News

• 10 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - SOME OF THE 750,000 REFUGEES IN MONROVIA ARE RETURNING TO THEIR VILLAGES Monrovia (Fides Service) – “The situation in Monrovia is gradually returning to normal” Father Mauro Armanini, of the Society for African Missions, tells Fides Service. The Italian missionary has worked in Monrovia ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - MARIST BROTHERS OPEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL TO IMPROVE LIFE QUALITY OF DISABLED CHILDREN Rome (Fides Service) – The Marist Brothers, whose charisma is care and teaching for youth, have opened a Catholic school for disabled children in Cambodia 8 km south of Phnom Penh, the capital. At present La Valla Scho ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - SARS VIRUS MAY BE CHANGING, WORLD ALARM GROWS Singapore (Fides Service) – Ian Simpson, spokesman of the World health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has confirmed the suspected case of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. However he also ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WHO PROMOTES SARS DIAGNOSIS TEST PRODUCED BY DEPARTMENT FOR INFECTIVE DISEASES AT ITALIAN HIGHER INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. Rome (Fides Service) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a test to diagnose SARS produced by the Department for Infective Diseases at the Italian Higher Institute of Health is highly specific and sensi ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - CARDINAL KOREC TELLS FIDES: THE HOLY FATHER’S VISIT WILL GIVE US NEW THRUST FOR EVANGELISATION AND A DEEPER ROOTING OF THE FAITH, SO NECESSARY TODAY, FOR US AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. Nitra (Fides Service) – On the occasion of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Slovakia, the third, 11-14 September, Fides Service asked Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec, Bishop of Nitra to say something about the situation in ...
• 9 September 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - CHRISTIANS, BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS JOIN FORCES TO ASSIST 217,000 HIV/AIDS PATIENTS AND 300,000 AIDS ORPHANS Bangkok (Fides Service) – Religious communities can do a lot to prevent the spread of AIDS in Asia: this was said during a recent meeting of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok, Thailand. The local Catholic ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - VICTIMS OF COMMUNIST PERSECUTION TELL THEIR STORY: FOR YEARS VATICAN RADIO ONLY CONTACT WITH UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND FREE WORLD Bratislava(Fides Service) – To give an idea of what happened in Slovakia during 40 years of persecution under Communist atheism, we offer testimony from some eye witnesses taken from a television programme “Cristo ne ...
• 9 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES: MISSIONARY SERVICE MUST FLOW FROM INTIMATE UNION WITH THE LORD WHO SENDS YOU AND IT MUST BE LIVED ON THE PATH OF SELF-GIVING EVEN TO THE CROSS” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In order to comprehend adequately the signs of the times and the task of evangelisation which you, Claretian missionaries, are called to promote and develop in various regions of th ...
• 9 September 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - SECESSIONISTS ACCUSE GOVERNMENT OF VIOLATING TREATY IN WEST SUDAN Khartoum (Fides Service) – The treaty signed on 3 September in Darfur, eastern Sudan between the government of the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement SLM, has fallen through. On September 6 the SLM rebels said that two ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - HEAD OF DELEGATION FROM MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE AT “PEOPLE AND RELIGIONS MEETING” SAYS: “IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SITUATION OF DIFFICULTY BETWEEN MOSCOW AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” Aachen (Fides Service) – “This is a time in which dialogue, over and above the misunderstandings of the past, is possible” said Metropolita Kyrill of Smolensk and Kalilinigrad, head of the delegation from the Ortho ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND VALUES AT “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS MEETING”: “EUROPE MUST BE A LEADER IN ACTIVE POLICY FOR WORLD PEACE” Aachen (Fides Service) – In view of the imminent approval of a European Constitution, the ‘old continent’ is called to play a central role in international politics. This opinion was voiced by various speakers at t ...
• 9 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - THROWING THE FIRST STONE AND THROWING THE FIRST SATELLITE Lagos (Fides Service) – Africa is more than ever today a land of contradiction, swinging between a search for modernity often imposed by the West and a return to old customs and laws which violate human rights. Emblem ...
• 9 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MISSION IN CHINA: MOTHER TERESA HAD A DREAM AND IT WILL COME TRUE Calcutta (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta dreamed of opening a Home for the poor in China. This did not happen during her life time but there is hope that it may soon come true. On 5 September, the 5th anniv ...
• 9 September 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - YET ANOTHER MISSIONARY ATTACKED IN NORTHERN UGANDA: ITALIAN COMBONI MISSIONARY FATHER MAFFEIS Kampala (Fides Service) – The conditions of Italian Comboni Missionary, Father Guglielmo Maffeis, attacked by bandits at Iceme Catholic Mission in northern Uganda on 6 September are improving, his confreres at Lira mis ...
• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP OF ULAAN BAATOR, THANKS CHURCH IN KOREA FOR MISSIONARIES AND SUPPORT TO GROWING CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN MONGOLIA Seoul (Fides Service) – “Mongolia, a world where in the past the Catholic faith was banned, has begun to taste the first fruits of evangelisation. For this we offer heartfelt thanks to the Church in Korea for her mis ...