News

• 2 September 2004
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church is important for Lebanon, although from some areas Christians are being pressed to leave their homeland” Father Maroun told Fides Rome (Fides Service)- The Christian community of Lebanon is vivacious and strong in faith despite many serious problems in the country and consequences of civil war, which lasted for 15 years (1975-1990). The Maronites f ...
• 2 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Glimpse of peace for the crisis in Darfur. Government and guerrillas agree to protect 1.2 million refugees. But danger for humanitarian operators persist: Caritas worker injured Khartoum (Fides Service)- There are glimpses of hope for a solution to the crisis in Darfur. Late yesterday evening 1 September the government of Sudan and the rebels reached an agreement to protect more than 1.2 million ...
• 1 September 2004
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Rev. Antonios Fayez appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 14 July 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Egypt for a fiv ...
• 1 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “a person who adores the idols of wealth, power or success loses his dignity as a human person...On the contrary, those who believe in the Lord know that the living God is their «help» and their «shield»”. An appeal for a cessation of violence everywhere, “never a worthy of a good cause” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Idolatry is a temptation for all humanity in every land and in every time. An idol is something unanimated, created by the human hands, a cold statue, without life ... a person who adore ...
• 1 September 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Rev. Gregory Joseph van Dyk appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 8 July 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in South Africa for ...
• 1 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Exemplary Catholic father dies at 102 after bringing up a family of 13 and giving the Church two bishops, two priests and two women religious Mangalore (Fides Service) - Mr Emmanuel D’Souza, Catholic lay man very active in his local church in the diocese of Mangalore, Karnataka died recently at the age of 102. Besides being a family man and a teacher, Emmanu ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living a year with a difference” with Jesuit European Volunteers JEV: 32 young people start commitment as Jesuit Volunteers which will take them to various parts of the world Munich (Fides Service) - “A year with a difference” starts today, 1 September 2004, for 32 young adults who have signed up for a preparatory Course to work with the Jesuit European Volunteers JEV. According to a repo ...
• 1 September 2004
  VATICAN - “The Church needs Catholic Action” the Pope writes in a message to participants at International Congress of the Catholic Action Association Vatican City (Agenzia Fides)- “Today once again I would like to say: the Church has need of Catholic Action! Remembering must be merely a nostalgic returning to the past it should stimulate new awareness of the preciou ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Go out with enthusiasm to embrace your mission!” Cardinal Sepe said during the Mass to open the Catholic Action International Congress. “You are missionaries of daily life and bearers of hopes which are strong and founded” Rome (Fides Service) - “The task of announcing Jesus Christ Church falls to the Church as such, the whole Church and therefore to each one of her sons and daughters. Therefore we all, because of baptism are sent like C ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage”. Catholic Action International Congress opens in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage!” This call which the Pope John Paul II addressed to delegates attending the 11th Assembly of Catholic Action Italy on 26 Apr ...
• 1 September 2004
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - New hopes for release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor in prison in Saudi Arabia for his Christian faith says Middle East Concern Riyadh (Fides Service) - There are new hopes for the release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor, a Catholic working in Saudi Arabia arrested and imprisoned because of his faith earlier this year. Daniel Hoffman, direc ...
• 1 September 2004
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Mission continues: vocations flourish in the Pacific Islands Papeete (Fides Service) - Thanks to years of missionary activity in this local Church and the high quality of formation offered at the major seminary Our Lady of Pentecost in Tahiti, there is a steady rise in the number ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Catholic Bishops voice the closeness of the entire Church in France to the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, to their families and to all journalists: “we share their anxiety and their hope”. A call to French Catholics to unite in prayer. Paris (Fides Service) - Solidarity with the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot taken hostage in Iraq has been voiced by the Catholic Bishops of France in two different statements. The President of ...
• 31 August 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Rev. Father Guillermo A. Morales Martinez appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 16 July 2004, appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Mexico for a fi ...
• 31 August 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Rev. Patrick M. Kabba appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 24 June 2004, appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Liberia for a f ...