News

• 16 January 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – LOCAL CHURCH’S CONCERN FOR POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN PAKISTAN CONFIRMED IN RECENT REPORT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN ASIA Islamabad (Fides Service) – The economic and social situation of the people of Pakistan has always been a major concern for the local Catholic Church which more than once, also recently, has stressed the need to decrea ...
• 16 January 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “WE MUST BE AUTHENTIC SERVANTS OF THE POOR”: VENEZUELAN BISHOPS’ STATEMENT ON PEACE Caracas (Fides Service ) – “We must be authentic servants of the Poor” was the title of a statement issued by the Bishops of Venezuela at the end of the 81st Ordinary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conferen ...
• 15 January 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND CASES OF CHOLERA IN THE WORLD, 5.000 DEATHS EVERY YEAR: WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION PROMOTES A NEW ORAL VACCINE TO CHECK THE DISEASE Rome (Fides Service) – Existing tools to control cholera may soon be supplemented with something new – mass vaccination with an oral cholera vaccine. The idea is being put to the test in a demonstration project in Mo ...
• 15 January 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN: WORRIES, RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS, INQUIRY ON CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ITALY Rome (Fides Service) – The Institute for Higher Studies on Women at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome will focus a series of studies on the condition of women in the different regions of Italy . The fi ...
• 15 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - WE MUST NEVER STOP THE PATH OF LOVE! Rome(Fides Service) – Here is a message of hope and cheer sent to Fides Service by Archbishop Simon Ntamwana of Gitega who is also President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi. His words of love and hope ...
• 15 January 2004
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES ADMINISTRATORS OF LAZIO REGION AND ROME CITY AND PROVINCE: “THE FAMILY IS THE HUMAN SPACE IN WHICH THE PERSON, FROM THE BEGINNING OF LIFE, CAN EXPERIENCE THE WARMTH OF AFFECTION AND GROW IN HARMONY”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The way to defeat and prevent all forms of violence is to work to build the "civilisation of love"... How can we fail to think of the family as the principle place in which to achieve ...
• 15 January 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - MORE THAN 7.000 CHINESE SPEAKING CHRISTIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL MEET IN TAIPEI 23 - 25 JANUARY Taipei (Fides Service) – Chinese speaking missionaries, intellectuals and scholars and friends of the Chinese world will meet in Taipei, from 23 to 25 January Taipei for the International Chinese Speaking Christians’ ...
• 15 January 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE MEDIA IS A DUTY AND A CALLING FOR THE CHURCH: FINAL STATEMENT OF 26TH GENERAL BODY MEETING OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE Trichur (Agenzia Fides) – The Church is called to communicate because God is a God of communication. Church personnel must be motivated to take an active part in the new opportunities created for spreading the good new ...
• 15 January 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “ GREAT LIMA MISSION”: TO RENEW LIFE IN CHRIST AND REDISCOVER AUTHENTIC VALUES THE CHURCH IN LIMA STARTS A YEAR OF CITY MISSION Lima (Fides Service) – In his first statement of the new year Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima announced “a Great Lima Mission with which the Catholic Church will promote new evangelisation in the capi ...
• 15 January 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - STEPS TO STOP ANIMAL/HUMAN INFECTION: INTENSIFY VETERINARY INSPECTIONS AND BAN SALE OF LIVE ANIMALS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION IN FOOD MARKETS Hong Kong (Fides Service) – The people of Hong Kong are ready for any emergency but there is no panic, local sources told Fides Service. “There is some concern after two new cases of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syn ...
• 14 January 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - CARDINAL TELESPHORE TOPPO NEW PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE OF INDIA Trichur (Fides Service) – Cardinal Telesphore Toppo Archbishop of Ranchi has been elected President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, CBCI, whose members belong to the three different Catholic rites in India ...
• 14 January 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “JOHN PAUL II AWARD” FOR CHAMPIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AND PEACE ESTABLISHED BY LISBON BRANCH OF AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED Lisbon (Fides Service ) – On Saturday 10 January the Portuguese branch of the Catholic aid organisation of pontifical right, Aid to the Church in Need, established the John Paul II Award for the promotion of justice a ...
• 14 January 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “YOU TOO ARE A MISSIONARY”, MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD DAY IN SPAIN Madrid (Fides Service) - “You too are a missionary” is the slogan chosen by the Church in Spain for the national celebration of Missionary Childhood Day Sunday, 25 January 2004. In preparation for the event the Pont ...
• 14 January 2004
  ASIA/IRAN - OVER 162 CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS VOLUNTEERS PROVIDE MATERIAL ASSISTANCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN BAM Bam (Fides Service) – While Iran lives a difficult political moment with a battle between reformers and conservatives with regard to drafting of lists of candidates for the next parliamentary elections, in and around t ...
• 14 January 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “PEACE BEGINS AT HOME” FATHER BERNARD INAYAT TELLS FIDES AFTER A PEACE MARCH TO INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER: FIDES SPEAKS TO IMAMS ABDUL KHABEER AZAD AND WAQAR-UL-HUSNAIN NAQVI Kasur (Fides Service) – To support peace in Kashmir and dialogue between India and Pakistan at levels an interreligious peace march and prayer vigil was held in the area of Kasur along the India-Pakistan border on Janu ...