News

• 10 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Stem cells: Day of Reflection for Bishops at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College in di Rome Rome (Fides Service) - Yesterday Bishops in Rome were invited to a day of reflection organised by the Bio-Ethics Faculty of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College, on the subject “Stem Cells: a new source of therapy ...
• 10 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Andrea Riccardi, founder of the S. Egidio community reports on the 18th International Meeting Religions and Culture, the courage of a new humanism, held in Milan 5-7 September. Rome (Fides Service) - “Men and women of different religions came together to show they would not be dominated by fear. This did not mean kind thoughts, abstract ideas, detachment from reality. It was a looking reality ...
• 10 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, Secretary of State Substitute for General Affairs, illustrates the bishop’s relations with the Curia and the Bishops’ Conferences Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Bishop’s relations with the Curia and Bishops’ Conferences was the subject of a talk given today by Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the Holy Father’s Secretary of State Substitute for ...
• 10 September 2004
  VATICAN - “A unique opportunity for getting to know one another as brothers”: Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops of mission territories rounds the mark Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Study Seminar organised for newly appointed Bishops of mission territories by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples is almost half way through its work. It opened on Sunday ...
• 10 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Investigation: Infective Diseases and Globalisation. Article by members of the Infective Disease Department at the Sant’Andrea hospital, the faculty of medicine at the Sapienza University Rome (Fides Service) - Human civilisation has produced major environmental changes and radically modified human life styles. Prof. Antonio Aceti and Dr. Simone Lanini, of the Infective Disease Department at the Sant’An ...
• 10 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2nd Day of Inter-dependence: individuals, peoples, and nations for a more united world. “Dialogue in diversity is possible” says Lucia Fronza a member of the Focolari Movement Rome (Fides Service) - The 2nd edition of the Day of Interdependence, an initiative of Benjamin Barber professor Maryland University USA, will be held this year in Rome on 11 and 12 September with a day of interreligio ...
• 9 September 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Fides given preview of Catholic Bishops’ statement after Jakarta bomb blast: if politicians, civil society, religious communities unite we will overcome terrorism; religion must no be exploited! Jakarta (Fides Service) - Sympathy for the dead and the wounded, rejection of violence and exploitation of religion, this and more was expressed in a statement drafted by the Catholic Bishops of Indonesia after the bomb ...
• 9 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - “Faced with dramatic and persistent divisions and lacerations in the world the Church is called, through her Bishops, to explain the reasons for the hope she bears”: address by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Faced with dramatic and persistent divisions and lacerations in the world the Church is called, through her Bishops, Successors of the Apostles, to explain the reasons for the hope she b ...
• 9 September 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drama of diamond hunters in northern Angola continues. Road accident kills 16 policemen and “garimpeiros” who had been expelled Luanda (Fides Service)- Yesterday 8 September on a dirt road leading from Mussuco, Cuango district, to the border with Congo, 16 people, Angolan policemen and illegal Congolese immigrants, were killed in a road accident. ...
• 9 September 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Respect for Congolese territorial sovereignty and a regional pact of non-aggression included in Bishops’ memorandum to South Africa’s president Mbeki, mediator in the Congo crisis Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “On behalf of the Bishops’ Conference of Congo I welcome with gratitude the tireless efforts made by you and your government to find a peaceful, just and concrete solution to the crises in D ...
• 9 September 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The Church is an important element for peace and unity in Congo”: Fides speaks with Bishops of Democratic Congo also in view of elections in 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - In a conversation with Fides recently appointed Bishops from Congo, in Rome to take part in the Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples , said that their Churc ...
• 9 September 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “The bomb blast was connected with international terrorism, not the local political situation, but could harm Indonesia at the economic and political level”, local sources in Jakarta tells Fides Jakarta (Fides Service) - “The attack was connected with international terrorism, not the local political situation. It does not affect the situation of Indonesia’s Christians”: local Church sources in Jakarta told ...
• 9 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Luigino Bruni, Docent Economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi Universities in Milan, presents International Meeting “New Horizons of the Economy of Communion”, organised by the Focolari movement 10-12 September in Castelgandolfo Rome (Fides Service) - “Since 1991 we have promoted a culture of giving” professor Luigino Bruni, docent in economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi universities in Milan who is the co-ordinator of an international meeting ...
• 8 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Each day HIV/AIDS makes more victims: the Church in Orissa state works on a plan to stop the spread of the virus Rome (Fides Service) - Today in India there are five million people, men, women and children who are HIV+ . “If we could save just one, this would be a success”, said the Catholic Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in ...
• 8 September 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To help disabled persons take an active part in the life of the Church and express their talents and potential, the Bishops’ Commission for the Family and Life has issued a special Pastoral Doc ...