News

• 15 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - “Close to families, helping to educate the poor”: theme for next Assembly of the ancient Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Church rich in faith and vocations Cochi (Fides Service) - The need for new policies to address challenges facing Christian families and help educate the poor are two major priorities for the Syro-Malabar Church according to a pastoral statement issued in ...
• 15 May 2004
  VATICAN - “Communion and solidarity between Africa Europe”: second preparatory meeting for a Symposium of Bishops of Africa and Europe in Rome 10 to14 November. Vatican City (Fides Service) - A second preparatory meeting for a Symposium of Bishops of Africa and Europe in Rome 10 to14 November, was held in Rome on 15 May at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples CEP. ...
• 15 May 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - ‘Blood diamonds’ not only from blood shed in war zones but also from exploited ‘slave’ miners Luanda (Fides Service)-“In Lunda Norte (north west Angola) we live like slaves. We are not allowed to move about freely, we cannot afford to dress properly or eat meat or buy a bicycle. We are beaten for diamonds. Thes ...
• 15 May 2004
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Supreme Court of Justice calls for postponement of 18 May elections Lilongwe (Fides Service)- There is uncertainty in Malawi after the Supreme Court of Justice passed a sentence to postpone political and presidential elections scheduled for 18 May (see Fides 12 May 2004). The electoral C ...
• 15 May 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The new Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land is Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, one of the youngest ever Custodians Rome (Fides Service)- Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa has been appointed Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land in the place of Fr. Giovanni Battistelli who had this charge for the past six years. The Franciscan Custodia ...
• 14 May 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the whole of America, Brazil had almost 96% of the 39,939 new cases of leprosy registered in 2002. Government campaign to eliminate leprosy in Brazil by 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The Brazilian government has launched a campaign with which it hopes by 2005 to eliminate leprosy in Brazil where more than 90% of the reported cases in the whole of America were registered. More ...
• 14 May 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Nairobi Archdiocese celebrates for the ordination of six priests and 5 deacons Nairobi (Fides Service) - For the next two Saturdays 15 May and 22 May there will be great celebrations in the Catholic archdiocese of Nairobi for the ordinations of eleven young men, six to the priesthood and five to th ...
• 14 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - From Pakistan Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, President of the Pakistan Bishops’ Conference, welcomes Congress Party victory in India Lahore (Fides Service) - “We welcome the news that Congress Party has won the elections and we hope the party will carry forward and intensify the peace process started between India and Pakistan. This victory is a goo ...
• 14 May 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - An Exhibition of photographs of Pope John Paul II draws enthusiastic visitors, Catholics and non Taipei (Fides Service) - May 27 is the closing day for a travelling Exhibition of Photographs of Pope John Paul II which has won the hears of people all over Taiwan, Catholics and non. The exhibition, organised by the Ch ...
• 14 May 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Local Catholic parish blesses non Christian wedding couples and spreads the value of Christian love XuZhou (Fides Service) - Church weddings are in great demand in China and not only for Christians. Many non Christian couples show great interest in Christian values and Christian family life and come to Catholic churche ...
• 14 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATION 16 MAY - Paola Elisabetta Cerioli (1816-1865): the uplifting and development of society starting from the family Vatican City (Fides Service) - Paola Elisabetta Cerioli, was born to noble parents in 1816 in Soncino, Cremona, Italy. She was an obedient and docile child. At the age of eleven she was sent to a boarding school run by t ...
• 14 May 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “One of our greatest concerns is the situation of violence insecurity in which our people have to live ” says Catholic Bishops’ Conference Guatemala City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Guatemala have voiced deep concern for the situation of violence and insecurity with which the people have to contend every day and the crisis in values which is t ...
• 14 May 2004
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the faith among these people”: Father Marco Mikalonis, missionary from Argentina shares with Fides his first Easter in Lithuania. Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was deeply moving to see the Easter sun rise on a land where 50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the people’s faith” Father Marco Mikalonis a young missionary from A ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - One quarter of the initiatives to help people suffering from HIV/AIDS are run by Catholic organisations: the contribution of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood Vatican (Fides Service) - “According to the United Nations report on AIDS, 42 million people in the world are HIV+ and of these 19 million are women and 3.2 are children under 15. In Africa more than 11 million childre ...
• 13 May 2004
  Looking for something at Fides? Now you can find it a the click of a mouse New Fides “Site Search” allows you to search the contents of all the publicly available WWW documents at this site, news, dossier and in depth reflections published by Fides Service (Fides Service 13/5/2004 - Righe ...