News
14 May 2005
“To Bear Witness” Kevin M. Cahill M.D.
New York (Fides Service) - Fides received this touching witness offered by medical doctor Kevin M. Cahill, one of two United States specialists asked by the Vatican to serve as consultants with regard to the condition of ...
14 May 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - The world and the challenge to humanise healthcare. St John of God Hospitaller Brothers: ““not only curing but most of all caring””
Rome (Fides Service) - Medical doctors, university professors and men and women religious from all over the world will meet in Palermo, Sicily, to discuss the humanisation of healthcare with input from the United States, ...
14 May 2005
EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - Report on the past year’s activity of Holy Childhood Society, closes the Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Lyon (Fides Service) - The annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies closed on Friday 13th May, feast of Our Lady of Fatima with a solemn Mass presided by Archbishop Henryk Hoser, President of the Societies and ...
14 May 2005
EUROPE/FRANCE PMS Assembly - Over 80.000 seminarians in mission territories prepare for the priesthood thanks to funds from the Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle
Lyon (Fides Service) - The purpose of the Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle is to support the formation of local clergy in mission territories. Last year 2004, the Society supported the formation of 80,297 semi ...
14 May 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish NGO starts youth cultural centres to serve 280,000 people including 110,000 children
Rome (Fides Service) - INTERVIDA a Spanish NGO which works to improve the living standard of children supporting various programmes in Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, India, Philippines and Mal ...
14 May 2005
AFRICA/ETIOPIA - Tomorrow Young Ethiopian democracy goes to the polls to elect a new national parliament and eight regional parliaments
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “This is a democratic process which must be encouraged: Ethiopia’s elections cannot be read with Western spectacles. Ethiopia has only known democracy for 12 years” said local sources i ...
14 May 2005
ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Info
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tension in Uzbekistan is still high. To offer a picture of the situation in the central Asia republic Fides publishes this background note on Uzbekistan.
area: 447.400 sq. km - populatio ...
14 May 2005
ASIA/CHINA - On the feast of Our Lady of Fatima Catholics pray that the “intercession of Pope John Paul II and the great love of Pope Benedict XVI will bring unity with the universal Church closer”
Beijing (Fides Service) - Catholics in Beijing celebrated with enthusiasm the feast of Our Lady of Fatima on May 13. In many parishes after the Mass people stayed to watch recordings of the Masses for the funeral of Pope ...
13 May 2005
VATICAN - The Pope declares open the cause for the beatification of Pope John Paul II
Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his first audience with the clergy of Rome in St John’s Cathedral in the Lateran, Benedict XVI declared open the cause for the beatification of Pope John Paul II. Here is the text ...
13 May 2005
VATICAN - Benedict XVI meets the priests and deacons of his diocese of Rome: “The Risen Christ calls us to be his witnesses and he gives us the power of his Spirit to do so. It is therefore necessary to be with Him in order to render witness with our whole life”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI drove across Rome to the Vicariate office of Rome diocese at the basilica of St John Lateran where in the Hall of the Conciliation he had a m ...
13 May 2005
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Diplomatic Corps accredited to Holy See: “everyone is called to build a peaceful society in order to vanquish the temptation of clashes between cultures, ethnic groups and different worlds”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 12 May, in the Regia Hall, Pope Benedict addressed members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, in his first meeting with them as a group since his April 19 election to th ...
13 May 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Consolata Missionaries elect new Superior general: Fr. Aquileo Fiorentini, first non Italian to head the Institute founded more than 100 years ago
Sao Paolo (Fides Service) - The general chapter of the Consolata Missionaries (IMC) taking place in Sao Paolo, Brazil, has elected as new superior general to lead the institute for the next six years, Brazilian born Fr A ...
13 May 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Experts from all over the world will meet in Lima for the 2nd International Pro-Life Conference
Rome (Fides Service) - From 10 to 13 November the capital of Peru will host the 2nd International Pro-Life Conference on the theme, Globalising the Culture of Life, which will bring together experts and protectors of hum ...
13 May 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Bishops call for generosity in Timor Sea talks with regard to development of undersea oil and gas
Sydney (Fides Service) - Following the resumption in Brisbane of talks between East Timor and Australia on the development of oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has appea ...
13 May 2005
VATICAN - Beatification - Sr Marianne Cope, for 35 years mother to lepers on the Pacific island of Molokai. Interview with beatification postulator Sr Mary Laurence Hanley
Vatican City (Fides) - An American nun who worked with Blessed Damien the apostle of the lepers in Molokai, Hawaii, will be beatified in Rome tomorrow. Mother Marianne Cope (1838-1918) of the Sisters of the Third Francis ...
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