News
16 June 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Muslim and Jewish communities in Spain assure support for demonstration pro-family and real matrimony. At least 20 bishops will take part
Madrid (Fides Service) - Support for the pro-family demonstration on June 18 in Madrid has been voiced by Imam Seg Munir of the Great Mosque in Madrid, the Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities and by representatives ...
15 June 2005
EUROPE/IRELAND - “Witness to the Faith” theme for Mission Month and Mission Sunday 2005 in Ireland: may the example of numerous missionary martyrs draw more and more young people to follow Christ
Dublin (Fides Service) - In its ongoing activity to reclaim October as the month of mission, the Irish Missionary Union (IMU), of which the PMS is an active member, announced the following: The theme for the Mission Mont ...
15 June 2005
EUROPE/BELGIUM - Brussels plan to fight poverty with nanotechnology
Rome (Fides Service) - According to a report by the United Nations nanotechnology of the future which purifies water, provides energy and grows food could benefit poor countries and help attain the UN’s Millennium Goal ...
15 June 2005
VATICAN - Benedict XVI comments Psalm 122: The just have entrusted their cause to the Lord and he is not indifferent to their imploring eyes, he does not ignore their invocation, or disappoint their hope
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Jesus in the Gospel says that the eye is an expression of the profound I, it is the mirror of the soul (cfr Mt 6,22-23). Well, Psalm 122, just proclaimed, consists of an exchange of loo ...
15 June 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “The family, born of humanity’s God-given natural law must be supported always” says President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar
Rome (Fides Service)- “The natural institution of the family which has its origin in God must be supported always and every initiative to this purpose is very welcome” said Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony, S.I., of Tolia ...
15 June 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Bishops give unanimous support to June 18 pro-family demonstration organised by Spanish Family Forum: “this cause is not only just, it is extremely serious because one of society’s most precious goods is at take”
Madrid (Fides Service) - With only days to go before Saturday’s pro-family demonstration in Madrid promoted by the Spanish Family Forum to defend real marriage, the organisers continue preparations as they receive coun ...
15 June 2005
VATICAN - First International Meeting for Pastoral Care to Liberate Women on the Streets: every year one million women and girls are victims of prostitution rackets, human trafficking, sex tourism
Vatican City (Fides Service) - To reflect on the situation of street women in various countries, share experiences of helping them and plan specific pastoral care in this field, about fifty representatives of Bishops’ ...
15 June 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Society offers full support to pro-family demonstration in Madrid: “the government must realise that Spanish society rejects any changes in matrimony”
Madrid (Fides Service) - The Spanish government’s move to recognise same sex unions as “marriages” and allow same sex ‘parents’ to adopt children is meeting with strong opposition among the people of the countr ...
15 June 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “You must be mad in Europe, how can two men get married?” parishioners in Bissau ask Italian missionary Fr Dioniso Ferraro. Africans support Spanish demonstration pro-family and pro real-marriage
Bissau (Fides Service)- “We fully support the pro-family demonstration taking place on June 18 in Madrid” said Italian missionary Fr. Dioniso Ferraro parish priest at Our Lady of Fatima church in Bissau, capital of ...
15 June 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “The Church in Korea is with you!” Korean Bishops’ president tells Spanish Bishops
Seoul (Fides Service) - In Korea where experiments in human embryo cloning have given rise to concern and a national debate the local Catholic Church is fully committed to using all its influence and energies to defend t ...
15 June 2005
ASIA/MONGOLIA - The “small Catholic flock” in Mongolia under the patronage of the Holy Family of Nazareth unites in spiritual solidarity with Spanish families to protect the family where life is nurtured and cherished
Ulan Bator (Fides Service) - “We fully support the pro-family demonstration in Spain, Madrid on 18 June. On behalf of the little Church in Mongolia, under the special protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth, I can as ...
15 June 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - It is right and dutiful to protect life and the family: Bishops of Pakistan offer full support to Church in Spain for pro-family demonstration on 18 June
Lahore (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan gaurantees clear and total support to the rightful moral position in favour of the family and life taken by the Catholic Bishops of Spain and hop ...
15 June 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Communications experts, Catholic and non, say minority groups deserve more space in the media
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Communications experts in Hong Kong, Catholic and non, have urged the media to give greater attention to minority groups of foreign workers. According to the diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the ...
15 June 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - A medical team of doctors of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Association for Distant Patients and the Italian Airforce launches second humanitarian mission to Africa
Rome (Fides Service) -Doctors belonging to the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Association for Distant Patients AFMAL and the Italian airforce continue their efforts to help the blind in Africa. After a humanitarian ...
14 June 2005
EUROPA/ITALY - “Matters regarding human life cannot be decided with a vote”: says Prof Luigi Alici, President of Catholic Action Italy with regard to the referendum on fertility treatment laws
Rome (Fides Service) - “The referendum gave voice to the will of the people: matters of human life cannot be decided with a referendum or a vote. I believe that with their non-vote Italians wanted to say that maternity ...
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