News

• 6 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "DOCTOR TONELLI MURDERED FOR HER WITNESS OF GOD’S LOVE” SAYS MGR DE PRETIS, VICAR GENERAL OF DJIBOUTI Djibouti (Fides Service) – “We were deeply shocked by the news of the murder of Annalena” Mgr De Pretis, Vicar General of Djibouti tells Fides with regard to the death of medical Doctor Annalena Tonelli, killed yes ...
• 6 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE CANONISES COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ: “THE NEW SAINTS TEACH US THAT EVANGELISATION, AS WELL AS INTERVENTIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT…ALWAYS ENTAILS EXPLICIT PROCLAMATION OF CHRIST Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Evangelisation, the new saints teach us, besides interventions of human promotion, sometimes dangerous as we see from the experience of many missionaries, always entails explicit procl ...
• 6 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “THE HOLY FATHER IS THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF THE WELCOMING FATHER WHO RECEIVES THE PRODIGAL SON HE IS THE FORTRESS OF THE MARTYR, HE IS THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: CARD. CIPRIANI AT THE END OF THE “ROSARY FOR THE POPE PAPA” FOR WHICH THOUSANDS GATHERED IN THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL Lima (Fides Service) – Thousands of faithful prayed yesterday Sunday 5 October in Piazza Maggiore in Lima (Peru), on the occasion of the closing of the year of the Rosary called by John Paul II and the recurrence of th ...
• 6 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ANGLICAN PRIMATE OF ENGLAND: “THE WORLD NEEDS THE WITNESS OF OUR UNITY”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The world needs the witness of our unity, rooted in our common love for and obedience to Christ and his Gospel. It is fidelity to Christ which compels us to continue to search for full ...
• 6 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - TOUCHING MESSAGE SENT TO FIDES LAST YEAR BY ITALIAN “MOTHER OF SOMALIA”, DR TONNELLI MURDERED YESTERDAY OUT OF HATRED AND IGNORANCE Rome (Fides Service) – In memory of Dr Tonnelli, killed in Somalia, yesterday 5 October, we publish the e-mail message she sent to Fides Africa section on 15 June 2002. Dear Luca, I am not a medical doctor. I have ...
• 6 October 2003
  VATICAN - “THREE LUMINOUS WITNESS OF MISSIONARY COMMITMENT, THREE CHAMPIONS OF EVANGELISATION”: THE POPE GIVES SPECIAL AUDIENCE TO THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS IN ROME FOR CANONISATION OF COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am happy to meet you the day after the canonisation of three luminous witnesses of missionary commitment, particularly dear to you, Saint Daniele Comboni, Saint Arnold Janssen and Sa ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - DESPITE FALSE INSINUATIONS OF LOCAL PRESS: SAYS NUNCIO IN BAKU – WORK ON NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH TO BEGIN SOON Baku (Fides Service) – Relations between the local Catholic Church and the government in Azerbaijan are excellent Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Nuncio in Baku tells Fides Service. Not long after a recent visit to Az ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MONDO MIGLIORE MOVEMENT TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ANIMATION MEETING Rome (Fides Service) – “Spirituality of Communion for a world of solidarity” is the theme of an international congress organised by the Service of Community Animation of the Movement Mondo Migliore, 9-12 October at ...
• 6 October 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BUILDING A CHURCH FOR EVERYONE, MEET CHALLENGES OF MODERN WORLD AND EVANGELISE SOCIETY: SEOUL DIOCESAN SYNOD CONCLUSION AND CHALLENGES Seoul (Fides Service) – “With hope towards God” is the title of the post-synodal letter issued recently by Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, of Seoul at the end of a four year diocesan synod. In the letter the Ar ...
• 4 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - "SEE THE PRESENT MOMENT, DARE, HOPE” SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS: COMBONI’S CANONISATION IS A MESSAGE FOR HIS DAUGHTERS Rome (Fides Service) – The spiritual message of the canonisation of Daniele Comboni is a call to his spiritual daughters in three words or ideas, the ideas that Comboni wrote in his famous Plan for the global mission t ...
• 4 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES CLOSE GENERAL CHAPTER: PROGRAMME FOR EVANGELISATION, JUSTICE AND PEACE, ONGOING FORMATION IN ELABORATION Rome (Fides Service) – On the eve of the canonisation of their Founder, Daniele Comboni, on Thursday evening, 2 October the 26th chapter of the Comboni missionaries, opened in 1 September, closed. Next week a post-chap ...
• 4 October 2003
  VATICAN - TOMORROW IN ROME CANONISATION OF THREE IMPORTANT EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES DANIELE COMBONI, ARNOLD JANSSEN AND JOSEF FREINADEMETZ INFORMATION www.fides.org Vatican City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow, Sunday 5 October, at 10am in St Peter’s Square Pope John Paul II will preside Mass during which he will canonise DANIELE COMBONI 1831 –1881 founder of the Comboni Missionari ...
• 4 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - COMBONI’S SUCCESSOR BISHOP OF KHARTOUM SAYS: ST COMBONI HELPS REDISCOVER IMPORTANCE OF THE CROSS FOR CARRYING ON THE MISSION OF CHRIST” INTERVIEW WITH NEWLY APPOINTED CARDINAL GABRIEL ZUBEIR WAKO ARCHBISHOP OF KHARTOUM Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the canonisation of Daniele Comboni, Sunday 5 October, Fides Service interviewed newly appointed Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako Archbishop of Khartoum, the 7th successor of Combo ...
• 4 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT DANIELE COMBONI FATHER AND APOSTLE OF CHRISTIAN AFRICA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service asked Fr. Fidel Gonzalez Fernandez mccj Rector Pontifical Urban College to comment on Bishop Daniele Comboni in the historical and social context of the 19th century. Here ...
• 3 October 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A LIFE DEDICATED STUDY AND RESEARCH TO HELP THE HELPLESS, FIDES MET DR KEVIN CAHILL Rome (Fides Service) – Professor Kevin Cahill is a major world expert in tropical diseases. He recently published a book on his years of experience in some of the poorest areas of the world in which he says that the mo ...