News

• 30 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “GENERATOR FUEL SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT, LAST FOOD AND MEDICINE ” ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC HOSPITAL SOS Monrovia (Fides Service) – “People are fleeing southwards as LURD (Liberian United for Reconciliation and Democracy) rebels advance a St John of God Hospitaller Brothers missionary doctor at St Joseph’s Catholic ho ...
• 30 July 2003
  PRESENTATION OF MONDO E MISSIONE SPECIAL ISSUE ON MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA To make known the figure and the work of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who will be beatified by Pope John Paul II on Mission Sunday 19 October 2003, Mondo e Missione monthly magazine published by the Pontifical Institute fo ...
• 29 July 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - TRADITIONS ARE WHAT DISTINGUISH EACH HUMAN SOCIETY FROM ALL THE OTHERS, THEY ARE ESSENCE WHICH ENRICHES THE HUMAN SPECIES: SAYS KOFI ANNAN IN A BOOK NOT TO BE MISSED “TRADITIONS, VALUES AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION” BY DR KEVIN CAHILL Rome (Fides Service) – How do religious, cultural ands social systems and the values they support shape humanitarian action? What are the bases of caring societies? Are there universal values for human wellbeing? And h ...
• 29 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIGRATION ALLOWED TO MAKE FACT FINDING MISSION IN NORTHERN SUMATRA, ACCESS STILL DENIED TO OTHER NGOs AS FLOW OF DISPLACED PERSONS INCREASES Jakarta (Fides Service) – There is optimism among international NGOs since the Indonesian government allowed International Organisation for Migration to make a fact finding mission to the northern Sumatra province of A ...
• 29 July 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY A MARIAN CONGRESS ON MARY, STAR OF NEW EVANGELISATION Lima (Fides Service) - “Mary Star of the New Evangelisation is the theme of a Marian Congress organised by the Life and Spirituality Institute at St Augustine’s College in San Isidro district of Lima, the capital of ...
• 29 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO NON BELIEVERS AND RE-AWAKEN GRACE OF BAPTISM AMONG CATHOLICS; LAY MEMBERS OF BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES MAKE COMMITMENT Seoul (Fides Service) – Sadang-dong parish in Seoul has launched a mission to re-evangelise the capital. The decision was reached at meeting in mid-July attended by more than 1,000 Catholics mostly lay people. The Miss ...
• 29 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - WHY DOES THE WORLD HESITATE TO INTERVENE? CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES IN LIBERIA LAUNCH CRY OF ALARM. MISSIONS HAVE ALSO RUN OUT OF SUPPLIES Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We are concerned for our Sisters at Buchanan” say Consolata Sisters in Harbel, some 50 km south of the Liberian capital Monrovia. “The MODEL rebels, (recently formed Movement for Demco ...
• 29 July 2003
  VATICAN - “WITNESSES AND MISSIONARIES OF A FLOCK WHICH IS DISPERSED BUT STRONG IN FAITH” CARDINAL SEPE CLOSES MEETING FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS CONSIGNING THE MISSIONARY CROSS Vatican City (Fides Service) –
• 29 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - FORMATION: “IS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERY PERSON WHO DESIRES TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF EVANGELISATION AND GOD’S CALL TO HOLINESS ”.- ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS Madrid (Fides Service) – “Without these efforts for formation our life is impoverished and our work of evangelisation loses in quality”: this emerged from the ordinary assembly of the St Francis Xavier Spanish Inst ...
• 29 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - NAIROBI 2 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN SLUMS WITHOUT WATER, SANITATION, ELECTRICITY Nairobi (Fides Service) – “In Nairobi there are 130 slum communities that are home to over 2 million people. The residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements constitute 55% of the city’s total population and yet t ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “EUROPE TODAY NEEDS THE PRESENCE OF CATHOLICS ADULT IN THEIR FAITH AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY COMMUNITIES WHO BEAR WITNESS TO GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL PEOPLES – APPEAL FOR LIBERIA Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Sunday 27 July from his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II launched a call to all Christians in Europe to “rediscover the enthusiasm of proclaiming the Gospel a ...
• 28 July 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - BABUYU AND BABEMBE TRIBES MAKE PEACE, PROMISE RECIPROCAL FORGIVENESS FOR WRONGS SUFFERED AND TALKS TO LAY BASIS FOR LASTING PEACE Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is a ray of hope for peace in the civil war which since 1998 has killed between 2 and 4 million people in Congo. Through mediation by the local Catholic Church a tribal conflict which h ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS 18 CONSULTORS FOR CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service ) – On Saturday 26 July 2003 Pope John Paul II appointed 18 Consultors for the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: 7 archbishops, 4 bishops, 6 priests, 1 woman religious. Arch ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PMS CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has on 22 July 2003, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan, f ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN – REV. JOHN B. LEE KEH-MIEN APPOINTED RECTOR OF TAIPEI INTERDIOCESAN SEMINARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 22 July 2003, has appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan Seminary of Taipei in Taiwan, Reverend ...