News

• 7 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - REFUGEE EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN ALARM IN ACEH: 35,000 PEOPLE IN DESPERATE NEED OF FOOD AND MEDICINE Jakarta (Fides Service) – In a report called “Anywhere but War” the Jesuit Refugee Service describes the tragic situation of displaced persons in Aceh, the Indonesian Province in the north of the island of Sumatra ...
• 4 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS INDIAN BISHOPS: “THE CALL FOR A NEW EVANGELISATION AND RENEWED MISSIONARY COMMITMENT RESOUNDS JUST AS CLEARLY FOR YOUR ANCIENT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AS IT DOES FOR YOUR NEWEST” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Living with many people who do not know Christ convinces us ever more of the need for the missionary apostolate. The radical newness of life brought by Christ and lived by his follower ...
• 4 July 2003
  VATICAN - GLOBALISING SOLIDARITY: 17TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS Vatican City (Fides Service) - Globalising solidarity is the theme of the 17th general assembly of Caritas Internationalis which will take place 7-12 July at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. The assembly, held ev ...
• 4 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED CHILDREN’S BIBLE “GOD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN” REACHES 40 MILLION MARK AND 135 LANGUAGES Rome (Fides Service) – From its Vatican office the Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need, reports that its children’s bible, “God speaks to his Children”, has reached the 140 million copy mark.. The boo ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - YOUNG SPANISH VOLUNTEER TEACHER ON FIRST MISSION SHOT DEAD AT POLICE ROAD BLOCK Bata (Fides Service) – Ana Isabel Sanchez, aged 22, a Spanish volunteer teacher on her first mission abroad, was shot dead by accident at a police road block in Equatorial Guinea on July 1. Ana was a member of the Neo ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - AFTER TEN YEARS OF PLANNING KENYA’S FIRST CATHOLIC RADIO STUDIOS RADIO WAUMINI OPENS TOMORROW: A MODERN MEANS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL Nairobi (Fides Service) – “This is the arrival point of a process started ten years ago and at the same time the point of departure for new evangelisation” says Comboni Father Renato Kizito Sesana, enthusiastic dir ...
• 4 July 2003
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - KIMBE – NEW DIOCESE, FIRST BISHOP ALPHONSE CHAUPA Vatican City (Fides Service) The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (12 June 2003) created the diocese of Kimbe in Papua New Guinea, with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Rabaul, making it suffragan of the same ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “I SPEAK BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS ABSURD WAR WHICH HAS LASTED FOR 17 YEARS” PASTORAL LETTER BY ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU NORTHERN UGANDA Kampala (Fides Service) – “I wanted to speak on behalf of the weakest members of society who for 17 years have been the victims of this absurd war” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu (northern Uganda) in a ...
• 4 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY PRODUCE PEACE AND HARMONY: A SALESIAN’S EXPERIENCE IN MADHYA PRADESH New Delhi (Fides Service) – Father Stanny Ferreira who came to work in Madhya Pradesh six years ago set work immediately to improve the living conditions of the local people in Alirajpur and lessen tension between the ...
• 4 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - PARISH PROVIDES COMPUTERS AND INTERNET FOR YOUTH IN RURAL AREAS Hanoi (Fides Service) – Young people in a rural area of North Vietnam are taking a look at the world thanks to a course on how to use computers and the Internet offered by the local Catholic parish. Lien Phu parish in ...
• 4 July 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - PROMOTE RESPECT FOR DIGNITY OF WOMEN, EDUCATION AND FORMATION FOR LAITY AND YOUTH: NEW PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SOLOMON ISLANDS Honiara (Fides Service) – To discuss a new pastoral plan, formation of catechists, commitment for education and promotion of women: these were some of the questions faced at a week long Pastoral Council meeting in Hon ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE PRESENT SITUATION OF CRISIS THE CHURCH HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BUILDING A NEW SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL VALUES: INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP GUILLERMO JOSE GARLATTI, OF BAHIA BLANCA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Archbishop Guillermo Jose Garlatti, of Bahia Blanca, one of the 42 new Archbishops who received their Pallium from the hands of the Pope in Rome on June 29, told Fides Service about the r ...
• 3 July 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - NEW ECUMENICAL IMPULSE FROM SYMPOSIUM ON SAINT PAUL IN TARSUS AND ANTIOCH Antioch (Fides Service) – “The symposium opened new prospects for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue; encouraged debate among various university professors, students, religious and civil leaders including Mrs iri ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS (CAM 2) AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS, GUATEMALA CITY PREPARES TO WELCOME 300 DELEGATES OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – There are only 144 days to the inauguration of the 2nd all American Mission Congress “and on the journey towards this important missionary event the preparatory meetings are ever more ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/ERITREA - TOWARDS A CULTURE OF PEACE: RELIGIONS ARE A BRIDGE FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DIALOGUE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Peace and reconciliation were our first concerns and so we discussed and reflected on the situations in our countries.” This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia and Erit ...