News

• 16 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL LEADERS TO DISCUSS PRESENT SITUATION AND IDENTIFY CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE Rome (Fides Service) - Leaders of Catholic Charismatic Renewal from all five of the world's continents will meet in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) at the Maripoli Centre for a Consultation on the present situation and to identif ...
• 16 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CATHOLIC TELEVISION COMPANIES IN EUROPE: A SYMPOSIUM TO VERIFY NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND DISCUSS CO-PRODUCTION Rome (Fides Service) – “"Catholic initiatives in television throughout Europe: current reality and the future outlook" is the title of the seminar to be held in Rome on 18th September 2003. The Catholic Church's rela ...
• 16 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR RECOGNITION AND REPRESENTATION IN THE BUILDING OF NEW DEMOCRATIC IRAQ Baghdad (Fides Service) – The Chaldean Bishops of Iraq sent a declaration on “the role of Chaldeans in the new Iraq” to the Civil Administrator of Iraq Mr Paul Bremer. In their statement signed by 19 Chaldean Bish ...
• 16 September 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - BISHOP MANDAGI OF AMBOINA SAYS THE MOLUCCAS ARE STARTING A NEW LIFE, STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED CLOSED ANOTHER STEP TAKEN TOWARDS LASTING PEACE Ambon (Fides Service) – “The Moluccas are starting a new life. There is a new atmosphere of confidence and hope. People realise that no good can come of conflict and violence. I am confident that a lasting peace agre ...
• 16 September 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FOLLOWING TYPHOON MAEMI CARITAS KOREA STARTS SOLIDARITY CHAIN - NEXT SUNDAY SPECIAL COLLECTION FOR DISASTER VICTIMS Seoul (Fides Service) – A chain of solidarity was set up by Caritas Korea as an immediate response to help victims of typhoon Maemi which struck the south and east of the peninsula a few days ago. Alex Lee, head of t ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - COUP IN GUINEA-BISSAU: MILITARY PROMISE FREE ELECTIONS IMMEDIATELY Bissau (Fides Service) – There is relative calm in Guinea-Bissau after the army led coup on Sunday 14 September. The rebels arrested President Kimba Yalla and took control of strategic points, first of all national rad ...
• 15 September 2003
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - NEW SALESIAN MISSIONARY ARRIVES IN PNG FROM INDIA TO HELP LOCAL CHURCH WITH EVANGELISATION AND EDUCATION Port Moresby (Fides Service) – Indian Salesian Father Clifford Morais has arrived in Port Moresby to give a hand with teaching and youth pastoral. He will work at the Don Bosco Technical School in Port Moresby, as well ...
• 15 September 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - CELEBRATION AT HOLY CROSS CATHEDRAL, OASIS OF PEACE AND SILENCE AT TIMES OF DIFFICULTY AND STRIFE Honiara (Fides Service) - 14 September, 2003 – feast of the Exaltation of the Cross - was a day of joy, celebration and feasting for the parishioners of Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara – in fact for the entire church � ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - CHOOSE LIFE NOT DEATH: CATHOLIC BISHOPS PASTORAL LETTER ON AIDS PANDEMIC WHICH HAS KILLED 40 MILLION, 30 MILLION OF THEM IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Kigali (Fides Service) - AIDS is a disease that has invaded the whole world but it inflicts the greatest damage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since its appearance around 1981, it has killed 40 million world wide. 75 of this 40 ...
• 15 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - THE POPE CONCLUDES HIS FOUR DAY VISIT TO SLOVAKIA ENTRUSTING TO MARY: A CHURCH, RICH IN HOLINESS, BOLD IN GOOD WORKS AND STRONG IN WITNESS Bratislava (Fides Service) – Sunday 14 September was the fourth and final day of the Pope’s third apostolic visit to Slovakia 11-14 September. Welcomed everywhere by enthusiastic flag waving crowds, including many y ...
• 15 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 69TH MEETING OF JESUIT PROCURATORS IN LOYOLA TO EXAMINE PRESENT STATE OF THE SOCIETY Loyola (Fides Service) – The 69th Meeting of Jesuit Procurators will begin in Loyola, Spain, on Thursday 18 September. This meeting, convoked by the Father General every four years, is attended by representatives of th ...
• 15 September 2003
  VATICAN - PACEM IN TERRIS TEACHING STILL VALID TODAY: A REFLECTION BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE UNDER THE BANNER OF CHRISTIAN HOPE AND OPTIMISM Vatican City (Fides Service) – The indispensable elements for building a new social order in the era of globalisation, drawn from the teaching, as valid as ever today, of the Pacem in Terris encyclical by John XXIII, a ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - EYEWITNESS MISSIONARY RETURNED FROM GUINEA BISSAU (Rome) Fides Service) – “When I left Bissau on Saturday afternoon and there was no sign whatsoever of a coup” Father Agostino Martini head of the Venetian province of the Friars Minor told Fides. “Although, to te ...
• 15 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SALESIAN NGO VOLUNTEERS INTERNATIONAL OFFERS ON LINE FORMATION Rome (Fides Service) - Form students, teachers, post graduates, professionals using modern technology to spread a culture of development and solidarity with the South of the world is the aim of a new undertaking of On-Li ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - INFO: EVANGELISATION Rome (Fides Service) – Evangelisation in Guinea Bissau which in 1998 marked 500 years took place in four or five laps. The first began with the arrival in Guinea of Portuguese Europeans in 1446, and ended with the crea ...