News

• 29 September 2004
  INDIA - Bishop Vincent Barwa appointed Auxiliary of Ranchi Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 29 September 2004, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi, India, Bishop Vincent Barwa, until now Bishop of Purea. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 29/9/2004; Rig ...
• 29 September 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - These barbarians will not stop the birth of a new Iraq. Testimony from northern Iraq: “All the hostages must be released and the humanitarian organisations must come back to help Iraq and its people rise again” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The good news that the hostages Simona Pari and Simona Torretta are free comes to join other positive facts in Iraq which are however overshadowed by facts of violence” Father Nizar Semaan, ...
• 29 September 2004
  VATICAN - “The Communications Media at the service of Understanding between Peoples”: Pope John Paul II has chosen the theme of the Church’s 2005 World Communications Day Vatican City (Fides Service) - Presenting the theme chosen by Pope John Paul II for World Communications Day 2005 “The Communications Media at the service of Understanding between Peoples” Archbishop John P. Foley, P ...
• 29 September 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Round the world prayer” touches all latitudes on World Mission Day Lyons (Fides Service) - Once again this year on the occasion of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies in France have invited PMS offices all over the world to join in a “round the world prayer” to live ...
• 29 September 2004
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences discuss role of Christianity and the Church in present-day Europe, urgent ethical questions and World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne Leeds - (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the 34 Episcopal Conferences that make up the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) are to meet in Leeds, England, at the invitation of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Co ...
• 29 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate conclude 34th General Chapter Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate closed their 34° General Chapter yesterday freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” witnesses of Christ evangelising the poor in keeping with ...
• 29 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “Beauty must be combined with goodness and holiness of life so that the face of God wonderful and just, will shine resplendently in the world.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning Pope John Paul II returned to Rome from his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo and the first event on his schedule was the general audience for visitors gathered in St Peter� ...
• 29 September 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Niger Delta twixt oil and Ijaw claims Lagos (Fides Service)- The leader of a Nigerian rebel group which threaten to sabotage oil production in Niger Delta is in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, for talks with the government. Mujahid Dokubo Asari, leader “Nige ...
• 29 September 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Country devastated by AIDS: one thousand new infections each day, already three million out of 65 million Ethiopians are HIV+ Rome (Fides Service) - Ethiopia, like most of Africa, is in the grip of AIDS. According to official statistics one thousand people are infected each day and more than three of the country’s 65 million people are HIV+. ...
• 29 September 2004
  ASIA/NEPAL - A small Catholic community in the Tibetan mountains celebrates and witnesses to the Gospel, offers services of social assistance and education in a situation of Maoist guerrilla warfare: interview with Pro-Prefect Apostolic Rev. Pius Perumana Kathmandu (Fides Service) - While the country is living a general strike and there are rumours that government-rebels negotiations are about to resume, the small Catholic community in Nepal carries on with its pastoral a ...
• 29 September 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - AIDS kills more than civil war in northern Uganda which has twice the number of HIV/AIDS sufferers than the whole country out together Rome (Fides Service) - In northern Uganda AIDS kills three times more people than the civil war there which has raged for 18 years. According to a British humanitarian organisation the percentage of infected people in no ...
• 28 September 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “I have heard my people cry!”: Portugal’s theme for World Mission Day is a call to respond to the cries of the peoples with mission without frontiers Lisbon (Fides Service) - ‘I have heard my people cry’ is the theme chosen for World Mission Day by the Church in Portugal, taken from the Liturgy of that Sunday. This local Church is preparing to celebrate the missi ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Growing concern for probable case of transmission person to person Rome (Fides Service) - Health and hospital authorities in Thailand are worried that bird flu may spread to humans. Thailand has announced that a “probable” case of transmission among humans , might have caused the de ...
• 28 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur is not the only tragedy, all over Sudan the situation is precarious and dangerous, Bishop Gassis Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides Rome (Fides Service)- “The world is rightly concerned for the situation in Darfur, but that tragedy threatens to make people forget there are other crisis areas in Sudan” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of ...
• 28 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Uto Ughi: “The language of Music is universal”. Little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital treated to a concert Rome (Fides Service) - As part of an initiative “Uto Ughi per Roma” , today September 28, this famous violinist will give a concert to a very special audience, little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital i ...