News

• 3 May 2004
  VATICAN - On the annual Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Pope ordains 26 new priests for his diocese of Rome: “You have been ordained priests in an era in which, also here in Rome, there is a powerful cultural tendency to want to make people forget God... If you are filled with God you will be authentic apostles of new evangelisation, because we can only give what we possess in our heart” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ You have been ordained priests in an era in which, also here in Rome, there is a powerful cultural tendency to make people forget God, especially young people and families. But have no ...
• 3 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope speaks of Europe at the Regina Cæli prayer: “If the unity of the peoples of Europe is to be lasting is cannot be only economic and political. Today the soul of Europe is still one because it refers to common human and Christian values.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - After celebrating Mass in St Peter’s and ordaining 26 deacons as new priests for the Diocese of Rome, on Sunday 2 May, Pope John Paul II prayed the Regina Caeli prayer from his window wit ...
• 3 May 2004
  INDIA - “Give us today our daily rice”: new Caritas India president launches campaign New Delhi (Fides Service) - The new President Caritas India Bishop Peter Remigius, Bishop of Kumbakonam and also head of the Bishops Conference’s Commission for justice, peace and development, has shouldered his task w ...
• 3 May 2004
  VATICAN - Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesu provides tele-medical care for children overseas with an Important agreement to benefit children in South America Vatican City (Fides) - An agreement has been signed between Rome’s Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital (donated by its founders in 1924 to the Holy See) and the Italo-Latin American Institute on 30 April. The hospital n ...
• 3 May 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Disarmament proceeds but Catholic Radio Veritas in Monrovia denounces: “Some of the rebels are moving weapons across the border to Ivory Coast instead of handing them to the United Nations ” Monrovia (Fides Service)- “The process of disarmament proceeds peacefully and with order” a Consolata Missionary Sister in Harbel told Fides. Harbel is 50 km south of Monrovia, capital della Liberia. “However yeste ...
• 3 May 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Great success for Catholic Action Peace March in Burundi. Since January 964 demobilised child soldiers have returned home Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “We launched a clear signal for peace” Father Salvatore Niciteretse, from Burundi told Fides with regard to a peace march organised in April by the local national branch of Catholic Action ...
• 3 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - HOPE Campaign for Honest and Peaceful elections launched by local Church in view of May 10 vote Manila (Fides Service) - A HOPE campaign for Honest and Peaceful Elections has been launched in view of May 10 elections in the Philippines by Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu City, and Archbishop Gaudencio Ros ...
• 3 May 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Bishop José de Queirós Alves appointed metropolitan Archbishop of Huambo Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 3 May 2003, appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Huambo, Angola, Mgr José de Queirós Alves, C.SS.R., until now Bishop of Menongue. (S.L.) (Agenzia ...
• 30 April 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Latin America and Caribbean strive to eliminate hunger Rome (Fides Service) - According to the Rome based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, about half the 40 million poor people in Latin America and the Caribbean are subsistence farmers of whom 26 millio ...
• 30 April 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop Fritz Lobinger of Aliwal resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 28 April 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Aliwal (South Africa), presented by Bishop Fritz Lobinger, in c ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Merauke archdiocese: Archbishop Jakobus Duivenvoorde resigns, Reverend Nicolaus Adi Septura appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 7 April 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Merauke Archdiocese (Indonesia), presented by Archbishop Jakobus ...
• 30 April 2004
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “it is not money first, but people first that will bring effective development” says report from Justice and Peace Commission of the Tanzanian Bishops Conference Dar es-Salaam (Agenzia Fides)-“ Reforms and the budget are yet to show their impact in combating poverty” the Justice and Peace Commission of the Tanzanian Bishops Conference affirms in a report “ BUDGET REVIEW AND ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Hong Kong assists victims of major train disaster in North Korea Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) -Caritas-Hong Kong has organised a collection of funds to provide medical supplies and other relief goods for the victims and their families to Ryongchon in North Korea where on 22 April 2004, t ...
• 30 April 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Technical training and social-health care to help people impoverished by two decades of war Rome (Fides Service) - Since 1998 and Italian association of volunteers for development Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo VIS, has run a programme of technical training and social assistance and health-care in ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Alarm in Indonesia: members of radical Muslim paramilitary Laskar Jihad group land in Moluccas to defend “brother Muslims” and join the “holy war” Jakarta (Fides Service) - There is a red alert in Indonesia’s Moluccas islands where local Muslims and Christians are engaged in new clashes: reliable sources contacted by Fides confirm that members of the Muslim param ...