News

• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Information blackout with regard to military operations in northern Ivory Coast. Rebel held areas without water or electricity Abidjan (Fides Service) - There is a blackout of information in Ivory Coast. “People in government controlled areas have little chance of finding out what is happening in northern part of the country where New Forces r ...
• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Besides providing medical treatment St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor is also “home” for 5,000 displaced persons and “commuter refugees” Rome (Fides Service) - Lacor Hospital in the northern Ugandan district of Gulu founded in 1958 by Comboni missionaries, is the largest private charity hospital in this part of Africa. Directed since 1961 by the Corti fam ...
• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Religious leaders committed to overcoming national divisions: “we must lay the basis for a new understanding of citizenship” a missionary told Fides Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Our aim was to heal divisions caused by last week’s clashes (see Fides 30 October 2004)” SMA Provincial Father Mauro Armanino told Fides with regard to an interreligious meeting on Novemb ...
• 6 November 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Taiwan Catholics celebrate with gratitude the arrival of first Carmelite nuns and opening of first Carmelite convent on the Island Taipei (Fides Service) - With a series of events and initiatives Catholics in Taiwan recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Carmelite Sisters. According to Christian Life Weekly, Taipei archdiocese bu ...
• 5 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - On the feast day of Blessed Conforti his spiritual sons and daughters all over the world renew their commitment to mission ad gentes Parma (Fides Service) - All over the world on November 5, the spiritual sons and daughters of Blessed Guido M. Conforti remember with gratitude their great father and founder who died in Parma on November 5, 1931. Wherev ...
• 5 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Spread of new religions and sects: Catholic Church takes steps to counter threat to the faith Seoul (Fides Service) -Aware of the challenge and danger of new pseudo religious movements, the Catholic Church in Korea has stressed the need to provide Catholics with proper formation and experience of spirituality. ...
• 5 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians happy and relieved for the release of Indian born Catholic O’Connor arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia New Delhi (Fides Service) - Christians in India are happy and relieved at the return on November 1 of Indian born Catholic Brian Savio O’Connor after a tragic experience in Saudi Arabia where his personal freedom of ...
• 5 November 2004
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - More than 650 young people take part in 3rd National Missionary Youth Meeting which concludes missionary month of October in Honduras Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) - About 650 young people from dioceses, youth groups and movements from all over the country attended the 3rd National Missionary Youth Meeting 29 to 31 October in Danli (92 km from Tegucigal ...
• 5 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Police release Rev. Matthew Ojiam, arrested on charges of contact with rebels in northern Uganda Gulu (Fides Service) - Rev. Matthew Ojiam has been released, Archbishop John Baptist Odama, of Gulu told Fides “Rev Ojiam is free but police say they will continue their investigation with regard to contact with the re ...
• 5 November 2004
  VATICAN - The annual Message to Muslim for the 'Id al-Fitr feast at the end of the month of Ramadan Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue focuses on the need to love and protect every child because “Children, [are a] Gift of God for the Future of Humanity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Children, Gift of God for the Future of Humanity is the title of this year’s annual message which Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious ...
• 5 November 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop Joseph Cheng gives mission command to 33 volunteers at the end of a special Course in Evangelisation Taipei (Agenzia Fides) -Recently during solemn Mass to mark the end of a Course in Evangelisation Archbishop Joseph Cheng of Taipei gave the mission command to 33 new volunteer missionaries who had completed their format ...
• 5 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome is an example of Christian witness through health care Rome(Fides Service) - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome, the first of its kind in Italy, was opened in 1869 by Duke and Duchess Arabella and Scipione Salviati. Deeply distressed to see the lack of attention give ...
• 5 November 2004
  “A new Uganda is possible”: Meeting organised by the Piero e Lucille Corti Onlus Foundation Rome (Fides Service) - Uganda and its tragedy as well as concrete testimony of initiatives which speak of hope for future, is the subject of a Meeting organised by the Piero e Lucille Corti Onlus Foundation and Rome’s ...
• 5 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Fear of large scale offensive to follow up yesterday’s bombing on towns in rebel hands; homes and mission sacked Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Here in Bouake there is calm before the tempest. Any moment we expect the army to start a vast offensive” a local source in Bouke told Fides. Yesterday Bouke, the largest city held by Ivory ...
• 5 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Theology East and West in the 20th Century” meeting at the International Centre of the movement Communion and Liberation to present a basic Christian theology in a series of “100 Theological Works of the 20th Century” in Russian Rome (Fides Service) - Metropolita Filaret (Vachromeev), Esarch of Belo-Russia (Minsk) and President of the Theological Commission of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow and Prof. Adriano dell’Asta ...