News

• 31 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ENCOURAGES FILIPINO BISHOPS’ COMMITMENT TO RENEWED INTEGRAL EVANGELISATION AND WITNESS TO JESUS CHRIST’S GOSPEL OF SALVATION AND LIBERATION THROUGH WORDS, DEEDS AND LIVES Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The pledge of the Church in the Philippines to engage in renewed integral evangelisation demonstrates her desire to ensure that Christian faith and values permeate every aspect of soci ...
• 31 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MOTHER TERESA’S ROOM IN CALCUTTA OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS AND DEVOTEES, FOLLOWERS OF MANY RELIGIONS HOPE SO Calcutta (Fides Service) – Many devotees of Mother Teresa beatified by Pope John Paul on October 19, hope that her room may soon be open to the public. Her Sisters, the Missionaries of Charity, have been thinking for a ...
• 31 October 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “PEACE BEGINS AT HOME, PEACEFUL CONSTITUTIONAL AND ELECTORAL SOLUTION URGENT” SAY BISHOPS OF VENEZUELA Rome (Fides Service) – “Venezuela is experiencing a profound political crisis, the country needs urgently a peaceful, constitutional and electoral solution” . This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of ...
• 31 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WATER IS CERTAINLY ONE OF GOD’S GIFTS MOST ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE: ITALIAN BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE FOR THANKSGIVING DAY Rome (Fides Service) - “The gift of water is for everyone” is the theme chosen by the Italian Bishops’ Conference for a national Day of Thanksgiving for Creation on 9 November. A message for the Day has been issu ...
• 31 October 2003
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS AGREE THAT ALL ROUND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN STATE SCHOOLS WILL BUILD TOLERANCE AND HARMONY Dhaka (Fides Service) – Religious education in schools, explaining the teachings, symbols, feasts of the main religions in Bangladesh: this proposal has been put to the government by two experts in the field Catholic p ...
• 31 October 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - GOVERNMENT NATIONAL EDUCATION AWARD 2003 GOES TO CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR FOR HIS WRITINGS “SOURCE OF SOCIAL HARMONY” Islamabad (Fides Service) –Mehboob Sada Francis, a Catholic, for 28 years professor of literature at Allama Iqbal University in Islamabad, has been awarded the Minority Cultural Prize 2003 by the Pakistan government. ...
• 31 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - 20,000 JOIN “MARIAN MISSIONARY MARCH” IN THANKSGIVING FOR 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE Arequipa (Fides Service) – The Church all over the world continues to Celebrate the 25 years of the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II. In Peru, the archdiocese of Arequipa with the diocesan Office of the Pontifical Miss ...
• 31 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – NATIONAL PRAYER NOVENA 14 TO 22 NOVEMBER, TO INVOKE THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE GREAT MISSIONARY EVENT Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “As in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, with Mary let us implore the gift of the Holy Spirit for the American Mission Congress”. This is the call issued by the central organising commit ...
• 31 October 2003
  EUROPE/KOSOVO - GIRLS SAVED FROM THE STREETS THANKS TO ITALIAN BUSINESS WOMEN IN MONTALCINO Pristina (Agenzia Fides) – Education rather than assistance is provided for girls at a new professional training centre built in Pristina, Kosovo by the International Association of Volunteers for Development Volontari ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN WARN TAYLOR TO STOP EFFORTS TO DESTABILISE SIERRA LEONE Freetown (Fides Service )- The United States and Great Britain have issued a severe warning to former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The two countries say they will take Taylor before a Special Court in Freetown to ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - BISHOPS OF CENTRAL AFRICA: “THE OIL IN OUR COUNTRIES MUST BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PEOPLE ” N’Djamena (Fides Service)- Catholic Bishops in Central Africa say that oil revenue must go to the people of Africa. The Justice and Peace Commission of ACERAC Association of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences has organise ...
• 30 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “HELP US TO HELP THE POOR AND THE SICK IN AFRICA” SAYS BROTHER LEOPOLD GNAMI, ST JOHN OF GOD COUNSELLOR FOR THE PROVINCE OF AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) - “Heath structures in Africa are not subsidised by national institutions and they have great economic difficulty in meeting the needs of a people for whom poverty and need are the order of the day ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF PAKISTAN: RAMADAN HAS STARTED UNDER BANNER OF DIALOGUE AND PEACE: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS BREAK FAST TOGETHER IN A SPIRIT OF SOLIDARITY AND SHARING Lahore (Fides Service) – “This Ramadan promises much for dialogue and consolidating good relations between Muslims and Christians. I am very happy and optimistic” Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan, head of the Commis ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INDIAN GOVERNMENT AWARD TO MANASA CATHOLIC REHABILITATION CENTRE WHICH CARES FOR 155 CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITIES Mangalore (Fides Service ) – Christians’ involvement in providing social assistance in India is visible for all to see and structures opened by Mother Teresa of Calcutta are only some of the examples, as the Indian g ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - LIFE DEDICATED TO LEPERS DRUG ADDICTS AND AIDS SUFFERERS: A COURAGEOUS PRIEST IN NEPAL Birganj (Fides Service) – People call the leprosy centre he runs Little Flower and it is a reality appreciated by all Nepalese. But today diocesan priest Father Christdas, aged 64, is also caring for drug addicts and ...