News
6 April 2005
AFRICA/CHAD - Radio Duji Lokar in Moundou southern Chad mourns the Pope
Moundou (Fides Service)- Also in Chad people are mourning John Paul II. “All our programmes focus on the passing of the Pope. And we have announced that our radio will observe a week of mourning” said media operators ...
6 April 2005
ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Catholics in Persian Gulf countries pray for John Paul II
Dubai (Fides Service)- On Sunday 3 April a requiem mass for Pope John Paul II was said in St Michael’s church in Dubai. “We have lost a great figure who was committed to the good of the whole of humanity,” said rep ...
5 April 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Bishop Javier Echevarría (Opus Dei): the Most Holy Trinity has certainly flung the gates of paradise open wide for John Paul II
Rome (Fides Service) - “We can be certain that the Most Holy Trinity has flung open the gates of paradise for him, in reward for his constant zeal for souls, his perseverance in urging men and women to open the doors ...
5 April 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Franciscan Youth: we thank God for John Paul’s testimony and his example which remain to illuminate our path
Rome (Fides Service) - John Paul II, a Pope for young people, a man of suffering, a true witness of Jesus Christ, has left this earthly life to be with God in heaven and now it is our turn to live his witness, to share w ...
5 April 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Salvatore Martinez, Italian national coordinator of Renewal in the Spirit : John Paul II our ‘special friend’
Rome (Fides Service) - With his extraordinary charismatic dynamism John Paul was a “special friend” of Renewal in the Spirit, which he recognised as “special initiative of the Holy Spirit for our day”. He won a p ...
5 April 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - “The news of the Pope’s death arrived just a few hours after an attack by the Lord’s Resistance Army” a missionary in North Uganda told Fides
Kitgum (Fides Service)- “I have just said Mass for the Pope with local school children, about 3,000 of them. They took part with great attention and interest ” Augustinian missionary Father Tarcisio Agostoni, in Kitg ...
5 April 2005
AFRICA/SENEGAL - “Young Catholics in Senegal promise to shoulder their responsibilities as baptised Christians following the example of John Paul II” said a missionary in Senegal
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “I am in the car travelling back from a visit to eastern Senegal 400 km from Abidjan where I met many young people deeply upset by the news of the death of the Pope” said Italian missionary F ...
5 April 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - On Friday 8 April in Monrovia a requiem Mass for the Pope will coincide with the funeral Mass in St Peter’s in Rome
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Yesterday in Monrovia we celebrated a solemn Mass for the Holy Father. It was an official service attended by representatives of the United Nations and other leading personalities, as well a ...
5 April 2005
ASIA/CHINA - “Why are you crying? Our great father has gone to heaven”
Beijing (Fides Service) - Catholic boys and girls in China are using the Internet to exchange messages and share their love for Pope John Paul II via a web site http://www.shangzhi.org/mdata/index.asp. In a message signe ...
5 April 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Mourning Chinese Catholics attended early Masses for the Pope in every chapel and church in Beijing: “Mission continues”
Beijing (Fides Service) - “Although he never made the longed desired journey to China, John Paul II is already working miracles in this country. Like the seed which dies and bears fruit the Holy Father’s mission in C ...
5 April 2005
ASIA/CHINA - More than 60 priests concelebrate Mass for the Pope attended by about 100 seminarians and thousands of people. The parish priest recalls the Pope’s love and concern for China and Chinese Catholics’ sense of communion with the Pope
Beijing (Fides Service) - According to the official Catholic bulletin published in Beijing which bore a large coloured photograph of Pope John Paul II, at least 2000 people including about 50 foreigners, mainly Poles, to ...
5 April 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Security Council chairman, Chinese Ambassador to the UN, leads minute of silence in honour of the Pope describing the late Pontiff as a “tireless promoter of peace and a pioneer of inter-religious dialogue”
Beijing (Fides Service) - “Pope John Paul II was a tireless promoter of peace and a pioneer of inter-religious dialogue” the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Wang Guang Ya, presently chairman of the UN Secur ...
5 April 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Bangalore diocese will dedicate Eucharistic Congress to the Pope, a man of the Eucharist
Bangalore (Fides Service) -Bangalore diocese in the south eastern state of Karnataka has decided to dedicate its diocesan Eucharistic Congress 29 April 1 May to the memory of Pope John Paul II. About 5,000 people mainly ...
5 April 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “In love the salvific meaning of suffering is completely accomplished and reaches its definitive dimension”, National Commission for health pastoral in Guatemala remembers the Pope
Guatemala (Fides Service) - Ninety five percent of Guatemala’s population of 13 million are Catholics and they are mourning Pope John Paul II, who “illuminated our commitment of health pastoral and will continue to d ...
5 April 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - “Continual catechesis for our life”. St John of God Brothers particularly close to the figure of the Holy Father
Rome (Fides Service) - Father Pascal Piles, Superior general of the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God is about to go to Mozambique and Senegal. He sent us a comment on the figure of Pope John Paul in the world of t ...
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