News
3 January 2005
ASIA/THAILAND - Priests, religious and lay Catholics in Surat Thani diocese work with rescue and aid team to help tsunami survivors
Bangkok (Fides Service) - The local Church in Thailand has joined rescue and aid workers to help victims of the December 26 disaster. The newly appointed Salesian Bishop of Surat Thani diocese Joseph Prathan has opened a ...
30 December 2004
LIST OF NAMES OF PERSONS KILLED IN 2004 WHILE ENGAGED IN MISSIONARY WORK
Vatican City (Fides Service) - According to information collected by Fides News Service in 2004 fifteen persons, (priests, religious and lay persons) were killed while engaged in missionary work. As in recent years this ...
29 December 2004
VATICAN - The Pope launches an appeal for seaquake victims in South Asia: “I urge believers and all men and women of good will to contribute generously to the major operation of solidarity for these peoples so tragically stricken and now exposed to the risk of epidemics of disease”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the end of his weekly General Audience this morning Pope John Paul II launched the following appeal in Italian :
“News from Asia continue to reveals the vastness of the immense cata ...
29 December 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Jesuit churches and communities offer shelter and assistance to 3,000 seaquake survivors in Batticaloa. In India Jesuit school students join rescue workers
Rome (Fides Service) - According to information supplied by the General Curia of the Society of Jesus no Jesuits are reported among the casualties in the south Asia seaquake which affected mainly Sri Lanka, India (Madura ...
29 December 2004
AMERICA/CHILE - The Catholic Church in Chile organises aid for seaquake victims in south Asia: nation wide special collection at Sunday masses on 9 January. Caritas network engaged in monitoring damage and needs
Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - Responding to Pope John Paul II’s call for solidarity for the peoples of Asia, and in a spirit of brotherhood, the Church in Chile has arranged for a nation wide special collection ...
29 December 2004
VATICAN - The Pope provides aid for seaquake victims through his charity office, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum: appeal to Catholics to support aid initiatives in local Churches
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II “has arranged for first emergency aid to be sent to the peoples affected by the violent earthquake and seaquake in South East Asia and also some countri ...
28 December 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - “This is an enormous tragedy calling for vast international solidarity” says Papal Nuncio in Colombo Archbishop Mario Zenari
Colombo (Fides Service) - “This is an immense tragedy, Sri Lanka has never known a disaster of these proportions. The people are shocked and frightened. The provisional death toll is 13,000 and at least one million hom ...
28 December 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - The help the victims of the tsunami, the local Church works through a network of volunteers in collaboration with other religious groups and civil relief organisations
Jakarta (Fides Service) - So far the number of confirmed deaths is 5,000 but according to the local authorities the figure is destined to rise and could be as high as 25,000: this is the situation in Indonesia after the ...
28 December 2004
ASIA/INDIA - “The people have lost everything all that remains is hope, and this they cannot lose” says National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in India
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Mgr. Ignaci Siluvai, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in India, sent the following report to Fides a few hours ago.
“ Dear Director!
While greeting you for Ch ...
28 December 2004
ASIA - Emergency Asia: Caritas launches appeal
Rome (Fides Service) - The number of people killed by the seaquake which struck a vast area of South Asia rises by the hour. The international network of Caritas national offices is co-ordinating initiatives to send re ...
28 December 2004
VATICAN - Message of Solidarity to the peoples affected by seaquake disaster: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The entire Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples shares the tragedy of this disaster, the pain and suffering of those people and its first action is prayer. Through local churches ...
23 December 2004
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Live Nativity Scene on Christmas Eve in Tupiza and “Las Posadas” in Concepcion: various aspects of Christmas in a country of many cultures and peoples
Sucre (Fides Service) - Christmas came to Bolivia from Europe taking on local customs and traditions. Although also in Bolivia consumerism threatens to hide the real meaning of Christmas, a religious feast, for most fami ...
23 December 2004
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Christmas in Venezuela lasts forty days with all kinds of customs and celebrations
Caracas (Fides Service) - Venezuela is a country rich in cultural traditions as a result of a process of immigration and integration of Europeans, Africans and people of mixed races. Christmas customs reflect this mixin ...
23 December 2004
VATICAN - Viewers in 72 countries will see Midnight Mass in St Peter’s presided by Pope John Paul II
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The traditional Midnight Mass tomorrow 24 December presided in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome by Pope John Paul II starting from 12pm, will be broadcast live via 111 different broadcasting c ...
23 December 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “The Holy Shroud is the face of Christ. But what is more difficult is to go back in time and show the face of the young Christ”. Orazio Petrosillo, journalist of the “Il Messaggero” and a Vatican expert told Fides
Rome (Fides Service) - “I am convinced on scientific bases that the Holy Shroud is the true face of Jesus. The image it represents could never be reproduced artificially and it portrays the corpse of a man who fits pe ...
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