News

• 5 December 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - THE CHALLENGES OF PACEM IN TERRIS FOR A GLOBALISED WORLD : 7TH SOCIAL WEEK ORGANISED BY BISHOPS CONFERENCE Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The 7th Social Week organised by Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Peru will take place from 9 to 12 December 2003, at the Collegio De Jesús, Pueblo Libre, Lima, with the theme “The Challenges ...
• 5 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE CHURCH CAN DO MUCH TO MAKE GLOBALISATION MORE HUMAN: SAID PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE CARDINAL RENATO MARTINO, ADDRESSING INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON LEO XIII Vatican City (Fides) – The urgent need to give meaning to globalisation in order to overcome its many ambiguities and to put it more at the service of mankind was underlined by the President of the Pontifical Council f ...
• 5 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SALESIAN SISTERS: 1ST SEMINAR ON THEMES EMERGING FROM GENERAL CHAPTER Rome (Fides Service) – From 2-7 December 33 Salesian Sisters are meeting at the FMA Generalate in Rome to reflect on themes which emerged during the recent general chapter of the Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix (FMA). Ni ...
• 5 December 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - REBELS REJECT 15 DECEMBER DISARMAMENT DATE PROPOSED BY PRESIDENT GBAGBO. MISSIONARIES ASK FOR PRAYERS THAT CHRISTMAS MAY BRING PEACE AT LAST Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Listening to recent declarations by President Laurent Gbagbo, peace would appear to be within reach. But the rebels are still diffident and in my opinion the situation will not be settled imme ...
• 5 December 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON NEW - “ADULT LITERACY CLASSES: A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY” Madrid (Fides Service) – Adult literacy classes is a term which acquires a new dimension, as a synoen of integration. Society today is one of technology and scientific progress but the human person still plays a fundam ...
• 5 December 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - ARCHBISHOP OF BUENOS AIRES GIVES MISSIONARY MANDATE TO 1000 MISSIONARIES TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CAPITAL AND BEYOND IN RURAL AREAS Buenos Aires (Fides Service) – Some 1000 city missionaries will be given the solemn Mandate by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires and primate of the Church Argentina, on 6 December 2003, during ...
• 5 December 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW CATHOLIC “CRISIS AND RECONCILIATION SERVICE” CONCERNED BY TENSION IN FLORES Jakarta (Fides Service) – The Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia recently inaugurated a Crisis and Reconciliation Service CRS to monitor events in possible areas of violence including Aceh, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Papua, B ...
• 5 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FROM NORTH EAST INDIA TO BRAZIL: FOUR SISTERS FROM ASSAM DEPART FOR MISSION Guwahati (Fides Service) – Mission ad gentes is undeterred in the face of difficulties, violence or conflict. Fides has been informed that four Catholic Sisters from Assam state north east India, where ethnic violence ...
• 5 December 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BEATIFICATION PROCESS STARTS FOR 124 KOREAN MARTYRS Seoul (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Korea is rejoicing: the Holy See has approved the opening of the beatification process for Korea’s 124 martyrs, Paul Yun Ji-Chung and 123 companion martyrs, tortured and ...
• 5 December 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - ALARMING SITUATION OF MINORS “VICTIMS AND AGGRESSORS IN CONFLICT”: CHILD SOLDIERS, TORTURED AND IMPRISONED, ORPHANS WITHOUT PROTECTION Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Since October 29, 1996 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been in serious danger. The situation has become alarmingly worse in 2003”. There is no room for doubt with regard t ...
• 4 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY OF THE SICK 2004: “IF JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE WHO CONQUERS DEATH, MARY IS THE LOVING MOTHER WHO ATTENDS TO THE NEEDS OF HER CHILDREN OBTAINING FOR THEM HEALTH IN SPIRIT AND BODY ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Church’s Annual Celebration of World Day for the Sick on February 11, 2004, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, will be held in Lourdes where our Lady appeared to Bernadette on 11 Februar ...
• 4 December 2003
  VATICAN - ANNUAL CHARITY AUCTION ORGANISED BY CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES IN AID OF NEEDY MISSIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA Vatican City (Fides Service) – The central Asian church in Baku, Azerbaijan, will be among the beneficiaries of the now traditional Charity Auction organised at Christmas by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of P ...
• 4 December 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM, YES TO DIALOGUE WITH DIALOGUE JEWS AND MUSLIM ARABS TO PROMOTE PEACE Jerusalem (Fides) – Violence and terrorism, relations between Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land, are the main issues of a statement issued by the Theological Commission of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusale ...
• 4 December 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - CELEBRATIONS IN LOCAL CHURCH FOR 80TH BIRTHDAY OF “GOOD SHEPHERD” CARDINAL PAUL SHAN Taipei (Fides Service) – On 2 December the Catholic Church in Taiwan gathered around its Cardinal Paul Shan who was celebrating his 80th birthday. Messages arrived from near and far to congratulate the well loved serva ...
• 4 December 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT VIS LAUNCH NEW PROJECTS IN RURAL AREAS OF ANGOLA Luanda (Fides Service)- “We have just started two new projects for development in rural areas of Angola” Antonio Raimondi, president the Italian Association Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (VIS) told Fid ...