News

• 16 July 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - FROM HELL IN THE CITY TO HEAVEN OF NEW LAND: PRIEST RUNS PROGRAMME TO HELP ANTANANARIVO’S RURAL REFUGEES Antananarivo (Fides Service) – Every year thousands of country people pour into Antananarivo the capital of Madagascar in search of work. Most have been driven to the city by dire poverty caused by severe drought in th ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - 102nd APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF POPE JOHN PAUL ANNOUNCED: REPUBLIC OF SLOVAKIA WILL WELCOME THE POPE IN SEPTEMBER 11-14 Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 11-14 September 2003 Pope John Paul II will make his 102nd apostolic journey which will take him to Slovakia, to visit four cities Trnava, Banska Bystrica, Roznava and Bratislava. ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - ROLE OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN PROMOTING BROTHERLY RELATIONS AT THE SERVICE OF PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 7-9 July the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, led by its president Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, held a meeting for its members, consultors and guests in Syria at th ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - DIGNITY OF HUMAN PROCREATION AND REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS. THEME OF 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The next general meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which will take place early next year 19-22 February in the Vatican, will be especially important since it will mark the 10th ...
• 15 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - TRAGIC GROWING PHENOMENON OF STREET CHILDREN: CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES HAVE THREE HOMES IN KISANGANI FOR LITTLE PEOPLE NOBODY WANTS Kisangani (Fides Service) - A roof over their heads, regular meals, a chance to learn to read and write and acquire a skill. All this is provided for about 87 girls and boys who have found a new home in Catholic institut ...
• 15 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - THANKS TO ARCHBISHOP’S MEDIATION CONFLICTING ETHNIC GROUPS IN EAST INDIA MAKE PEACE Guwahati (Fides Service) – A Catholic Archbishop succeeded in bringing feuding tribal groups in the east Indian State of Assam to make peace. Mgr Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati offered to mediate to try to put an end ...
• 15 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAMESE DIASPORA DETERMINED TO “PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP”: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS 24-27 JULY IN ROME Rome (Fides Service) – It will be the first meeting for overseas Vietnamese Catholics of the new millennium and it will help “continue along the spiritual path started in the Holy Year in response to the Pope’s cal ...
• 15 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - THOUSANDS SEEK SHELTER IN THE CAPITAL, HUMANITARIAN SITUATION DETERIORATES PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE HOPING FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE Monrovia (Fides Service) – “The humanitarian situation gets worse every day” a missionary in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, told Fides Service. Over the past weeks Monrovia has been the scene of heavy fighting betwe ...
• 15 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MONASTIC VOCATIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD: YOUNG BENEDICTINES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN ROME FOR A CONGRESS Rome (Fides Service) – Representing their Brothers all over the world, 37 young Benedictine monks from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America have come to Rome to take part in a Congress from 16 to 26 Ju ...
• 14 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE AT ANGELUS: TO EUROPE THIRSTING FOR HOPE, THE CHURCH OFFERS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT WHICH NO ONE ELSE CAN GIVE: FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, SOURCE OF HOPE WHICH IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “At this time in history when an important process of re-unification of Europe is underway with the extending of the European Union to more countries, the Church looks with love on t ...
• 14 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 1,200 PROFESSORS, STUDENTS AND CHAPLAINS FROM 40 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN ROME FOR INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE.” SATURDAY AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE Rome (Fides Service) - An International Symposium on the theme University and Church in Europe is to take place in Rome from 17-20 July 2003, organised by the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the It ...
• 14 July 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - 60 MILLION AFRICANS SUFFER FROM HIV/AIDS: 2ND AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT LAUNCHES CALL TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Rome (Fides Service) – During the 2nd Summit meeting of the African Union, AU held recently in Maputo, Mozambique, for the first time the Africa Leaders put health emergencies HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria as a priority o ...
• 14 July 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - AFRICAN UNION MEETING REVEALED “A WILL TO HAVE AN AFRICAN POLICY FOR AFRICA” ARCHBISHOP OF BEIRA TELLS FIDES SERVICE Maputo (Fides Service) – “The African Union Summit meeting in Maputo affirmed an African policy for Africa” says Archbishop Jaime Pedro Gonclaves of Beira referring to the meeting of African heads of states 10-12 J ...
• 14 July 2003
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - COMMISSION OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SAYS: IN ITS RESEARCH ON HUMAN CELLS “SCIENCE MUST NOT CONFLICT WITH HUMAN RIGHTS” Rome (Fides Service) - “The rejection for moral and anthropological reasons of the use of human embryos and embryonic stem cells is not an attack on scientific research. It is about ensuring that science does not confl ...
• 14 July 2003
  VATICAN - PUTTING THE LAST FIRST; COMBINING GLOBAL AND LOCAL ACTION; ENSURING THAT WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH: CARITAS APPROVES FOUR YEAR PLAN 2003-2007 Vatican City (Fides Service) – Four years of hard work lie before Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 154 national Catholic aid agencies operating in 198 countries all over the world. During its recent General ...