News
15 May 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHURCH AND CATHOLIC MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY OPENS TODAY
Murcia (Fides Service – Catholic Means of social communications in the 21st century is the title of the 2nd International Congress on Church and Catholic Means of Social Communications which opens today, 15 May, in Mu ...
15 May 2003
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - “FAMILY – CHILD – STATE” AT KIEV (UKRAINE)
The Ukraine-wide “Pro Human Dignity” Charitable Endowment has organised an International Congress “Family – Child – State” At Kiev. Key Experts in family rights, childhood and motherhood protection, medics, ...
15 May 2003
AMERICA/PERU - FIRST SUB-REGIONAL MEETING OF ANDES GROUP FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF CHILDREN
Lima (Fides Service) – The first sub-regional meeting of the Andes group for Pastoral Care of Children was held in Lima, Peru, 13-15 May. The purpose of the meeting was to present a Guide for the Pastoral Care of Child ...
15 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA LAUNCHES APPEAL: “UNITED NATIONS MUST INTERVENE TO DISMANTLE NETWORKS OF INTERESTS BACKING AFRICA’S WARS ”
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Dismantle the networks of arms trafficking and financial support behind wars in Africa! This appeal was launched to the United Nations Organisation from the Democratic Republic of Congo at th ...
15 May 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS IN PAKISTAN SUPPORT INDIA/PAKISTAN PEACE INITIATIVES
Multan (Fides Service) – Peace between India and Pakistan may be at last at hand and full support for initiatives of reconciliation between the two neighbour countries has been expressed by the Justice and Peace Commis ...
15 May 2003
ASIA/HONG KONG - CHURCH IN HONG KONG GUARANTEES SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE FOR QUARANTINED SARS VICTIMS AND HOSPITAL PERSONNEL
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Responding to an appeal made by the Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Zen, the diocesan commission for Hospital Pastoral Care organised special collections for quarantined victims of SARS Severe Ac ...
14 May 2003
VATICAN - EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BISHOPS, WITH PONTIFICAL COUNCIL COR UNUM, WILL VISIT COLOMBIA CARRYING PAPAL MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY AND ENCOURAGEMENT
Bogota (Fides Service) – At the invitation of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference, a delegation of European and North American Bishops is visiting Colombia (12-19 May) to deliver a Message from Pope John Paul II and al ...
14 May 2003
ASIA/TURKEY - MISSION TODAY IN ANTIOCH, CRADLE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES
Antioch (Fides Service) – Antioch on the Oronte River was the cradle of early the early Christian communities mentioned in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Here for the first time the disciples of Jesus came to be ...
14 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - BUNIA, BLOODIED CITY NOW FACES FOOD SHORTAGE: POPE GRIEVES FOR VICTIMS AT NYAKANZA PARISH
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is still an atmosphere of calm charged with tension in Bunia, in Ituri region, north-east Congo, disrupted in the past few days by violence which did not spare civilians. “The most s ...
14 May 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - REPORTS OF ESCAPE OF SOME KIDNAPPED SEMINARIANS IN NORTHERN UGANDA ARE FALSE
Kampala (Fides Service) – “Unfortunately there is no confirmation of reports that some of the seminarians, hostages of rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA, have escaped” Comboni missionary Father Joseph tel ...
14 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - PRAYERS AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: CATHOLICS OFFER SUPPORT TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF CHINA
Beijing (Fides Service) – Since the outbreak of the epidemic of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Catholics in Beijing have been fighting the virus with every means possible, prayer in the first place. The Cathol ...
14 May 2003
ASIA/THAILAND - CARITAS WORKS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AND PREVENT CONFLICTS
Bangkok (Fides Service) – Among the challenges facing Caritas offices in South East Asia is to find solutions to situations of conflict and prevent violence, through peace-building and reconciliation programmes and sem ...
14 May 2003
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - IN TUPARENDA (PARAGUAY) 29th ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF CELAM COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES
Tuparenda (Agenzia Fides) – On May 13 at the shrine of Tuparenda (Ypacarai- Paraguay) CELAM Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences opened its 29the ordinary assembly which will close on 16 May. The meeting is ...
13 May 2003
VATICAN - THE CHURCH NEEDS SCIENCE AND SCIENCE NEEDS RELIGION
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The Church reaffirms the legitimate autonomy of science and her appreciation for this eminent form of human knowledge, recognising her own errors committed in the past. Also in ...
13 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MAJOR SUPERIORS DISCUSS: FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS FOR MISSION IN INDIA TODAY
Bangalore (Fides Service) – Revise formation and ongoing formation for Religious to meet the challenges of the third millennium in a constantly changing world. This was the commitment taken at the end of a Meeting of ...
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