News

• 20 March 2004
  “Persecuted but not Abandoned” (2Cor 4,9): 24 March 12th Day of Prayer, fasting and charitable works in memory of Missionary martyrs Rome (Fides Service) - March 24 the anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, Archbishop San Salvador in 1980, will be the 12th Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of Missionary Martyrs organised by th ...
• 20 March 2004
  VATICAN - “The blood of missionary martyrs hope for the world” Interview with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the 12th Day of prayer, fasting and good works in memory of Missionary Martyrs, an initiative organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies Youth Movement Italy for 24 Ma ...
• 20 March 2004
  MARTYROLOGY 2003 Vatican City (Fides Service) - According to information collected by Fides up to 20 March 2004, during 2003 no less than 35 members of the Church priests, religious, lay people and one Archbishop, lost their lives while ...
• 20 March 2004
  CHART OF MISSIONARY MARTYRS 2003 Name Nationality Institute Place/date of death 1. Rev. D. Mvuezolo-Tovo D. R. Congo Diocesan Matadi D.Congo - 11 March 2. Rev. N. Gómez Bejarano Colombia Diocesan Armenia Colombia - 22 March 3. Brother Clement Igwil ...
• 20 March 2004
  HOW MISSIONARY MARTYRS ARE COMMEMORATED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD The memory of missionary martyrs who gave their lives for the Gospel is vivid in many local Churches all over the world. This is seen from reports by National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in different countr ...
• 20 March 2004
  Archbishop Michael Courtney gave his life for the people of Burundi to whom the Pope had sent him as an apostle of peace. From the homily given by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State, during a solemn requiem Mass on January 8in St Peter’s in memory of Archbishop Michael Aidan Courtney, Apostolic Nuncio in Burundi brutally assassina ...
• 20 March 2004
  Comboni Father Mario Mantovani murdered by a young man whom he had baptised. Italian missionary Father Mario Mantovani was shot dead with Ugandan Father Godfrey Kiruowa in Uganda on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption as they were passing through Lobel about 40 km from Kanawat mission. The two ...
• 20 March 2004
  Brother Anton Probst, Claretian brother, known to all as Mbuta, the elder brother German born Brother Anton CMF (Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), was a very active missionary. He lived and worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo for 23 years, from 1968 to 1991. He was an able mecha ...
• 20 March 2004
  Sister Czeslawa Lorek: “What can I do for the Pope? How can I help him? I know, I’ll go on mission!”. Sister Czeslawa Lorek was born in 1938 at Binczyce Gorne, in Poland, to a deeply Christian family. The parish priest, Father Stanislaw Pieprznikm were her first spiritual director who helped her discern her vocation and ...
• 20 March 2004
  Marko Makuec Shir, martyr catechist in Kutum, Sudan One of the participants in a Trauma Counselling Course organised by Nyala parish in February 2003, was a young catechist Marko Makuec Shir, a Dinka from Gogrial, married and with three children The course explained the ...
• 20 March 2004
  José Castillo, killed after 5 years of missionary work for social Pastoral and defence of human rights When Joe Castillo and his wife Yelitza completed their studies at the University of Venezuela, as enthusiastic members of the Pontifical Mission Societies they wanted to go on mission to the apostolic Vicariate of Machiq ...
• 20 March 2004
  Annalena Tonelli, 35 anni in Africa: “to everyone she communicated enthusiasm” “When she first came to Africa, in 1969, she looked like a girl, much younger than 23. Annalena went to Kenya to teach English to children at Thomsfall, where the Consolata Fathers had several schools. She came with tw ...
• 18 March 2004
  VATICAN - On Sunday 21 March the Pope will beatify 4 Servants of God, two Italians and two Spaniards Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday March 21, 4th Sunday of Lent, Pope John Paul II will preside the celebration Mass in St Peter’s Square during which he will beatify four Servants of God. Here are their names: P ...
• 18 March 2004
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Cardinal König “The Friend of the Missions”. The Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria will dedicate the next issue of their missionary magazine to the Cardinal Archbishop emeritus of Vienna who died recently. Vienna (Fides Service) - As a mark of deep gratitude to Cardinal Franz König, emeritus Archbishop of Vienna, who died on Saturday 13 March at the age of 98, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, Missio Austria, w ...
• 18 March 2004
  EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - “Together on the roads of the world” : European Delegates of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood will meet 21 - 24 March in Luxembourg. Luxembourg (Fides Service) - “Together on the roads of the world: elements for a proposed missionary catechesis”, is the theme chosen for the next meeting of European Delegates of the Pontifical Society Missionary C ...