News

• 12 July 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop Julio Duarte Langa of Xai-Xai resigns, Rev. Lucio Andrice Muandula appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 July 2004 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Xai-Xai (Mozambique), presented by Bishop Julio Duarte Langa, in c ...
• 12 July 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope prays the Angelus from the mountains: “In silence man can hear deep within his conscience the voice of God who renders him truly free. Vacation time can help cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On July 5 Pope John Paul II started a short holiday in Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta. At midday on Sunday 11 July the Pope prayed the Angelus broadcast on radio and television and greeted t ...
• 12 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” This is the slogan of the National Day for the Union of Sick Missionaries celebrated yesterday by more than 600 sick and elderly people Lima (Fides Service) - On Sunday 11 July Peru celebrated a National Day of the Union of Sick Missionaries with the slogan “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” The Day celebrated by mo ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Zen and the entire Catholic community criticise the new education law passed by parliament Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After Hong Kong’s parliament approved a new education law on July 8, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Zen, has openly voiced his disappointment. The Church in Hong Kong had already p ...
• 12 July 2004
  VATICAN - Papal Message to the Rogationist community: “Missionary impulse is intrinsic to the identity of the apostles of ‘Rogate!’. Contemplation of the ‘harvest is plenty’ and the ‘workers who are few, cannot fail to open the heart to universal longing for the evangelisation of peoples”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “May the work of evangelisation, from first announcement to catechesis, combined with generous service of the weakest, especially those children and young people who have no family or lac ...
• 12 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The local Church among the first to welcome thousands of people fleeing fighting in north east Congo. “Situation ever more tense” say Fides sources Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Fighting continues and the situation is ever more tense” say Fides sources in the north-eastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo where two guerrilla groups FAPC (Armed Force ...
• 12 July 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Priority to family and youth for the Church in Papua New Guinea, after its general meeting Rabaul (Fides Service) - A Church which always relied on missionaries, now anxious to become a self supporting Church which trains its own clergy religious and laity to respond to the challenges of pastoral work giving s ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - HIV/AIDS therapy in developing countries: Doctors without Frontiers looks at progress made and challenges still unanswered Rome (Fides Service) - Antiviral drug therapy for HIV/AIDS has proven effective also for patients at an advanced stage of the illness in developing countries. This emerged from information presented today by the interna ...
• 12 July 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - War between Ethiopia and Eritrea still a possibility. Ethiopian Prime Minister says to Eritrea: “Let’s talk”. So far Asmara refuses invitation to dialogue Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “The African Union Summit of heads of state and government last week in Addis Ababa, achieved some important results. Unfortunately no progress was made with regard the contention between E ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Beatification cause of 124 Korean martyrs officially opened in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On July 5 at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea in Seoul the beatification cause for the Servant of God Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 companions was officially opened. July 5 w ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Building peace and reconciliation, showing solidarity to the suffering: symposium on the role and challenges of priests in an area of tension among different communities Guwahati (Fides Service) - Closeness to God, solidarity towards others are the characteristics of a good priest, said Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, President Indian Bishop Conference at a recent symposium on the priestly li ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Vicariate Apostolic of Baguio raised to the rank of Diocese Bishop Carlito J. Cenzon appointed first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 24 June 2004, elevated the Vicariate Apostolic of Baguio (Philippines) to the rank of diocese making it a suffragan of the metropolitan Church of Nue ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace for civil development and the progress of peoples SRI LANKA (society and religion) Colombo (Fides Service) - Peace and religious freedom, two of the highest values of civil harmony are threatened in Sri Lanka. A recent suicide bombing in the centre of the capital Colombo and a Bill presented in Parliam ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite to guarantee peace and reconciliation necessary for progress and prosperity Colombo (Fides Service) - In Sri Lanka tension is high, but the time is ripe for a change; the country’s political, social and religious forces must commit themselves to guaranteeing peace and religious freedom imperat ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The roots of the ethnic conflict which has shed the country’s blood and strangled the economy Colombo (Fides Service) -Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) since 1984 has lived an inter-ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese majority (about 74% of the population) and the Tamil majority of Indian origin (about 13%). Anothe ...