News
14 September 2004
HIV/AIDS: antiretroviral therapy, caesarean birth and artificial milk for babies reduce mother/child transmission of HIV/AIDS. Contagion risk drops from 20-25% without therapy to as low as 2-3% with treatment
Rome (Fides Service) - Alarming results have been published by the Italian national monitoring programme for antiretroviral therapy among expectant mothers co-ordinated by the Higher Institute for Health. The programme w ...
14 September 2004
ASIA/JAPAN - Japanese missionary Sister in Algeria shares the experience of a Franciscan Sister witnessing to Jesus by serving others
Tokyo (Fides Service) - Sr Sano Mitsuko, aged 65, a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary spent 25 years on mission in Algeria. Those were the dark years of civil war, social violence among Islamic fundamentalist ...
14 September 2004
ASIA/VIETNAM - “A Year of Evangelisation a new start for the Church in Vietnam”: Salesian Bishop Van Tiem of Bui Chu diocese speaks to Fides
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are living a year of Evangelisation which is proving to be a new start for the Church in Vietnam. People are returning to the faith and there is growing awareness that every Christian ...
13 September 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection at the midday Sunday Angelus prayer: “May Mary watch over humanity suffering today from distressing explosions of violence. May she watch over the young generations especially who desire to build a future of hope for all”.
Castel Gandolofo (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 12 September, before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome, Pope John Paul II recalled th ...
13 September 2004
VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - Cardinal Nicora illustrates duties and risks of service in administration “to guarantee material means so that the mission Jesus entrusted to his Church may continue”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Worship, pastoral, charity, ecclesiastic personnel: are the four constitutive ends of the possession and use of ecclesial resources as such. The Church may possess resources only for the ...
13 September 2004
AFRICA/CAMEROON - “Communion, the power behind mission in the Church in Africa” is the theme of a meeting for French speaking National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Africa which opens tomorrow in Yaounde
Yaounde (Fides Service) - On Tuesday 14 September in Yaounde Cameroon national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in French speaking countries of Africa will start a meeting to reflect on the theme: “Communi ...
13 September 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Family formation and evangelisation is urgent to help families opt for a culture of life: scarce knowledge of Catholic Teaching on the family and life
Seoul (Fides Service) - The family in Asia needs to be oriented towards a culture of life, the Bishops of Asia agreed during a general assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences FABC held in Korea in Augu ...
13 September 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Legislative Council elections - Democrats make small step forward, parties in favour of tighter bonds with Mainland China win people’s preference
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Contrary to expectations and surveys which predicted a large majority of votes in their favour in the September 12 elections in Hong Kong, pro-democracy parties gained only 3 seats more then t ...
13 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Building a culture of dialogue, peace and reconciliation in south East Asia: appeal launched by Caritas Australia after the bomb blast in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta
Canberra (Fides Service) - The tragic bombing of the Australian embassy in a Jakarta “reminds us of how close the issue of terror is to our shores and emphasises our need for peace and reconciliation”: according to a ...
13 September 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 1st National Seminar on profile of Popular Missions, preferred means of achieving National Evangelisation Programme launched by the Catholic Church in Brazil
Brasilia (Fides Service) - To offer a concrete contribution to the National Evangelisation Programme launched by the Church in Brazil with the theme “We want to see Jesus - the Way, the Truth and the Life”, especiall ...
13 September 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Political crisis in Burundi over Constitutional changes
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “The crisis is political and so far there are no signs of a military intervention” local sources in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, told Fides. The crisis broke during a Cabinet Meeting on S ...
13 September 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The role of the international community is fundamental to prevent conflict in Kivu from spreading” local sources in eastern Congo tell Fides
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “The situation is shaky but there are signs of hope particularly the fact that the international community appears to be taking more care to verify affirmations made by the different parties i ...
13 September 2004
AFRICA/RWANDA - “National reconciliation is a challenge for all Rwandans and the Church has its own contribution to offer” President of the Rwandan Bishops’ Conference tells Fides
Rome (Fides Service)- “National reconciliation is still a challenge which concerns everyone, including the Church, society and politics” Bishop Alexis Habiyambere, S.I., of Nyundo, President of the Bishops’ Confere ...
11 September 2004
VATICAN - Chinese priests and lay persons arrested: the Holy See denounces “serious violation of freedom of religion, fundamental human right”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 11 September the Holy See announced that during the month of August the Chinese authorities arrested several members of the local Catholic clergy and laity: “this is a serious ...
11 September 2004
AMERICA/CHILE - Creeping drug trafficking threatens Chile’s development: 'Salmon Connection' threatens Europe. Vicar Apostolic in Patagonia informs Fides
Rome (Fides Service). “Chile has become a major transit point for cocaine destined for Europe. The problem, little known in the rest of the world, is the cause of growing concern.”. This alarming statement was made b ...
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