News

• 13 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Corruption, unemployment, poverty: emergencies the new President will have to face without delay Manila (Fides Service) - Awaiting the final results of the elections the first forecasts say outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has an 8 point advantage over her main adversary in presidential elections on 10 May ...
• 12 May 2004
  AMERICA/CANADA-QUEBEC - Mrs Huguette Le Blanc new National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Canada Quebec Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed 7 May 2004, National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies for Canada-Quebec Mrs Hu ...
• 12 May 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Mgr Marie Daniel Dadiet new Metropolitan Archbishop of Korhogo and Rev. Bessi Dogbo new Bishop of Katiola Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 May 2004, made the following changes in the Church in Ivory Coast He has appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Korhogo, Bishop Marie Daniel Dadiet ...
• 12 May 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan has “new martyr”: tragic death of Javed Anjum, young Catholic boy who died after 5 days of atrocious torture inflicted by Muslims extremists bent on making him renounce his faith Faisalabad (Fides Service) - There is grief and concern among Christians in Pakistan after the death of a young Catholic boy Javed Anjum, who died after 5 days of atrocious torture inflicted by Muslims extremists to make ...
• 12 May 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong International Film Festival institutes a Catholic Culture Prize Hong Kong (Fides Service) - During the recent International Film Festival in Hong Kong, a Catholic Culture Prize was instituted by the International Catholic Organisation of the Cinema and Audio-Visuals. The goal of the ...
• 12 May 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The “TaoYuan Centre of Formation for the Apostolate ” promotes prison pastoral Hsinchu (Fides Service) - To promote spiritual and psychological assistance for prison inmates the TaoYuan Centre of Formation for the Apostolate in Hsinchu diocese, Taiwan, organised a meeting at the LongTan Prison for ...
• 12 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly Teaching “We must never let ourselves be ensnared by the obscure tangle of desperation, when all seems lost…neither must we allow ourselves to fall into the illusion that we can save ourselves with our own resources.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Sweet and sincere thanksgiving” coming from the heart of one who has been delivered from death: this was how Pope John Paul described the theme of Psalm 29 (“Thanksgiving for Deliver ...
• 12 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 16 MAY - Josep Manyanet (1833-1901): honour, imitate and propagate the example of the Holy Family of Nazareth Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Josep Manyanet was born into a large and Christian family on January 7, 1933 in North eastern Spain, in the city of Tremp, province of Lleida. He was baptised on the same day at his parish ...
• 12 May 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Clashes in northern Nigeria. “At least one Catholic church has been destroyed by Muslim extremists” Fides receives dramatic report Kano (Fides Service)-“The situation in Kanu is tense. The curfew in force until yesterday was lifted this morning but people are still afraid to leave their homes although police and army troop patrol the streets” lo ...
• 12 May 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 150,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad, 1 million internally displaced person in Sudan: growing concern among humanitarian organisations for situation in Dafur Rome (Fides Service) - Humanitarian organisations are intensifying efforts to assist Sudanese refugees in Chad fleeing violence in Darfur west Sudan. One of these organisations working in Chad is the Jesuit Refugee Servi ...
• 11 May 2004
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Rev. Pierre Claver Malgo new Rector of Saint John the Baptist Seminary in Ouagadougou Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has 30 April 2004, appointed rector of the inter-diocesan Major seminary St John the Baptist in the d ...
• 11 May 2004
  VATICAN - General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: presentation of reports of activity of Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and Pontifical Missionary Union Rome (Fides Service) - After a day of rest on Sunday, the work of the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies resumed on Monday 10 May. The pastoral session being concluded, the assembly will now focus on th ...
• 11 May 2004
  VATICAN - Pope John Paul receives the general assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “I am happy to know that you are in the process of updating your statutes. This means you are ever more determined to carry out your mission of “mercy and peace”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “You, in particular, are "tireless operators of God’s mercy and peace "... In these tumultuous times for humanity the Pontifical Mission Societies, which are at the service of the Churc ...
• 11 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries of Africa, White Fathers start 26th General Chapter: how to meet the new challenges of mission in Africa Rome (Fides Service) - The 26th General Chapter of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, known also as the White Fathers, opened on May 10 at the general House in Rome with a solemn Concelebration of the Eucharist p ...
• 11 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS MAY 16 - Don Annibale M. Di Francia (1851-1927): prayer for vocations, service to the poor and the little ones Vatican City (Fides Service) - Annibale Maria Di Francia was born to noble parents at Messina (Italy) 5 July 1851. At a very young age praying in front of the Eucharist, the source of inspiration of his life, he felt div ...