News

• 13 October 2003
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 12,885 CASES OF DENGUE: INFECTION SPREADING, CONCERN FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE RAINS START? Rome (Fides Service) – Costa Rican Health Ministry recently communicated alarming developments in the epidemic of Dengue in Costa Rica. Of 12,885 cases of infection reported, 38 are suffering from acute haemorrhage fev ...
• 13 October 2003
  VATICAN - “A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH JESUS” : POSTULATOR OF MOTHER TERESA’S BEATIFICATION CAUSE FR KOLODIEJCHUK, SPEAKS TO FIDES Vatican City (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa was “a woman in love with Christ” says Fr Brian Kolodiejchuk Postulator of the beatification cause of Mother Teresa who will be beatified on 19 October. Father Brian, a ...
• 11 October 2003
  CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS - (valid to 31 December 2001) Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service statistics offer an overall view of the Catholic Church in the world as registered on 31 December 2001. Our figures are taken from the Church’s Annual Book of Statistics ( ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY - ROSARY PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR PEACE AND EVANGELISATION AT THE END OF THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY: BISHOPS DEDICATE THE ROSARY IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER TO PRAYING FOR THE CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD Manila (Fides Service) - During the 87th Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines Assembly held last July 5-7, 2003, the Bishops approved the following Rosary Prayer Intentions to be prayed all over the Philippine ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/POLAND - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY –YEAR OF THE ROSARY: THOUSANDS OF ROSARIES FOR THE MISSIONS AND THE POPE “THE GREATEST MISSIONARY OF OUR TIME” Warsaw (Fides Service) – In preparation for World Mission Sunday, the diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies took part in a three day spiritual retreat followed by a missiology session on “The mission ...
• 10 October 2003
  FIDES WEB SITE SPECIAL PAGE FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY To celebrate WORLD MISSION SUNDAY this year October 19th see special Fides page on www.fides.org You will find: • Pope John Paul II’s message for World Mission Sunday and the messages of previous years • Pres ...
• 10 October 2003
  TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER OF CHURCH STATISTICS To mark World Mission Sunday Fides tomorrow Saturday 11 October will publish a dossier on the Statistics of the Catholic Church updated as far as available data allows. You fill find:  World population; number ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY Rome (Fides Service) – The death penalty is still in use in 83 countries including the United States, China, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. On the occasion of the World Day World Day Against the Death Penalty - 10 October, L ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Oslo (Fides Service) – The Nobel Peace prize 2003 has been awarded to Iranian layer Ms Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to defending families of writers and intellectuals killed in 1998-1999. Persecuted for the investig ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMENTS: PROF. JUSTO LACUNZA EXPERT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES; MS FARIAN SABAHI PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN HISTORY; MOAZZEMI GOUDARZI IRANIAN JOURNALIST Rome (Fides Service) – “This award reopens the challenge of human rights as a field which brings together religions and cultures” said Prof. Justo Lacunza rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic stu ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA DENGUE KILLS 83 PERSONS AND EFFECTS MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND Rome (Fides Service) – In the past decade monsoons have caused a wave of Dengue fever in India killing at lest 83 people and infecting more than 5,100 in one of the worst epidemics ever known, and it is feared that the ...
• 10 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - COUP FOILED. REBEL MILITARY CHIEF COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – An attempted military coup in Burkina Faso was foiled. According to local sources contacted by Fides Service in Ouagadougou the capital, the police have arrested 12 soldiers of the Preside ...
• 10 October 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - CASAMANCE SECESSIONISTS SAY “ THE WAR HAS ENDED”. PEACE IS NEARER BUT BEFORE WE CAN SPEAK OF PEACE WE MUST WAIT FOR THE RECONCILIATION COMMISSION TO FINISH ITS WORK Dakar (Fides Service) – After 21 years the war over secession for Senegal’s Casamance region territory inserted between the Gambia and Guinea Bissau, has come to an end. The announcement was made by Jean-Marie Biagui ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - KARNATAKA AND VATICAN: CELEBRATIONS FOR MOTHER TERESA, 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II, CLOSING OF ROSARY YEAR Mangalore (Fides Service) – Celebrations in Rome and Mangalore will bridge the distance of thousands of kilometers in this month of October. Catholics in Managlore in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are plannin ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW ROAD IN THE FOREST MEANS NEW PARISH FOR PASTORAL CARE AND EVANGELISATION AMONG DAYAKS Sintang (Fides Service) – A new parish, a point of reference for evangelisation among Dayak tribals on Borneo Island in the diocese of Sintang on the Indonesia/Malaysia border. In this area the Church is deeply involve ...