News

• 23 May 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - KOREAN CATHOLICS KEEP UP MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL AID FOR IRAQI PEOPLE SUFFERING AFTERMATH OF WAR Seoul (Fides Service) – Korean Catholics’ concern for the Iraqi people who are suffering in the aftermath of the war continues. On April 12 the Caritas Korea Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference CBCK and t ...
• 23 May 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - KIBEHO MARIAN SHRINE MUST BECOME A BEACON OF PEACE FOR AFRICA: SAYS BISHOP MISAGO OF GIKONGORO Kigali (Fides Service) – “Kibeho Marian shrine must become a beacon of faith, hope and peace for the region of the Great Lakes and all of central Africa”. This is the wish voiced by Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikong ...
• 23 May 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - SMALL STEPS TOWARDS PEACE. REGIONAL SOLUTION FOR ARMED BANDITS ON BORDER WITH LIBERIA: BURKINA FASO AND IVORY COAST TO RESTORE MUTUAL COMMUNICATIONS Abidjan (Fides Service) – “Small step political activity is producing results” Father Lionello Melchiorri SMA says referring to the news of the Government Council meeting on 22 May in Bouake, the main city in the h ...
• 23 May 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - IN AFRICA HALF THE CHILDREN WHO DIE EVERY YEAR OF MEASLES: STRATEGY OF TOTAL IMMUNISATION CAN PREVENT THESE DEATHS SAYS WHO Geneva (Fides Service) – According to the World Health Organisation every year about 750,000 children, half of them in Africa, die of measles. Now thanks to a strategy of total immunisation it is possible to prevent th ...
• 22 May 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S WEEKLY CATECHESIS: ONLY WITH GOD’S HELP CAN WE OVERCOME THE DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES WITH WHICH EVERY DAY OF OUR LIFE IS STUDDED Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general Wednesday audience on 21 May, Pope John Paul II continued his teaching on the Psalms and Canticles taken from the book of Morning and Evening Prayer commenting Psalm 14 ...
• 22 May 2003
  VATICAN - DEVELOP INTELLIGENCE METHODS, RESTORE ROLE TO POLITICS, EMPOWER THE UNITED NATIONS, FIGHT INJUSTICES IN ORDER TO STOP THE SPIRAL OF TERROR: AN EDITORIAL BY THE DIRECTOR OF VATICAN RADIO Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Terrorism is anything but weakened and it demonstrates that it is able to attack, destroy and kill choosing its objectives through which to transmit its messages regardless of any side ...
• 22 May 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - STUDIES SOON TO BE RESUMED IN THE MOLUCCAS: PATTIMURA UNIVERSITY TO RE-OPEN Ambon (Fides Service) – Pattimura state university in Ambon, capital of the Moluccas province of Indonesia, will resume normal academic activity in the coming month of August. The Indonesian Minister for Social Affairs ...
• 22 May 2003
  VATICAN -“THE INJUSTICE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IS NOT IN THE LEAST SUSTAINABLE,» SAYS PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AT THE 56TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION Vatican City (Fides Service) – Addressing the 56th plenary assembly of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, the President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health Workers, Archbishop Javier Lozano Barr ...
• 22 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - BIO-DIVERSITY AND RELIEF OF POVERTY – CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY DAY Rome (Fides Service) – UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, as made 22 May International Biological Diversity Day ” to spread awareness and knowledge on questions related to bio-diversity. The theme this y ...
• 22 May 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - TEN YEARS AFTER LIBERALISATION OF EDUCATION, STATE AND CHURCH REACH AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE BETTER SCHOOLING FOR ANGOLAN YOUTH Luanda (Fides Service) – “Much has been done, much remains to be done” says Bishop Luis Para Perez de Onaitra, President of the Angolan Catholic Bishops’ Commission for Education in the opening address at the 1st ...
• 22 May 2003
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "DO NOT FORGET THAT 12 MILLION ETHIOPIANS RISK STARVATION” SAYS FATHER CESARE BULLO ANIMATOR OF A CAMPAIGN IN AID OF ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa (Fides Service) – “It is true that there are many emergencies in the world, but we cannot forget the 12 million Ethiopians who risk starvation” Father Cesare Bullo Salesian co-ordinator in Ethiopia tell ...
• 22 May 2003
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “THE CHALLENGE IS TO RE-LAUNCH EVANGELISATION IN ORDER TO REVIVE PEOPLE'S HOPE”: FINAL MESSAGE OF CELAM ASSEMBLY. ELECTION OF NEW DIRECTION COMPLETED Tuparenda (Agenzia Fides) – The 29th assembly of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences held in Tuparenda Ypacaraí (Paraguay), issued a message addressed to all the local Churches in Latin America and th ...
• 22 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - IDEOLOGICAL NATIONALISM OF EXTREMIST GROUPS STRIKES MISSIONARIES. NEW AHAD ASSOCIATION PROMOTES SOCIAL HARMONY. EVER STRONGER INDIAN BISHOPS’ NO TO ANTI-CONVERSION LAW IN GUJARAT New Delhi (Fides Service) – Christian missionaries in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, are threatened and impeded in their mission to evangelise. A local Catholic priest, Father Matthew Vattakunnel, denounces that a ...
• 22 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - MEDICINES SANS FRONTIERS COMMITTED TO FIGHTING SARS IN CHINA Beijing (Fides Service) – After missions in Vietnam and Hong Kong, De Dan Sermand, head of the NGO Medicines Sans Frontiers MSF group assigned to deal with SARS, arrived in Beijing on 8 May. The main objective of the ...
• 22 May 2003
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - ARCHBISHOP VINCENT LANDEL OF RABAT OFFER FIDES A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE EXTREMIST ATTACKS: “NOT CLOSED DOORS BUT MORE INVESTMENT IN OUR COUNTRY MUST BE EUROPE’S REACTION, OTHERWISE THE INFERNAL CYCLE WILL NEVER END Rabat (Fides Service) – After the May 16 terrorist attack in Casablanca the whole kingdom is in a state of shock. No one imagined that such a thing could ever happen in this country. But what is even more concerning is ...