News

• 14 May 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - REPORTS OF ESCAPE OF SOME KIDNAPPED SEMINARIANS IN NORTHERN UGANDA ARE FALSE Kampala (Fides Service) – “Unfortunately there is no confirmation of reports that some of the seminarians, hostages of rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA, have escaped” Comboni missionary Father Joseph tel ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - PRAYERS AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: CATHOLICS OFFER SUPPORT TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF CHINA Beijing (Fides Service) – Since the outbreak of the epidemic of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Catholics in Beijing have been fighting the virus with every means possible, prayer in the first place. The Cathol ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - CARITAS WORKS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AND PREVENT CONFLICTS Bangkok (Fides Service) – Among the challenges facing Caritas offices in South East Asia is to find solutions to situations of conflict and prevent violence, through peace-building and reconciliation programmes and sem ...
• 14 May 2003
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - IN TUPARENDA (PARAGUAY) 29th ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF CELAM COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES Tuparenda (Agenzia Fides) – On May 13 at the shrine of Tuparenda (Ypacarai- Paraguay) CELAM Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences opened its 29the ordinary assembly which will close on 16 May. The meeting is ...
• 13 May 2003
  VATICAN - THE CHURCH NEEDS SCIENCE AND SCIENCE NEEDS RELIGION Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The Church reaffirms the legitimate autonomy of science and her appreciation for this eminent form of human knowledge, recognising her own errors committed in the past. Also in ...
• 13 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MAJOR SUPERIORS DISCUSS: FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS FOR MISSION IN INDIA TODAY Bangalore (Fides Service) – Revise formation and ongoing formation for Religious to meet the challenges of the third millennium in a constantly changing world. This was the commitment taken at the end of a Meeting of ...
• 13 May 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FINAL DOCUMENT OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION CONGRESS: LET’S WORK TO BUILD A SOCIETY WHERE FORGIVENESS IS POSSIBLE AND VALORISED AS A VIRTUE OF GREATNESS AND GENEROSITY Bogota (Fides Service) – “Colombia is living one of the most critical periods of her whole history” it was said in a final statement issued by the 2nd National Reconciliation Congress held in Bogota, Colombia, 5-7 ...
• 13 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN CONGO IS NOT ACCIDENTAL, ONCE AGAIN ECONOMIC INTEREST ARE AT WORK” SAYS MISSIONARY Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “At the very moment when the Democratic Republic of Congo strives to restore national unity, war is intensified” Father Francesco, Xaverian mission in Congo, tells Fides Service. The Ital ...
• 13 May 2003
  AFRICA/BENIN - ARCHBISHOP MARTINO: AFRICA NEEDS NOT PITY BUT SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE: TOO MANY ARE CONCERNED ONLY WITH EXPLOITING AFRICA’S RESOURCES Cotonou (Fides Service) “Development cannot be built on conflicts, discrimination, rancour, exclusion, or the power of weapons. It demands harmony, solidarity, united efforts, justice, respect for others, for human dig ...
• 13 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REP. CONGO - IN BUNIA APPARENT CALM CHARGED WITH TENSION. BISHOPS AND MISSIONARIES CALL ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INTERVENE TO PREVENT MORE VIOLENCE Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “In Bunia there is relative calm but ethnic revenge is feared” a Missionary of Africa in Congo tells Fides Service. The missionary, a White Father, asked not to be named for security reas ...
• 12 May 2003
  VATICAN - ON VOCATIONS DAY THE POPE ORDAINS 31 NEW PRIESTS FOR HIS OWN DIOCESE: THE PRIEST, MAN OF THE WORD, MAN OF THE EUCHARIST, MINISTER OF DIVINE MERCY Vatican City (Fides Service) – In St Peter’s Basilica on 11 May, Good Shepherd Sunday, 4th of Easter, traditionally the Church’s annual day of prayer for vocations, Pope John Paul II presided Mass during which he o ...
• 12 May 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES DOCENTS AND STUDENTS OF LATERAN UNIVERSITY: THE GOSPEL MESSAGE - BEACON OF LIGHT AND SALVATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF EVERY RACE AND CULTURE IN WHATEVER SITUATION THEY MAY LIVE Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Friday 9 May Pope John Paul II received in audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, participants at the International Congress promoted by the Pontifical Lateran University on the t ...
• 12 May 2003
  VATICAN - MISSION AND THE YOUNG CHURCHES: INTERVENTION BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE AT THE CONGRESS PROMOTED BY THE PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II Vatican City (Fides Service) – The work of the congress “John Paul II: 25 years of Pontificate- The Church at the service of mankind” promoted by the Pontifical Lateran University moved from the university to the P ...
• 12 May 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - SPECIAL MASS FOR DAYAK GOOD HARVEST DAY ON BORNEO Pontianak (Fides Service) – Good Harvest Day festivities this year were markedly Christian among Dayak peoples in Western Kalimantan on the Island of Borneo. Celebrations lasting several days opened on 26 April with Ma ...
• 12 May 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHINESE NUNS VISIT KOREAN SISTERS: AN ENRICHING EXPERIENCE OF SHARING Seoul (Fides Service) – A visit to South Korea to meet other Catholic nuns, to learn from spirituality and their way of convent life: this was the experience lived by 13 Superiors of diocesan female religious communiti ...