News

• 17 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Dossier Fides: Iraq religion yesterday and today Vatican City (Fides Service) - In view of the tragic situation in Iraq and the growing weight of several Muslim leaders on the scene Fides re-proposes today its Dossier "Iraq and Religions", produced in March 2003, o ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Today 16 April in Baghdad children make their first Holy Communion. Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, of Syrian Catholics in Baghdad told Fides: “Iraqis of different faiths can live side by side Baghdad (Fides Service) - “We ask all Christians to pray for the people of Iraq at this difficult time” Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, Archbishop of the Catholic Syrian Church in Baghdad, told Fides. “All ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Italian Xaverian Missionary Giuseppe Mauri killed in car accident: teaching, AIDS assistance and missionary animation were the main occupations of his day Maputo (Fides Service) -* Italian Xaverian Missionary Giuseppe Mauri, died yesterday, 15 April, in Mozambique, of injuries caused by a road accident. The news was released by Father Joao Bortoloci, head of Xaverian Mi ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progressive party wins general elections, President Roh entrusted with the re-launching of the economy Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea begins a new political era with the victory of the liberal-progressive Uri Party which defeated a coalition of conservative and moderate parties. The results were announced by the South Kore ...
• 16 April 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Divine Mercy Sunday must promote the building of a Culture of Mercy as part of the evangelising activity of the Church” says Catholic Bishop of Santo André Santo André (Fides Service) - “The celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday should promote not only devotion to Divine Mercy but it should also give rise to a new Culture of Mercy of the world ” said Bishop Nelson Westrup ...
• 16 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italo-African vaccine to stop the transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus to children Rome (Fides Service) - A vaccine to prevent the mother/child transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus during breast feeding has been produced by researchers at Rome’s Tor Vergata University in collaboration with health centr ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Wolisso centre with a population of 400,000 is to have a hospital and a school for training nurses and public health workers Rome (Fides Service) - A good health care centre in a densely populated area important (130/km2) such as Wolisso was extremely necessary because in the Woreda district with a population of 340.000 people there are no m ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Rev. Thomas Mbvwakhnkwuot appointed Rector of the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed, 19 March 2004, Rector of Good Shepherd Inter-diocesan Major Seminary in Kaduna, Nigeria, ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Small steps for reconciliation between President Gbagbo and 7 Opposition Parties which abandoned interim government of national unity Abidjan (Fides Service)- “There are signs of hope but we will have to wait for the meeting tomorrow, 17 April, to see how dialogue has progressed” a local church source in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Prospects for peace in Sudan extend also to northern Uganda Khartoum (Fides Service)- Sudan appears to have taken the right path to end the civil war which since 1983 has caused the death of more than 1.5 million people mostly civilians. The leader of the Sudan People’s Liberat ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo and Easter Rome (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholic Bishop Julius Jia, not recognised by the Beijing government, has been released. On his release after ten days of detention he said it had been very painful to be away from his peo ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - UN Human Rights Commission institutes role of Special Observer for North Korea Geneva (Fides Service) - The figure of a Special Observer for North Korea to monitor the situation of human rights in that Asian country was instituted on 15 April by the United Nations Commission for Human Rights during ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Mountain peoples continue to flee Vietnam, but the Office of the UN High Commission for refugees in Cambodia which provided assistance has had to close Ho Chi Minh City (Fides Service) - Mountain people known as Montagnards in central Vietnam, many of whom are Christians, continue to flee for safety to Cambodia to escape repression which was especially fierce over the E ...
• 15 April 2004
  VATICAN - Like Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin, Doctor of the Church, now secondary patroness of the Apostleship of Prayer, everyone can live a life of prayer, charity, and the humility and simplicity of the Gospel”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This proclamation will benefit the members of the Apostleship of Prayer who will receive abundant blessings from the Lord to enable them to follow like Saint Therese of Lisieux, a life o ...
• 15 April 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop Francisco F. Claver SJ Vicar apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe resigns, Rev. Cornelio Galleo Wigwigan appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II has, 19 March 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe (Philippines) presented by the Vicar A ...