News
16 February 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - School meals, health and education in Sahel: Italian initiative in support World Food Programme. 1.250 tonnes of rice for about 200,000 people
Rome (Fides Service) - According to a Report on Millennium Development Goals in Guinea Bissau 124 in every 1000 children die before the age of 1 and 203 before the age of five. Infant mortality affects 822 out of every ...
16 February 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - Thousands gather at Nyaunglebin Marian shrine for recitation of the rosary and special Mass on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Yangon (Fides Service) - Thousands of Burmese Catholics made their way to the Marian Shrine in Nyaunglebin, diocese of Yangon for the recitation of the Rosary and a special Mass on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of L ...
16 February 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese New Year offers opportunity for inter-religious dining and dialogue
Beijing (Fides Service) - Celebrations for the Lunar New Year in Beijing provided an opportunity to promote inter-religious dialogue. In fact the communities of the main religions in China, Taoist, Buddhist, Christian an ...
16 February 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - Missionaries in northern Uganda build home to protect for high-school girls from violence
Gulu (Fides Service)- “I am here with the workmen, we are building a home for high-school girl pupils”. Loud and clear the voice of a missionary working in northern Uganda reaches Fides from the most forgotten region ...
15 February 2005
EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - The social situation, stability and solidarity focus of 5th annual meeting of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe
Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe are to meet in Sarajevo from 25-27 February. The nations represented - Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Sain ...
15 February 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Galle
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has, 15 February 2005, appointed Bishop of Galle (Sri Lanka) Bishop Harold Anthony Perera, until now Bishop of Ratnapura. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 15/2/2005 ...
15 February 2005
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - New Rector appointed for São Pio X Inter-Diocesan seminary in Maputo
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 December 2004, appointed Rector of São Pio X Inter-diocesan Seminary in the archdiocese of Ma ...
15 February 2005
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church in front line to provide emergency aid following floods in six states of Venezuela: at least 16,000 people homeless
Caracas (Fides Service) - Venezuela is facing an emergency following torrential rains and floods over the last week affecting six states in the west and centre of the country and in the Andes region (Carabobo, Vargas, ...
15 February 2005
To mark the 150th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception a new edition of “Biblioteca Mariana” by Rev. Ippolito Marracci first published in 1648 to be presented in Rome on 19 February
Rome (Fides Service) - To mark the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and the 4th centenary of the birth of Father Ippolito Marracci, Marian theologian and author, the Order o ...
15 February 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - "Be a Light for all to see" says former parish priest now Bishop of Auki at blessing of new parish at Noro attended by Christians of various denominations
Honiara (Fides Service) - After years of challenge and hard work the Catholic Community at Noro, Gizo diocese Western Province, Solomon Islands, proudly witnessed the fruit of their efforts as they dedicated their new ch ...
15 February 2005
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Political tension must stop, or we risk a civil war” warn Catholic Bishops of Zambia
Lusaka (Fides Service)- In a statement dated 15 February on ‘Concerns of Governance’ the Catholic Bishops of Zambia voiced concern for the future of the country. “As Church leaders, we are concerned by the endemic ...
15 February 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Local Church’s intervention to help process of disarmament, demobilisation and reinsertion of militia: Meeting in Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A meeting to discuss how the local Church in Democratic Congo can help in the programme for disarmament, demobilisation and social reinsertion of troops involved in civil war started yesterday, ...
15 February 2005
ASIA/INDIA - “Saint Thomas Mount” shrine in Malayatoor, Kerala, celebrates 'international pilgrimage centre' status
Cochin (Fides Service) - Saint Thomas Mount in the Malayattor mountains, Kerala where Saint Thomas the Apostle is said to have prayed and meditated, celebrated its new status of International Shrine on 13 February with a ...
15 February 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL “The murder of Sister Dorothy highlights the need to disarm hands and spirits without succumbing to intimidation, making a patient effort to promote a culture of peace” say Catholic Bishops of Brazil
Brasilia (Fides Service) - Following the brutal assassination of American born Sister Dorothy Stang of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame on 12 February in Anapu in the south west region of the state of Para, ...
15 February 2005
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Islamic separatists organise bomb blasts in various parts of the country: “Dialogue must be resumed: violence can only bring death”, a missionary tells Fides
Manila (Fides Service) - “We condemn all forms of violence and terrorism. It is urgent to resume dialogue. Violence can only bring death. The separatist rebels must lay down their weapons and the army must not seek rev ...
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