News

• 14 May 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “One of our greatest concerns is the situation of violence insecurity in which our people have to live ” says Catholic Bishops’ Conference Guatemala City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Guatemala have voiced deep concern for the situation of violence and insecurity with which the people have to contend every day and the crisis in values which is t ...
• 14 May 2004
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the faith among these people”: Father Marco Mikalonis, missionary from Argentina shares with Fides his first Easter in Lithuania. Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was deeply moving to see the Easter sun rise on a land where 50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the people’s faith” Father Marco Mikalonis a young missionary from A ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - One quarter of the initiatives to help people suffering from HIV/AIDS are run by Catholic organisations: the contribution of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood Vatican (Fides Service) - “According to the United Nations report on AIDS, 42 million people in the world are HIV+ and of these 19 million are women and 3.2 are children under 15. In Africa more than 11 million childre ...
• 13 May 2004
  Looking for something at Fides? Now you can find it a the click of a mouse New Fides “Site Search” allows you to search the contents of all the publicly available WWW documents at this site, news, dossier and in depth reflections published by Fides Service (Fides Service 13/5/2004 - Righe ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Society of St Peter Apostle supports 80.000 seminarians in formation all over the world: “changing the mentality and encouraging shared commitment for missionary cooperation ” Rome (Fides Service) - Capillary work to make seminarians in missionary territories understand that they are being supported by mission offerings and the great effort made to collect and distribute this aid, and this in ...
• 13 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The right to life cannot depend on geography.” Appeal to fight AIDS in Africa launched by international conference organised by the Sant’Egidio Community Rome (Fides Service) - Today May 13, an appeal to fight AIDS in Africa was signed by 13 African health ministers attending an International Conference organised in Rome by the Sant'Egidio Community. AIDS is a silent th ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU Appointment of Catholic woman as minister for the family and to overcome poverty meets with approval Bissau (Fides Service)- “Catholics in Guinea are very pleased that a Catholic woman Eugenia Saldania has been appointed Minister for the Family and to overcome Poverty” Father Davide Sciocco of Radio Radio Sol Mansi ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses General Chapter of the Pauline Fathers and Brothers: “Be first of all men of prayer and joyous witnesses of unswerving loyalty to Christ. At the head of every project, may there be the divine Master, towards whom must converge all apostolic and missionary activity in a field, that of social communications, most important for new evangelisation.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Strive always to combine necessary professional competence with ongoing effort for holiness. Be first of all men of prayer and joyous witnesses of unswerving loyalty to Christ. At the he ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS DEL 16 MAY - Nimatullah Al-Hardini (1808-1858): the «Saint» of Kfifan, a man of God and a man of science. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Nimatullah Al-Hardini, a Lebanese Maronite monk, was born in 1808 at Hardin, in the north of Lebanon. At the baptismal font he receives the name of Youssef. He belonged to a Maronite family ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Tragedy of forced Congolese repatriates expelled by Angola: national Caritas intervenes Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Caritas Congo is coming to the assistance of Congolese expelled from Angola (see Fides 21 and 26 April 2004). According to the local DIA Catholic news agency sponsored by the Catholic Bishops Co ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tragedy of forced Congolese repatriates expelled by Angola: national Caritas intervenes Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Caritas Congo is coming to the assistance of Congolese expelled from Angola (see Fides 21 and 26 April 2004). According to the local DIA Catholic news agency sponsored by the Catholic Bishops Co ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Calm charged with tension in Kano northern Nigeria after recent clashes. Fides sources say hundreds were killed in the violence Kano (Fides Service)- “The situation is still tense although at the moment there is no fighting and the city lives in relative calm” say local Church sources in Kano, northern Nigeria, where Muslim extremists recentl ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA- “A Concern for Peace, Unity And Harmony in Uganda” Easter Message of the Catholic Bishops essential to understand the present national situation Kampala (Fides Service) -“We can never, never keep silent on this great evil in our country. We can never say enough has been done to restore peace” the Catholic Bishops of Uganda say with regard to the civil war whi ...
• 13 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - General elections, tolerance wins: in peace, harmony and social progress - Congress Party in the lead: Bishops’ Conference spokesman tells Fides New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The people of India have voted for peace and social harmony. They have chosen not to give in to fundamentalism, not to mix politics and religion, they have demonstrated that they want a sec ...
• 13 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Prayer, forgiveness, reconciliation in 20 years of Christian-Muslim dialogue in southern Philippines for Silsilah Movement founded by a Catholic missionary from Italy Zamboanga (Fides Service) - Twenty years ago it seemed a utopia, the idea of a visionary: today Silsilah Movement for Christian-Muslim dialogue is a splendid reality in Mindanao, where there is Muslim minority group of a ...