News

• 19 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ART AND DISABILITIES CONCRETE COMMITMENT OF ST JOHN OF GOD BROTHERS: “PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY HAVE INTELLIGENCE OF HEART VISIBLE IN GESTURES, WORDS AND EVERY DAY LIFE ” – SAYS BROTHER GERARDO D’AURIA, SUPERIOR OF THE ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL IN GENZANO Rome (Fides Service) – Painting as a form of expression and rehabilitation. This is the objective of Il mattone Art Workshop sponsored by the “St John of God Institute” in Genzano not far from Rome which will show ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - ON DAY OF STATE FUNERAL OF 19 ITALIAN SOLDIERS BOMB BLAST VICTIMS, CHALDEAN CATHOLIC MONK TELLS FIDES: “WE SYMPATHISE DEEPLY WITH THE FAMILIES AND WITH ALL ITALY AND WE ASK THE ITALIAN MISSION NOT TO ABANDON IRAQ BUT TO CONTINUE TO WORK FOR THE GOOD OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE!” Rome (Fides Service) – Solidarity, prayers and a call on the Italian mission not to leave Iraq but to stay in Nassirya was the message sent to Fides by Iraqi Father Berjou Mansoor on behalf of the Chaldean Monks in Rom ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “MAY ITALIAN BLOOD SHED ON IRAQI SOIL HELP OLIVE TREE OF PEACE TO GROW AT LAST” IRAQI FATHER NIZAR SEMAAN SPEAKS FOR IRAQI CHRISTIANS Rome (Fides Service)- “On behalf of the Christians in Iraq I wish to voice sympathy and solidarity to the families of the soldiers killed by the bomb attack on the Italian mission head quarters in Nassiriya on November ...
• 18 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS INDIAN BISHOPS: “ANY SEMBLANCE OF A CASTE-BASED PREJUDICE IN RELATIONS BETWEEN CHRISTIANS IS A COUNTERSIGN TO AUTHENTIC HUMAN SOLIDARITY, A THREAT TO GENUINE SPIRITUALITY AND A SERIOUS HINDRANCE TO THE CHURCH’S MISSION OF EVANGELISATION” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “It is not enough that the Christian community hold the principle of solidarity as a lofty ideal; rather it must be seen as the norm for human interaction” Pope John Paul II told a gro ...
• 18 November 2003
  VATICAN - ANNUAL MESSAGE TO ALL MUSLIMS FROM PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE ON THE OCCASION OF ‘ID AL-FITR, FEAST WHICH CONCLUDES RAMADAN: CONSTRUCTION OF PEACE FOLLOWING THE TEACHING OF BLESSED JOHN XXIII Vatican City (Fides Service) – To mark the Feast of ‘Id al-Fitr, 1424 A.H. / 2003 A.D.) which closes the Muslim Ramadan month of prayer and fasting Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald President of the Pontifical Counci ...
• 18 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – CHURCH IN COLOMBIA COMPLETES LONG JOURNEY OF PREPARATION Bogota (Fides Service) – “The Church in Colombia, with her characteristic missionary zeal, prepared with joy and confidence to face the challenges of evangelisation in this new millennium ” Reverend Luis Castano Ca ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - “ISTANBUL MASSACRE FORGES STRONGER BONDS OF SOLIDARITY AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG BELIEVERS IN THE BOOK”: SPOKESMAN OF TURKISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE TOLD FIDES. DAY OF MOURNING RELIGIOUS LEADERS VOW TO ISOLATE FUNDAMENTALISM Istanbul (Fides Service ) – Today 18 November is a day of mourning not only in Italy but also in Turkey where this morning funerals were held for those killed by two bomb blasts in Istanbul synagogues on Saturday 15 No ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - WORD OF GOD NOW ACCESSIBLE TO MORE THAN 200 MILLION PEOPLE THANKS TO 35 YEARS OF DEDICATED WORK TO PRODUCE BIBLE IN BENGALI Calcutta (Fides Service) – The complete Bible has been translated and published in Bengali thanks to the Xavier Publications House in Calcutta. The Bengali Bible was presented to the press at the Jesuit Communications ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PREVENT ABORTION AND SUICIDE “SAVE ANOTHER LIFE!”: “LIFE 31” CAMPAIGN TO SAVE AN ESTIMATED 4.000 UNBORN BABIES KILLED IN THEIR MOTHER’S WOMB EVERY DAY Seoul (Fides Service) – The figures are frightening: it is estimated that in South Korea at least 4.000 women abort a child every day and this means that about 1,5 unborn babies are denied a chance to live. In this sit ...
• 18 November 2003
  VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: “WE VOICE THE CHURCH’S CONCERN FOR THE WORLD’S 175 MILLION MIGRANTS AND 40 MILLION REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning, 18 November, the 5th International Conference on the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itiner ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FUNDAMENTALISTS LAUNCH GRENADE AT GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL INJURING THREE OFFICE STAFF AND A SECURITY GUARD Srinagar (Fides Service) – There is fear among Christians in Kashmir after grenade was launched on 15 November at Good Shepherd Catholic School in Pulwama, 35 km from Srinagar, in Kashmir. Three office staff and a sec ...
• 18 November 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “AGREEMENT OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE. NOW PEACE MUST BE MADE WITH THE OTHER REBEL GROUP” BISHOP OF BUJUMBURA COMMENTS GOVERNMENT/FDD PEACE PACT Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “This is a history making agreement for Burundi” Bishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura told Fides with regard to peace prospects after the government and the rebel group FDD (Forces for De ...
• 17 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - INTIMIDATION AGAINST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN IRAQ. FUNDAMENTALISTS PAY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO ADOPT EXTREMIST ATTITUDES Mosul (Fides Service )- Fides has received news of serious acts of intimidation against Christian communities in Mosul northern Iraq. “Last week a bomb was found in front of Catholic school in Mosul; luckily it was def ...
• 17 November 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA – EMBU, REV. ANTHONY MUHERIA APPOINTED BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (30 October 2003) appointed Bishop of Embu (Kenya), Reverend Father Anthony Muheria of the Prelature of Opus Dei. The Bishop elect was born on 2 ...
• 17 November 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANK – ANURADHAPURA, REV. NORBERT ANDRADI APPOINTED BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (30 October 2003) appointed Bishop of Anuradhapura, (Sri Lanka) Reverend Father Norbert Andradi OMI, Superior of the OMI Scholasticate in Kandy and ...