News

• 30 May 2003
  EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - CHRISTIANS JOIN IN ECUMENICAL PRAYER FOR NORTH KOREA London (Fides Service) – A ecumenical week of prayer in aid of North Korea in underway launched by the London based human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide CWS which promotes awareness of situations of ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - REV. PIERRE DOVI N’DANU-ALIPUI APPOINTED RECTOR OF THE JOHN PAUL II MAJOR INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN LOME Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of John Paul II Major inter-diocesan seminary in Lome, (Togo) Rev. ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - REV. ALAIN THIERRY RAHARISON APPOINTED RECTOR OF PAUL VI UNIVERSITY SEMINARY IN ANTANANARIVO Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of Paul VI University Major Seminary in Antananarivo (Madagascar) ...
• 30 May 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE: “GOD NEVER ABANDONS HIS PEOPLE ON THE BRINK OF DESPERATION” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general audience on Wednesday 28 May, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II gave his teaching on Psalm 107: “Praise to the Lord and call for help”. “The psalm present ...
• 30 May 2003
  VATICAN/RWANDA - FIDES SERVICE MULTIMEDIA DOSSIER 85 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service announces new multimedia Dossier on Rwanda articulated in four parts: History After the genocide: the present situation The mission of the Church The dioceses The ...
• 30 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - BEIJING HOSTS TWO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON SARS Beijing (Fides Service) – To adopt common measures of prevention and treatment in order to take control of SARS is the objective of two international meetings in the coming month of June in Beijing. On 1 and 2 June r ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/EUROPE - BISHOPS ASK G8 SUMMIT FOR NEW MOBILISATION FOR AFRICA Berlin (Fides Service) – “Give practical support to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) by increasing development aid and reducing the debt of developing countries” is the request made by Catholi ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - CARITAS CONGO SENDS 8 TONNES OF MEDICINES TO BUNIA CITY TRAPPED IN TRIBAL FIGHTING Kinshasa (Fides Service) – On 29 May 8 tonnes of medicine sent by Caritas Congo arrived in Bunia city. Flying with the medical supplies, purchased with funds from Caritas Germany and Trocaire Ireland, was the director ...
• 30 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: SPANISH BISHOPS’ MESSAGE “COMMUNICATORS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD OF SOCIETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON” Madrid (Fides Service) – In a message issued for Communications’ Day (in Spain June 1) the Commission for Social Communications of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has called on Catholic media workers to fulfil thei ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: RADIO FOR PEACE IN THE HEART OF WAR TORN AFRICA: ON THE SHORES OF LAKE KIVU, RWANDA/BURUNDI BORDER, THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS Bukavu (Fides Service) – Radio Mary Queen of Peace, Maria Malkia wa Amani is only two years old and yet even its name is a programme. Maria Malkia wa Amani the Catholic radio of Bukavu archdiocese was started at a ston ...
• 30 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INTERVIEW WITH CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CALCUTTA: STOP ANTI-CONVERSION BILL. EVERY PERSON MUST ENJOY FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE –MOTHER TERESA IS “GLOBAL”, SHE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE CHURCH AND THE WHOLE WORLD Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Salvation is for all peoples. The Church proclaims and bears witness to the Good News, despite persecution”. This affirmation was made by Archbishop Lucas Sirkar of Calcutta, who was ...
• 30 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 ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC BISHOP IN GUJARAT: GROWING FUNDAMENTALISM BUT THRIVING CHURCH INTENDS TO MAKE SUPREME COURT APPEAL AGAINST ANTI-CONVERSION BILL – INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP THOMAS MACWAN OF AHMEDABAD Vatican City (Fides Service) – “We are not afraid. Our mission is to bear witness to Jesus Christ even during persecution. The anti-conversion bill approved in Gujarat is unconstitutional. We, the local Catholic Chur ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA IN 1999 POPE JOHN PAUL II AFFIRMED: “NO STATE HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY A PERSON’S RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS” New Delhi (Fides Service) - “No State, no group has the right to control either directly or indirectly a person’s religious convictions, nor can it justifiably claim the right to impose or impede the public professi ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “WE ARE WORKING WITH MUSLIMS TO ASSIST TO IRAQI PEOPLE” SAYS HEAD OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS IN INTERVIEW WITH FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – “We have established good collaboration with the Muslim world despite difficulties arising from the lack of security” Mr Karel Zelenka head of Caritas Internationalis department for internati ...