News

• 4 October 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Paul Poupard presides 1st Meeting for Catholic Cultural Centres in Brazil Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Council for Culture and the Conference of Catholic Brazilian Bishops inaugurate today the first meeting for Catholic Cultural Centres in Brazil, taking place in Joao until Oc ...
• 4 October 2004
  VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital (www.ospedalebambinogesu.it) Portal is three years old: over 91 million ‘hits’ and 21.000 ‘registered visitors’ including 1,500 doctors. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Three years have passed since the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital famous all over the world, opened its own Paediatric Health Portal, www.ospedalebambinogesu.it the first of its kind on ...
• 4 October 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - The role of Catholic Encounter Centres for formation of individuals and groups in one of the most remote and beautiful parts of Papua New Guinea Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Christian spirituality is making headway in Papua New Guinea. People in this area of the Pacific Ocean are increasingly aware of the need for places in which to pray and reflect, draw near ...
• 4 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Eucharistic Congress: Guadalajara mobilises more than 300 parishes to host participants and provide live coverage on large TV screens for the whole community. Saturday October 9 thousands of children will make their First Holy Communion Guadalajara (Fides Service) - Some 300 parishes in the archdiocese of Guadalajara are putting the finishing touches to preparations for the 48th International Eucharistic Congress, the first held in Mexico, to be celebra ...
• 4 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - First day of school in Iraq, photos of Saddam removed from text books: eyewitness tells Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)- Catholic Iraqi priest Rev. Nizar Seeman told Fides about the first day at school in northern Iraq. It is 7.45 in the morning I am in front of the elementary school. I see boys and girls, many ar ...
• 4 October 2004
  OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Small Catholic community in New Zealand offers highly appreciated quality education: Bishop of Auckland speaks with Fides Auckland (Fides Service) - The Bishops of New Zealand are grateful to the Pope and his collaborators in the curia for their encouragement and concern. Although the Church in New Zealand is small it is fully committed to ...
• 4 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Hindu network to bring peace to travailed region of north eastern India the scene of violence and bomb blasts: Catholic Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil takes concrete action in Assam Guwahati (Fides Service) - The Catholic Archbishop of Guwahati in Assam state is fully committed to keeping peace and preventing any return of indiscriminate violence in north eastern India. Archbishop Thomas Menamparamp ...
• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops of India open news-website www.theindiancatholic.com: everything you ever wanted to know about the history, service and mission of India’s Catholic community New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Media and Information Office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI announced the launching of a news-website on October 1, 2004 to provide information on the Catholic faith, ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Bishop of Ndola appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 1 October 2004, appointed Bishop of Ndola (Zambia) Bishop Noel O’Regan, S.M.A., until now Bishop of Solwezi (Zambia). (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 1/10/20 ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Coadjutor Bishop of Lusaka appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 1 October 2004, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Lusaka (Zambia) Bishop Telesphore Mpundu, until now residential Bishop of Mpika (Zambia). (S.L.) (A ...
• 1 October 2004
  VATICAN - Feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux opens Missionary month of October with its culminating event on 24 October World Mission Day: “Eucharist and Mission” open the Year the Eucharist Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), proclaimed patron of the missions with St Francis Xavier in 1927, is the first day of the Missionary month of October which will ...
• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Padilla, Prefect of Prefecture Apostolic Ulaanbaator in Mongolia, shares his missionary experience Taipei (Fides Service) - Recently Catholics in Taiwan heard about missionary work in the mysterious and fascinating country of Mongolia when Bishop Padilla, formerly a missionary in Taiwan and today Prefect of Prefecture ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 10 million dollar programme to disarm rebels fails, only 32 men hand weapons to UN troops. UN mission in eastern Congo expires today. Towards an agreement to extend its mandate and boost its numbers Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A French proposal to send another 5,900 UN peacekeepers to Congo and extend its mandate has met with approval. The UN mission in Congo MONUC, consisting of 10,500 men deployed in the east of th ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Eucharist: source and summit of mission”, 1st European Meeting of Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups in preparation for the Year of the Eucharist Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 10 October Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups from all over Europe, a fruit of the 15th Word Youth Day held in Rome in 2000, will be in Rome for the 1st European Meeting. At the end of t ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - new European University of Rome: Fides puts three short questions to Father Paolo Scarafoni, Rector of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College Rome (Fides Service) - The eternal city has its first European University of Rome a private college with full state recognition. The promoters are the Legionaries of Christ, a religious institute of men founded in Mexico ...