News
6 July 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - With a new mission in Yangon Franciscans intend to bring the Gospel to Myanmar
Yangon (Fides Service) - To carry the Gospel in the spirit of St Francis to the people of Myanmar, mountain people in particular, a community of Friars Minor will soon open a new mission in Yangon the capital. The missio ...
6 July 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries working with dying AIDS patients draw new hope for these most unfortunate people on the planet thanks to an Italian AIDS vaccine which has passed first tests
Rome (Fides Service) - New hope and gounded this time for people of Africa suffering from the scourge of AIDS which threatens most people living in precarious conditions comes from an Italian TAT protein based AIDS vacci ...
6 July 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - 400 million children have no access to clean water, 270 million have no healthcare and 124 million are deprived of school; every year 50,000 contract leprosy: Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau launches “Restore Infancy” campaign
Rome (Fides Service) - AIFO has launched a concrete programme to restore infancy and hope to millions of the world’s children living in situations of poverty, war and neglect and who want only to play, go to school and ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - To legalise homosexual unions “is ridiculous, it offends the family and the children in particular” says Superior of Tajikistan Catholic Mission. “Our people ask how can we explain such an aberation to our children”
Dushanbe (Fides Service) - “The Catholic mission in Tajikistan is deeply concerned about the proposal to give homosexual unions the same status as marriage and the right to adopt children. Unfortunately we learn that ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/CAMBODIA - New Catholic primary school opened in Phnom Penh: the local Church ever more committed in the field of education
Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in Cambodia is committed to promoting human, cultural and spiritual growth of young Cambodians. According to the Salesian bulletin ANS recently the Daughters of Mary Axil ...
6 July 2005
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Tragic consequences of operation “restore order” presented to UN and AU representatives in a report by the Peace and Justice Commission Commissione of the Jesuits in Zimbabwe
Harare (Fides Service)- “Hundreds of thousands of people have no shelter. Children are deprived of education. The lives and security of the homeless are at risk”. This was the opening statement of a report issued by ...
6 July 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission denounces abuse of anti-blasphemy law: Christians and Hindus falsely accused
Lahore (Fides Service) - There is concern in Pakistan after recent episodes with regard to a return to the anti blasphemy law. Several religious and human rights organisations including the Catholic Bishops’ Justice an ...
5 July 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - After Java another case of polio registered in Sumatra
Rome (Fides Service) - A polio test on a child on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has been confirmed positive. This is the first case registered outside the larger island of Java since a new outbreak of the disease was ...
5 July 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - World Health Organisation launches new global plan 2006-2010 to eliminate leprosy
Rome (Fides Service) - The United Nations World Health Organisation has issued a strategy 2006-2010 for reducing the leprosy burden and sustaining leprosy control activities.
The approach used by the new strategy repre ...
5 July 2005
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope creates new diocese of Sindhudurg and appoints first Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 5 July 2005 established the diocese of Sindhudurg (India), with territory taken from the diocese of Poona, making it suffragan of the Metropolitan See ...
5 July 2005
AMERICA/CANADA - At the end of a special formation session for diocesan delegates of the Pontifical Mission Societies each participant received a piece of bread bearing the words “Love is a gift to share”
Montreal (Fides Service) - Recently representatives of twenty Canadian dioceses from five provinces gathered in Montreal for an important formation session for diocesan directors of Pontifical Mission Societies PMS. This ...
5 July 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australians show generous support for Pontifical Mission Societies programmes: donations come also from non Catholics
Sydney (Fides Service) - Australians are generous supporters for the work of the Pontifical Mission Societies which this year have provided assistance for people in tsunami affected areas, for people in need in Papua New ...
5 July 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Legislative elections: former Hutu rebel groups expected to win
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- The former Hutu rebel group National Council for the Defence of Democracy- Forces for the Defence of Democracy CNDD-FDD is in the lead as votes are counted after yesterday’s election (see Fid ...
5 July 2005
AFRICA - G8: “Greater justice is the only path for peace. We welcome the cancellation of debts and promise of more aid for development, but African leaders must vow to invest these resources for the good of their people” the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Democratic Congo told Fides
Kisangani (Fides Service)- “African nations have the right and the duty to request the cancellation of debts and we must not lose this breakthrough opportunity represented by the Plan put forward by British Premier Bla ...
5 July 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Massive Operation to resume control of Walungu and Kabare in South Kivu estern Democratic Congo where civiilans are massacred by armed militia
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “This at last could be a turning point for Walungu and Kabare. Unfortunately the use of violence also means innocent people are killed but the situation in those areas is such that there was no ...
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