News
10 May 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Meningitis is still mortal for 10% of those affected in the world. Rising number of cases in New Delhi. India lacks 70% of the vaccine necessary to fight the outbreak.
Rome (Fides Service) - With 33 new confirmed cases of meningitis in 48 hours fear of an epidemic grows in the capital of India, New Delhi. In and around the city 174 people have been admitted to hospital. Of these 43 hav ...
10 May 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Child and adolescent abuse: solidarity campaign Compartir 2005 starts on 11 May to help thousands of child victims of violence
Lima (Fides Service) - The Church in Peru is particularly concerned for children and adolescents victims of abuse and varying degrees of violence. Figures issued by the National Family Welfare Institute with regard to vi ...
10 May 2005
EUROPE/GREECE - With the arrival by sea of a 4 mt high cross of olive wood sent from Jerusalem the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism organised by the World Council of Churches opens in Athens today
Athens (Fides Service) - From 9 al 16 May the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, the 1st in the 21st century, organised by the World Council of Churches WCC will take place at the Agios Andrea Recreational ...
10 May 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - ‘War and Peace: the role of the media to build understanding among nations’ theme of 5th International Communications Seminar 16 to 18 May in Brasilia
Brasilia (Fides Service) - The power of the media is one of those most concerning questions in our modern society particularly with regard to the media’s influence on cultural formation. The Catholic Church is aware t ...
10 May 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Number of street children in Islamabad doubles
Rome (Fides Service) - According to the Azad Foundation and NGO which works with street children, the number of abandoned youth living in the streets of Islamabad the capital of Pakistan had doubled to reach a total of ...
10 May 2005
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Young Catholics in the Philippines look to John Paul II as a point of reference and example of holiness
Manila (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II left a very important legacy for the young people of the third millennium. It was he who invented World Youth Days and with these events he built a special relationship with th ...
10 May 2005
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Government and Catholic Church reach agreement for religious instruction in schools
Dili (Fides Service) - After more than two weeks of peaceful protests involving thousands of people the government of East Timor and the local Catholic Church have reached an agreement on the question of religious instru ...
10 May 2005
ASIA/JAPAN - Catholics grow in numbers in the land of the Rising Sun. Catholic immigration is resource for evangelisation
Tokyo (Fides Service) - For the first time the number of Catholics in Japan has reached and overtaken the one million mark. According to information in a handbook issued by the Migrant Commission of the Japanese Bishops ...
10 May 2005
ASIA/INDIA - International campaign to protect rights of Dalit people against all forms of discrimination and violence
Madurai (Fides Service) - A day of prayer and fasting has been announced for next week to launch an international campaign to promote respect for the human rights of 20 million Dalit Christians. Hindu and Muslim and Sikh ...
10 May 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Ecclesia in Africa ten years on: 6 dioceses in South and North Kivu look at the situation of evangelisation in east Congo
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “A day to note in the records of the local Church in Kivu” said Rev. Jean Baptiste Ruhangamugabu, Secretary of the Kivu Provincial Assembly of Catholic Bishops (APEKI) with regard to a meeting ...
10 May 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Agreement over appointment of Internal minister and disarmament of civilians: peace in Burundi makes progress
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “We must be patient, the path is long but there have been positive developments, over the past few days, most promising for the peace process” a local Church source in Burundi told Fides wi ...
9 May 2005
VATICAN - During his midday Regina Cæli on Sunday 8 May, Communications Day the Pope says: “each one must play his part to guarantee in every form of communication, objectivity, respect for human dignity and concern for the common good”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - From his study window overlooking St Peter’s Square on Sunday 8 May, Pope Benedict XVI recalled that it since it was the feast of the Ascension (in Italy) and elsewhere the Sunday neares ...
9 May 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - New homes for street children and girl-mothers in Borba Prelature in the Amazon region of Brazil thanks to “Padre Pio missionary in the world” programme
Rome (Fides Service) - Bishop Josè Alfonso Ribeiro of the apostolic prelature of Borba, in the heart of the Amazon forest, in Rome to pray at the tomb of Pope John Paul II, shared with Fides the exciting news of a new m ...
9 May 2005
VATICAN - Benedict XVI is installed in the Chair of the Bishop of Rome: “"The bishop of Rome sits in his cathedra to bear witness to Christ. Thus the cathedra is the symbol of the 'potestas docendi,' that authority to teach which is an essential part of the mandate to bind and to loosen conferred by the Lord on Peter”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the early evening of Saturday 7 May the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI presided the celebration of the Eucharist for his installation in the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in ...
9 May 2005
VATICAN - Benedict XVI receives first ad limina visit: addressing the Bishops of Sri Lanka he stressed the need to fight child abuse and guarantee the rights of children “so often simply forgotten or shamelessly exploited as soldiers, labourers, or innocent victims in the trafficking of human beings.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 7 May in the morning in his private library Pope Benedict XVI received the Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka on their ad limina visit, the first to take place since his election, as ...
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