. Ubaldo Speranza of the Italian branch of the movement told Fides the day after the consignment of the Decree of Canonical Recognition. Vatican City (Fides) - “You are the deanery of truth and the power of communion” Pope John Paul II said to members of the Movement Cursillos of Christianity during an audience in St Peter’s Square in 2000. Deanery ...
• 11 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Military ‘coup attempt’ in capital Kinshasa fails. “Coup leaders miscalculated absence of presidential guard and President’s apparent loss of popular support” local sources told Fides Kinshasa (Fides Service)- A ‘coup attempt’ in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo appears to have failed. “The shooting has stopped. The state radio has announced that President Joseph Kabila is about ...
• 11 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Michael Augustin of Pondicherry and Cuddalore resigns, Mgr Anthony Anandarayar appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has, 10 June 2004, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (India), presented by Archbishop Michael Augustin, in ...
• 11 June 2004
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Mgr Robert Christopher Ndlovu appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Harare Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II has, 10 June 2004, appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Harare (Zimbabwe) Mgr. Robert Christopher Ndlovu, until now Bishop of Hwange. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 11 June 2004
  VATICAN - On the solemnity of Corpus Christi, the Pope speaks of the “close bond between “celebrating the Eucharist and proclaiming Christ. To enter into communion with Him in the memorial of Easter means at the same time to become missionaries of the event relived in the liturgy”. - The Pope announces a ‘Year of the Eucharist’ starting in October on the occasion of the International Eucharistic Congress Vatican City (Fides Service) - “There exists a very close bond between "celebrating the Eucharist" and proclaiming Christ. To enter into communion with Him in the memorial of Easter means at the same time to become mis ...