News

• 6 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - REV. GIUSEPPE ANDREOZZI CONFIRMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN ITALY Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has confirmed (25 April 2003) National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy, Rev. Fathe ...
• 6 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - REV. SEBASTIAN PERIANNAN APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST PETER APOSTLE MAJOR SEMINARY IN BANGALORE Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has (11 April 2003) appointed Rector of St Peter Apostle major seminary in Bangalore, India, Rev. Seb ...
• 6 May 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - BISHOPS MESSAGE TO FAMILIES: “ENOUGH WITH ALL THIS DESTRUCTION OF OUR FAMILIES!” Monterrey (Fides Service) – “The family, sanctuary of life, good news for the third millennium” : this was the theme of the 75th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Mexico held in Monterrey 28 April – 2 M ...
• 6 May 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF CIVIL STRIFE “TIGERS” AND “LAMBS” EAT AT THE SAME TABLE: IS PEACE REALLY POSSIBLE? Colombo (Fides Service) – “Sri Lanka deserves peace, prosperity, dignity and equal rights for all: and we must work and pray unceasingly for peace” Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Colombo told Fides Service. The Archb ...
• 5 May 2003
  VATICAN - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OPENS WITH SPECIAL SESSION FOR NEW NATIONAL DIRECTORS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies opened on May 5 at Pala Cavicchi in Ciampino (Rome) with a special Session for new National Directors. Participants at the m ...
• 5 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - THE POPE SAYS TO SPANISH YOUTH: LEARN FROM THE VIRGIN MARY…AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE BIRTH OF A NEW EUROPE OF THE SPIRIT”. Madrid (Fides Service) – “Dear young people, I encourage you to join the School of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is the unmatched model of contemplation and the admirable example of fruitful, joyful and enriching inte ...
• 5 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - THE POPE CANONISES FIVE RELIGIOUS: CHRISTIANS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY BOLD AND COURAGEOUS TESTIMONY OF THE RISEN LORD JESUS CHRIST Madrid (Fides Service) – On Sunday May 4, the third Sunday of Easter Pope John Paul II presided the concelebration of Mass in Madrid, at Plaza de Colon, during which he canonised five religious, two men and three women ...
• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - SINHALESE SEMINARIANS WILL SPEND TIME IN TAMIL DIOCESES TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS AFTER 20 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR Colombo (Fides Service) – Sinhalese seminarians in Colombo archdiocese will spend a period of their formation in dioceses in North Sri Lanka where the people are mainly Tamil, as part of a scheme to increase the pastor ...
• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - CARITAS APPEALS FOR MORE FOOD HEALTH AND AGRICULTURAL AID FOR NORTH KOREA Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Caritas Hong Kong has made a new appeal for aid to North Korea, hoping to collect 2.6 billion US Dollars in 12 months, to meet North Korea’s needs for food supplies, health and agricultura ...
• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - MORE ACCESS, MORE TRAFFICK, MORE FREEDOM ON THE INTERNET SINCE OUTBREAK OF SARS, ALSO HELPS STUDENTS WITH SCHOOLS SHUT DOWN Beijing (Fides Service) – The outbreak of SARS has had at least one positive effect on China: greater freedom to use the Internet, until now under strict government control. Following the dismissal of the Chinese healt ...
• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - NON CONFESSIONAL PARTIES, SCHOOL REFORM, SECULAR STATE, TRIBALISM OUTLAWED: THIS IS THE IRAQ IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT Baghdad (Fides Service) - “Democracy in Iraq is possible and this is what we hope for as Christians, because a system of authentic democracy would enable us to stay in our country” Father Nizar of Ninive diocese tell ...
• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - BORNEO : THE INTERNET REACHES ACROSS 5000 KM OF INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO TO FORM CATHOLIC TEACHERS Jakarta (Fides Service) – To communicate, instruct, share experiences across the Indonesian archipelago which extends from east to west for 5,000 km in the Pacific Ocean, the local Catholic Church has decided to use fo ...
• 5 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - HOW TO PUT AN END TO AFRICA’S WARS: SEMINAR AT CONGO’S CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY 7-11 MAY Kinshasa (Fides Service) – In Africa there are many, too many forgotten wars. At present conflicts are bringing death and destruction to Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, Ethi ...
• 5 May 2003
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - BAFIA - BISHOP ATHANASE BALA RESIGNS, REV. JEAN MARIE BALLA, APPOINTED BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (15 April 2003) accepted the renunciation of the Pastoral Government of the diocese of Bafia, Cameroon, presented by Bishop Athanase Bala, C. S ...
• 5 May 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “CEASE-FIRE? REAL PEACE IS NOT SIMPLY THE ABSENCE OF FIGHTING. PEOPLE WANT A DECENT LIFE, LOOTING MUST STOP” SAY MISSIONARIES IN IVORY COAST Abidjan (Fides Service) – “People can’t take anymore. The situation must change. It is not possible to live a situation of anarchy for months on end.” This is how missionaries in northern Ivory Coast describe the ...