News
6 July 2004
AMERICA/PERU - “Reawaken and strengthen faith and missionary witness of young Peruvians to help them respond with greater generosity and courage to the challenges of new evangelisation”: about 2,000 young people expected to take part in 3rd National Youth Mission Congress in Arequipa.
Arequipa (Fides Service) -Arequipa, Peru’s “white city” will host from 4 - 8 August at San Jose College the 3rd National Youth Mission Congress with the slogan “Young person your life is mission!”. To reawaken ...
6 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Opera Don Orione: Rev. Flavio Peloso new Director General. Miguel Esser from Chile new Co-ordinator general of Orione lay movement
Ariccia (Fides Service) - This morning 6 July the 12th chapter general of the of the Sons of Divine Providence elected a new Director General in the person of Rev. Flavio Peloso, 7th successor of Saint Luigi Orione canon ...
6 July 2004
UNITED NATIONS/UNAIDS - UNAIDS issues two yearly report on AIDS in 2004
Rome (Fides Service) - In view of the 15th World Conference on AIDS in Bangkok from 11 to 16 July, UNAIDS, the United Nations’ department for fighting AIDS, published a two yearly report on AIDS in 2004. The report gi ...
6 July 2004
EUROPE/SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO - International Symposium opens celebrations to mark Carmelite centenary at Sombor
Sombor (Fides Service) - To mark 100 years of Carmelite presence in Sombor, a town with a population of 50,000 in the Vojvodina region situated about 150 km north west of Belgrade, 18 speakers from 4 different countries ...
6 July 2004
UNITED NATIONS - The world has 1.3 billion smokers. Tobacco kills 5 million each year. International law imminent
Rome (Fides Service) - The World Health Organisation has said that a tobacco control treaty adopted in 2003 will become an international law before the end of this year 2004. Tobacco kills almost five million people eac ...
6 July 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - “We will do everything in our power and within the limits of the Church’s mission to save the process of transition”: message from Catholic Bishops of Congo
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A strong position in favour of the country’s transition process has been taken by the Catholic Bishops of Congo. The process began in June 2003 with the formation of an interim national unity ...
6 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops, shepherd of God’s people have “the duty to look at the signs of the times in the reality of the country and to take care to illuminate, on the basis of faith, the situations in which the people of God live”. Bishops’ Conference plenary discusses Problems and challenges of Colombian society
Bogota (Fides Service) - “Evangelisation and Christian Initiation” is the theme of a plenary assembly of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference opened yesterday 5 July at the Conference’s offices in Bogota. Cardinal P ...
6 July 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - When pictures speak more than words. On Fides web site see photographs of war torn Nuba Mountain area of Sudan
Rome (Fides Service)- At last the world has noticed the forgotten tragedy in Sudan, concentrating its attention on the drama in the western region of Darfur where, it is openly said, a genocide is being perpetrated again ...
6 July 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “African Union summit last hope for peace in Ivory Coast” say Fides sources voicing concern for tension with Burkina Faso
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The African Union Summit in Addis Ababa is the last hope for restoring peace in Ivory Coast” local Catholic sources in Abidjan told Fides. The serious crisis in Ivory Coast which started in ...
6 July 2004
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - New Vicar Episcopal appointed for Catholic diocese of Pyongyang: hopes for new springtime of the Church in North Korea
Pyongyang (Fides Service) - Even at difficult times the Church in south Korea has never lost hope of starting once again to evangelise in north Korea and help the faith to flourish. Today these hopes are closer to coming ...
6 July 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - AIDS: Asia like Africa 15 years ago: 7.4 million HIV positive
Rome (Fides Service) - According to a Report issued by UNAIDS, in many countries of Asia AIDS is rapidly spreading.
Among the reasons for Asia’s 7.4 million HIV positive, scarce or total lack of information, although ...
5 July 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Peter Liu Cheng-Chung appointed Coadjutor of Kaohsiung
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5 July 2004
ASIA/KOREA - New diocese Uijongbu Bishop Joseph Lee Han-Taek appointed first Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has 24 June 2004, created the diocese of Uijongbu (Korea) with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Seoul rendering it suffragan of the same metropolit ...
5 July 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Every day eight children become orphans because their parents (31% aged 18-24) are killed in violence
Rome (Fides Service) - In 2003, at least 2,895 children in Rio de Janeiro, eight every day were orphaned becuase of violence, of these 83% were children or adolescents. This was said by the Brazilian daily “O Globo” ...
5 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Polling stations closed: good turnout 150 million Indonesians place first ever vote for President
Jakarta (Fides Service) - Good turnout, no incidents so far, great hopes for today’s elections say Fides sources in Jakarta where 150 million Indonesians expressed their choice for the new president of the world’s mo ...
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