News

• 5 June 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - AT LEAST 10.000 YOUNG PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND NATIONAL MISSIONARY YOUTH CONGRESS: “YOUTH OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, DO NOT BE AFRAID TO CARRY THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD! Querétaro (Fides Service) – At least 10.000 young people from dioceses all over Mexico are expected to take part in the 8th national missionary youth congress (CONAJUM 2003) which will take place from 31 July to 3 Aug ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - EYADEMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT: TENSION FOLLOWS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTORAL FRAUD Lome (Fides Service) – Gnassingbe Eyadema has been re-elected President of Togo for another five year term. This was confirmed on 4 June by the National Independent Electoral Commission, which announced that the Presid ...
• 5 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FATHER JOSE RODRIGUEZ CARBALLO NEW MINISTER GENERAL OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR – PAPAL MESSAGE Assisi (Fides Service) – Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo is the new minister general of the Order of Friars Minor. He was elected on June 5 by the Chapter gathered in Assisi from May 25 to June 21 to reflect on the them ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - “EUROPEAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IS WELCOME IN CONGO, BUT PERHAPS THE INTERVENTION COULD HAVE COME EARLIER” Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “The decision to send a European peacekeeping force to Ituri is a positive fact but we cannot overlook another fact that the international community did nothing two months ago when the civi ...
• 4 June 2003
  VATICANO - THE POPE RECEIVES A GROUP OF INDIAN BISHOPS IN AUDIENCE: IMITATING SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER “MAY THE CHURCH IN INDIA PROCLAIM RESPECTFULLY AND COURAGEOUSLY THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “During my Pastoral Visits to India, I have been impressed by the many expressions of Christianity in your nation. The presence of the Latin and Oriental Traditions in such close proxim ...
• 4 June 2003
  VATICAN - STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" AFTER HIS VISIT TO IRAQ Vatican City (Fides Service) – At the end of a visit to Iraq (28 May - 3 June), the President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, issued a statement to journalists. He said he had been c ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OF A CHURCH ALIVE AND DYNAMIC” DESCRIBED BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE WHEN HE MET UGANDAN BISHOPS Kampala (Fides Service) – At the end of his pastoral to Uganda, this morning, June 4, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with the Ugandan Bishops’ ...
• 4 June 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO FRANCISCANS BEGAN HEROIC MISSION IN TIBET: INTERNATIONAL MEETING AND VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS TO MARK THIRD CENTENARY Ancona (Fides Service) - Three hundred years ago the Franciscans began an adventure in the highlands of Tibet, in China. On 14 March 1703 the Congregation de Propaganda Fide entrusted the Capuchin province of the Marche ...
• 4 June 2003
  EUROPE/FRANCE - TO MARK 160 YEARS OF HOLY CHILDHOOD MISSIONARY CHILDREN’S PARTY AT LISIEUX, BIRTHPLACE OF SAINT TERESA Nancy (Fides Service) – Last weekend 31 May – June 1, the Pontifical Mission Society of Missionary Childhood (MC) held special celebrations in Nancy and Lisieux, France, to mark the 160th anniversary of its foundatio ...
• 4 June 2003
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW ARCHBISHOP OF KUALA LUMPUR ILLUSTRATES PASTORAL PLAN:“BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST AS A UNITED LOCAL CHURCH AND BUILD HARMONY WITH OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) – “My mission is to fill broken hearts with the love and the mercy of God. Only a heart which has loved can know peace, harmony with neighbour, dialogue of life” said newly appointed Ar ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - GHANA HOSTS PEACE TALKS BETWEEN LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT AND REBEL GROUPS: US CATHOLIC BISHOPS VOICE SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF LIBERIA's CIVIL WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the Liberian government and rebel groups opened on June 4 at Akosombo (Ghana). The 2 rebel groups are: Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, LURD and the Move ...
• 3 June 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIANS CONCERNED SINCE SHARIA LAW WAS APPROVED IN NORTH WEST PROVINCE WHERE, SO FAR, MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS LIVED IN FRIENDSHIP AND DIALOGUE Islamabad (Fides Service) – There is disappointment and concern among the Christians in Pakistan since the Sharia Muslim law was introduced in the North West Frontier Province on the border with Afghanistan. This is th ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - MAY THE EXAMPLE AND INTERCESSION OF THE MARTYRS OBTAIN FOR UGANDA AND THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THE GREAT GIFTS OF FAITH AND PEACE: CARDINAL SEPE CELEBRATES MASS AT THE SHRINE OF UGANDA’S MARTYRS Kampala (Fides Service) – “The martyrs of Uganda have in common the following of Christ as disciples modelling their life on the words of Jesus, as apostles they offered the gift of conversion to others by becoming m ...
• 3 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - EUROPEAN YEAR FOR THE DISABLED: “COOPERATION AT THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL MUST BE INTENSIFIED” DON ORIONE FATHERS SAY AS THEY PREPARE TO TAKE DISABLED TO MEET THE POPE Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the Year of the Disabled in Europe, on Wednesday 4 June, Don Orione “Persons with Different Abilities” Communities from all over Italy will meet Pope John Paul during the G ...
• 3 June 2003
  AMERICA - WHILE THE WORLD’S ATTENTION IS RIVETED ON SARS THE “BREAK BONE” FEVER CONTINUES TO KILL THOUSANDS OF THE POOREST PEOPLE IN TROPICAL AND SEMI-TROPICAL COUNTRIES New York (Fides Service) – Missionaries living and working in various parts of the world often have to face situations of health emergency without even a minimum of preparation. To meet requests for information coming ...