News
9 June 2004
ASIA/JAPAN - Formation programmes to encourage vocations to the religious life among women
Tokyo (Fides Service) - Women religious are a great gift for the Church: all over the world thousands of Sisters dedicate their life to teaching children, caring for the sick, assisting the poor, and helping in parishes ...
9 June 2004
ASIA - “Martyrs are a gift for the Church in Asia and inspiritaion and encouragement for missionaries”: a reflection by Prof. Jose Vidamor Yu, theologian
Manila (Fides Service) - “The martyrs, shining examples of Christians, are witnesses of faith and an extraordinary help for the growth of the Church in Asia. Asians elevated to the honour of the altars planted the Chri ...
9 June 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Who wants to increase tension in Ivory Coast and why?
Abidjan (Fides Service)- In Ivory Coast people are wondering who wants to increase tension and why after an incident during the night of 6 June when armed men attacked regular troops and French peacekeepers in Gohitafla ...
8 June 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Promote ecumenical pastoral in Particular Churches: one objective of an intensive course on “Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue ” given at the Theological and Pastoral Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) -An intensive course on “Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue” organised by the Theological and Pastoral Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean (ITEPAL) in collaboration with the depart ...
8 June 2004
AMERICA/PERU - “Eucharist, nourishment for Mission”: as part of the great city Mission in the archdiocese of Lima the month of June is dedicated to the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Sunday June 13 solemn procession for Corpus Christi.
Lima (Fides Service) - For the whole of the month of June, the second lap of the Great City Mission “Remar Mar Adentro”, opened with the solemn sending of more than 10,000 evangelisers who are going from door to door ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - “Caring for the sick helps me realise their agony and distress”, Camillian Missionary reports to Fides…
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - “For some time now I have been working at the Centre for Care and Solidarity in Ouagadougou to replace a confrere away on a refresher course.
I came from the S. Camillo Medical Centre Oua ...
8 June 2004
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “The Pope’s visit will certainly give fresh impulse to new evangelisation in Switzerland” Bishop Kurt Koch of Basle told Fides.
Rome (Fides Service) - “The Pope’s visit will certainly give fresh impulse to new evangelisation in Switzerland” Bishop Kurt Koch of Basle told Fides. Switzerland and the whole of Europe need more than ever re-evan ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu: situation of confusion persists after official withdrawal of guerrillas. “Vexation of civilians continues ” say local Fides sources
Bukavu (Fides Service) - There is a climate of uncertainty and confusion in Bukavu the main town in the South Kivu region in the east of Democratic Congo, at the heart of a crisis which could throw the country back into ...
8 June 2004
ASIA/NEPAL - Bomb blast in a Catholic school in Nepal: no casualties - the local Church carries on with its pastoral and service of education
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “Institutes of education in Nepal, including Catholic schools, are closed at the moment because of the danger of attacks by Maoist guerrillas. The bomb which exploded in our school caused a ...
8 June 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Combining sport with solidarity: city march to raise funds for evangelisation among prison inmates
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “From the very beginning Christians have brought, along with the bred and the wine for the Eucharist, gifts to share with those in need. This custom of the collection, ever appropriate, is i ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - World Health Organisation and UNICEF launch measles immunisation campaign to protect millions of children in Darfur
Rome (Fides Service) - Children are increasingly affected by the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. The World Health Organisation and UNICEF have said that by the end of this week they will start vaccinat ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/MALAWI - Disappointment in Malawi when an Opposition candidate joins President’s Party
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- There is widespread disappointment in Malawi after an Opposition leader Gwanda Chakuamba, announced he had joined the party in power United Democratic Front UDF. Chakuamba came third in presiden ...
8 June 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Reconciliation among communities: a task for all religious beliefs”: Seminar on Dialougue among religions and cultures
Mumbai (Fides Service) - “Conflict between religious communities destroys the authentic essence of religion”: this was the conclusion reached by participants at a Seminar “Reconciliation of Communities a task for a ...
8 June 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Globalising hospitality, health care, humanisation of treatment: challenges launched by St John of God Hospitaller Brothers
Rome (Fides Service) - Promote globalisation of hospitality at a particular time in human history: this is the challenge launched by the Order of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers during a meeting at the end of a ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Is peace ever further way in Ivory Coast? Fighting in the north, fierce protest in the economic capital
Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Perhaps we are back to where we started. The peace agreement has been practically annulled” say local Fides sources in Abidjan, economic capital of Ivory Coast. “The national unity interim ...
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