News

• 3 June 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “TODAY MORE THAN EVER THE CHURCH MUST BE CLEAR ABOUT HER MISSIONARY DIMENSION”: FIRST NATIONAL MISSIONARY CONGRESS Chiclayo (Fides Service) – “Our world today represents as always, as great challenge for the mission of the Church. Christ’s message must be proclaimed to many of our brothers and sisters who have yet to hear it; t ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BISHOPS REFLECT ON FORMATION OF PRIESTS AND YOUTH IN GENERAL Maputo (Fides Service) - The formation of priests and commitment for the development of the country through the Catholic University of Mozambique was the main theme of a meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of M ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - TENSION IN TOGO AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ON 1 JUNE. SOME PEOPLE KILLED IN CLASHES AROUND CAPITAL Lome (Fides Service) – There is calm charged with tension in Lome, the capital of Togo since presidential elections held on June 1. There are as yet no final results but outgoing president Gnassingbe Eyadema appears to ...
• 2 June 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT REGINA CAELI HYMN: BY VIRTUE OF THEIR VOCATION AND PROFESSION MEDIA WORKERS ARE CALLED TO BE PEACE MAKERS Vatican City (Fides Service) – “In many countries today it is the Solemnity of the Ascension” the Pope said from his window on St Peter’s Square when he came to recite the midday Regina Caeli Prayer with people g ...
• 2 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - CARDINAL SEPE FOR CENTENARY OF EVANGELISATION OF MBARARA PROVINCE: “THE GOSPEL SEED HAS GROWN AND TODAY IT IS A LARGE TREE, BUT THE MISSIONARY TASK IS STILL GREAT” Mbarara (Fides Service) – “The seed of the Gospel, sown by missionaries in the heart of your fathers and forefathers has grown and produced many good ears of wheat. Your Christian community has grown like that of the ...
• 2 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - MISSIONARIES CONCERNED AFTER ATTACKS ON MISSION: “FOREIGN INTERVENTION NOW INDISPENSABLE” Kampala (Fides Service) – “We are truly deeply grieved, there seems to be no end to the violence” missionaries working in northern Uganda tell Fides Service after yet another attack on a mission in the region. On 3 ...
• 2 June 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - ANDONG DIOCESE STARTS SPECIAL MISSION TOWARDS THE POOREST OF THE POOR Seoul (Fides Service) – Greater efforts for mission, with “joy and passion” is the commitment taken by the diocese of Andong in South Korea. At a recent Mission Seminar organised for the diocesan clergy, the priest ...
• 2 June 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - ALARM IN ACEH: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS – RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR AN END TO HOSTILITIES Jakarta (Fides Service) – “Widespread violence terrorises civilians. The situation appears worse than in East Timor. The attack was planned and no one was able to stop it. Many civilians have been killed, schools tor ...
• 2 June 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - PASTORAL LETTER FROM CARDINAL PAUL SHAN: “WE ARE LIVING A NEW LENT TO FIGHT SARS” Taipei (Fides Service) – To encourage Catholics in Taiwan and all people of goodwill at this difficult time of the SARS epidemic, on May 25 Cardinal Paul Shan, President of the Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference an ...
• 31 May 2003
  AFRICA RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE CONSECRATES KIBEHO MARIAN SHRINE: “MAY KIBEHO SHRINE BECOME A PLACE FROM WHICH THERE WILL ARISE A PEOPLE OF RWANDA RENEWED IN FAITH, THIRSTING FOR LOVE FOR THEIR GOD, DETERMINED TO FORGET THE SAD PAST OF FRATRICIDAL WAR” Kibeho (Fides Service) – “I exhort you to prayer fervently that this Kibeho Shrine may become a place from which there will arise a people of Rwanda renewed in faith, thirsting for love for their God, determined to f ...
• 31 May 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - VISIT BY ARCHBISHOP CORDES PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL COR UNUM, MANIFESTS HOLY SEE’S COMMITMENT TO BUILDING AN IRAQ OF PEACE Baghdad (Fides Service) – “The Archbishop’s visit is yet another sign of the keen interest with which the Holy See follows the situation in Iraq” Youssef Bahofhy, local Caritas official, tells Fides Service. On 2 ...
• 31 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT CONVERT PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN SPEAKS ABOUT GOD AND GOD CONVERTS HEARTS” SAY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF INDIA WHERE CHRISTIANS HAVE SUFFERED OVER 500 ATTACKS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS New Delhi (Fides Service) – In recent years there have been over 500 attacks on India’s Christians and Christian structures. Christians in India are persecuted by fundamentalist ideological nationalism. Several extre ...
• 31 May 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: NEW LYMPH FOR ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS Bangkok (Fides Service) – To mark Communications Day 2003, the Asian Research Centre for Religion and Social Communications has a new director, a new review, new cultural initiatives. The Catholic centre located in Ban ...
• 31 May 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has, on 31 May 2003, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Slovakia, ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS PASTORAL WORKERS AND SEMINARIANS: “CHURCH IN RWANDA YOU ARE CALLED TO SET OUT AGAIN ON MISSION!” A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO PRISONERS CALLED TO WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD Kigali (Fides Service) – Continuing his pastoral visit in Rwanda, on 29 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with pastoral workers whom he encourage ...