News

• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Mission and Missionaries in the Church today - “to evangelise with authenticity demands radical following of the crucified Christ ” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain tells Culture Forum in Barcelona Madrid (Fides Service) - “Evangelising with authenticity means radical following of Christ crucified. It is here that we find the guarantee of ecclesial fecundity” said Archbishop Francisco Pérez, National Director ...
• 8 July 2004
  EUROPE - European Vocations Service meeting concludes: “offer young people courageous and bold ideas that will help them hear Jesus' call to "come and follow me” Strasbourg (Fides Service) - Europe's national delegates for vocations ministry met in Strasbourg from 1st to 4th July 2004 to study the theme Good Master, What should I do? (Lk 18.1): Accompanying young people on the th ...
• 8 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - What lies behind the name Darfur, behind the people in flight? Why are these endless kilometres of sand provoking massacres, raping and famine? Rome (Fides Service)- It is unthinkable that a local dispute between farmers and shepherds, found in many parts of the world, can in a year turn into genocide of civilians. How can a government treat its own people so fe ...
• 8 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The armed groups realise they can never dissuade us in our commitment to oppose violence, indeed we are even more determined and united with the people who are with us and know we are with them and for them”. Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza of Valledupar interviewed by Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - At least 35,000 dead in 40 years of fighting. Fides asked Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza C.M.F., Bishop of the diocese of Valledupar, for testimony on the situation of violence and bloodshed in Co ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bitter fight between secular and fundamentalist Muslims in North-West Frontier Province over Sharia plans which threaten country’s democracy Islamabad (Fides Service) - Amidst general protests of large sectors of society, moderate Muslims, human rights groups and, religious minorities, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MMA governing alliance of radical religious pa ...
• 8 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Movement to Fight World Hunger points finger at difficult access to IT resources. Pilot programme in Rwanda Rome (Fides Service) - “Counter the digital divide and promote social inclusion for young people in Muhura” in Rwanda is a joint initiative undertaken by the Italian Movement to Fight World Hunger with the METID Cent ...
• 8 July 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found stabbed to death at his home near his parish at Ciudad Juarez Ciudad Juarez (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Father Ramon Navarrete Islas, aged 56, was found dead at his home near the parish where he worked in Ciudad Juarez a town near the Mexican border with the United States. ...
• 8 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The peoples of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi want peace” say Catholic Bishops of the Great Lakes region Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Why do we keep on hurting each other?” asks Archbishop Simon Ntamwana, Archbishop of Gitega in Burundi and this question sums what was said by the Catholic Bishops of Democratic Congo, Rwan ...
• 8 July 2004
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - New food shortage alarm in Zimbabwe. Warning from UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Harare (Fides Service)- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO has issued a warning of possible severe food shortage in Zimbabwe. FAO said that this year the southern African country faces a deficit of ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Philippines Clergy Congress reflects on problems and challenges of pastoral ministry Manila (Fides) - Energy and hope despite the shortage of priests and need for more vocations: this is the picture emerging from the first Philippines Clergy Congress taking place in Manila, 5-9 July which has brought tog ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Struggle to eliminate corruption: state, Church and business world club together Manila (Fides Service) - Uproot corruption thanks with the help of public officials and all the citizens and the morality campaign launched by the Church in the Philippines: this is the objective of President Gloria Maca ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Interreligious Seminar on “Spirituality, Religion and Health” confirms that religion and spirituality are good for mind and body Hong Kong (Fides Service) - A successful Seminar on “Spirituality, Religion and Health” which brought together doctors, psychologists, Buddhists, Taoists, Protestants and Catholics and priests and pastoral workers of ...
• 7 July 2004
  VATICAN - In Bangkok 6th International Congress on Pastoral of Tourism: "Tourism at the service of the meeting of Peoples". Bangkok (Fides Service) - “The title of our Congress - “Tourism at the service of the meeting of Peoples.” - was chosen to indicate the central point of the proclamation of the Gospel” Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hama ...
• 7 July 2004
  EUROPE/MALTA - Rev. Joseph Bugeja confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has, 28 May 2004, confirmed Reverend Joseph Bugeja of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Malta, Nation ...
• 7 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Church deeply committed to education: instil a mentality of peace, justice and truth in the new generations. Colombia’s first virtual University has 2,000 students Rome (Fides Service) - "The Church in Colombia has always worked hard in the field of education providing a Christian education based on the values of the Gospel at all levels facilitated by the fact that Colombia has a ...