News

• 28 July 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - BANGUI – ARCHBISHOP JOACHIM N’DAYEN RESIGNS, MGR PAULIN POMODIMO APPOINTED METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (26 July 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bangui in Central African Republic, presented by Archbisho ...
• 28 July 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS DETERMINED TO HELP RESTORE PEACE AND RECONCILIATION WHERE PEOPLE STILL SUFFER BECAUSE OF CIVIL WAR Honiara (Fides Service) – The Catholic religious of Solomon Island are committed to help stop ethnic fighting by fostering reconciliation and help rebuild a culture of peace and non-violence. This resolution was taken ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - AUXILIARY BISHOP JOHN TONG HON APPOINTED CONSULTOR OF CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES: RECOGNITION FOR HOLY SPIRIT STUDY CENTRE Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Bishop John Tong Hon auxiliary of the diocese of Hong Kong has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for a five year term. With regard to his appoin ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - NEW MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR IN N. VIETNAM TO MARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF SISTERS LOVERS OF THE CROSS LOCAL CONGREGATION Hanoi (Fides Service) – For 75 years the Sisters Lovers of the Cross, a local Vietnamese congregation of women religious, have served the poor, the excluded, lepers, terminally ill patients in central Vietnam in rural ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - “LIKE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WE ARE A LITTLE FLOCK CALLED TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS SO AS TO BE A GREAT SIGN” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Geraldo Majela Agnelo, Archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia Brazil, the new president of the Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference CNBB was recently in Rome to present Pope Joh ...
• 28 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - ST JOHN OF GOD CATHOLIC HOSPITAL ISSUES SERIOUS WARNING: “THOUSANDS MAY DIE BECAUSE OF FOOD AND WATER SHORTAGE ” Monrovia (Fides Service) – “The rebels have penetrated the city centre: innocent civilians are fleeing as mortars and bullets rain everywhere” a missionary doctor at the St John of God Catholic Hospital in Monrovia ...
• 28 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - LIVING MISSION: YOUTH MISSION CAMP OPENS TODAY IN LORETO ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES ITALIAN BRANCH Loreto (Fides Service) – A National Youth Missionary Formation Camp opened on July 28 at the John Paul II Youth Centre in Loreto, Italy. The July 29-3 August camp organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy ...
• 26 July 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - BANGUI - ARCHBISHOP JOACHIM N’DAYEN RESIGNS, MGR PAULIN POMODIMO APPOINTED METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (26 July 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bangui in Central African Republic, presented by Archbishop ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - THERE IS NO WAR BETWEEN RELIGIONS IN IRAQ, SAYS ARCHBISHOP ISHAQ RECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL BABEL UNIVERSITY IN BAGHDAD Rome (Fides Service) - “I am confident about the future of the Church in Iraq” says Chaldean Archbishop Ishaq Jacques, emeritus of Arbil of the Chaldeans, presently rector of Babel Pontifical University in Baghdad. ...
• 25 July 2003
  IN NOVEMBER A SYMPOSIUM ON ST THERESA OF LISIEUX AND THE IMPORTANCE TODAY OF HER MESSAGE The Cardinal Suenens Centre in collaboration with the Pontifical Gregorian University, is organising a Symposium 10-11 November “Therese of Lisieux and her Message today”. Speakers, all experts on the saint, will inc ...
• 25 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - YOUNG VOLUNTEERS SPEND SUMMER HOLIDAYS ON MISSION Madrid (Fides Service) – Besides being a time for rest and enjoyment, Summer holidays can also be a time to help the work of the Church particularly where there is most need. Again this year a good number of young Span ...
• 25 July 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - LAY CATHOLICS AND YOUTH AT THE CENTRE OF PLENARY COUNCIL OF LOCAL CHURCH OPENS TOMORROW Caracas (Fides Service) – From 26 to 31 July at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas the 4th session of the plenary council of the Church in Venezuela will bring together about three hundred people includin ...
• 25 July 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - HIV AND TRANSFUSION SECURITY: CONFERENCE IN LUANDA Rome (Fides Service) – According to a press statement issued by the Coalition for HIV Positive People, control of blood quality is still a serious problem in Angola where only 30 percent of the donations are tested. To ...
• 25 July 2003
  AFRICA - AIDS: BY 2010 TWENTY FIVE MILLION ORPHANS Rome (Fides Service) – The living conditions of people in southern Africa are alarming for various reasons, including drought, bad government, political instability and in particular AIDS, The poorest countries are the ...
• 25 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - WE WERE 6 NOW WE ARE 165 SAYS SISTER HELENA KOTANDOLA ONE OF THE FIRST SISTERS OF THE CONGREGATION OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOUNDED 50 YEARS AGO IN TSHUMBE DIOCESE Tshumbe (Fides Service) – “It is a great joy to see our family grow day by day” says Sister Helena Kotandola one of the foundresses of the diocesan congregation of Saint Francis of Assisi which celebrated it 50th a ...