News

• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - UNITED TO LIVE THE GOSPEL AND PROCLAIM IT TO OTHERS: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS Rome (Fides Service) – With traditional Vietnamese song and dance and colourful festivities, the first meeting of the new millennium for overseas Vietnamese Catholics opened on 24 July at the Pontifical Urban Universit ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS, MANY FORMER ‘BOAT PEOPLE’ FERVENT IN FAITH AND COMMITTED TO MISSION FOR CIVIL AND MORAL REBUILDING OF THEIR HOMELAND Rome (Fides Service) – Today there are more than 2 million Vietnamese living outside their homeland in 30 different countries and about 500,000 of them are Catholics. Besides these two million, there are another 300,00 ...
• 24 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING: “WE ARE NOT ABANDONED TO OURSELVES OR TO THE COSMIC FORCES, WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD IN HIS PLAN FOR SALVATION” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II met about 2,500 people in the courtyard of his Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for the weekly audience on Wednesday July 23. His teaching focussed on Psalm 146: � ...
• 24 July 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - REDEMPTORIST FATHERS LEAD SPECIAL PARISH MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR OF CERRO CORDILLERA DISTRICT TO MARK 100 YEARS OF MISSIONARY PRESENCE Valparaiso (Fides Service) – The Redemptorist missionaries first arrived in Cerro Cordigliera, on the outskirts of Valparaiso, in 1903. As part of centenary celebrations the Redemptorist Fathers of the Santiago provinc ...
• 24 July 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – SECOND REGIONAL MEETING OF MEDELLIN AND SANTA FE DE ANTIOQUIA CLOSES WITH THE SENDING OF TWO DIOCESAN PRIESTS ON MISSION TO MOZAMBIQUE Medellin (Fides Service) – On its path towards the American Mission Congress (CAM 2), from 10 to 12 July in Medellin the Church in Colombia held a 2nd regional missionary meeting with the motto “we are missionaries f ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND – RATCHABURI - BISHOP JOHN BOSCO MANAT CHUABSAMAI RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (24 July 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Ratchaburi (Thailand), presented by Bishop John Bosco Manat Ch ...
• 24 July 2003
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’ MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR THE MONTH AUGUST “THAT THE CATECHISTS OF THE YOUNG CHURCHES, MAY BEAR WITNESS FAITHFULLY TO THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE GOSPEL” Comment by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the congregation for the clergy. Vatican City (Fides Service) - I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.” (Jn 4, 35). These words of the Lord resound today in our heart and they show the vast horizon of the ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP TO VISIT N. KOREA SINCE THE WAR, IS TODAY PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOPS CONFERENCE, AND CONSULTOR OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Seoul (Fides Service) – Archbishop Andrew Choi Chang-mou of Kwangju has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples . His appointment is a recognition of the important role of the ...
• 24 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - REBELS ATTACK FRANCISCAN MISSION; ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER BROTHERS IN MONROVIA REPORT: THREE IN A BED, CHILDREN DYING FROM LACK OF FOOD, ANAEMIA, MALARIA Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We were deeply concerned for our Sisters and for the suffering that this tragic situation is causing the people of Liberia. The Sisters are unhurt and they will continue their pastoral and ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 10,000 DELEGATES FROM ALL ASIA FROM 9-16 AUGUST IN BANGALORE FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY – SR. NIRMALA WILL TELL YOUTH ABOUT MOTHER TERESA Bangalore (Fides Service) – Everything is ready in Bangalore for the Asian Youth meeting, 9-16 August which will have the theme Asian Youth for Peace. The event is promoted by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Asia ...
• 23 July 2003
  VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL LAW, A PATH TO PEACE: INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL JUSTICE AND PEACE, ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO ON POPE JOHN PAUL II’S THEME FOR WORLD PEACE DAY 2004 Vatican City (Fides Service) – "Humanity is facing a crucial challenge: if it does not succeed in providing really efficacious institutions to avert the scourge of war, the risk is that the law of force will prevail ov ...
• 23 July 2003
  AMERICA/CANADA - “THE LEGACY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY CONTINUES TO GROW AND NOT ONLY AMONG YOUTH” - MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT OF CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY 2002 Ottawa (Fides Service) – One year ago, “Pope John Paul called youth of the world to gather in Toronto in July 2002 to experience a strong sense of faith, fraternity and commitment on the occasion of the 17th World Yo ...
• 23 July 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - EXHIBITION ON THE LIFE OF MATTEO RICCI, THE MISSIONARY WHO OPENED THE PATHS OF CHINA TO FAITH IN CHRIST Macerata (Fides Service) – To make known to a wider public the figure and work of Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary to China in the late 16th century, an exhibition has been opened in Macerata, the Italian town where the ...
• 23 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - CHOLERA IS ANOTHER ENEMY FOR THE WAR TRAVAILED PEOPLE OF LIBERIA Rome (Fides Service) – The serious plague of cholera continues to threaten various places, the most recent outbreak has been reported in Liberia in the eye of the cyclone of civil war. Health organisations working in M ...
• 23 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - FIRST HAND REPORT FROM THE CAPITAL OF LIBERIA Monrovia (Fides Service) – “Up to five minutes ago we could hear the sound of shelling coming from the port and the east side of the city” a missionary in the Liberian capital Monrovia, whose name we withhold for s ...