News

• 22 February 2005
  VATICAN - “Do not be afraid of new technologies!! Do not be afraid of being opposed by the world!...Do not be afraid even of your own weakness and inadequacy!” Pope John Paul II addresses Apostolic Letter “The Rapid Development” to media operators Vatican City (Fides Service) - More than forty years after the publication of the Conciliar Decree “Inter mirifica”, seeing the rapid development of technology in the field of the mass media, it is opportune to refle ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - More than 10,000 escape fighting in north east Congo taking refuge in Uganda Kinshasa (Fides Service)- More than 10,000 people have fled from Congo to Uganda since the a new outbreak of fighting between tribal guerrillas and former rebels in the north eastern part of Democratic Congo. The refugee ...
• 22 February 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples addresses letter to Rev. Don Julian Carron and to all Friends of Communion and Liberation on the occasion of the death of Mons. Giussani Vatican City (Fides Service) - The following Letter was addressed by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples this morning to Rev. Don Julian Carron and all Friends of Commu ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - 3 die of hunger in camp for former rebel soldiers in Burundi Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Three former rebel soldiers died of hunger in a camp for former rebel militia in north east Burundi. The news was reported by the Burundian army chief of staff. “The members of the FDD (For ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “More financial transparency or aid will stop”: World Bank issues stern warning to Liberia’s interim government Monrovia (Fides Service)- The World Bank issued a serious warning to Liberia to take steps to prevent corruption and show more financial transparency. This emerged after a visit to Monrovia by Shengman Zhang World Bank m ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Don Massimo Camisasca shares with Fides thoughts on the death of don Luigi Giussani Rome (Fides Service) -With Don Luigi Giussani the lives of thousands and thousands of people have moved over the past fifty years. This happened because he did not fear the movement which the winds of God caused in him, ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Expectation for meeting of different Franciscan realities gathered in assembly Rome (Fides Service) - “The Eucharist: Sacrament of Communion” is the theme of the 29th General Assembly of the Union of Conferences of Franciscan Provincial Ministers of Italy, a body of 60 Superiors at the head of ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Government cease fire expires today but “negotiations continue” says Internal Minister Kampala (Fides Service) - The government’s cease fire with the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA rebels in northern Uganda ends today, (see Fides 17 February 2005). However a government spokesman said talks with the guerril ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Italian post tsunami aid in Sri Lanka: volunteers for development (VIS) and Italy’s national civil protection unit sign two agreements Colombo (Fides Service) - Two Italian development programmes in tsunami affected Negombo and Trincomalee have started as a result of an agreement between the Italian civil protection unit and Salesian NGO Volontariato In ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “If only the conflicting parties would see how the people suffer!”: director of Indonesian Catholic Bishops’ “Crisis and Reconciliation Service” says to Fides Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - “Peace is possible if both sides (government and rebels) would only see how the people suffer”: Father Ignazio Ismartono, SJ, head of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference Crisis and Recon ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - All is calm in the Moluccas but missionaries warn against possible infiltration of terrorists Ambon (Fides Service) - The situation is calm in Ambon, capital of the Moluccas Islands in eastern Indonesia, apart from some minor episodes of violence in a few outlying islands. However security forces are still on the ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA On the Feast of the Chair of Peter Chinese Catholics confirm fidelity and communion with the Pope and the universal Church Beijing (Fides Service) - This morning on the occasion of the Feast of the Chair of Peter during morning Masses in various churches in China priests encouraged those present to pray especially for the Successor of Peter ...
• 22 February 2005
  VATICAN - “The human person must be recognised and respected whether healthy, infirm or disable.” Pontifical Academy for Life starts 11th Assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Academy started its 11th assembly yesterday, 21 February during three days of intense work it will consider the theme of “quality of life and ethics of health”. In a me ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY Collaborate in the mission of the Church in every area of society. This is the goal of Communion and Liberation, started in Milan in 1954 by don Luigi Giussani and today present all over the world. Rome (Fides Service) - Communion and Liberation is a Church movement and its main goal is mature Christian education of its members and their collaboration in the mission of the Church in every area of society. It began ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - For the first time in 9 years 50,000 mothers take to the streets to celebrate international Women’s Day in a city for years at the centre of a conflict whose principal victims were women of all ages Bukavu (Fides Service)- “At last after 9 years, yesterday 8 March, women were free to celebrate international Women’s Day in the streets” said Xaverian missionary Fr. Luigi Lo Stocco, director of Radio Maria Malia ...