News

• 15 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “You must be mad in Europe, how can two men get married?” parishioners in Bissau ask Italian missionary Fr Dioniso Ferraro. Africans support Spanish demonstration pro-family and pro real-marriage Bissau (Fides Service)- “We fully support the pro-family demonstration taking place on June 18 in Madrid” said Italian missionary Fr. Dioniso Ferraro parish priest at Our Lady of Fatima church in Bissau, capital of ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “The Church in Korea is with you!” Korean Bishops’ president tells Spanish Bishops Seoul (Fides Service) - In Korea where experiments in human embryo cloning have given rise to concern and a national debate the local Catholic Church is fully committed to using all its influence and energies to defend t ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The “small Catholic flock” in Mongolia under the patronage of the Holy Family of Nazareth unites in spiritual solidarity with Spanish families to protect the family where life is nurtured and cherished Ulan Bator (Fides Service) - “We fully support the pro-family demonstration in Spain, Madrid on 18 June. On behalf of the little Church in Mongolia, under the special protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth, I can as ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - It is right and dutiful to protect life and the family: Bishops of Pakistan offer full support to Church in Spain for pro-family demonstration on 18 June Lahore (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan gaurantees clear and total support to the rightful moral position in favour of the family and life taken by the Catholic Bishops of Spain and hop ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Communications experts, Catholic and non, say minority groups deserve more space in the media Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Communications experts in Hong Kong, Catholic and non, have urged the media to give greater attention to minority groups of foreign workers. According to the diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the ...
• 15 June 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - A medical team of doctors of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Association for Distant Patients and the Italian Airforce launches second humanitarian mission to Africa Rome (Fides Service) -Doctors belonging to the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Association for Distant Patients AFMAL and the Italian airforce continue their efforts to help the blind in Africa. After a humanitarian ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPA/ITALY - “Matters regarding human life cannot be decided with a vote”: says Prof Luigi Alici, President of Catholic Action Italy with regard to the referendum on fertility treatment laws Rome (Fides Service) - “The referendum gave voice to the will of the people: matters of human life cannot be decided with a referendum or a vote. I believe that with their non-vote Italians wanted to say that maternity ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “If we resist syndromes of defeat or victory this can be new time of encounter between believers and non and for the centrality of Parliament”: S. Egidio Community comments Referendum on Fertility Treatment Rome (Fides Service) - Three quarters of Italians clearly underlined an element which was undervalued in the electoral campaign. The fact that a referendum is not the right means for expressing views on sensitive issues ...
• 14 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Dramatic testimony from Fides Cesco at Salesian mission in Duékoué west Cote d'Ivoire where 15,000 people are sheltering Rome (Fides Service)- The International Volunteers for Development (VIS) association belonging to the Salesian Fathers sent the following message to Fides. “Dear Friends at Fides we forward to you an appeal received ...
• 14 June 2005
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The weight of the clan still makes itself felt: Somali President barred from landing in Somalia’s “temporary” capital Mogadishu (Fides Service)- The president of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf who left Nairobi capital of Kenya yesterday directed to Qatar and other Persian Gulf countries for a pan-Arab consultation has yet to return to his coun ...
• 14 June 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The Catholic identity of Cultural Centres and young people in public life”, Salta 2nd meeting of Head of Catholic Cultural Centres in the Southern Cone Salta (Fides Service) -The Second Meeting of Heads of Catholic Cultural Centres in the Southern Cone opened today in Salta (Argentina) 14-16 June. The program covers two principal themes: preferential concern for young ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Malaria, AIDS and Ebola: meeting with Ugandan expert and Piero and Lucille Corti Foundation at St. Mary’s Hospital di Lacor Rome (Fides Service) - A major world expert in Ebola head of Health Management Information System at St. Mary’s Hospital, Lacor Northern Uganda funded by the Piero and Lucille Corti Foundation, Dr Zabulon Yoti, gave a ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Silent majority wins: a sign of growing awareness of the need protect life” Fr. Leo Maasburg national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria told Fides Vienna (Fides Service) - “In this vote the victory went to the silent majority “ Fr Leo Maasburg, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, missio Austria, told Fides commenting Italy’s unsu ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - More than 1,000 NGOs from 25 different countries support June 18 demonstration in Madrid in favour of real matrimony and the family Madrid (Fides Service) - According to the Spanish Institute for Family Policies already more than 1,000 NGOs from 25 different countries have said they will take part in the demonstration in Madrid on June 18 at 6pm orga ...
• 14 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Double standards: path denied to June 18 Pro-Family demonstration granted to Gay Pride parade Madrid (Fides Service) - Five days before the demonstration which, with the slogan “The Family is Important”, has called Spanish Catholics into the streets on 18 June to protest against the government’s anti-famil ...