News
1 June 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - The tragedy of AIDS central theme at 15th Plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Eastern Africa opening today in Uganda
Kampala ( Fides Service)- The 15th plenary assembly of the Association of Member Bishops Conferences of Eastern Africa AMECEA opens today at Mukono, near Kampala, capital of Uganda. The theme of the meeting is “Meeting ...
1 June 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Encourage missionary spirit in the Church and increase Brazilian society’s awareness of the Amazon region” one gaol of National meeting 9-11 June
Brasilia (Fides Service) - Today the Amazon region has urgent need of help: it covers 43.38% of south America and is the region with most of the planet’s natural resources and bio-diversity, and is therefore the world ...
1 June 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Religious leaders unite to call for a revision of immigration system which they say should show more respect for human rights
Sydney (Fides Service) - Better conditions for immigrants arriving in Australia even illegal ones and a revision of immigration system which should show more respect for the dignity and rights of the person are being dem ...
1 June 2005
AFRICA/SOMALIA - War Lords want to condition installation of new Somali government
Mogadishu (Fides Service)- The government of Somalia says it will return from exile despite violence in recent days in the south western town of Baidoa chosen as the temporary headquarters of the new executive. The news ...
31 May 2005
The Pope’s mission prayer intention for June: 'That the Sacrament of the Eucharist be more and more perceived as the heartbeat of the Church’s life'.
Comment by Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo, Archbishop of Ranchi (India)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This month’s missionary intention is focused on the Eucharist. No one can be possibly ignorant of the fact that the Eucharist has occupied the attention of the Church in a very striking w ...
31 May 2005
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Italian Bishops : “Italy can and must play a major role in offering common witness to Jesus Christ our only Saviour, so Christ may be the measure for true humanism, for individual conscience and the structures social life”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear brothers, our bond has a precise root, the same root which unites all the Bishops of the world with the Successor of Peter, but in this country it is even stronger because the Pope ...
31 May 2005
Auguri! Today after 38 years of faithful service at Fides Mr Agostino Severi is retiring. The direction and staff wish him all the best and a very happy retirement!
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today Fides News Service says goodbye to Cav. Agostino Severi, responsible for the printing and distribution of Fides Bulletin for 38 years. We will miss Agostino who has been exemplary in ...
31 May 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in China celebrate Corpus Christ with great fervour and in great numbers
Rome (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics celebrated the annual feast of Corpus Christ with great fervour and in great numbers. In a letter for the occasion published earlier Archbishop Cheng of Taipei encouraged Catholic ...
31 May 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - “Thank you Holy Father for your encouragement. We confirm our commitment to work for peace in our country” the Bishops of Burundi said at the end of their Ad Limina visit
Rome (Fides Service)- At the end of their Ad Limina visit 23 to 28 May, the Catholic Bishops of Burundi issued a statement in which they thank the Holy Father Benedict XVI for his warm welcome, for listening carefully t ...
31 May 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA “Take the next step” towards Aborigines: Catholic commitment in National Week for Reconciliation
Sydney (Fides Service) - A series of public initiatives and events, testimony, meetings of formation and reflection, artistic performances focused on reconciliation between the white community and the Aborigines characte ...
31 May 2005
AMERICA/CUBA - Being a “missionary Church”, growing in missionary spirituality, proclaiming the Gospel everywhere, start Missionary Youth groups: resolutions of the first Missionary Meeting in Cuba
Havana (Fides Service) - “Let us make the pilgrim Church in Cuba a missionary church” said Bishop Juan García Rodríguez chairman of the Cuban Bishops’ Commission for Mission during the 1st National Mission Meetin ...
31 May 2005
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - “Clementina Cantoni: why is there no general mobilisation?” asks the president of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan calling for the release of the Italian volunteer “kidnapping is against the precepts of any religion”
Lahore (Fides Service - “Not much is said about the kidnapping of Clementina Cantoni. In Pakistan there is hardly any mention of it. There has been no general mobilisation among world media as in the cases of other ho ...
31 May 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Charles Taylor is only the tip of the iceberg of what is happening here in Liberia” a missionary told Fides
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Former President Charles Taylor is an example of the situation in Liberia in recent years” Fr Mauro Armanino (Provincial SMA) in Monrovia told Fides. “Although Taylor is wanted by the Uni ...
31 May 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Tension and disorder in Karachi: Christian leaders call on government to guarantee more security and promote social and inter-religious harmony
Lahore (Fides Service) - There is tension in the southern Pakistan port of Karach where violent disorder followed a suicide bomb on 30 May which devastated the Mandinatul Ilm Shiite mosque in the district of Gulshan-e-I ...
31 May 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Calm replaces tension of past few days
Bissau (Fides Service)- “At last calm has returned and the electoral process has started again” said local Church sources in locale Bissaucapital of Guinea Bissau where tension rose after former president Kumba Yala ...
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