News
7 October 2003
VATICAN - CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING AND GLOBALISATION CLOSELY CONNECTED: SECRETARY OF JUSTICE AND PEACE COUNCIL GIVE PROLUSION TO OPEN ACADEMIC YEAR OF THE PONTIFICAL SALESIAN UNIVERSITY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – There is close connection between the epochal challenges of globalisation and the Church’s social teaching. In fact the Social Doctrine of the Church, rooted in the message of the Gospe ...
7 October 2003
VATICAN - PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEETING FOR 25TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE: FIDE ET RATIO ENCYCLICAL, FIVE YEARS ON
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Within the framework of celebrations to mark the 25 years of pontificate of Pope John Paul II, the Pontifical Lateran University PLU has organised 9-11 October an international meeting wi ...
7 October 2003
AFRICA - BREAKING THE CHAIN OF COMMUNICATIONS COLONIALISM: AFRICAN SATELLITE NETWORK FOR AFRICA WILL HELP TO RE-DIRECT RESOURCES TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT
Rome (Fides Service) – At last Africa will have its own satellite communications system. The 32nd council of administration of RASCOM, Regional African Organisation for Satellite Communications, examined a report on t ...
7 October 2003
“VERONIQUE. DIALOGUE OF THE HISTORY AND THE CARNAL SOUL” BY CHARLES PEGUY
Rome (Fides Service) – On Thursday 9 October at 9pm at the Church of St Louis dei Francesi there will be a reading of excerpts from “Veronique. Dialogue of the history and the carnal soul” by Charles Peguy publishe ...
7 October 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ANY MOMENT NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN SOUTH EAST CONGO, AN ANALYSIS FOR FIDES: WHY ARE RWANDAN SOLDIERS DEPLOYING, WHY HAS RECRUITMENT OF TROOPS RESUMED HERE AT THE HEART OF THE POOREST AND RICHEST PART OF CENTRAL AFRICA?
Kinshasa (Fides Service) –Messages expressing fear of a new outbreak of war in south Kivu in the south east of Democratic Congo continue to arrive at Fides Offices. In a careful analysis sent to Fides Service, local ob ...
7 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - EXHIBITION ON MOTHER TERESA: A FEW POOR BELONGINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, WRITINGS REVEAL HER SOUL – AND AFTERWARDS VISITORS ARE INVITED TO STOP A WHILE FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Rome (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is a personality known and loved all over the world, but few people know about her spirituality: this is why the Postulators of her Beatification Cause have organised an exhibition ...
7 October 2003
VATICAN/ITALY - POPE JOHN PAUL II AT POMPEI: THE ROSARY, RENEWED COMMITMENT FOR NEW EVANGELISATION AND BUILDING PEACE IN THE WORLD
Pompei (Fides Service) – “The call of the Rosary rising from Pompei, a crossroads of people of all cultures attracted to the shrine and to the archaeological site, evokes also commitment by Christians, in collaborati ...
7 October 2003
ASIA/INDIA - YOUNG PEOPLE FOR YOUNG MISSION: 30,000 MEMBERS OF JESUS YOUTH INTERNATIONAL FOCUS ON PRAYER AND EVANGELISATION – LOOKING TOWARDS 20TH WORLD YOUTH DAY IN COLOGNE GERMANY 2005
Rome (Fides Service) – To bring Jesus Christ to young people with young talk and young ways is the aim of Jesus Youth International a Catholic charismatic movement started in Kerala, India. The movement is growing rapi ...
7 October 2003
REPUBLIC OF CAPE VERDE/ FOGO ISLAND - CAPUCHIN FRIARS OPEN SOCIAL-HEALTH CARE CENTRE FOR POOREST OF THE POOR
Rome (Fides Service) –Fogo, Island, Cape Verde will soon have a new Centre for Health Care and Social assistance thanks to the Capuchin Friars Foreign Missions Centre, the Missionary Association Solidarity and Developm ...
6 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - “WITH THE POPE WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” SAYS ARCHBISHOP SORRENTINO DELEGATE FOR THE MARIAN SHINE OF POMPEI
Rome (Fides Service) – The community of Pompei is waiting with fervid expectation for the arrival of his Holiness, while spiritual and material preparation continues” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino tells Fides Servic ...
6 October 2003
AFRICA/SOMALIA - "DOCTOR TONELLI MURDERED FOR HER WITNESS OF GOD’S LOVE” SAYS MGR DE PRETIS, VICAR GENERAL OF DJIBOUTI
Djibouti (Fides Service) – “We were deeply shocked by the news of the murder of Annalena” Mgr De Pretis, Vicar General of Djibouti tells Fides with regard to the death of medical Doctor Annalena Tonelli, killed yes ...
6 October 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE CANONISES COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ: “THE NEW SAINTS TEACH US THAT EVANGELISATION, AS WELL AS INTERVENTIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT…ALWAYS ENTAILS EXPLICIT PROCLAMATION OF CHRIST
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Evangelisation, the new saints teach us, besides interventions of human promotion, sometimes dangerous as we see from the experience of many missionaries, always entails explicit procl ...
6 October 2003
AMERICA/PERU - “THE HOLY FATHER IS THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF THE WELCOMING FATHER WHO RECEIVES THE PRODIGAL SON HE IS THE FORTRESS OF THE MARTYR, HE IS THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: CARD. CIPRIANI AT THE END OF THE “ROSARY FOR THE POPE PAPA” FOR WHICH THOUSANDS GATHERED IN THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL
Lima (Fides Service) – Thousands of faithful prayed yesterday Sunday 5 October in Piazza Maggiore in Lima (Peru), on the occasion of the closing of the year of the Rosary called by John Paul II and the recurrence of th ...
6 October 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ANGLICAN PRIMATE OF ENGLAND: “THE WORLD NEEDS THE WITNESS OF OUR UNITY”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The world needs the witness of our unity, rooted in our common love for and obedience to Christ and his Gospel. It is fidelity to Christ which compels us to continue to search for full ...
6 October 2003
AFRICA/SOMALIA - TOUCHING MESSAGE SENT TO FIDES LAST YEAR BY ITALIAN “MOTHER OF SOMALIA”, DR TONNELLI MURDERED YESTERDAY OUT OF HATRED AND IGNORANCE
Rome (Fides Service) – In memory of Dr Tonnelli, killed in Somalia, yesterday 5 October, we publish the e-mail message she sent to Fides Africa section on 15 June 2002.
Dear Luca,
I am not a medical doctor. I have ...
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