News

• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - “DEPRESSION” TOPIC OF 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 13 to 15 November in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health Workers and the Sick will hold its 18th International Conference. The subjec ...
• 10 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC SPECTATORS CLOSE TO BISHOPS CONFERENCE HOLDS 16TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY: “THE MEDIA AT THE SERVICE OF THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON AND THE COMMUNITY” Rome (Fides Service ) – The 16th general assembly of AIART, Association of Catholic Spectators close to the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference on the theme: “The Media at the Service of the Individual Person and th ...
• 10 November 2003
  AFRICA/UNITED NATIONS - UNITED NATIONS MAY PREFER MERCENARY SOLDIERS FOR PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS IN 21ST CENTURY Rome (Fides Service )- Should the UN hire peacekeeping troops from Private Military Companies? This question was put by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General to a group of experts whom he asked to examine the possibility of u ...
• 10 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - KARAMOJA FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY: TOO MANY WEAPONS IN CIRCULATION GROWING INSECURITY Kampala (Fides Service ) - The LRA Lord’s Resistance Army is not the only group to kill and cause insecurity on Uganda’s roads. It is true the LRA sows terror in the northern district but another forgotten tragedy i ...
• 10 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - DEATH OF LRA COMMANDER STILL A MYSTERY Kampala (Fides Service)- Mystery still surrounds the death of Charles Tubuley, second in command of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army). He was reportedly killed during fighting with the army last week (see Fides 5 Novemb ...
• 8 November 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR – REV. GUSTAVO BOMBIN ESPINO APPOINTED BISHOP OF TSIROANOMANDIDY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has ( 8 November 2003) appointed Bishop of the diocese of Tsiroanomandidy (Madagascar) Reverend Father P. Gustavo Bombin Espino OSST, parish priest an ...
• 8 November 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - PRESIDENT TAYA IN THE LEAD AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS YESTERDAY Nouakchott (Fides Service)- President Maaouiya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya appears to be in the lead in the count of votes placed during presidential elections yesterday 7 November in Mauritania. The first results give Taya 61% ...
• 8 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - BISHOPS' STATEMENT: “THE CHURCH HAS PAID A HIGH PRICE WITH TWENTY PRIESTS KILLED IN THREE YEARS, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO CALL FOR RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS AS CONDITIONS FOR LASTING PEACE” Bogota (Fides Service) – “The Bishops of Colombia lament and deplore the assassination of Reverend Father Saulo Carreño Hernández, parish priest at Christ the King Parish Saravena (Arauca) and Reverend Father Henry ...
• 8 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - AIDS: 4.5 MILLION CASES IN 15 YEARS; BY 2020 INDIA COULD BE THE AIDS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD Rome (Fides Service) – To mark World AIDS Day on December 1 the President of the Health Commission of the Indian Bishops’ Conference Bishop Bernard Moras of Belgaum (Bangalore), issued a memorandum warning that if me ...
• 8 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - NATIONAL MINORITY COMMISSION: CHRISTIANS PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICE, THEIR RIGHTS MUST BE DEFENDED New Delhi (Fides Service) – India’s National Minority Commission comprising representatives of the different of ethnic and religious minorities, has called on Christian church leaders in India to work to defend the r ...
• 7 November 2003
  SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8 IN ROME INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EPA/A. Ge.: INTERNET, AN EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE! Rome (Fides Service) - On 8 November 2003, all the actors of the educational world will be brought together in Rome to debate about youths and the Internet : parents, head teachers, teachers, pupils, but also political d ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO PONTIFICAL ACADEMIES: “THE NUMEROUS WITNESSES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WHO LIVED IN THE LAST CENTURY WHO PERSEVERED IN THEIR ADHESION TO THE GOSPEL IN SITUATIONS OF HOSTILITY AND PERSECUTION ARE A SIGN OF HOPE FIRST OF ALL FOR THE CHURCHES OF EUROPE” Vatican City (Fides) – “Christ’s disciples are called to contemplate and imitate the numerous witnesses of the Christian faith of the last century, in the East and the West, who persevered in their adhesion to the ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BELGIAN RESEARCHERS TRY RODENTS TO NEUTRALISE TRAGIC WAR HERITAGE OF LAND MINES Rome (Fides) - A group of Belgian researchers is working on a project to solve the problem of millions of land mines spread all over Africa. British daily The Guardian in its on line edition today, Friday 7 November 2003 ...
• 7 November 2003
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2):INTENSE PREPARATION AT DIOCESAN AND NATIONAL LEVEL CULMINATES WITH THE SENDING OF A YOUNG COMBONI MISSIONARY “AD GENTES” Quito (Fides Service) – “You represent our Particular Churches and you are new heralds of the life of our Church in Ecuador” Father Timoteo Lehane SVD, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER THE POPE WILL BEATIFY FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD FROM SPAIN, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND ITALY Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Sunday 9 November 2003, the feast of the dedication of the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran, at 9.30 am, Pope John Paul II will preside a solemn Mass in St Pet ...