News

• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA- “Children’s Village” in New Delhi in memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, champion of religious freedom in India New Delhi (Fides Service) - In memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, a champion of religious freedom, a secular state and respect for rights of minority groups rights, the archdiocese of Delhi has opened a Memorial Childr ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Salesians mark fifty years of service to Korean youth: education, professional training and evangelisation Seoul (Fides Service) - “Pray and work that one day your love may reach also North Korea, in a united country” Archbishop Nicholas Cheong of Seoul told the Salesian Fathers who recently celebrated 50 years of servic ...
• 28 September 2004
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 2nd Assembly of the International Association of Catholic Missiologists 29 in Cochabamba Cochabamba (Fides Service) - The 2nd Assembly International Association of Catholic Missiologists IACM will start on Wednesday 29 September in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the Salesian Fatima Centre. The first part of the Ass ...
• 28 September 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic Bishops of Nigeria: “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics” Lagos (Fides Service)- “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics and are occupying various posts. We congratulate those of them who have been trying to be true witnesses of justice and pe ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides Lahore (Fides Service) - “We are very pleased that president Musharraf will have a meeting with the Pope. This will be good for the Church in Pakistan and for the whole country” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission” is the title of a 74 page ‘Bischofswort’ (Bishops’ Word) issued by the Catholic Bishops of Germany at the end of their Au ...
• 27 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Bishops strongly condemn this attack on Catholic Sisters, in Kerala yesterday” the spokesman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, Fr Babu Joseph Karakombil told Fides. “W ...
• 27 September 2004
  October 2004: “That the due presence of Catholics in national life and in the media of the Latin American continent may increase” Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention. Comment by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the post-synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in America”, Pope John Paul II encourages lay Catholics to be fully aware of their dignity as baptised Christians and he calls on bishops and p ...
• 27 September 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda will host 15th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of East Africa Kampala (Fides)- Uganda will host the next Plenary Assembly of AMECEAthe Association of Bishops’ Conferences of East Africa . According to CISA Catholic news agency in Nairobi Kenya, the Ugandan Bishops are preparing t ...
• 27 September 2004
  VATICAN - At his midday Angelus reflection the Pope says “personal resources must be used not selfishly but with solidarity”: to guarantee justice and development with solidarity is the “way to guarantee the world a future peace” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence, Pope John Paul II reflected on the Sunday Gospel on the parable of the rich man and the p ...
• 27 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope grant audience to Papal Nuncios in Africa: “continue to be witnesses of communion, helping to overcome tensions and misunderstandings and the temptation of particularism, and to strengthen a sense of belonging to the one and undivided People of God” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 September at the end of the morning in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II gave a special audience to Papal Nuncios from Africa taking part in a meeting ...
• 27 September 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 50 Congregations of men and women religious in Peru take part in 1st National Mission Exhibition : “In Peru today…Mission is alive!” Lima (Fides Service) - As part of celebrations and initiatives for World Mission Day 25 October, the National Mission Centre of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference has organised the first ever National Mission Exhibition ...
• 27 September 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Mine fields prevent return of Angolan refugees difficult: air lifts to repatriate 4,000 from Namibia Rome (Fides Service) - The first in a series of air lifts to repatriate Angolan refugees to Huambo in central Angola organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in collaboration with the International Or ...
• 27 September 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Super tuberculosis: new forms of antibiotic resistant. Every year 8.7 million contract TB and 2 million die Rome (Fides Service) - New forms of antibiotic resistant TB could cause a global epidemic: a few modifications would enable them to spread rapidly. Researchers in the United States engaged in two separate studies revea ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - BSE warning: blood transfusions could spread human form of mad cow disease, British Health Ministry warns Rome (Fides Service ) - The Brutish Health Ministry has warned that some 6,000 patients who received blood transfusions in the UK since 1999 could be exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob NV, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...