News

• 5 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FROM NORTH EAST INDIA TO BRAZIL: FOUR SISTERS FROM ASSAM DEPART FOR MISSION Guwahati (Fides Service) – Mission ad gentes is undeterred in the face of difficulties, violence or conflict. Fides has been informed that four Catholic Sisters from Assam state north east India, where ethnic violence ...
• 5 December 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BEATIFICATION PROCESS STARTS FOR 124 KOREAN MARTYRS Seoul (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Korea is rejoicing: the Holy See has approved the opening of the beatification process for Korea’s 124 martyrs, Paul Yun Ji-Chung and 123 companion martyrs, tortured and ...
• 5 December 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - ALARMING SITUATION OF MINORS “VICTIMS AND AGGRESSORS IN CONFLICT”: CHILD SOLDIERS, TORTURED AND IMPRISONED, ORPHANS WITHOUT PROTECTION Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Since October 29, 1996 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been in serious danger. The situation has become alarmingly worse in 2003”. There is no room for doubt with regard t ...
• 4 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY OF THE SICK 2004: “IF JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE WHO CONQUERS DEATH, MARY IS THE LOVING MOTHER WHO ATTENDS TO THE NEEDS OF HER CHILDREN OBTAINING FOR THEM HEALTH IN SPIRIT AND BODY ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Church’s Annual Celebration of World Day for the Sick on February 11, 2004, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, will be held in Lourdes where our Lady appeared to Bernadette on 11 Februar ...
• 4 December 2003
  VATICAN - ANNUAL CHARITY AUCTION ORGANISED BY CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES IN AID OF NEEDY MISSIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA Vatican City (Fides Service) – The central Asian church in Baku, Azerbaijan, will be among the beneficiaries of the now traditional Charity Auction organised at Christmas by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of P ...
• 4 December 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM, YES TO DIALOGUE WITH DIALOGUE JEWS AND MUSLIM ARABS TO PROMOTE PEACE Jerusalem (Fides) – Violence and terrorism, relations between Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land, are the main issues of a statement issued by the Theological Commission of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusale ...
• 4 December 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - CELEBRATIONS IN LOCAL CHURCH FOR 80TH BIRTHDAY OF “GOOD SHEPHERD” CARDINAL PAUL SHAN Taipei (Fides Service) – On 2 December the Catholic Church in Taiwan gathered around its Cardinal Paul Shan who was celebrating his 80th birthday. Messages arrived from near and far to congratulate the well loved serva ...
• 4 December 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT VIS LAUNCH NEW PROJECTS IN RURAL AREAS OF ANGOLA Luanda (Fides Service)- “We have just started two new projects for development in rural areas of Angola” Antonio Raimondi, president the Italian Association Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (VIS) told Fid ...
• 3 December 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR – TOLIARA NEW ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE, FIRST ARCHBISHOP MGR FULGENCE RABEONY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (14 November 2003) created the new ecclesiastical province of Toliara detaching it from the ecclesiastical province of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar). Th ...
• 3 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FEAST OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER, PATRON OF MISSIONS, AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECALL AND GIVE THANKS FOR VALID WORK OF WESTERN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA, BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE SPOKESMAN TOLD FIDES New Delhi (Fides Service) – While in India there is growing anti-Christian and anti-missionary propaganda, “the feast day of St Francis Xavier is an opportunity to recall and give thanks for all that western missiona ...
• 3 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 3 DECEMBER 2003: ST FRANCIS, ITALIAN XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES MARK CENTENARY OF “MISSIONE OGGI” REVIEW Parma (Fides Service) – The feast of Saint Francis Xavier, patron of the missions, is also the anniversary of the Italian Xaverian Missionary review “Fede e civiltà”, today known as Missione Oggi”. Which has bee ...
• 3 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT SONG FOR ISRAEL’S EXODUS FROM EGYPT BECOMES, WITH CHRISTIANITY, THE FIGURE OF ANOTHER, MORE RADICAL AND UNIVERSAL LIBERATION Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Wednesday 3 December during his general audience in the Paul VI Hall, Pope John Paul II reflected on Psalm 113 prayed at Vespers in the evening prayer of the Church: “marvellous exod ...
• 3 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - USE VALUES TRANSMITTED BY SPORT: COOPERATION, SOLIDARITY AND TOLERANCE. EU CHOOSES ANNUAL THEME FOR “2004” Rome (Fides Service) – Every year the European Union selects a theme to increase awareness among people and national institutions for a whole year. These themes have focussed on a variety of subjects ranging from prote ...
• 2 December 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA – LIRA DIOCESE BISHOP JOSEPH OYANGA RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (2 December 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Lira (Uganda) presented by Bishop Joseph Oyanga in conform ...
• 2 December 2003
  AFRICA/LESOTHO – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV MICHAEL MATIMA MOOROSI CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has confirmed 25 November 2003, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lesotho, ...