News
17 January 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesian Franciscans have two centres to co-ordinate aid for families and children affected by the recent tsunami tragedy
Medan (Fides Service) - Franciscan religious communities in Asia are working side by side with the many organisations involved in assisting the victims of the December 26 tsunami disaster. In Indonesia the Franciscans ha ...
17 January 2005
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - South African president Mbeki continues his work of mediation but some Ivorian parties seem not interested in peace
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “President Mbeki is doing a good job but I am not sure that the Ivorians parties will let him finish the task” a local Church source told Fides with the regard to South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki ...
15 January 2005
EUROPE AND RELIGIONS: SPAIN AND ISLAM
SPAIN AND ISLAM
In Spain there are 74 mosques and 139 associations. Just like in France, there are many garage-mosques, where violence is preached out loud. The majority of the imams of these mosques, indeed, might be ...
14 January 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
...
14 January 2005
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Rector of General Regional College in diocese of Penang appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 1 October 2004, appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan General Regional College in the diocese o ...
14 January 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Information at the service of the people with no hint of politicisation based on the teaching of the Gospel says rev. Giorgio Zucchelli, newly elected president Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies
Rome (Fides Service) - “Our diocesan papers are on the side of the people with no hint of politicisation ” Rev Giorgio Zucchelli, editor of the diocesan newspaper issued by Crema diocese ‘Il Nuovo Torrazzo’ and n ...
14 January 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Sunday 16 January national day of prayer for tsunami victims
Sydney (Fides) - Australia will stop for one minute silence on Sunday 16 January to remember the tsunami disaster. Prayer vigils will be held all over the country in memory of the victims in the affected countries in sou ...
14 January 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - “Notes of the Heart - Healthcare for Solidarity” and fighting AIDS and drug abuse in Africa and south east Asia
Rome (Fides Service) - Yesterday 13 January the 3rd ‘Notes of the Heart - Healthcare for Solidarity’ Concert was held in aid of the struggle against AIDS and drug abuse Africa and South East Asia organised by Hyppocr ...
14 January 2005
Asian Emergency must not be allowed to eclipse millennium goals: Caritas and FOCSIV re-launch priority goal to eliminate poverty affecting one billion people
Rome (Fides Service) - On Monday 17 January 2005, at Rome and the Foreign Press Centre in via dell’Umiltà 83/C at 11.00 there will be the presentation of a campaign to re-launch priority goal to eliminate poverty. Th ...
14 January 2005
ASIA/HOLY LAND - European and US Bishops for Co-ordination in the Holy Land present statement to Presidents of Israel and Palestinian Authority
Jerusalem ( Fides Service)- “We will work for a just peace in this Land and seek to engage our local Churches and countries in this task. The entire world has a stake in justice and peace here. Peace here is vital fo ...
14 January 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - In the hell of Nairobi’s Korogocho slum Catholic sports centre cheers children of every faith
Nairobi Fides)- A Catholic sports centre in a typical symbol of Africa, a Nairobi slum. St John's Sports Society (SSS) was opened two years ago by Italian missionary Father Daniele Moschetti parish priest at St John’s ...
14 January 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Humanitarian aid in Aceh still not enough, says Jesuit Refugee Service - local people must be involved in decision-making for rebuilding
Jakarta (Fides Service) - Volunteers of the Jesuit Refugee Service JRS are working hard in Aceh to assist the homeless after the December 26 seaquake. Since 2001 JRS has been in Aceh to care for refugees, victims of sece ...
14 January 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Fu Ren Catholic University study seminar on Pope John Paul II’s Letter for the Year of the Eucharist ‘Stay with us Lord!’
Taipei (Fides Service) - To help local Catholics benefit from the special year of the Eucharist as Pope John Paul II intended when he announced this unprecedented decision, in collaboration with the Chinese Regional Bish ...
14 January 2005
ASIA - “The tsunami revealed efforts to globalise solidarity but smaller tsunami which strike every day all over the world must not be forgotten ”: Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva
Geneva (Fides Service) - The world’s response to meet the tsunami disaster has been exceptional and revealed that it is possible to “globalise solidarity”, but once the emergency is over will promises for funds for ...
14 January 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Uncertainty about peace process in Congo one cause of Congo's falling currency” says Central Bank governor
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Uncertainty with regard to peace is one of the main causes for the fall in value of the country’s Franc Congo, according to Jean-Claude Masangu, governor of the Congo Central Bank. Other cause ...
Total articles: 43572 - Page 2651 of 2651