News

• 1 July 2004
  VATICAN - On the continent of Internet criminal motorways connect paedophiles around the world. Numbers, data, profits, soon in a Fides Dossier Vatican City (Fides Service) - A business of 5 billion dollars a year, 30.000 paedophile-pornographic, web sites 12 million images, 2.5 million children aged 10-12 affected. This, and much more in a Dossier which Fides w ...
• 1 July 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Sexual exploitation main form of slavery in the 21st century”: subject of a videoconference at American Embassy to the Holy See Rome (Fides Service)- Sexual exploitation is the main form of slavery in the 21st century and the United States is determined with the help of other countries to fight this turbid trade. This emerged from a video confere ...
• 1 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assisted fecundation: medical ethic and juridical profile. Congress in Rome 2 and 3 July Rome (Fides Service) - Friday 2 and Saturday 3 July in Rome from 9am to 7pm at the Pontifical College, Regina Apostolorum, there will be a Congress on “ Assisted fecundation: medical ethic and juridical profile ”, or ...
• 30 June 2004
  VATICAN - Pope John Paul II receives in audience His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople: may the memory of the history making encounter between Patriarch Athenagoras I and Pope Paul VI in 1964 “prompt a leap forward in dialogue and restoration mutual brotherly relations” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We give thanks to God commemorating together that blessed encounter forty years ago between my venerable predecessor Pope Paul VI, and the venerable Patriarch Athenagoras I. It took plac ...
• 30 June 2004
  VATICAN - At his general Audience the Pope explains the significance of the Pallium: “it expresses the fundamental principle of communion, it recalls that this communion is organic and hierarchical, it shows that the Church, to be one, needs the special service of the Church of Rome and its Bishop, the head of the College of Bishops, lastly it emphasises the Catholicity of the Church” Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the audience this morning 30 June in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II explained to those present the significance of the Pallium which he imposed on the shoulders of the new Me ...
• 30 June 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez of Cuzco, in Rome to receive the Pallium: “Our peoples hunger for God! Our priests are scarce we cannot reach all our people. Religious sects take the opportunity to make new members ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Receiving the Pallium from the hands of Pope John Paul II is doubly significant, firstly because the Pallium is a sign of the mission with which we are entrusted , that is to be Shepherd ...
• 30 June 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam kills at least 3,000 chickens Rome (Fides Service) - According to official sources a new outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam has killed more than 3,000 chickens in different farms in the southern province of Bac Lieu. Laboratory tests show that the birds ...
• 30 June 2004
  UNITED NATIONS - Drug abuse among least 185 million people, 3% of the world population: UN Drugs and Crime Report presented in Moscow Rome (Fides Service) - The production and consumption of drugs in the world is falling. But there is concern for the fact that Afghanistan has resumed its production of 70% of the world’s opium, while on the front of d ...
• 30 June 2004
  EUROPE - The Internet, positive communication, the family: three main topics at Meeting of Spokespeople and Media Officers of Europe's Bishops' Conferences Athens (Fides Service - Organising formation seminars for journalists, both Catholics and others, meetings of webmasters responsible for websites of the Bishops' Conferences, encouraging media offices in Eastern European ...
• 30 June 2004
  ASIA/TURKEY - Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Antioch strengthens ecumenical ties Antioch (Fides Service) - The feast day of Saints Peter and Paul in Antioch situated in southern Turkey near the Syrian border has always been an opportunity for ecumenical prayer and dialogue and a means of strengthenin ...
• 30 June 2004
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “Plan to destabilise the government behind attacks on national independence day” missionary with long experience in Madagascar tells Fides Antananarivo (Fides Service)-“There are political forces which want the situation in Madagascar to precipitate” Salesian Father Cosimo Alvati, director of Radio don Bosco in Antananarivo, told Fides with regard to at ...
• 30 June 2004
  VATICAN - Pope John Paul II: “the unity we search for is first of all a gift of God. We are aware however that to hasten the hour of its full realisation depends also on us, on our prayer, our conversion to Christ.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 6pm on Tuesday 29 June, feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope John Paul II, with the participation of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, celebrated the Eucharist in St Peter’s Square. ...
• 30 June 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - No to a law which banning conversion violating freedom of conscience: joint message from Catholic Bishops and Protestant church leaders Colombo (Fides Service) - “We disapprove the moves to enact legislation to prohibit or restrict conversions and call upon all people of goodwill to stand up for the free exercise of religious freedom and freedom of con ...
• 28 June 2004
  VATICAN - On the solemnity of Saint Peter and Paul Pope John Paul II will impose the Pallium on 44 newly appointed metropolitan Archbishops: Fides spoke with four of the new Metropolitan Archbishops from Taipei, Manila, Calabar and Antequera,Oaxaca Vatican City (Fides Service) - In keeping with tradition on the solemn feast of Saint Peter and Paul, patron saints of Rome, Pope John Paul II will impose the Pallium, symbol of Church unity on 44 new Archbishops of the ...
• 28 June 2004
  Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention July 2004: “That in young Churches the laity may receive more attention and be led to greater effort in evangelisation”. Comment Prof. Andrea Riccardi, founder S. Egidio Community Vatican (Fides Service) - Prayer is a powerful force in the Church who with humility asks her Lord to fill her with the gifts of the Spirit. At this time of the year after Pentecost it is right to pray for the whole Peop ...