News
13 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Persisting concern for humanitarian situation in east Congo and bordering countries. More than 3 million people in need of assistance
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Humanitarian agencies are alarmed at the situaion in Democratic Congo where recent fighting caused at least 85,000 people to seek shelter elsewhere and in many cases in in Rwanda and Burundi (se ...
13 July 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Decisive meeting on 29 July to settle Ivorian crisis”. International study voices concern for a possible war between Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali
Abidjan (Fides Service)-“People are expecting great things from the meeting among Ivorian parties on 29 July in Ghana. There is hope but also concern”, a qualified Observer in Abidjan, economic capital of Ivory Coast ...
12 July 2004
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Pemba Rev. Ernesto Maguengue appointed Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 24 June 2004, appointed Bishop of Pemba (Mozambique) Reverend Ernesto Maguengue of the clergy of Maputo.
The Bishop elect was born on 2 August 196 ...
12 July 2004
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop Julio Duarte Langa of Xai-Xai resigns, Rev. Lucio Andrice Muandula appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 July 2004 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Xai-Xai (Mozambique), presented by Bishop Julio Duarte Langa, in c ...
12 July 2004
VATICAN - The Pope prays the Angelus from the mountains: “In silence man can hear deep within his conscience the voice of God who renders him truly free. Vacation time can help cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On July 5 Pope John Paul II started a short holiday in Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta. At midday on Sunday 11 July the Pope prayed the Angelus broadcast on radio and television and greeted t ...
12 July 2004
AMERICA/PERU - “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” This is the slogan of the National Day for the Union of Sick Missionaries celebrated yesterday by more than 600 sick and elderly people
Lima (Fides Service) - On Sunday 11 July Peru celebrated a National Day of the Union of Sick Missionaries with the slogan “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” The Day celebrated by mo ...
12 July 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Zen and the entire Catholic community criticise the new education law passed by parliament
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After Hong Kong’s parliament approved a new education law on July 8, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Zen, has openly voiced his disappointment. The Church in Hong Kong had already p ...
12 July 2004
VATICAN - Papal Message to the Rogationist community: “Missionary impulse is intrinsic to the identity of the apostles of ‘Rogate!’. Contemplation of the ‘harvest is plenty’ and the ‘workers who are few, cannot fail to open the heart to universal longing for the evangelisation of peoples”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “May the work of evangelisation, from first announcement to catechesis, combined with generous service of the weakest, especially those children and young people who have no family or lac ...
12 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The local Church among the first to welcome thousands of people fleeing fighting in north east Congo. “Situation ever more tense” say Fides sources
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Fighting continues and the situation is ever more tense” say Fides sources in the north-eastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo where two guerrilla groups FAPC (Armed Force ...
12 July 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Priority to family and youth for the Church in Papua New Guinea, after its general meeting
Rabaul (Fides Service) - A Church which always relied on missionaries, now anxious to become a self supporting Church which trains its own clergy religious and laity to respond to the challenges of pastoral work giving s ...
12 July 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - HIV/AIDS therapy in developing countries: Doctors without Frontiers looks at progress made and challenges still unanswered
Rome (Fides Service) - Antiviral drug therapy for HIV/AIDS has proven effective also for patients at an advanced stage of the illness in developing countries. This emerged from information presented today by the interna ...
12 July 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - War between Ethiopia and Eritrea still a possibility. Ethiopian Prime Minister says to Eritrea: “Let’s talk”. So far Asmara refuses invitation to dialogue
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “The African Union Summit of heads of state and government last week in Addis Ababa, achieved some important results. Unfortunately no progress was made with regard the contention between E ...
12 July 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Beatification cause of 124 Korean martyrs officially opened in Seoul
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On July 5 at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea in Seoul the beatification cause for the Servant of God Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 companions was officially opened. July 5 w ...
12 July 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Building peace and reconciliation, showing solidarity to the suffering: symposium on the role and challenges of priests in an area of tension among different communities
Guwahati (Fides Service) - Closeness to God, solidarity towards others are the characteristics of a good priest, said Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, President Indian Bishop Conference at a recent symposium on the priestly li ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Vicariate Apostolic of Baguio raised to the rank of Diocese Bishop Carlito J. Cenzon appointed first Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 24 June 2004, elevated the Vicariate Apostolic of Baguio (Philippines) to the rank of diocese making it a suffragan of the metropolitan Church of Nue ...
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