News
13 May 2005
AFRICA/TUNISIA - Migration and human trafficking: 16 national Caritas from countries in the Middle East, Horn of Africa and North Africa meet in Tunis
Tunis (Fides Service)- Migration and human trafficking was the topic discussed at a Caritas MONA meeting in Tunis which opened Monday 11 May. Caritas MONA which comprises 16 countries of the Middle East, Horn of Africa a ...
13 May 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Christians form Anti-Violence Forum in memory of Catholic priest mortally stabbed in Bihar
Patna (Fides Service) -In memory of a Catholic priest Fr Mathew Uzhuthal, Vicar general of Patna archdiocese who died on May 1 after being stabbed on April 11 in his parish office by a young bandit, Christians in Patna c ...
13 May 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - In 2003 alone: 6,900 patients admitted, 27,000 out-patients treated, 1,100 babies delivered: Naggalama Hospital is re-born. Monday 16 May inauguration of the Ugandan hospital rehabilitated with the help of Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Rome (Fides Service) -The new 100 bed Naggalama Hospital in central Uganda which serves a community of about 250,000 people will be inaugurated on Monday 16 May there.
Started in June 2002 the intervention to rehabili ...
13 May 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - In Aceh imminent revocation of state of emergency and martial law: hopes for freedom and respect for citizens’ rights
Jakarta (Fides Service) - The announcement that the Indonesian government intends to revoke the state of emergency in Aceh has been warmly welcomed by the local people sorely affected by the 26 December tsunami disaster ...
13 May 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - Representatives of two armed opposition movements in Darfur promise to resume talks with the Sudanese government
Rome (Fides Service)- A solemn promise “to resume as soon as possible talks in Abuja under the aegis of the African Union without pre-conditions” was made by the representatives of the two armed Opposition movements ...
13 May 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN peacekeeper killed and 6 wounded in Ituri: local militia group suspected. “But the regular army troops also attack civilians”
Bunia (Fides Service)- “We are waiting to see how the UN Mission in Congo MONUC reacts to the attack on UN peacekeepers from Bangladesh in which one was killed and 6 others were wounded” said local forces in Bunia, ...
12 May 2005
EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly: the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributes offerings collected on Mission Sunday for the needs of the Church in mission territories
Lyon (Fides Service) - The offerings collected on the last World Mission Sunday 2004, the fruit of the generosity of Catholics all over the world, increased compared to the previous year and they were distributed during ...
12 May 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Arms: south-south agreement. Angola will purchase weapons for 100 million dollars from Brazil
Luanda (Fides Service) - A south-south agreement, sale and purchase of 100 million dollars worth of arms is being arranged between Brazil and Angola after a visit to Brasilia in early May by Angolan President José Eduar ...
12 May 2005
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Ibadan Serra Club visits seminaries in the Archdiocese to supportand encourage vocations
Ibadan (Fides)- A delegation of Ibadan Serra Club in Nigeria recently paid its annual visit to St. Theresa’s Minor Seminary and to the Saints Peter and Paul Major Seminary in the archdiocese of Ibadan.
The delegatio ...
12 May 2005
ASIA - Asia’s sad world record: over 12 million people reduced to slavery or forced labour says International Labour Organisation
Geneva (Fides Service) - Asia has sad world record of over 12 million people reduced to slavery or forced labour. More than 75% of Asian workers live and work under subhuman conditions. This was denounced by the Internat ...
12 May 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Long list of persons booked under blasphemy law since 1988: 647 victims of a law which discriminates and is often a tool of exploitation
Lahore (Fides Service) - The list has 647 names: these are the names of people arrested and detained on charges of blasphemy in Pakistan since the blasphemy law was introduced in 1988. Besides these people at least 20 ot ...
12 May 2005
ASIA/JAPAN - Catechesis, prayer and works of charity for the year of the Eucharist
Tokyo (Fides Service) - Japanese Catholics are living the Year of the Eucharist proclaimed by the late Pope John Paul II with great intensity. Early this year the standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference ...
12 May 2005
AFRICA/TOGO - Violence, intimidation and fraud during 24 April elections says statement by Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Lome (Fides Service)- Number of seats “variable” (between 5,311 and 5,320 according to various sources also official), incomplete electoral lists, voters found in possession of more than one voting paper, intimidatio ...
12 May 2005
VATICAN - Beatifications - Mother Ascención Nicol: “Evangelise the poor in missionary situations where the Church is most in need” Mother Maria Auxiliadora Hernández Martínez Superior General delle Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary interviewed by Fides
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The co-founder of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary Mother Ascención Nicol (1868-1940) will be beatified in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Saturday May 14. For the occasion Fides ...
12 May 2005
VATICAN - Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Congregation of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary was born in response to a missionary need to Christianise the forest peoples in Peru. In 1900 the Holy See created the Prefectur ...
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