News

• 7 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - International Theological Pastoral Symposium prelude to 48th International Eucharistic Congress opens with Solemn concelebration of Mass Guadalajara (Fides Service) - A solemn concelebration of Mass presided by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City opened an International Theological Pastoral Symposium on the Eucharist at Guadalajara ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan, shows paintings in Hong Kong: an encounter of cultures Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Father Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan is not only a scholar of international fame he is an excellent painter and poet. This French born Jesuit is known for ...
• 7 October 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Apparent calm in Bissau after a military revolt in which the staff officer and army spokesman were killed. Latest episode of violence in the country of hunger Rome (Fides Service)- “There is apparent calm in teh city no soldiers to be seen, but not many children have gone to school, most families felt it was safer to keep them at home” local sources in Bissau who ask not ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Global Council of Indian Christians calls on government to eliminate nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies from politics and society New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Global Council of Indian Christians has called on the central government to take special legislative measures to eliminate from politics and social customs in India all trace of nationalis ...
• 6 October 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - More diplomatic efforts to solve crisis in Darfur: British Premier in Khartoum, Libyan leader Gheddafi calls regional min-summit Khartoum (Fides Service)- British Prime Minster Tony Blair starts a five-day visit to Sudan today, 6 October. He will meet the Sudanese President Omar al-Bechir and Vice president Ali Osmane Mohamed Taha and one central ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians targeted: dramatic cry for help and crude tragedy of a story of death raise concern...what can be done? Ninive (Fides Service) - Iraqi Christians have launched a pressing call for help: “Save us, they are killing us! We are being persecuted” a Chaldean Christian in the Al-Baker district of Ninive in northern Iraq not f ...
• 6 October 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching: “The future, not only of a dynasty but of humanity, is guaranteed precisely because the couple offers the world new persons...in our day the West is often incapable of entrusting its life to the future through the generation and protection of new persons” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Reflecting on Psalm 44,11-18 - “The Queen and Bride” (Vespers Monday 2nd week. Reading: Ps 44,11-12.14-15.18) during his teaching at the Wednesday general Audience in St Peter’s Squar ...
• 6 October 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Tension in northern Burundi: at least 1000 Tutsi flee to Rwanda to escape violence Bujumbura (Fides Service) - Although more than one thousand Burundi Tutsi have taken refuge in Rwanda to escape violence, neither the national press nor by the Burundian government have made any reference to the events, ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/QATAR - Qatar will soon have its very first Christian churches. Happy local Catholics give warm welcome to Holy See representative on pastoral visit Doha (Fides Service) - “We are very happy. For years we have been waiting for this moment” local Catholics told Bishop Bernardo Gremoli, Vicar Apostolic for Arabia when he visited them recently and announced that wor ...
• 6 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Leaders of 10 different religious communities gather in Mexico City Catholic cathedral to pray for world peace on Saint Francis’ day Mexico City (Fides Service) - On October 4, the feast day of St Francis of Assisi leaders of ten different religious communities gathered in the Catholic cathedral of Mexico City to pray for peace in the world. The openi ...
• 6 October 2004
  In Assisi 8 to 10 October: AFRICA MISSION - COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT: national meeting on the theme “from giving … to going” Rome (Fides Service) - The 32nd National Meeting “Africa Mission - Cooperation and Development” will take place in Assisi 8 - 10 October at Domus Pacis house in S. Maria degli Angeli to reflect on the theme “fro ...
• 6 October 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - “Social justice should be a priority for voters”: urges Bishop Saunders chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council Sydney (Fides Service) - Questions of social justice must be a priority for voters on October 9, when Australians will elect a new Prime Minister. The Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Ch ...
• 6 October 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Health care alarm in northern Ivory Coast with rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS. Local Catholic Church supplies medical personnel and supplies to isolated areas Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The healthcare situaiton is critical” local church sources in northern Ivory Coast area in the hands of New Forces rebels for two years now. “The public health system has collapsed. Hospi ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese pilgrims to Lourdes share joyful pilgrimage memories strengthening faith, authentic Christian life style and desire to go on pilgrimage Beijing (Fides Service) - For a group of Chinese Catholics from the Immaculate Conception parish in Beijing last month’s pilgrimage to Lourdes will be a lasting memory. They had such a moving story to tell on their ret ...
• 6 October 2004
  VATICAN - RSS: new tool for evangelisation via the Internet: click to read Fides News without a browser Fides Service - From today thanks to RSS (Really Simple Syndication), you can read Fides News items as they are ready. This new service is operated by a “feed reader” programme which at regular intervals takes thes ...