News

• 30 April 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholic diocese appeals for help to rebuild mission and school destroyed in accidental fire Bereina (Fides Service) - The Catholic mission and mission school at Mainohana, in Bereina diocese, Papua New Guinea, has been completely gutted by an accidental fire. To the dismay of the missionary personnel and the sc ...
• 30 April 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “To promote new evangelisation it is necessary to be open to pastoral conversion which requires a change of mindset, attitudes… and persevering docility to the Spirit who changes hearts” say Catholic Bishops of Mexico in a Message Mexico City (Fides Service) - During their 77th plenary assembly the Catholic Bishops of Mexico, reflected on how to live, as a Bishops’ Conference, the calling to holiness, pastoral conversion and spirituality of comm ...
• 30 April 2004
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops of Ecuador voice concern: “A country which lacks democratic stability and social equity has no future ” and call on everyone to work to help build the homeland of their dreams Quito (Fides Service) - In the face of signs of political instability which threaten to lead to more serious moral and economic troubles, the Catholic Bishops of Ecuador recently issued a pastoral Letter “Living in a ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Two suspect cases of SARS confirmed 800 in quarantine to prevent epidemic Rome (Fides Service) - Two suspected cases of SARS in Beijing have been confirmed and one of the patients is in critical conditions. According to official sources at least 800 people are in quarantine, 700 in the capita ...
• 29 April 2004
  VATICAN - “Re-launch mission ad gentes with courage”: Presentation of "Eucharist and Mission" Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2004 (24 October) Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church has altogether in the world 1,081 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (Archdioceses, Dioceses, Vicariates and Apostolic Prefectures...) considered missionary territories and ...
• 29 April 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Fierce fighting between army and rebels continues in northern Ugandan district of Gulu Gulu (Fides Service)- Gulu, 332 km from the Ugandan capital Kampala, is traditionally seen as the capital city of northern, it has an area of 11,732 sq. km and a population of 479,496 (2002), 85% Acholi. Other ethnic gro ...
• 29 April 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Young followers of St Francis of Assisi are on the web with Franciscan Youth International New York (Agenzia Fides) - Franciscan Youth International has opened a web site under the aegis of the United Nations Programme on Youth. From today news, activities, and information on the Franciscan Youth International ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of dialogue and service for two new deacons in a mainly Muslim district of Mindanao Kidapawan (Fides Service) - Two new deacons are about to start a mission of service and dialogue in the diocese of Kidapawn, a mainly Muslim area near Cotabato, on the Island of Mindanao. The local Catholic community he ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Occult actors in Moluccas conflict: “Tension and fear in Ambon; Moluccas are paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta ”, Bishop of Amboina told Fides Ambon (Fides Service) - Christian and Muslim city districts rigidly separated, fear reigns and a new conflict threatens: Moluccas is paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta, Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, Bishop of ...
• 28 April 2004
  AFRICA/MALI - Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world suffers from lack of water and lack of health care Rome (Fides Service) - Lack of infrastructures, almost non existent roads, poor economy, low literacy rate, make northern Mali one of the poorest regions of one of the poorest countries in the world. The country has 8 re ...
• 28 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Xaverian Missionaries in Italy elect new directing staff: Father Pozzobon, new regional Superior, animates vocations pastoral and Missionary Childhood initiatives Ravenna (Fides Service) - On 27 April at San Pietro in Vincoli in Ravenna, Italy, the Xaverian Missionaries in Italy elected new directing staff for the next four years, Father Marcello Storgato, communications officer t ...
• 28 April 2004
  5th International Festival of Christian Music: “The world sings about Mary” - Friday 30 April 2004 Don Bosco Palasport Schio Rome (Fides Service - The Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe Association in Schio of RADIO KOLBE SAT is organising the 5th International Concert of Christian Music “The world sings about Mary” on Friday 30 April 2004 at 8. ...
• 28 April 2004
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “The red flag of Communism has gone and the flag of Christ flies once again in Lithuania”: Father Marko Mikalonis from Argentina tells Fides about his mission in Pumpenai, Lithuania. Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was Divine Providence which led our Congregation to this lands which is living a crucial moment in its history. Twelve years after the country was freed of Soviet occupation the Catholic ...
• 28 April 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching at the general audience : “Even in solitude, forsaken by his loved ones, the praying believer is never completely alone, the all merciful God is with him”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his teaching for the general audience in St Peter’s Square this morning Wednesday 28 April, Pope John Paul II continued his reflections on the Liturgy of Vespers, commenting Psalm 26,7 ...
• 28 April 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Motives behind violence in southern Thailand are political not religious Apostolic Administrator of Surat Thani diocese told Fides Bangkok (Fides Service) - “This uprising is political not religious. Radical Islamic groups launched attacks on the government accusing it of thwarting certain Muslim leaders in the past. They want revenge for reasons ...