News

• 20 September 2004
  VATICAN - A unique experience which has enriched us enormously and strengthened our communion with the Pope and with all Bishops”: student Bishops share their impressions at the end of the study seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We Bishops also need formation. We studied for the priesthood in the seminary and we had teachers who accompanied our journey of formation. When we are appointed Bishops our task becomes ...
• 20 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We cannot leave them in the hands of their executors!”. Moving testimony from the region of Darfur Vienna (Fides Service) - “More than 250,000 people rely on foreign aid”, Salesian Father Jim Comino said when he paid a recent visit to the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Vienna, Austria. For ...
• 20 September 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Peaceful presidential elections second ballot - opinion polls put challenger Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the lead Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The second ballot in Indonesia’s first free presidential elections took place in an orderly manner today 20 September, only 11 days since the terrorist bomb blast which destroyed the Australi ...
• 20 September 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - In Port Moresby, where violence and crime among youth is rampant, Salesian missionaries intend to build a new Marian shrine dedicated to “Our Lady Help of Christians” to be a haven of peace and a place for education to solidarity and non-violence Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Aware that violence and crime among young people can only be combated with positive socialisation and education to the values of mutual respect, love and solidarity Salesian Missionaries in ...
• 20 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Almost 5.000 cases of hepatitis E in Darfur where 73 people died after drinking dirty water Rome (Fides Service) - Hepatitis E continues to spread in northern and southern Darfur, where the virus has infected 4,524 people and killed 73, whereas in western Darfur the virus is in slight regression. This was repor ...
• 20 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Proper health care could save lives in Tanzania where almost two out of every ten new born babies die for lack of basic assistance: an Italian hospital in the region of Venice plans to work with hospital in Iringa Rome (Fides Service) - Health-care centres in the Italian region of Venice have always been active in the field of international co-operation and at present they are involved in about twenty programmes including consider ...
• 17 September 2004
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Anxiety and concern for Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor in prison in Saudi Arabia for possessing copies of the Bible: Christians in India and elsewhere continue to pray while human rights activists launch awareness campaigns Ryad (Fides Service) - In India there is growing concern among Catholics and human rights activists for Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor, a Catholic, arrested by the Saudi Arabian religious police in March and detained ...
• 17 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - The Bishop must be a moderator, promoter and guarantor of liturgical life in his diocese: address by Card. Francis Arinze prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address to Bishops attending a Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and th ...
• 17 September 2004
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "People in Zamora hunger for God but missionaries, churches and structures are scarce,” Bishop Fausto G. Trávez, Vicar Apostolic of Zamora told Fides Rome (Fides Service) - Ecuadorian Bishop, Mgr Fausto G. Travez Travez, OFM, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Zamora on 14 January last year, 2003, is one of a group of Bishops taking part in a seminary in Rome organised by t ...
• 17 September 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Reflecting with young people on the missionary nature of the Church: Bishops of Brazil call Catholic youth to National Meeting on Youth Mission and Parish Missions Brasilia (Fides Service) - Young people, local Church leaders and missionaries will come together for a National Meeting on Youth Mission and Parish Missions 8 to 11 October at the Dom Fernando Gomes pastoral centre at G ...
• 17 September 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - World Mission Sunday 2004: theme chosen “Eucharist and Mission” in harmony with a national Eucharistic Congress in Corrientes and the International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara and the Pope’s message Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “In harmony with the national Eucharistic Congress in Corrientes 2 to 5 September and the International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara Mexico, 10-17 October, for all our activities t ...
• 17 September 2004
  AFRICA - Africa prepares to celebrate the UN Day for Peace in the World on 21 September Rome (Fides)- Various countries in Africa are preparing to celebrate a Day for Peace in the World on 21 September. In Kenya, on 18 September the wife of the President Lucy Kibaki will lead a march for peace CISA Catholi ...
• 17 September 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - More than 100,000 civilians flee their homes because of fighting between army and rebels in the eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo Bukavu (Fides Service) - More than 100,000 civilians are fleeing from the east of Democratic Congo, according to international humanitarian agencies and the United Nations’ Organisations which have voiced deep concern ...
• 17 September 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Salesians open a new community in northern Sri Lanka for years the centre of cruel civil war Colombo (Fides Service) - The northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka are the poorest areas. The people in this area are mainly Tamils and separatist rebel groups have been claiming independence from Colombo causing a c ...
• 17 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Today we realise that our liberty is a little poorer unless it is shared by all” Luigi Bobba, President of the Association of Christian Workers in Italy told Fides at the end of a Post-Global Meeting in Orvieto. v ...