News
19 October 2004
ASIA/AFRICA/HOLY LAND - Latin Bishops of Arab Regions and the Bishops of Northern Africa call Christians to take part in a Day of prayer and fasting to obtain the gift of peace in the Holy Land
Rome (Fides Service) - In a joint message issued at the end of respective assemblies held in Rome 11-16 October the Conference of Latin Bishops in Arab Regions CELRA and the Conference of Bishops of Northern Africa CERNA ...
19 October 2004
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - On the 40th anniversary of independence Zambia’s Christians confirm commitment to work for the country’s development
Lusaka (Fides Service) - “Looking to the Future with Hope, Four Decades of Grace” is the title of a statement signed by the three main Christian bodies in Zambia on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the country ...
19 October 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “May the Korean Church be a missionary Church!” new papal Nuncio Archbishop Emil Paul Tscherrig starts his mission
Seoul (Fides Service) - On his arrival 6 October to start his mission in Korea, the newly appointed Papal Nuncio Archbishop Emil Paul Tscherrig assured the local Catholic community in Seoul he wished to help build a miss ...
19 October 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Local Catholics give the Year of the Eucharist a warm welcome
Beijing (Fides Service) - Since the Tianguang bulletin announced that the Pope had called a special Year of the Eucharist Catholics all over mainland China began to prepare for the event with great enthusiasm. Now that ...
19 October 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Taipei Archdiocese organises third Christian Theatre and Culture Review
Taipei (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Taipei has discovered that plays on Bible stories and the history of Christianity are an excellent means of introducing non believers to the Good News of Jesus Christ, Saviou ...
19 October 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Press Conference presents International Meeting on “Just sharing: World Unbalance in Healthcare” organised by Italian NGO CUAMM Doctors with Africa
Rome (Fides Service) - The difference in health conditions of people and the situation of healthcare in different parts of the world is clamorous, unnecessary and above all, it can be prevented. Every year 10 million of ...
19 October 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Confusion grows as in addition to oppostion pressure for Prime Minister's resignation, farmers of the country's main export cacao call a strike
Abidjan (Fides Service)- The 15 October has come and gone, the programme to disarm militia has not started (see Fides 14 October 2004) and the political crisis in Ivory Coast is increasingly complicated. Supporters of Pr ...
19 October 2004
AMERICA/CHILE - First youth pastoral meeting in preparation for Youth Mission 2005 - “The main challenge for next year: going to youth in their different realities to announce the living Jesus Christ starting from our experience and sharing our testimony"
Santiago (Fides Service) - Next year 27 March to 15 May 2005 Pentecost Sunday, young Catholics in Chile will take part in a Youth Mission to announce to their companions their experience of the living Jesus Christ. The i ...
18 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Attacks on Christians continue: Iraqi priest Father Nizar Semaan appeals for help to restore peaceful coexistence
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Fundamentalist criminals continue to attack our churches which have always been places of peace and symbols of traditional peaceful co-existence among Christians and Muslims in Iraq. I would m ...
18 October 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection before the Angelus prayer: “In the wake of Vatican II and the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, the Year of the Eucharist intends to be a special time to encounter Christ, present in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Addressing the crowds gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 17 October, Pope John Paul focussed his attention on conclusion of the International Eucharisti ...
18 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Maronite Church voices solidarity with Iraqi Christians “there must be an international awareness campaign to protect Iraqi Christians” and voices concern for attack on Christians all over the Middle East
Baghdad (Fides Service) - “We are close to you and we pray for you and we will help you” Maronite Christians assure Iraq’s Christians following attacks on five churches in Baghdad.
In a statement issued on behalf ...
18 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Christian minority leaders issue joint statement on the situation
Baghdad (Fides) - Following bomb blasts in five churches in Baghdad on 16 October, the Christians in Iraq stated that they would not be intimidated and they would remain in Iraq. In a joint statement the leaders of the ...
18 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Long before the first Muslims arrived there were Christians in this region and we intend to stay here. We will not abandon our country”, a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad told Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service) - “These attacks on churches clearly aim to frighten Christians and make them leave Iraq” a member of the Chaldean Catholic in Baghdad told Fides. The source said Christians are in fact leavin ...
18 October 2004
VATICAN - The Pope opens the Year of the Eucharist, in live link with the Eucharistic Congress in Mexico: “The human heart, weighed down by sin, often disorientated and tired, tried by all sorts of suffering needs Light. The world in the difficult search for peace still far away, and at the beginning of a Millennium devastated and humiliated by violence, terrorism and war needs Light. The Eucharist is Light!”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 17 October 17 in St Peter’s Pope John presided a concelebrated Mass to open the Year of the Eucharist. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state celebrated the Mass at the a ...
18 October 2004
AMERICA/MEXICO - At the end of the Eucharistic Congress Fides spoke with some of the participants: “The Congress was a cry to all men and women to remember that they are loved by God ”
Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - “I think this Congress, the people’s fervour, enthusiasm and love for Jesus in the Eucharist will not fail to increase love for the Eucharist in the universal Church” Bishop Guillermo ...
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