News
3 June 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Local elections: “An important test for the future of our democracy”. Tension, shooting and possible intimidation, hand grenade explosion kills voter at polling station
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “These local elections are a fundamental test for the electoral process which will culminate with presidential elections at the end of the Summer” a local source told Fides with regard to ...
2 June 2005
AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Fides hears missionary’s tragic story of massacres in western Côte d'Ivoire: “We have opened our mission to shelter some 12,000 men, women and children running for their lives”
Duekoue (Fides Service)- “I witnessed terrible scenes, at least 41 poor bodies abandoned in the middle of the road and no one to bury them” said a Catholic missionary in Duekoue western Côte d'Ivoire where during th ...
2 June 2005
ASIA/INDIA - New Rector appointed for Morning Star College inter-diocesan Seminary at Barrackpore
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 29 April 2005, appointed Rector of Morning Star College inter-diocesan seminary at Barrackpore Rev ...
2 June 2005
AMERICA/BARBADOS - Bishop of Bridgetown resigns
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 31 May 2005 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Bridgetown (Barbados) presented by Bishop Malcolm Patrick Galt, C.S. ...
2 June 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Camillian Fathers open new centre for children with mental disability
Taipei (Fides Service) - The new St. Camillus Centre for mentally handicapped children will be officially inaugurated on July 31st. The centre is equipped to care for mentally retarded children as well as those in coma ...
2 June 2005
AFRICA/BENIN - Four wards, two rooms for medical staff, two store rooms for medicines and food: Camillians hope to open new hospital for people suffering from AIDS
Davougon (Fides Service) - The Camillan community in Davougon, Benin, said that if the promised funds arrive it hopes to open a new hospital for people with AIDS before the end of the year. The new Centre will have four ...
2 June 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Canberra diocesan monthly marks 200th edition
Canberra (Fides Service) - This month June 2005 the Catholic Voice monthly publication of the Archdiocese of Canberra is celebrating its 200th issue. “The publication was launched in 1998 and in these seven years it h ...
2 June 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop Cheng of Taipei makes pastoral visit to St Joseph’s parish to celebrate Pentecost
Taipei (Fides Service) - The pastoral visit of the Archbishop of Taipei Mgr. Cheng arrived at the parish of St Joseph on the solemnity of Pentecost. According to Christian Life Weekly despite terrible weather several hu ...
2 June 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Hospital volunteers exchange experience to promote a culture of charity
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The Diocesan Commission of Hospital Pastoral recently organised a meeting for volunteers involved in the pastoral care of the sick, the elderly and outcasts. According to Kong Ko Bao diocesan ...
2 June 2005
ASIA/INDIA - In Orissa state where Hindu fundamentalism prospers Catholic Home is only haven for people with leprosy
Sambalpur (Fides Service) - In the Indian state of Orissa known for numerous active groups of Hindu extremists which often resort to violence, the only haven for people affected by leprosy regarded as ‘human refuse’ ...
2 June 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - After last year’s severe drought now heavy rains threaten people in southern Sudan with serious food shortage Catholic Bishop of El Obeid told Fides
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Water is not lacking. On the contrary we have had too much and too fast. The soil has no time to absorb it all and remains paradoxically dry” Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid told Fides ...
1 June 2005
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Wednesday audience teaching: “Christ, God-with-us, is not content to look at us kindly from his throne of glory, he immerses his very self in human history becoming flesh, that is a fragile reality conditioned by time and space”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Canticle (cfr Phil 2,6-11) “Christ Servant of God”, first vespers Sunday week 3 (reading: Phil 2,6-11) was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during the general audience in S ...
1 June 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - "The family is important. For the right to a mother and father. For freedom": 18 June in Madrid thousands of families will protest against proposed law which offends and undermines marriage and the family
Madrid (Fides Service) - Thousands of families from all over Spain will take part in a demonstration in Madrid on 18 June to protest against the government’s intention to make amendments to the law which undermine marr ...
1 June 2005
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Proclaiming the Gospel in Europe today: innovation and tradition. The secretaries of Europe’s bishops’ conferences meet in St. Gallen, Switzerland
St Gallen (Fides Service) - Although there are many signs of hope for the future of the Church in Europe, the picture painted by the general secretaries of Europe’s bishops’ conferences meeting in St. Gallen (Switzer ...
1 June 2005
VATICAN - “To welcome Jesus and carry him to others is the true joy of the Christian! Let us follow and imitate Mary, a profoundly eucharistic soul, and our whole life will be a Magnificat”: the Pope said at the end of the month of May, the month of Mary
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In this special Year of the Eucharist we are living Mary helps us appreciate more and more the great sacrament of the Eucharist. Our beloved Pope John Paul II in his last Encyclical - Ec ...
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