News
3 September 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA As part of the “Week for Peace”, Regional Humanitarian Conference to examine situation in Andes area and problems provoked by armed conflict in Colombia
Bogota (Fides Service) - As part of the “Week for Peace” 5 to 12 September which will be marked all over Colombia this year, a Regional Humanitarian Conference will be held on the theme “Humanitarian Situation and ...
3 September 2004
VATICAN - On Sunday the Pope will beatify a Spanish priest, assistant to Catholic Action in Spain and two lay members of the Association: Alberto Marvelli and Pina Suriano
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 5 September Pope John Paul II will travel to Loreto for the conclusion of a meeting-pilgrimage organised by Catholic Action where he will celebrate Mass and beatify a Spanish prie ...
3 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Theological update on challenges facing mission today: 9th Course of ongoing Formation for men and women Missionaries promoted by the Pontifical Salesian University UPS starts on 20 September
Rome (Fides Service) - The theology faculty of the Pontifical Salesian University UPS is holding the 9th Course of Missiology which offers qualified updating of topical themes which challenge missionary activity and witn ...
3 September 2004
AFRICA - Could the massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi in mid August be one of the causes for the increasingly precarious situation in Burundi and Congo? An authoritative opinion
Rome (Fides Service)- “African massacres, tribal massacres”. How often the western media dispose of yet another massacre of innocent civilians in this way, offering no help towards discerning the reasons for what wou ...
3 September 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on official visit to China clinches cooperation deals for tourism, energy, fishing, trade and investments
Beijing (Fides Service) - In keeping with tradition for a newly elected president to visit neighbouring countries at the start of the mandate, on September 2 President Gloria Arroyo, elected in May, started an official t ...
3 September 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA “We Are Sent”, Archbishop of Melbourne issues Pastoral letter and opens new Office for Evangelisation
Melbourne (Fides Service) - The Archbishop of Melbourne, Mgr Denis Hart sees Evangelisation s a major a pastoral priority and has taken steps to promote the spread of the Good News of Christ. He has started the month of ...
3 September 2004
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - United Nations repatriation programme brings one million Afghans home from Iran: returning professionals and experts promise for the future
Kabul (Fides Service) - About one million Afghans who had fled to neighbouring Iran are back in the own country hoping to resume life as normal. This is thanks to an operation of voluntary repatriation started in April 2 ...
3 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - In Milan 18th World Interreligious Meeting organised by St. Egidio Community: “Religions and culture: the courage of a new humanism”.
Rome (Fides Service) - The first Interreligious Day of Prayer for Peace was held in Assisi on 27 October 1986 convoked by Pope John Paul II. It was attended by 50 representatives of different Christian Churches and 60 re ...
3 September 2004
AFRICA - Info: main armed groups in the Great Lakes Region
Rome (Fides Service) - Various armies and guerrilla groups operate in the Great Lakes region of Africa, which comprises the countries of Democratic Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The groups fight against or with each other a ...
2 September 2004
ASIA/NEPAL - National day of mourning for 12 Nepalese workers murdered in Iraq - Pro-Prefect Apostolic “Tension is high, but the situation is under control. Christians targeted? Definitely not”
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “The situation is under control but tension is tangible. The curfew continues. Today it started at 9am after the authorities gave the people about three hours for essential movement and trad ...
2 September 2004
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rev. Jean Marie Nsimba appointed rector of the Abbé Charles Mahonde Inter-diocesan Propaedeutic Seminary in Ouesso
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 23 July 2004, appointed rector of the Abbé Charles Mahonde Inter-diocesan Propaedeutic Seminary ...
2 September 2004
AFRICA/CHAD - Agreement signed by UN High Commission for Refugees and the government of Chad to guarantee safety of Darfur refugees
Rome (Fides)- In Chad the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has signed an agreement with the government to guarantee the maintaining of a level of security and the civil nature of refugee camps and surrou ...
2 September 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Making Mission ad gentes a priority in local Churches” - Valencia hosts 6th inter-diocesan day of missionary reflection
Valencia (Fides Service) - To make missionary animation an major element of ordinary pastoral work in the local Churches and ensure that the year of the International Eucharistic Congress and of the 150th anniversary of ...
2 September 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops launch an appeal to citizens to help nation overcome economic crisis. “Overcoming the crisis is a matter not only for the government it is in the interest of each and all”
Davao (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of the Philippines have mobilised the country to work to uproot corruption, eliminate poverty and help improve the nation’s financial accounts.
Archbishop Fernando Capalla ...
2 September 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Changing school curricula in the Middle East could help uproot extremism” says local priest in Iraq. “Schools should educate to peace! If from the age of six a child hears of nothing but war and enemies to kill then it is not surprising that at 18 he dreams of being a suicide bomber”
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “I am certain that one way to help eliminate terrorism in Iraq and in the Middle East in general, is to reform school programmes” Father Nizar Semaan, Iraqi priest in Mosul told Fides. “I s ...
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