News

• 4 March 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Hispanic America Day: “Efforts for evangelisation must not wane, they must increase to meet new challenges ” Madrid (Fides Service) - On March 7 the Church in Spain will mark Hispanic America Day with the motto “United in Missionary Efforts ”, in communion with the American Missionary Congress held in Guatemala last Novemb ...
• 4 March 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Communion is our horizon and our dream we want to open our frontiers to bear witness to what we have seen and heard” says newly elected President of the National Mission Council COMINA. Brasilia (Fides Service) - From 26 to 29 February the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil hosted the 26th annual meeting of the National Mission Council of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference. T ...
• 4 March 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Women in the Church and Society Today”: course on the anthropological, philosophical and theological aspects of women and their role in the Church and society Bogota (Fides Service) - To “reflect on the dignity and mission of women in the Church and society, to promote pastoral and social processes with women’s active participation in building a more just and fraternal so ...
• 4 March 2004
  ASIA - United Nations: drug abuse continues to spread Rome (Fides Service) - The rising use of heroine in eastern Asia, a region where drug abuse is one of the main factors for the spread of AIDS, in China in particular, is causing serious problems. In a recent report the ...
• 4 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conference on “Stem Cells, Science and Conscience” Rome (Fides Service) - On Monday March 8 there will be a Conference on “Stem cells, science and conscience” for doctors, researchers in this field which has been a point of attention of world public opinion but which ...
• 4 March 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - International humanitarian organisations mobilise to help victims of war in Darfur western Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service) - International humanitarian organisations increase efforts to help Sudanese refugees sheltering along the border strip between Sudan and Chad. Yesterday March 3, the Chairman of the Internationa ...
• 3 March 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Caritas in Africa decide to build solidarity fund for emergency aid Yaounde (Fides Service) - Christians in Africa are stepping up efforts to provide solidarity in emergencies. In fact, during a recent meeting of Catholic aid agencies in Yaounde, Cameroon 16-20 February, national Carita ...
• 3 March 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar on the social responsibility of businessmen and globalisation, promoted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the eve of the publication of a compendium of the fundamental principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Corruption in business and politics, destination of company profits i, the cultural impact of advertising and marketing policies are some of the subjects for discussion during a Study Semin ...
• 3 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Brother, sister your life is mission!” : Missionary Animation Course-Workshop organised by Callao diocese Callao (Fides Service) - To “collaborate in formation of the laity and promote missionary activity in response to Christ’s command: Go and make all peoples my disciples”, Callao diocese in Peru is holding a Mission ...
• 3 March 2004
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - “Love one another”: for Lent Cardinal O’Brien recalls Jesus' commandmentand calls Christians in Scotland to defend Christian schools, assist refugees and reject a draft Sexual Health Bill at variance with Catholic teaching Glasgow (Fides Service) - “What I wish to remind you of on the occasion of this Lenten Station Mass is quite simply that our journey toward Christ and the Sacraments is a journey toward love. Among the last words of Je ...
• 3 March 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - HIV/AIDS virus infection rate is twenty times higher than ten years ago Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of 2003 at least 26.6 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa were infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. According to a survey by a German humanitarian agency about two thirds of young people ...
• 3 March 2004
  AMERICA - “As families evangelise their milieu, they transform daily life into an extraordinary meeting place with God” say the Bishops of the Church in America San Antonio Texas (Fides Service) - “Family, become what you are!”: is the theme of a Message issued by Message from the 32nd Meeting of the Bishops of the Church in America San Antonio, Texas 16-19 February 2004. Th ...
• 3 March 2004
  AMERICA - Critical food shortage in five Latin American countries Rome (Fides) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO has denounced critical food shortages in Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Bolivia and Ecuador and that a total 38 countries are in the same situation. In Central ...
• 3 March 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “The people who plan and execute these acts want to prevent Iraq from becoming free and democratic ” Father Nizar in Ninive tells Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)-“We firmly condemn the attacks on the Shiite community in Baghdad and Karbala”, Father Nizar Semaan, in the Iraqi diocese of Ninive, told Fides with regard to the two attacks on Iraqi Shiite M ...
• 3 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Poor and abandoned youth “weigh on the conscience of society which wants and has globalised its economy but not its commitment for the development of peoples and the promotion of the dignity of every human person” says Salesian Rector Major Rev. Chavez Rome (Fides Service) - The precarious conditions of so many children and young people in many parts of the world and Don Bosco’s work in favour of poor, abandoned children, referred to today as ‘young people at risk� ...