News

• 8 May 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL AUDIENCE: MY APOSTOLIC VISIT TO SPAIN CONFIRMED MY PROFOUND CONVICTION THAT THE ANCIENT NATIONS OF EUROPE STILL HAVE A CHRISTIAN HEART Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general audience of Wednesday 7 May in St Peter’s Square Pope John Paul II spoke of his recent visit to Spain (3 and 4 May): “From the moment of my arrival I had the opport ...
• 8 May 2003
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM ON POPE JOHN PAUL 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE: THE CHURCH AT THE SERVICE OF MANKIND Rome (Fides Service) – “John Paul II: 25 years of Pontificate – The Church at the Service of Mankind” is the theme of a three day symposium which opened on May 8 at the Pontifical Lateran University. Among those ...
• 8 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 21ST CHAPTER OF THE DEHONIAN FATHERS FOR A HEART OPEN WITH SOLIDARITY AT THE SERVICE OF MISSION Rome (Fides Service) – The Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Dehonian Fathers) will hold their 21st Chapter in Rome, 12 May to 13 June at their General Curia house on the theme “Dehonians in M ...
• 8 May 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - FOR A CULTURE OF LIFE STARTING WITH FAMILY PASTORAL: 2ND CONTINENTAL MEETING OF FAMILY PASTORAL Toluca (Fides Service) – The 2nd Continental Meeting of National Family Pastoral Commissions with the theme “For a culture of life starting with family pastoral” is taking place 5-9 May in Toluca Mexico. The meetin ...
• 8 May 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTIN TELLS COLOMBIAN CLERGY: THE NEW NAMES FOR PEACE ARE JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY Medellin (Fides Service) – “Education to peace is no extrinsic or accidental element, it is intimately united with the evangelising mission of the Church as a teacher of peoples and an expert in humanity” said Arch ...
• 8 May 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND TRENDS HARMFUL TO CATHOLICS: A BOOKLET PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH IN KOREA Seoul (Fides Service) – “Movements and Trends Harmful to Healthy Faith Life” is the title of recent publication by the Church in Korea on new religious movements which threaten the Catholic faith and are a danger ...
• 8 May 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - IN ACEH WHERE TENSION BETWEEN REBELS AND ARMY RISES, THE FRANCISCAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IS THE ONLY BULWARK Jakarta (Fides Service) - As tension rises in the Indonesian province of Aceh, in the far north of the island of Sumatra, Father Ferdinando Severi OFM Conv. Franciscan Friar and parish priest of the church of the Sacred ...
• 8 May 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - MARGINALISATION AND NO ASSISTANCE FOR REFUGEES WITH AIDS Kampala (Fides Service) – Refugee camps in Kyangwali, northern Uganda have no structures to treat people with AIDS. Displaced persons with HIV/AIDS or who fear they may be infected, are left to themselves and no one of ...
• 7 May 2003
  VATICAN - A NEW ERA IN RELATIONS NOT ONLY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY BUT ALSO BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH Vatican City (Fides Service) – Yesterday (6 May) a project entitled “Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest”, fruit of the personal commitment of Pope John Paul II to overcome misunderstandings been the Churc ...
• 7 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - TODAY FROM ST PETER’S A MARATHON 12 LAP PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE: THE “TORCH OF LOVE AND HOPE AND PEACE” WILL BE CARRIED 1,604 KM FROM ROME TO THE GROTTO AT LOURDES Rome (Fides Service) – At the end of the general audience today, Wednesday 7 May, from St Peter’s Square athletes will start a marathon run from Rome to Lourdes, where it will arrive on 18 May on the occasion of the ...
• 7 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - PAPAL VISIT INAUGURATED NEW LAP IN EVANGELISATION FOR SPAIN: BEING A MISSIONARY DOES NOT MEAN FORGOING SELF-FULFILMENT SAYS BISHOP PEREZ GONZALES Madrid (Fides Service) – Bishop Francisco Perez Gonzales of Osma-Soria diocese and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain, gave Fides Service his impression of Pope John Paul II’s two day visi ...
• 7 May 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES SAYS SARS HELPS LOOK BEYOND LABELS AND SEE PEOPLE AS CREATURES OF GOD Taipei (Fides Service) – “The lesson we learn from this sudden phenomenon of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is that we must look at people beyond their religious, cultural or social group and see the dignit ...
• 7 May 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA - VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA MAKE A PACT TO END THE TRAGEDY OF REFUGEES ON THEIR MUTUAL BORDERS Caracas (Fides Service) – An agreement has been reached between the governments of Colombia and Venezuela to deal with the problem of Colombian refugees in Venezuela (See Fides 30 April 2003). The two Latin American co ...
• 7 May 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - NOW THE NIGHTMARE OF MALARIA HANGS OVER A MILLION HOMELESS AS FLOODS INUNDATE EASTERN REGIONS OF KENYA Nairobi (Fides Service) – At least one million people have been driven from their homes by severe floods in the eastern regions of Kenya. The provinces most affected are Nyanza and West province. A journalist of a loca ...
• 7 May 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - FLOODS STILL AN EMERGENCY: COUNTRY ASKS ITSELF HOW CAN SUCH DISASTERS BE AVOIDED Nairobi (Fides Service) – It is still difficult to estimate precisely the number of people killed and the damages caused by floods which stuck Kenya at the end of April. So far about thirty people are reported to have ...