News

• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - FAMILY AND PRIESTS PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KOREA Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The determination to give more attention to families and clergy emerged from the recent annual Autumn Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Korea held in Seoul. The Bishops will soon issue a Past ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - SIXTEEN BAPTISMS TO CELEBRATE WORLD MISSION SUNDAY AND 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE Taiyuan (Fides Service) – Mission Sunday 19 October was a great day at Feng Sheng He parish in TaiYuan, ShanXi province central China: 16 catechumens received the Sacrament of Baptism. The parish priest and parishioner ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - A WEB OF LIFE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: IN COMMUNION WITH GOD, NEIGHBOUR AND CREATION. SISTER CELIA CHUA, CHAIRS 13th CONGRESS OF RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN ASIA AND OCEANIA IN TAIPEI Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - "wang luo Chinese for web, symbolises communications at many different levels, directions and functions. Our aim is to weave a web of life filled with the Holy Spirit: in communion with God, neig ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - MORE THAN 80% LESS DEATHS FOR HIV/AIDS IN 2001 THANKS TO HAART HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY Rome (Fides Service) – HAART is made up of five or more antiretroviral drugs, both new and recycled, as well as hydroxyurea. According to studies by British doctors HAART can reduce the HIV/AIDS death rate by 80%: pati ...
• 25 October 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – LUANDA REV. FILOMENO DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA DIAS APPOINTED AUXILIARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II on 25 October 2003, has appointed Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Luanda (Angola) Rev. Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, Vice rector of the Catholic ...
• 25 October 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - FIRST CHRISTIAN CONGRESS CONCLUDES WITH FORMATION OF INDEPENDENT CHURCH COUNCIL Rome (Fides Service) – The first Christian Congress in Iraq on the theme “Our unity and our Rights” held in Baghdad attended also by Patrick Kanadi, delegate of Paul Bremer civil administrator in Iraq. Kanadi said ...
• 25 October 2003
  WHO/EUROPE - WHO SUPPORTS NEW INITIATIVES TO REDUCE AIDS DRUGS Rome (Fides Service) – Reduce prices of drugs to treat AIDS in developing countries is one of the most recent initiatives sponsored by the World Health Organisation. “Guarantee therapy for Aids sufferers in the poore ...
• 25 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “SUFFERING A VOCATION TO SERVE”: FOR AN INTEGRAL AND HUMANISED VISION OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING Santiago de Chile (Fides Service ) – As part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Catholic University Hospital in Santiago de Chile and the Year of Vocations called by the Catholic Church in Chile, the Hosp ...
• 25 October 2003
  WHO/USA - GUARANTEE EFFICIENT HEALTH SERVICE FOR THE POOR, INCREASE INVESTMENTS IN HEALTH SECTOR, GRADUAL ELIMINATION OF FINANCIAL RESTRICTIONS Rome (Fides Service) – Health is an intrinsic right of every human person as well as a central factor in the reduction of poverty and the promotion of social-economic development. There are many interventions to contro ...
• 25 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS STUDENTS OF CHURCH UNIVERSITIES: “NEVER LET YOUR HEARTS BE DISTRACTED FROM CONTEMPLATION, BUT AT THE SAME TIME KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE EVENTS IN THE WORLD AND IN HISTORY!” Vatican (Fides Service) – “If on the one hand, your hearts must never cease from contemplating the mystery of God, on the other it is necessary to keep your eyes on events in the world and in history. The Second Vati ...
• 25 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SPECIAL ITALIAN POST MARK FOR DON ORIONE CENTENARY Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 26 October 2003 a special post mark will be issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Don Orione Society. The news was given by the Post and Telegraph Office of Alessand ...
• 25 October 2003
  AMERICA/CUBA - APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO CUBA TAKES LEAVE TO ASSUME APPOINTMENT AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICA. Havana (Fides Service) – On 25 October Archbishop Luis Robles Diaz took leave of the Island of Cuba, where he had been Apostolic Nuncio since Marchy 6, 1999, to take office in the Vatican as vice president of the Ponti ...
• 24 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES IN AUDIENCE BISHOPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES: IN THE FACE OF THE PERVASIVE ADVANCE OF SECULARISM WHICH DESTROYS ALSO SOCIAL LIVING, THE EVANGELISATION OF CULTURE, A CENTRAL ASPECT OF NEW EVANGELISATION, IS EVER MORE URGENT Vatican Service (Fides Service) – “England and Wales, despite being steeped in a rich Christian heritage, today face the pervasive advance of secularism. At the root of this situation is the attempt to promote a visi ...
• 24 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE CALLS US TO “OPEN THE DOORS TO CHRIST” AND TO MARY: A MARIAN REFLECTION ON 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I like to reflect on the pontificate of Pope John Paul looking at his crest, at the great Cross and capital M for Mary, Most Holy, the Mother of Jesus at the foot of the Cross of her s ...
• 24 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CARDINAL CAMILLO RUINI AND EDUCATION MINISTER LETIZIA MORATTI SIGN “SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES” FOR TEACHING THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN INFANT AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS Rome (Fides Service) – The President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Camillo Ruini, and the Italian minister for education, universities and research Letizia Moratti, signed yesterday, 23 October, ...