News

• 15 October 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - LOCAL CHURCH STEPS OUT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY: 47,000 ANIMATORS TO DISTRIBUTE PEACE EDUCATION KITS TO BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES AND PARISHES Kinshasa (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Democratic Congo is giving a hand to support the national transition process with peace education in basic Church communities to sow a culture of peace in all hearts. A ...
• 15 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - ALTHOUGH A TRAGEDY, ANNALENA TONELLI’S MURDER BRINGS TO LIGHT SELFLESS SERVICE OF VOLUNTEERS IN SOMALILAND, ALL AFRICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, SAY PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE NANSEN AWARD ASSIGNED THIS YEAR TO THE ITALIAN VOLUNTEER Rome (Fides Service) – Following the murder of the Italian voluntary health worker in Somalia, other Nansen Award winners have launched an appeal for more protection for humanitarian workers. In June 2003 Dr Tonelli re ...
• 15 October 2003
  JOHN PAUL II and OTHER RELIGIONS - Father Ernesto Lettieri Rome (Fides Service) Introduction - “Divinely sent to the nations of the world to be unto them "a universal sacrament of salvation," the Church, driven by the inner necessity of her own catholicity, and obeying the man ...
• 14 October 2003
  JOHN PAUL II AND OCEANIA Bishop Cesare Bonivento of Vanimo Papua New Guinea Vanimo(Fides Service) - Oceania will never forget the love which Pope John Paul II has shown her during these 25 years of his pontificate. The reasons are many and I will try to recall the most important. One event em ...
• 14 October 2003
  JOHN PAUL II AND AFRICA Cardinal Polycarp Pengo Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Fides Service) - The long ministry of John Paul II as successor of St. Peter the Apostle in relation to the African continent has been truly providential. During all these 25 years of the Pontificate, the ...
• 14 October 2003
  JOHN PAUL II AND NORTH AMERICA Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington Washington (Fides Service) - Several years ago, a petition circulated among the Catholics of some European nations. It was critical of the present structures and policies of the Church and indeed of the Holy Father. I ...
• 14 October 2003
  JOHN PAUL II AND THE FAMILY Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo President of the Pontifical Council for the Family Vatican City (Fides Service) - It is known to all that enthusiastic proclamation of the Gospel of the Family and of Life as “wonderful news” and, likewise, promotion of the dignity and mission of the ‘domestic chur ...
• 14 October 2003
  JOHN PAUL II AND THE “FEMALE GENIUS” Rev. Sr. Marcella Farina FMA Theologian , teacher at the Pontifical Faculty of Education Science Rome (Fides Service) - It is difficult to think of or make a gift for someone we love and to whom we owe deep gratitude. I know a nice story: it was God’s birthday and all creation was busy preparing the most beautiful ...
• 14 October 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO – REV. DANKA LOGA APPOINTED RECTOR OF JOHN PAUL II SEMINARY IN LOME Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed (October 3, 2003) Rector of John Paul II Seminary in Lome, Togo, Reverend Father Danka ...
• 14 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION SUNDAY – “A HOME FOR EVERYONE” A SLOGAN NOT FOR A DAY BUT FOR THE WHOLE YEAR ANIMATED BY THE MISSIONARY BREATH OF THE CHURCH Rome (Fides Service) – “The missionary month of October always begins a new path in our Christian communities, in fact it marks the start of a new pastoral following the liturgical year. For some years now the Italia ...
• 14 October 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO FIRST CONGRESS OF CATHOLIC LAITY IN EASTERN EUROPE: “THE LORD ASKS YOU WHO HAVE BEEN STALWART WITNESSES OF FAITH IN TIMES OF TRIAL AND PERSECUTION…TO PREPARE THE SOIL FOR A VIGOROUS REBIRTH OF THE CHURCH IN YOUR COUNTRIES.” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The harsh legacy of atheistic totalitarian regimes, which have left emptiness and deep scars on consciences, requires that the countries of Eastern Europe take up today the hard work o ...
• 14 October 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY – MISSION OF PROCLAMATION AND WITNESS WITH THE SIMPLICITY AND JOYFULNESS OF ST FRANCIS Lahore (Fides Service) – In Pakistan Catholics celebrate the October month of mission in the company of Saint Francis of Assisi. Led by Capuchin Fathers in Lahore diocese the faithful find in the message of Saint Franc ...
• 14 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - THE ROLE OF CHRISTIANS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION IN ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IS BEING DISCUSSED IN NORTH EAST INDIA – UNITY IN DIVERSITY, CHRISTIANS OF DIFFERENT COMMUNIONS TOGETHER FOR PEACE Imphal (Fides Service) – the North Eastern region of India is one of the most unstable due to social and ethnic clashes, land disputes between different tribes and communities, and a half a century old movement for ind ...
• 14 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: “CHURCH IN BRAZIL YOUR VOCATION IS MISSION ”: LIVING MISSION SUNDAY WITH AWARENESS Sao Paulo (Fides Service) – In Brazil world Mission Sunday promoted by the national Pontifical Mission Societies office is celebrated in close collaboration with the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference. “We start our mis ...
• 14 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - OPENING TO MARKET ECONOMY, DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS ALSO VIA THE INTERNET, A MARVELLOUS ENGINE Hong Kong (Fides Service) – In Beijing a group of political dissidents were recently tried in Court on charges of subversion for publishing on the Internet articles in favour of democratic reforms. This was reported by ...