News

• 6 July 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - New Vicar Episcopal appointed for Catholic diocese of Pyongyang: hopes for new springtime of the Church in North Korea Pyongyang (Fides Service) - Even at difficult times the Church in south Korea has never lost hope of starting once again to evangelise in north Korea and help the faith to flourish. Today these hopes are closer to coming ...
• 6 July 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - AIDS: Asia like Africa 15 years ago: 7.4 million HIV positive Rome (Fides Service) - According to a Report issued by UNAIDS, in many countries of Asia AIDS is rapidly spreading. Among the reasons for Asia’s 7.4 million HIV positive, scarce or total lack of information, although ...
• 5 July 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Peter Liu Cheng-Chung appointed Coadjutor of Kaohsiung ...
• 5 July 2004
  ASIA/KOREA - New diocese Uijongbu Bishop Joseph Lee Han-Taek appointed first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has 24 June 2004, created the diocese of Uijongbu (Korea) with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Seoul rendering it suffragan of the same metropolit ...
• 5 July 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Every day eight children become orphans because their parents (31% aged 18-24) are killed in violence Rome (Fides Service) - In 2003, at least 2,895 children in Rio de Janeiro, eight every day were orphaned becuase of violence, of these 83% were children or adolescents. This was said by the Brazilian daily “O Globo” ...
• 5 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Polling stations closed: good turnout 150 million Indonesians place first ever vote for President Jakarta (Fides Service) - Good turnout, no incidents so far, great hopes for today’s elections say Fides sources in Jakarta where 150 million Indonesians expressed their choice for the new president of the world’s mo ...
• 5 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 57th Missiology Week at Burgos: “This is the hour of Mission! Organisms of missionary animation, spaces for communion ” Burgos (Fides Service) - From 12 to 16 July in Burgos there will be the 57th edition of national Missionary Weeks. The theme chosen for this year is the following: “This is the hour of Mission! Organisms of missionary ...
• 5 July 2004
  VATICAN - Swahili version of Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Day 2004 “Ekaristi na Misioni” now available Dar-es-Salaam (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II’s Messge for this year’s World Mission Day, celebrated in most countries on Sunday October 24, is now available in Swahili spoken by the Bantu people and used as a li ...
• 5 July 2004
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope tells people about the recent visit of Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I: “Christians can and should always collaborate even when there are divisions and conflict. This is an eloquent manner of announcing the Gospel of peace to a world marked sad to say by unbalance and violence.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday July 4, during his address before the Angelus prayer, once again Pope John Paul II reminisced about the recent visit he received by the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantin ...
• 5 July 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Addis Ababa at the centre of continental diplomacy. Tomorrow African Union Summit. From capital of Ethiopia UN Secretary-General suggests a ‘Green Revolution’ for Africa Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- The Darfur tragedy, the situation in Democratic Republic of Congo, the crisis in Ivory Coast, tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea. These are the main themes on the agenda for discussion by h ...
• 5 July 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Twenty days of intensive formation for 102 catechists from parishes in Liao Ning Liao Ning (Fides Service) -The Liao Ning Community Formation Centre in Liao Ning (north east China) holds courses for priests, religious and laity, catechists in particular. As every year before the Summer the Centre off ...
• 5 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “With the re-opening of the border with Rwanda, Bukavu can breath again at last” local sources tell Fides Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “On Saturday 3 July at 10am to border between Congo and Rwanda was opened and supply trucks started to cross into Congo. This is an important sign of hope for a speedy return to normality ” ...
• 5 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - In 25 years 35 new infections, experts study remedies, from Sars to pandemics of influenza Rome (Fides Service) - Thirty five new infectious diseases have emerged in the last 25 years including HIV, BSE, Ebola, SARS and various aggressive viruses passed from birds to humans. These epidemics were favoured by po ...
• 3 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Monday 5 July Indonesia will elect a new president: fears and hopes for a nation balancing between Muslim fundamentalism and democracy Jakarta (Fides Service) - Indonesia, the world’s most popular Muslim country, which in recent years started out on the path to democracy, struggling with ferments of dangerous fundamentalism, is about to elect a new pr ...
• 3 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Candidates and strategies in first direct presidential elections Jakarta (Fides Service) - This is the first time that Indonesians will vote their president. During the dictatorship (1966-1998), and in the following years, the President was elected by the People’s Consultative Assem ...