News

• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Internet to evangelise the world: 2nd meeting for Catholic net surfers Rome (Fides Service) - TotusTuus Network is organising 29 and 30 May in Bologna the 2nd meeting for Catholic net surfers. “Internet does not function with hierarchical logic, it is based on the authority of a presence� ...
• 28 May 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Silver microphone” award for best programme in evangelisation goes to “Children evangelising Children” radio programme broadcast from Belém involving local Missionary Childhood Brasilia (Fides Service) - On May 26 at the studios of Rede Vida de Televisão Brasília, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Brazil and UNDA Brazil (Union of Catholic Radio) presented the “Silver Microphone” award fo ...
• 28 May 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN Now that southern Sudan war has ended, tragedy in Darfur must not be forgotten Roma (Fides Service)- Although a peace agreement has ended the war in southern Sudan (see Fides 27 May 2004), the conflict in the western Sudan region of Darfur is still a tragic reality. In Darfur Arab government, mili ...
• 28 May 2004
  VATICAN - New challenges for ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural dialogue in the world of human mobility: 16th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Plenary Assembly confirmed the conviction that dialogue is the indispensable path to enable every person to become really alive, in the search for the truth about God, mankind and th ...
• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Papaboys forum promotes new young opinion movement “Europa Cristiana” Rome (Fides Service) - Europa Cristiana, a new opinion movement of young Catholics in various countries of Europe who want to help the continent re-discover its Christian identity, will be officially launched on Sunday 3 ...
• 28 May 2004
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Letter from the African forest: Italian missionary Father Angelo Ciccone fifty years of giving lepers love and hope Mzimpofu (Fides Service) - The precarious conditions which missionaries face in the mission territory to which they are called does not undermine their determination to serve their brothers and sisters in need, indeed th ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Education and catechesis and social assistance: Marist Brothers in mostly Muslim area of southern Philippines welcome local novices Kidapawan (Fides Service) - The community of the Marist Brothers in Kidapawan, southern Philippines recently gave a warm welcome to two local novices Brother Jeff Rhey Antiquiza and Brother Albert Munoz. Both young men s ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/QATAR - “Religious freedom antidote to fundamentalism”: 2nd International Conference on Christian/Muslim Dialogue opens in Doha Doha (Agenzia Fides) - Some 300 people have gathered in Doha, Qatar, for the 2nd International Conference on Christian/Muslim Dialogue organised by the commission for relations with Muslims of the Pontifical Council for ...
• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Smoking kills 13,500 people every day. World No Tobacco Day: various initiatives, ranging from “Feel Free to Say No” campaign promoted by the European Commission, to the 6th national conference “Tabagismo e Servizio Sanitario Nazionale” organised by the Italian Higher Institute for Health Rome (Fides Service) - Monday 31 May is World No Tobacco Day. In the world today there are 1.3 billion people who smoke and 84% live in developing countries. Smoking kills 13,500 people every day. At the world level 47.5 ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Vote candidates committed to fighting corruption and promoting social development: Bishops advise Catholic in view of presidential elections on 5 July Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Vote for a president seriously committed to preventing the destruction of nature and who has the courage to work to eliminate corruption and punish the corrupt. We need a national leader who ...
• 27 May 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We are the Church precisely because we send missionaries…missionaries are most obvious proof that we are Church ” says Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Ma Rouco Varela, in a pastoral letter for Diocesan Mission Day in Madrid. Madrid (Fides Service) -Madrid Archdiocese will celebrate Diocesan Mission Day on Sunday 6 the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity and Pro Orantibus Day for persons consecrated to the contemplative life who offer their life f ...
• 27 May 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Points of peace agreement signed yesterday ending civil war in southern Sudan. Conflict in western region of Darfur still unsolved. Khartoum (Fides Service)- An agreement to end more than twenty years of civil war between the Sudanese government and SPLA Sudan Peoples Liberation Army was finally signed yesterday 26 May at Naivasha, some 70 km from th ...
• 27 May 2004
  AMERICA - Death toll of floods in Dominican Republic and Haiti rises to 2,000. Local Church takes active part in providing relief aid Rome (Fides Service) - “The dimensions of the tragedy on the Caribbean island La Española continue to grow” Father Luis Rosario Peña in the Dominican Republic told Fides. The death toll in the Dominican Republic is ...
• 27 May 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Fighting in Bukavu east Congo. Uncertainty with regard the dimensions of the episode Kinshasa (Fides Service)-“The situation in Kivu is confused and it is difficult to say what exactly is happening” Xaverian missionaries told Fides. “Shooting continues in the city of Bukavu on the outskirts not far ...
• 27 May 2004
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Crowds mourn Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum one of 30 African bishops who attended Vatican II. Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sends local Church message of condolence: “In love with God and mankind, he strove to build peace, harmony and unity in his country”. Dakar (Fides Service) - Crowds gathered in Dakar Cathedral this morning 27 May to pay their last respects to Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum, emeritus Archbishop of Dakar who died at the age of 83 on May 18 in Marseilles, F ...