News

• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - A YEAR DEDICATED TO CHINESE HISTORY AND CULTURE: PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS PIME Milan (Fides Service) – “ SENTIERI CINESI Paths to China: paths of knowledge and encounter between Italy and China”: is the theme of a serious of special initiatives organised in Milan by the Pontifical Institute f ...
• 9 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - TWO ARRESTED SUSPECTS MAY BE ANNALENA’S MURDERERS. BUT THIS EXTRAORDINARY CHARITY WORKER WAS IN FRONT LINE TO FIGHT THE BRUTAL CUSTOM OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATIONS, SO? THE SHADOW OF FUNDAMENTALISM? Djibouti (Fides Service) – “It was an execution. Nothing to do with a robbery” Bishop Bertin of Djibouti, apostolic delegate in Mogadishu, tells Fides referring to the murder of Annalena Tonelli on Sunday 5 October ...
• 9 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NORTH EAST CONGO: MAP OF MASSACRES FOLLOWS MAP OF OIL DEPOSITS. PEOPLE CHASED AWAY TO EXPLOIT REGION’S WEALTH AT CHEAP PRICE Bunia (Fides Service) – More details with regard to the massacres in Ituri, north east Congo have reached Fides Service. “On Monday 6 October, in the village of Kachele, 65 people, mostly children women and old peop ...
• 9 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the ...
• 9 October 2003
  VATICAN - HOLY FATHER TELLS PHILIPPINE BISHOPS ON AD LIMINA VISIT: MAJOR PASTORAL COMMITMENT DEVELOPING INTO A COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES OF THE LORD Vatican City ( Fides Service) – A major pastoral commitment must be to “develop into a community of disciples of the Lord” Pope John Paul II said to a group of Philippine Bishops from the provinces of Caceres, Capi ...
• 9 October 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - OIL REVENUE REVOLUTION: BY LAW 80 PERCENT OF OIL INCOME WILL SERVE TO IMPROVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURES N’Djamena (Fides Service) – On October 10, in the presence of some 600 guests, Canadian President Idriss Deby will inaugurate a new oil field in southern Chad which is expected to produce 950,000 barrels of oil a day ...
• 9 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - ROSARY AND MISSION: COURSE ON MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION WITH MARY AS MODEL Lima (Fides Service) – “The Holy Rosary and Mission” is the theme of a course in Missionary Spirituality and Formation which will be held 5-7 November in Lima at the Auditorium of the Conference of Major Superiors ...
• 9 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - WINDS OF PEACE IN ASIA: SECURITY PACT SIGNED BY CHINA INDIAN AND JAPAN AND 10 ASEAN COUNTRIES Bali (Fides Service) – Besides closer economic ties themselves, the member nations of Asean Brunei Burma Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam meeting in Bali, Thailand, on 8 October s ...
• 9 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MEETING “THE DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH” : CARDINAL RUINI WARNS “THEOLOGY MUST NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY” Rome (Fides Service) – “Faith and reason can never contradict one another if they both tend towards the truth, the authentic condition for the freedom of the human person” said Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s ...
• 9 October 2003
  UNITED NATIONS - WORLD HAS MORE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT THEIR FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN THREATENED BY DISEASE: EVERY 14 SECONDS ANOTHER YOUNG PERSON BECOMES HIV POSITIVE Rome (Fides Service) – The UN Population Fund presented its State of the World Population Report 2003. According to the report one in five of the people on the earth are aged between 10 and 19 and they are faced with t ...
• 8 October 2003
  VATICAN - “THE WHITE CLAD PILGRIM RETURNS TO POMPEI”: A REFLECTION ON THE POPE’S MARIAN PILGRIMAGE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Pope returned to launch once again his call for peace through the primary path of God’s mercy, forgiveness received and offered, assured to us by Christ the Redeemer. He did it with ...
• 8 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - AGREEMENT REACHED BY GOVERNMENT AND MAIN REBEL MOVEMENT: REBELS TAKE 4 MINISTRIES AND 40% ARMY OFFICER POSTS Bujumbura (Fides Service) – The Burundian government and main rebel movement Force for Defence of Democracy FDD have reached an agreement. The agreement was signed in Pretoria, South Africa by President Domitien Ndayiz ...
• 8 October 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - SYMPOSIUM AT UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK TO MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PACEM IN TERRIS BY JOHN XXII AND THE 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF JOHN PAUL II. SERVITOR PACIS PRIZE AWARDED TO LATE DR. CARLO URBANI AND TO MOTHER TERESA’S MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY New York (Fides Service) – “It is ever more opportune to consider the valuable indications offered by Pacem in Terris in front of the necessity, once again so urgent, to clarify the figure of world public powers. Par ...
• 8 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE COMMENCES WEEKLY TEACHING FOCUSED ON VESPERS: “MORNING AND EVENING ARE OPPORTUNE TIMES FOR PRAYER…TO ORIENT OUR DAILY JOURNEY AND DIRECT IT TOWARDS CHRIST” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general audience on Wednesday 8 October, Pope John Paul II commenced a new cycle of teaching on the Psalms, this time dedicated to the psalms prayed by the Church at Vespers. � ...
• 8 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NO END TO MASSACRES IN ITURI: 40 CHILDREN MURDERED, GROWING ANXIETY AMONG THE PEOPLE New York (Fides Service) – Anguish grows in the Ituri region of Democratic Congo. According to Fred Eckart, United Nation Organisation spokesman, early on Monday 6th October in Katchele village in Ituri, at least 67 ci ...