News
24 June 2004
AMERICA/PERU - “In Peru, today… Mission is alive!”: slogan chosen for National Mission Exhibition in Lima next October to promote awareness of missionary work in all its variety
Lima (Fides Service) - Peru’s National Mission Centre, under the Commission for Mission of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference, informed Fides that enrolment has started for missionary Congregations and Institutes who w ...
24 June 2004
AMERICA/HONDURAS - First Bishop of Trujillo dies in tragic car accident, funeral tomorrow June 25
Trujillo (Fides Service) - Bishop Virgilio López Irías, O.F.M., appointed first Bishop of Trujillo Honduras in 1987, was killed in a car accident on June 22. Virgilio López Irías was born in La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula ...
24 June 2004
VATICAN - It has been announced that Pope John Paul II will go to Lourdes on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II will make a two day pilgrimage to Lourdes on the 14 and 15 August on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. T ...
24 June 2004
VATICAN - The Pope receives participants at a meeting of the Union of Aid Agencies for Eastern Catholic Churches: “Your visit brings to mind the situation of the Christian communities in the Churches of the East, in our times sorely tried because of wars, terrorism and other difficulties ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Your visit brings to mind the situation of the Christian communities in the Churches of the East, in our times sorely tried because of wars, terrorism and other difficulties.” Receivin ...
24 June 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Love of faith stronger than love of money: all together priest and parishioners, adults as well as children, promote reconciliation and settle disputes over money
Tai Yuan (Fides Service) - Since young Father Guo Quan Zhi, ordained on 24 August 1997, took charge of Yang Jia Pu di Tai Yuan parish in Shan Xi province, which has always been traditionally in the care of the Franciscan ...
24 June 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - The most solemn Eucharistic Procession in fifty years for the feast of Corpus Christi and Saint Anthony, patron saint of the parish.
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - For the people of St Anthony’s parish in Hong Kong, June 13 was a very special day this year for four reasons: it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the feast-day of St Anthony, the 51st anniv ...
24 June 2004
AFRICA - WHO warning: Africa threatened by the most serious epidemic of polio recent years
Rome (Fides Service) - Africa is threatened by the most widespread epidemic of poliomyelitis in recent years. After reappearing in Sudan, in the war torn region of Darfur, the virus is spreading at an alarming rate. The ...
24 June 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Papal Nuncio Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana makes first visit to Gujarat, birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi
New Delhi (Fides Service) - On his first visit to the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana Papal Nuncio to India said that the philosophy and principles w ...
24 June 2004
AFRICA - From Africa to the Americas sects thrive on religious syncretism
Rome (Fides Service)-It is not easy to free ourselves of false idols and false beliefs. We are surrounded by magic practices of various types…millions of people live on the borders between pseudo religious practices, s ...
23 June 2004
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mgr Hypolite Adigwe, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nigeria
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23 June 2004
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Over 500,000 women all over the world die during pregnancy or childbirth and 18 million pregnant mothers develop disabilities or chronic diseases
Rome (Fides Service) - Every year more than half a million women in the world die during pregnancy or childbirth mainly because of the lack of health care in poor countries.
Due to pathologies during pregnancy, every y ...
23 June 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur faces food and water emergency and risk of epidemics: Save the Children denounces serious situation
Rome (Fides Service) - Save the Children, an independent international organisation for the protection and promotion of children’s rights, has sounded the alarm for the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan where eth ...
23 June 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly Wednesday teaching: “ Expectation for judgement present in every culture, the need for truth and love felt by every spirituality contain a tending towards the Lord which only on reaching Him is placated ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Canticle “Hymn of adoration and praise” (cfr Rev 15,3-4 - Vespers Friday Week one) was the subject of Pope John Paul II’s teaching during the weekly general audience this morning ...
23 June 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Ethnic violence in Congo can be stopped on the condition that foreign interference is stopped” says Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza a member of the Banyamulege Tutsi people in east Congo
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We Congolese will be able to settle our disputes peacefully on the condition that foreign interference stops” said Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza, member of Democratic Congo’s National Assemb ...
23 June 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Not everyone knows that according to tradition the Tables of the Law are kept in Ethiopia. Local people tell the story
Rome (Fides Service)- According to popular tradition the Tables of the Law are preserved in Ethiopia. The Queen of Sheba stole the Tables from Solomon and kept them at Axum her palace, the remains of which were discovere ...
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