News

• 2 May 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - CHANGEOVER OF PRESIDENTS AS AGREED WITH ALTERNATION OF HUTU AND TUTSI AN EXAMPLE OF STABILITY FOR THE REST OF AFRICA Bujumbura (Fides Service) – “The ceremony for the handing over of power between presidents, outgoing Tutsi Pierre Buyoya and incoming Hutu Domitien Ndayizeye, took place on May 1 in relative calm” local sources in ...
• 2 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - TREATMENT AND VACCINATION FOR SARS REQUIRE LONG EXPERIMENTATION DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY Rome (Fides Service) – The spread of the epidemic keeps everyone in suspense. Many missionaries work every day all over the world in what are real struggles for survival and today, they too have to take into account th ...
• 2 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CONTINUE TO DIFFUSE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF DIRECT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT TO CONTROL SARS IN VIEW OF A VACCINE Rome (Fides Service) – The virus continues to infect more people and there is already talk of a vaccine. But we are far from a possible date for production and distribution even in approximate terms. Fides Service spok ...
• 2 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - PRIESTS AND CATECHESIS: MEETING FOR EUOPE’S BISHOPS AND CATECHESIS DELEGATES Rome (Fides Service) – About eighty participants are expected for a Meeting of European Bishops and National Catechesis Delegates on the theme “ Priests and Catechesis in Europe”. The meeting, promoted by the Counc ...
• 2 May 2003
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - CARITAS ALBANIA: FORGIVENESS AND LOVE TO OVERCOME HATRED AND FEUDS, DEEPLY ROOTED CUSTOMS Tirana (Fides Service) – Festivity, reflection, dialogue, is the climate of celebrations for the 10th anniversary of Caritas Albania at Peace Village in Albania. The celebrations include conferences and various other e ...
• 29 October 2001
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Open letter from the ruling party: "Guarantee justice for minorities" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After the first-rate murders of Judge Arif Iqbal (who in 1997 had acquitted a Christian accused of blasphemy), of Governor Salmaan Taseer and the Minister Shahbaz Bhatti (2010), who had the coura ...