News

• 28 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “THE CHURCH IN CENTRAL AMERICA WITH COURAGEOUS COMMITMENT TO DEFEND LIFE TO MARTYRDOM HAS PROFESSED HER PROFOUND FAITH IN THE GOD OF LIFE ” – INTERVIEW WITH MRS. ADELAIDA SUEIRO CABREDO, SPEAKER AT CAM2 Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On 27 November Peruvian born Mrs Adelaida Sueiro Cabredo, married with three children, addressed the CAM2 assembly in Guatemala City on the subject of ‘Mission, Proclaiming the Gospe ...
• 28 November 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM WOMEN COMMITTED TO INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: CONFERENCE ON CONDITION OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN SOCIETY Lahore (Fides Service) – Interreligious dialogue travels also via female sensitivity: with an unprecedented initiative, news of which reached Fides Service, a recent study Seminar on the conditions of women in Pakistan ...
• 27 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2 DAY ONE: “AMERICA’S HOUR FOR MISSION AD GENTES HAS COME! THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH IN AMERICA TODAY IS MISSION AD GENTES!” Guatemala City (Fides Service) – DAY ONE, Wednesday 26 November of the Second American Mission Congress opened with a prayer to Our Lady in the language of Maya people, accompanied by missionary hymns, Father Victor Li ...
• 27 November 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – PILGRIMS BUILD BRIDGES FOR CHRISTIANS FROM EAST AND WEST; HOLY LAND HOPES FOR MORE VISITORS FOR CHRISTMAS 2003 AND IN THE NEW YEAR Vatican City (Fides Service ) – A pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a way to respond to Pope John Paul II’s urgent call on Sunday 16 November to build “bridges not walls” in the Holy Land. A pilgrimage is a bridge o ...
• 27 November 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – REV. JOHN CHIJIOKE IWE APPOINTED RECTOR OF INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN OWERRI Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, on 15 November, appointed rector of the “Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary” in Owerri in Nige ...
• 27 November 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – REV. JULES KAFUTI FOLO APPOINTED RECTOR OF SAN CYPRIAN INTER-DIOCESAN MAJOR SEMINARY IN KIKWIT Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 14 November 2003, Rector of St Cyprian major theological inter-diocesan seminary in ...
• 27 November 2003
  ASIA/JAPAN – CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA MEET TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION BETWEEN COUNTRIES DIVIDED BY HISTORY Nagasaki (Fides Service ) – A joint appeal to look at history in the light of truth and reconciliation has been launched by the Catholic Bishops of Japan and South Korea meeting recently in Nagasaki, Japan. Nine years ...
• 27 November 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST – EXPECTANCY TO SEE IF REBEL MINISTERS ATTEND NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT MEETING IMPORTANT TALKS BETWEEN PRESIDENTS OF BURKINA FASO AND IVORY COAST Abidjan (Fides Service) -“This was a key meeting for ending the crisis in Ivory Coast ” a local Church observer in Abidjan told Fides with regard to talks yesterday 26 November in Ouagadougou between President Blais ...
• 27 November 2003
  AFRICA - AIDS: AFRICA’S ORPHANED GENERATIONS: UNICEF REPORT SAYS NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTS IS NOW 11 MILLION HAD DOUBLED IN A DECADE. Rome (Fides Service) – The struggle against HIV/AIDS is one of five priorities for UNICEF which has sounded the alarm with its report “ Africa’s Orphaned Generations”, just released in various countries. AIDS has ...
• 27 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA – ST GABRIEL BROTHERS MARK CENTENARY OF MISSION IN INDIA Patna (Fides Service) – A hundred years ago in 1903 three French St Gabriel Brothers of Christian Education set out from Saint Laurent sur Sèvre Vandea, France for India and they settled at Pondicherry, in southern In ...
• 27 November 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – ELIMINATE AIDS AND MALNUTRITION ARE MAIN OBJECTIVES FOR CARITAS BURUNDI IN A COUNTRY IMPOVERISHED BY TEN YEARS OF WAR Bujumbura (Fides Service )- AIDS and malnutrition are two priorities to tackle for 2004 by Caritas Burundi known here as Centre d’Entraide et de Développement CED one of the main humanitarian organisations of the Cath ...
• 27 November 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO BISHOP FRIENDS OF FOCOLARE MOVEMENT: STRIVE TO PROMOTE UNITY IN CHRIST AND TO HEAL SERIOUS LACERATIONS IN THE WORLD TODAY Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Pope John Paul II sent a Message to Bishop Friends of the Focolare Movement on the occasion of the 22nd Ecumenical Meeting due to take place in Istanbul but because of tragic recent even ...
• 27 November 2003
  VATICAN - CONCLUSIONS OF 25TH PLENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM": CHARITY WORK AND THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF CHARITY Vatican City (Fides Service) - "The Church does not limit herself to providing for the material needs of those in difficulty; her charitable work consists not only in building structures... it strives to meet the most hi ...
• 27 November 2003
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 IS A CALL TO OUR DIOCESAN CHURCHES, TO OUR YOUNG CLERGY IN PARTICULAR, TO REALISE THAT MISSIONARY WORK IS A TASK FOR ALL NOT ONLY FOR RELIGIOUS” SAYS BISHOP OF BARAHORA Santo Domingo (Fides Service) – “The importance of CAM 2 lies mainly in the fact that for our diocesan churches and for the young priests in particular it is a call to realise that mission is a task for all and not o ...
• 26 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “THE CEASE-FIRE A BLESSING FROM GOD, BUT WE CALL ON GOVERNMENTS TO KEEP THEIR PROMISES” KASHMIR’S ONLY BISHOP TOLD FIDES Srinagar (Fides Service) – “The cease fire is a blessing from God! It comes at the end of Ramadan and it is the Lord’s gift to all the people of Kashmir so sorely tried. We welcome the treaty with great enthusiasm ...