News
22 March 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Faithful flock to celebrate Palm Sunday, many come from the country to live Holy Week and Easter in Beijing in crowded churches
Beijing (Fides Service) - According to a local Church source, churches in Beijing were filled to capacity for Palm Sunday services last Sunday. Masses were held from six in the morning onwards and people of all ages, inc ...
22 March 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Thursday 24 March, World TB Day: about 9 million people have TB. To fight it new diagnostic tests are needed
Rome (Fides Service) - About 9 million people develop tuberculosis every year, most live in developing countries where 99% of deaths recorded are due to TB.
In view of World TB Day on March 24 the humanitarian organisa ...
22 March 2005
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “Speak Lord your Church is listening!”: Catholic Bishops of Paraguay launch nation wide consultation in view of new pastoral guidelines to respond to the real needs of the People of God
Asunción (Fides Service) - After reflection born in organisms involved directly in pastoral (Coordination National of Catechesis, Liturgy, Social Pastoral, the Bible, of the Family…) and faced with the concerning nati ...
22 March 2005
ASIA/IRAQ - Easter under curfew, with fear and concern. Christians will keep Holy Week services but only in daylight:- “Our prayer is that the Lord will grant our children harmony, serenity and freedom”
Baghdad (Fides Service) - This year for the second time running Christians in Iraq will celebrate Easter under curfew. Chaldean, Armenian, Syrian and Latin Catholics in Baghdad will celebrate Holy Week in a climate of ap ...
22 March 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - PMS Mission collections in 2004 a great success: Australian Catholics gave 8 million dollars for education, development, struggle against AIDS and poverty
Sydney (Fides Service) - The missionary awareness of the people of Australia gave a great demonstration of generosity and solidarity in 2004. According to the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia donations were 20% ...
22 March 2005
AMERICA/PERU - “Everyone can rediscover the beauty of what it means to life the life of Christ”: interview with Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, on the eve of the final stage of the Great City Mission “Remar Mar Adentro”
Lima (Fides Service) - The Great City Mission in the archdiocese of Lima, which started 25March 2003 and will close 27 April 2006, will enter a period of celebration in April this year. The mission with the slogan “Pu ...
21 March 2005
VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection at the Angelus: “Dearest young people, continue tirelessly along the path you have undertaken to be everywhere witnesses to Christ. Do not be afraid! May the Lord crucified and risen be your strength and may Most Holy Mary be ever at your side”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The annual Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square was presided on behalf of Pope John Paul II, still recovering from his operation, by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s Vicar general fo ...
21 March 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Kerala diocese adopts Tamil Nadu village affected by last year’s tsunami
Thrissur (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Thrissur and the Carmelite fathers in Kerala have decided to adopt a tsunami affected village in Tamil Nadu, helping to rebuild homes and infrastructures as well as provide f ...
21 March 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Jesuit declared best Christian headmaster in India 2004-2005
Pune (Fides Service) - Jesuit Father Noel Sheth, Rector of the Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth Pontifical Institute for Philosophy and Religion in Pune in the central western Indian state of Maharashtra, was recently declared the ...
21 March 2005
ASIA/VIETNAM - Small group of Montagnard refugees in Cambodia repatriated to Vietnam with the help of UN High Commission for Refugees
Hanoi (Fides Service) - A group of thirteen Vietnamese Montagnards, including a mother and her five year old son, recently returned Vietnam thanks to an agreement signed in January by the UN High Commission for Refugees ...
21 March 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Hsinchu diocese recalls zeal and spirit of service of Sr. Antsila Yao of the Missionary Servants of the Holy Spirit
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The first headmistress of Shu Guang Girl’s Senior High school, Mother Antsila Yao, a member of the congregation of the Missionary Servants of the Holy Spirit died at the age of 88, after dedi ...
21 March 2005
ASIA/ARABIAN PENINSULA - The Pope accepts resignation of Vicar Apostolic of Arabia and appoints a successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II, on 21 March 2005, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Vicariate Apostolic of Arabia (Arabian Peninsula presented by Bishop Giovann ...
21 March 2005
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Archbishop of Wellington resigns, Coadjutor Archbishop takes over
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II, on 21 March 2005, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Wellington (New Zealand), presented by Cardinal Thomas Staffo ...
21 March 2005
VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe confers Episcopal ordination on Archbishop Henryk Hoser: “Render the missionary Church an ever more splendid reflection of the face of Christ!”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This is your programme, dear Brother Henryk: like the Apostles, for you too the proclamation of the Gospel to all peoples is a fundamental part of your life and Episcopal ministry”. T ...
21 March 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - 500 diocesan and 50,000 parish volunteers: local Church committed to prepare people to take part in elections which will end the interim period
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The Democratic Republic Congo is preparing for important elections and the local Catholic Church is training diocesan and parish volunteers to help the people understand the electoral process an ...
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