News

• 7 May 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - SLOW RETURN TO NORMALITY: MISSIONARIES PICK UP THE PIECES AT SACKED AND LOOTED MISSIONS Bangui (Fides Service) – “The situation in Bangui is now stable” a Comboni missionary in the Central African Republic, who prefers for security reasons to remain anonymous, tells Fides Service. “Since Francois Bo ...
• 7 May 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - SARS: THREE MORE PEOPLE DIE, BRINGING TOTAL NUMBER OF VICTIMS TO 14 Taipei (Fides Service) – In Taiwan three more people have died of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS, bringing the total number of deaths to 14. Five new reported cases bring the number of infected persons to 125. ...
• 7 May 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH IN KOREA SENDS MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR CELEBRATIONS ON 2547TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF BUDDHA Seoul (Fides Service) – Buddhists in Korea have just received a special message from the Conference of Catholic Bishops Korea for the 8 May Vesakh festival to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Buddha. The messa ...
• 7 May 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 2ND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION CONGRESS: BUILDING PEACE AND PROGRESS FOR A SOCIETY OF BROTHERHOOD Bogota (Fides Service) - The 2nd National Reconciliation Congress closed on May 7 in Bogotà (Colombia). The congress, organised by the Colombian Bishops Conference through the National office for social pastoral, was t ...
• 7 May 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - CARD. SHAN: NO PANIC, PRAYER AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: SUNDAY MAY 11 DAY OF PRAYER IN TAIWAN Taipei (Fides Service) – “We must avoid spreading panic over SARS among the public. Instead we must pray and show solidarity to doctors and patients” Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi of Kaohsiung said this to Fides Servi ...
• 6 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SARS CHAPLAIN OF LARGEST CHINESE COMMUNITY IN ITALY: NO PROBLEM IN PRATO, ALTHOUGH DEEP CONCERN FOR SITUATION IN CHINA Prato (Fides Service) – “With regard to the SARS virus, the situation of the Chinese community in Prato (near Florence) is calm” Fr Giovanni, PIME missionary tells Fides. Fr Giovanni works in Prato assisting the la ...
• 6 May 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - HE WAS A DOCTOR FOR LEPERS THEN HE ASKED HIMSELF, BESIDES CURING DISEASE HOW COULD HE TREAT SOLITUDE? TODAY HE IS A PRIEST Hanoi (Fides Service) – Ten years ago he was a doctor, today he is a priest, but his life is still a service to the poor, the marginalised, the terminally ill, anyone needing material assistance and moral and spiritual ...
• 6 May 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD HOLDS NATIONAL FESTIVAL: MARY MOTHER OF ALL CHILDREN Lima (Fides Service) – On May 24, as part of celebrations for the National Missionary Childhood day in Peru, held on the last Sunday in May with collections in parishes and schools, the local Church has organised a “ ...
• 6 May 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - VOICES OF WOMEN, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM, AGAINST INTRODUCTION OF ISLAMIC RULES IN SENEGAL’S NEW CODE OF THE FAMILY Dakar (Fides Service) – Increasingly heated the debate in Senegal with regard to a new family code. A number of Muslim associations aim to include rules of Islamic law; a possibility which meets with opposition from Ch ...
• 6 May 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA - CONAKRY – MONS. VINCENT COURBALY, APPOINTED METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (6 May 2003) appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Conakry in Guinea, Mons Vincent Courbaly, until now Bishop of Kankan. (Fides Service 6/5/2003 ...
• 6 May 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - REV. HERMANN SCHALÜCK CONFIRMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES AACHEN-GERMANY Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has confirmed (23 April 2003) National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Aachen-Germany, Rev. ...
• 6 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - REV. GIUSEPPE ANDREOZZI CONFIRMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN ITALY Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has confirmed (25 April 2003) National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy, Rev. Fathe ...
• 6 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - REV. SEBASTIAN PERIANNAN APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST PETER APOSTLE MAJOR SEMINARY IN BANGALORE Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has (11 April 2003) appointed Rector of St Peter Apostle major seminary in Bangalore, India, Rev. Seb ...
• 6 May 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - BISHOPS MESSAGE TO FAMILIES: “ENOUGH WITH ALL THIS DESTRUCTION OF OUR FAMILIES!” Monterrey (Fides Service) – “The family, sanctuary of life, good news for the third millennium” : this was the theme of the 75th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Mexico held in Monterrey 28 April – 2 M ...
• 6 May 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF CIVIL STRIFE “TIGERS” AND “LAMBS” EAT AT THE SAME TABLE: IS PEACE REALLY POSSIBLE? Colombo (Fides Service) – “Sri Lanka deserves peace, prosperity, dignity and equal rights for all: and we must work and pray unceasingly for peace” Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Colombo told Fides Service. The Archb ...