News

• 24 October 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - PEACE TALKS, FROZEN SINCE APRIL, TO RESUME IN 2004: GOVERNMENT WILL EXAMINE TAMIL TIGERS’ PROPOSAL Colombo (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the government of Sri Lanka and Tamil separatist rebels (LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) frozen in April, will resume early next year according to a government spoke ...
• 24 October 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - ELEVEN AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT TO MEET IN NAIROBI TO DISCUSS HOW TO GUARANTEE LASTING DEVELOPMENT Nairobi (Fides Service) – Presidents or heads of government of Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Maurizio, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania e Uganda, will meet on Wednesday 29 October in the capital of Kenya ...
• 24 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CIVIL SERVICE, PEACE SERVICE”: GROWING NUMBERS OF CARITAS “WHITE BERETS” OPERATING IN CRISIS OR CONFLICT AREAS THROUGH PREVENTION, DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION Sotto il Monte (Fides Service) – Since the first members were recruited in 2001 some 666 young Italians have volunteered for civil service in diocesan Caritas structures all over Italy and beyond. A remarkable figure ...
• 24 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - DENGUE INFECTS INDIA’S CAPITAL AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY: MORE THAN 1.700 TAKEN ILL AND 83 HAVE DIED New Delhi (Fides Service) - In the Indian capital New Delhi more than 1.700 people are ill with mosquito-borne Dengue fever (break bone) a viral disease which is spreading as insects breed on pools of water left over fr ...
• 24 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - PRESIDENT ARROYO SAYS WAR ON MUSLIM TERRORISM IS A GOVERNMENT PRIORITY: “IT IS THE MAIN DANGER FOR THE PHILIPPINES” Manila (Agenzia Fides) – During the traditional annual meeting with the media, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the Philippines government’s new priority is war on al-Qaeda in south east Asia: “Muslim Jihad i ...
• 24 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - HUNDRED THOUSAND YOUNG PILGRIMS: SACRIFICES AND PRAYERS FOR POPE JOHN PAUL II’s HEALTH AND MINISTRY ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECTION TO THE SEE OF PETER Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – United with Catholics all over the world in celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate some 100.000 Chilean youth will make a pilgrimage on Saturday 25 ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - INTENSIVE MISSIONARY FORMATION COURSE: BOOST SPANISH CHURCH’S MISSIONARY COMMITMENT WITH BETTER PREPARATION OF PASTORAL WORKERS Madrid (Fides Service) – Provide all the missionary forces of the Church in Spain with the opportunity for missionary reflection and formation is the objective of an Intensive Course in Missionary Formation promoted by ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - FIRST CARMELITE CONVENT OPENED AND BLESSED: ONE YOUNG ALBANIAN CARMELITE TAKES THE HABIT Sapë (Fides Service) - In Nenshat parish on 29 September the first convent of Discalsed Carmelites in Albania dedicated to the Holy Family and St Michael was inaugurated and blessed. The six Carmelite nuns, four Croats ...
• 23 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHRIST MY FRIEND, YOU CAN RELY ON ME”: HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF MISSIONARY YOUTH IN GUATEMALA SENT TO PROCLAIM JESUS CHRIST AT HOME, AT SCHOOL, AT WORK Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Hundreds of members of Missionary Youth in Guatemala were encouraged to proclaim Jesus Christ to their peers during the special Mass for Mission Sunday on 19 October, at the Eucharistic S ...
• 23 October 2003
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AFTER PROLONGED DROUGHT, TORRENTIAL RAINS: 15 MILLION, ONE QUARTER OF THE POPULATION, COULD DIE OF MALARIA BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – Although good rains this year in Ethiopia may produce a good harvest, before the end of the year some 15 million of Ethiopia’s 66 million may die, not of hunger but of Malaria. This was ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CORSO USMI, CUM, MIGRANTES: “PLURALITY OF CHARISMA AND SERVICE AMONG MIGRANTS; CONSECRATED LIFE AT THE SERVICE OF HUMAN MOBILITY NELLA MOBILITÀ UMANA” Rome (Fides Service) – Reflect on service among migrants according to one’s special charisma starting from life experience and following the directions of the local Church: this is the objective of a Course organised ...
• 23 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FIRST ASIAN MEETING OF RECTORS OF SHRINES: THE SHRINE, A PLACE OF WELCOME AND OF ENCOUNTER FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND A PLACE FOR EVANGELISATION Manila (Fides Service) – Pilgrimages and visits to shrines are one of the most important religious aspects of history and culture of religions in Asia and therefore also an environment of evangelisation which must be c ...
• 23 October 2003
  PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK “IL VANGELO DEL GIUBILEO, LA CHIESA SUI SENTIERI DEL TERZO MILLENNIO” BY CARDINAL CRESCENZIO SEPE Roma (Agenzia Fides) – Urban University Press invites you to the presentation of the volume “Il Vangelo del Giubileo - La Chiesa sui sentieri del Terzo Millennio” (The Gospel of the Jubilee – The Church on the pa ...
• 23 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE CELEBRATES 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE: JUBILEE MASSES AT BRASILIA CATHEDRAL; BISHOPS’ WEB SITE SPECIAL JUBILEE SECTION Brasilia (Fides Service) – To celebrate the 25th Year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) planned two special Jubilee Masses: at the National Marian Shrine of Apare ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - HOLY SEE DELEGATION AT INTERNATIONAL DONOR CONFERENCE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ Madrid (Fides Service ) – The Holy See has sent a delegation to a major conference to raise money for the reconstruction of Iraq taking place in Madrid 23 and 24 October. More than 70 countries and multilateral organis ...