News

• 11 April 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - More than 200 reported cases of Marburg and 193 deaths. Epidemic still not under control Rome (Fides Service) - The epidemic of haemorrhaging fever caused by the Marburg virus is not yet under control: in fact there have been more than 200 reported cases, and of these 193 were mortal. This is the most seriou ...
• 11 April 2005
  Medicine and human rights: Meeting of Italian National Catholic Doctors Association Rome (Fides Service) - The Vercelli section of the Italian National Catholic Doctors Association has organised a National Meeting on Medicine and Human Rights 16 April 2005 at the S. Eusebio Salone , Vercelli Seminary. ...
• 11 April 2005
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “A Pope who will never be forgotten”, according to Cairo daily Al Arabi Ahram Cairo (Fides Service) - The Cairo daily Al Arabi Ahram has given ample space to the death and the life of Pope John Paul II. In today’s edition it refers to the late Pope as a “hero”, a man who helped end the cold ...
• 11 April 2005
  VATICAN - LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF AFRICA EMERGING FROM SPECIAL SYNOD FOR AFRICA CALLED BY POPE JOHN PAUL II - Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in Africa” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, signed the post synodal apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Africa in Yaounde, Cameroon, on 14 September 1995. The document was drafted, the Pope said, at ...
• 11 April 2005
  The Path of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the solemnity of the Epiphany 1989, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, announced his intention to convoke a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa. The publication of the L ...
• 11 April 2005
  First official document promulgated outside the Vatican: John Paul II signed the post synodal exhortation during his 11th pastoral visit to Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the 14th of September 1995 Pope John Paul II left Rome for his 67th international apostolic journey which took him for the 11th time to Africa, and more precisely to Cameroon, South Afr ...
• 11 April 2005
  CAMEROON - “Beloved Africa, despite poverty and suffering walk your path with confidence!” Yaounde (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Thursday 14 September 1995 Pope John Paul II arrived in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, which he had already visited in 1985. During the morning of 15 September the Pope presi ...
• 11 April 2005
  SOUTH AFRICA - “Church of Africa: a Mission Church which becomes a Missionary Church Johannesburg (Fides Service) - On Saturday 16 September 1995, John Paul II left Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, to fly to South Africa for his first official visit to thatcountry at last on the path to democracy after long ...
• 8 April 2005
  VATICAN - Who is the priest for John Paul II Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo vobis 11: A correct and in - depth awareness of the nature and mission of the ministerial priesthood is the path which must be taken -- and in f ...
• 8 April 2005
  VATICAN - The Charisam of priestly celibacy, according to John Paul II Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the Apostolic Exhortation Pastore dabo vobis 29: The synod fathers clearly and forcefully expressed their thought on this matter in an important proposal which deserves to be quoted he ...
• 8 April 2005
  VATICAN - The figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary for John Paul II Vatican City - From the Encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia 53: Mary is a “woman of the Eucharist” in her whole life..57: Mary is present, with the Church and as the Mother of the Church, at each of our celebrations o ...
• 8 April 2005
  VATICAN - The value of Eucharistic Adoration in the teaching of John Paul II Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia 25. The worship of the Eucharist outside of the Mass is of inestimable value for the life of the Church...If in our time Christians must be disti ...
• 8 April 2005
  VATICAN - The first in a series of excerpts from the teaching of Pope John Paul II on some of the principal themes of his pontificate Vatican City (Fides Service) - Fides offers the first in a series of excepts from the teachings of Pope John Paul II on some of the principal themes of his pontificate (the priesthood, celibacy, the Blessed Virgin Mary, ...
• 8 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 30,000 members of Communion and Liberation from all over the world in Rome for the Pope’s funeral Rome (Fides Service) - Besides the leaders of the Church movement Communion and Liberation, at least 30,000 young members from all over the world are in Rome for the funeral of Pope John II. Many came with their respecti ...
• 8 April 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Sick pilgrims in Lourdes mourn for John Paul II “a sick man among the sick who restored dignity to human suffering”. The last international journey to the feet of Our Lady Lourdes (Fides Service) - Thousands of sick pilgrims in Lourdes are mourning the passing of Pope John Paul II as they pray at the grotto of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The pilgrims are accompanied by doct ...