News

• 23 February 2004
  AFRICA /KENYA AIDS in Kenya 750 people die of AIDS every day, more than 31 per hour, more than 1 every 2 minutes. First conference of Kenyan women Rome (Fides Service) - In Kenya there are one million orphans whose parents died of AIDS, every day 750 people die of AIDS, more than 31 per hour, more than 1 every 2 minutes. These figures were quoted by Kenya’s Healt ...
• 23 February 2004
  EUROPE/ RUSSIAN FEDERATION - See exclusive photos of German Cardinal Walter Kasper President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity visiting Orthodox Church leaders in Moscow Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Fides web site see exclusive photos of German Cardinal Walter Kasper President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity visit to Orthodox Church leaders in Moscow: ...
• 23 February 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses the plenary of the Pontifical Academy for Life: “Ever more emergent the inseparable bond between the procreation of a new person by means of conjugal union... This plan of the Creator is inscribed in the very physical and spiritual nature of man and woman and as such it is universally valid” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 21 February Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to participants at a plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. In his address the Holy Father began by menti ...
• 23 February 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “International Days for Charity and Voluntary Work” organised by San Antonio Catholic University in Murcia: conferences, testimony, exhibitions and initiatives of solidarity Murcia (Fides Service) - San Antonio Catholic University in Murcia UCAM is hosting the 3rd edition of International Days for Charity and Voluntary Work organised jointly by the university with the Pontifical Council Cor ...
• 23 February 2004
  ASIA/JAPAN - An average of 600 new HIV carriers every year; numbers continues to rise; 87% of new infections due to sexual transmission: the Church in front line to fight the scourge of AIDS Tokyo (Fides Service) - As part of a year long effort to fight AIDS in April 2003 the Church in Japan established an HIV/AIDS desk to succeed the bishops’ ad hoc committee on HIV issues. The desk’s present activities ...
• 23 February 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “The mission of the Church in Korea is founded on Korea’s martyrs”: Bishop Lazzaro You Heung Sik, coadjutor Bishop of Daejeon speaks with Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - “The mission of the Church in Korea is founded on the Korean martyrs who offered their life for the Lord and for the people: compared to them we feel small but we strive to be faithful to our mis ...
• 23 February 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - 10th anniversary Institute for Social Ministry: renewing society in the light of the Gospel and Catholic Social Teaching Nairobi (Fides Service) -“The Institute for Social Ministry makes a significant contribution towards renewing society by motivating spiritually those called to public office with a spirit of service while offering them ...
• 21 February 2004
  VATICAN - “Biblical Notes on Human Procreation”: Cardinal Lozano Barragan, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Workers and the Sick addresses the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Biblical Notes on Human Procreation” was the title of a paper given on 19 February by Cardinal Lozano Barragan, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Wor ...
• 21 February 2004
  for March 2004:That in Africa cooperation between missionary Institutes and local Churches may grow with respect for the variety of gifts” Comment by Cardinal Francis Arinze Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Very suitably the Holy Father has chosen as his missionary intention for March 2004 the intensification of collaboration between missionary institutes and the local Churches in Africa, c ...
• 21 February 2004
  VATICAN- Cardinal Saraiva Martins presents film-dossier on the Martyrs for the Faith of the 20th Century Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A film dossier in Italian “Martiri per Fede” (Martyrs for the Faith) produced by the Don Orione Opera on collaboration with Nova T of Turin will be presented on February 21 in Rome at ...
• 20 February 2004
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - In the battle against meningitis courageous Glasgow Mum calls on George the gorilla to help. Glasgow (Fides Service) - A brand new weapon in the battle against killer disease, meningitis, is being deployed by bereaved mum and former Scotswoman of the year Eileen McKiernan and her colleagues at the Meningitis Ass ...
• 20 February 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Missionary Childhood children in Germany help provide food for starving children in North Korea Aachen (Fides Service ) - To help children in North Korea threatened by starvation, children members of Missionary Childhood in Germany have offered 20,000 Euro to buy food supplies. For many years the German branch of ...
• 20 February 2004
  EUROPE/ RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Visit of President of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity of Christians, Cardinal Walter Kasper in Moscow: brief report on meeting with Orthodox Metropolita Kirill Moscow (Fides Service) - On the second day of his visit to Moscow Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity of Christians had a meeting with the head of the Orthodox Patriarchate ...
• 20 February 2004
  OCEANIA/ TUVALU - Tuvalu submerged by giant tidal wave Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Much of Tuvalu, a small group of coral islands with a population of 11, 500 people in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and Hawaii, was submerged for about one hour by a giant tidal wav ...
• 20 February 2004
  VATICAN - “As the years pass the importance of the Pontifical Academy for Life is ever more evident. While progress in bio-medical science offer glimpses of promising prospects for the good of humanity and for the treatment for serious and distressful illnesses, not rarely serious problems arise with regard to respect for human life and the dignity of the human person” the Pope says in a Message to the Pontifical Academy for Life Vatican City (Fides Service) - “With joy I address this Message to you on the commemoration day for the 10th anniversary of the Pontifical Academy for Life. To each of you I renew the expression of my gratitude for the ...