News

• 18 February 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong journalist one of five new women Consultors to the Pontifical Council for Culture Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Annie Lam Shun-wai, a journalist from Hong Kong, will carry the rich heritage of the Far East to the Pontifical Council for Culture PCC which has the mission to promote dialogue between fait ...
• 18 February 2004
  VATICAN - “God passionately desires and ardently longs for our salvation” the Pope said in his Wednesday teaching focused on the ancient hymn of blessing for “the wonders God has worked for us in Christ”: Vatican City (Fides Service) - At his Wednesday Audience on 18 February Pope John Paul II focussed his teaching on a hymn dedicated to ‘God the Saviour’ (cfr Eph 1,3-10): “The splendid hymn of «blessing», which i ...
• 18 February 2004
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Dramatic appeal from Caritas Internationalis: Eritrea urgently needs clean water, seed for farmers, medical care for millions of impoverished people Rome (Fides Service)- “Eritrea is battling with the consequences of 4 successive years of drought and has still not recovered from the tragic war with Ethiopia” said a member of Caritas in Britain CAFOD Catholic Agen ...
• 18 February 2004
  AFRICA - Cholera is still spreading in Africa, Africans still die of a disease which today can be prevented with simple precautions Rome (Fides Service) - Togo’s health ministry has issued a warming about an epidemic of cholera which has already killed 17 people in the capital Lome. Confirmed 413 cases and the presence of new infections in surround ...
• 18 February 2004
  VATICAN - Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Life opens with celebrations to make the 10th anniversary of its institution Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow, 19 February 2004, the Pontifical Council for Life, established by Pope John Paul II on 11th February 1994, will start its 10th General Assembly with celebrations to mark the 10th ...
• 18 February 2004
  ROME - “The spiritual heritage of Gregory the Great” Symposium to mark 14th centenary of death of Pope Gregory the Great Rome (Fides) - To mark the 14th centenary since the death of Pope Saint Gregory the Great the St Anselmo College on the Aventine Hill and St Gregory’s Monastery on the Celio Hill are promoting a three day symposium 10 ...
• 18 February 2004
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Radio Magnificat first Catholic Radio station in the Republic of Congo still waiting for licence Brazzaville (Fides Service)- “I will pursue every legal path to get a licence to broadcast and assignment of wave lengths” Spiritan Father Maurice Milandou, director of Radio Magnificat an initiative of the Catholic ...
• 18 February 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “We want a country without divisions, where everyone lives under the same conditions”: the Catholic Bishops of Peru address difficult national situation Lima (Fides Service) - The Bishops of Peru have voiced deep concern for increasing social-political deterioration and loss of moral values which provoke internal clashes, closure on the part of those with the serious r ...
• 18 February 2004
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “CAM 2 marked an unprecedented milestone in preparation and celebration this means we have entered a new era which we call, with an expression of John Paul II, “a great Christian springtime in the Church’s evangelising activity”. San Jose (Fides Service / CAM2 press office) - The 4th Central American Meeting for Pastoral Delegates taking place at San José di Costa Rica concludes today 18 February with a solemn celebration of Mass at the Basilica ...
• 17 February 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - More than 430 Vietnamese youth prepare to follow in the foot steps of Don Bosco: the calling to love and to serve wins the hearts of boys in a communist country Hanoi (Fides Service) - Young men in Vietnam are in love with the charisma of don Bosco: more than 430 aspire to join the Salesian congregation. The ideals of goodness, service, joy in following Christ lived by the follo ...
• 17 February 2004
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Bishops of Sierra Leone and Gambia concerned about spreading imported Muslim fundamentalism Freetown (Fides Service)- Catholic Bishops of The Gambia and Sierra Leone met from 13 to 15 February at Kenema in Sierra Leone. The meeting was attended by Archbishop Joseph Henry Ganda Archbishop of Freetown, Bishop Pat ...
• 17 February 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Dengue Alarm: break-bone fever kills 91 people Rome (Fides Service) - In Indonesia Dengue fever, an insect carried disease, has killed 91 people since the beginning of the year; another 4,500 patients have been hospitalised. The news was announced today by the Indone ...
• 17 February 2004
  ASIA - BIRD FLU- Two new outbreaks in China, suspect seed bed in Japan, 14 new outbreaks in 9 provinces of Thailand Rome (Fides Service) - Bird flu, which in Asia has killed 20 people, has appeared in 9 more areas of Thailand among different types of fighting cocks. The Chinese health minister announced the discovery of two new outbre ...
• 17 February 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Students demand better conditions of life and study Conakry (Fides Service) - Fifteen students arrested on 13 February during an unruly demonstration near the Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry in the Guinean capital are still detained by the police, local Church so ...
• 17 February 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - “We are grieved by the fact that instead of working for social development our national leaders assign social advantages to themselves openly demonstrating disinterest for the people’s wellbeing ” say Catholic Bishops of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service) - The process of political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo is too slow according to the Catholic Bishops. This was affirmed in a Message “For love of Congo, I will not be silent� ...