News

• 30 April 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop Fritz Lobinger of Aliwal resigns Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 28 April 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Aliwal (South Africa), presented by Bishop Fritz Lobinger, in c ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Merauke archdiocese: Archbishop Jakobus Duivenvoorde resigns, Reverend Nicolaus Adi Septura appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 7 April 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Merauke Archdiocese (Indonesia), presented by Archbishop Jakobus ...
• 30 April 2004
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “it is not money first, but people first that will bring effective development” says report from Justice and Peace Commission of the Tanzanian Bishops Conference Dar es-Salaam (Agenzia Fides)-“ Reforms and the budget are yet to show their impact in combating poverty” the Justice and Peace Commission of the Tanzanian Bishops Conference affirms in a report “ BUDGET REVIEW AND ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Hong Kong assists victims of major train disaster in North Korea Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) -Caritas-Hong Kong has organised a collection of funds to provide medical supplies and other relief goods for the victims and their families to Ryongchon in North Korea where on 22 April 2004, t ...
• 30 April 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Technical training and social-health care to help people impoverished by two decades of war Rome (Fides Service) - Since 1998 and Italian association of volunteers for development Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo VIS, has run a programme of technical training and social assistance and health-care in ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Alarm in Indonesia: members of radical Muslim paramilitary Laskar Jihad group land in Moluccas to defend “brother Muslims” and join the “holy war” Jakarta (Fides Service) - There is a red alert in Indonesia’s Moluccas islands where local Muslims and Christians are engaged in new clashes: reliable sources contacted by Fides confirm that members of the Muslim param ...
• 30 April 2004
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholic diocese appeals for help to rebuild mission and school destroyed in accidental fire Bereina (Fides Service) - The Catholic mission and mission school at Mainohana, in Bereina diocese, Papua New Guinea, has been completely gutted by an accidental fire. To the dismay of the missionary personnel and the sc ...
• 30 April 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “To promote new evangelisation it is necessary to be open to pastoral conversion which requires a change of mindset, attitudes… and persevering docility to the Spirit who changes hearts” say Catholic Bishops of Mexico in a Message Mexico City (Fides Service) - During their 77th plenary assembly the Catholic Bishops of Mexico, reflected on how to live, as a Bishops’ Conference, the calling to holiness, pastoral conversion and spirituality of comm ...
• 30 April 2004
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops of Ecuador voice concern: “A country which lacks democratic stability and social equity has no future ” and call on everyone to work to help build the homeland of their dreams Quito (Fides Service) - In the face of signs of political instability which threaten to lead to more serious moral and economic troubles, the Catholic Bishops of Ecuador recently issued a pastoral Letter “Living in a ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Two suspect cases of SARS confirmed 800 in quarantine to prevent epidemic Rome (Fides Service) - Two suspected cases of SARS in Beijing have been confirmed and one of the patients is in critical conditions. According to official sources at least 800 people are in quarantine, 700 in the capita ...
• 29 April 2004
  VATICAN - “Re-launch mission ad gentes with courage”: Presentation of "Eucharist and Mission" Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2004 (24 October) Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church has altogether in the world 1,081 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (Archdioceses, Dioceses, Vicariates and Apostolic Prefectures...) considered missionary territories and ...
• 29 April 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Fierce fighting between army and rebels continues in northern Ugandan district of Gulu Gulu (Fides Service)- Gulu, 332 km from the Ugandan capital Kampala, is traditionally seen as the capital city of northern, it has an area of 11,732 sq. km and a population of 479,496 (2002), 85% Acholi. Other ethnic gro ...
• 29 April 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Young followers of St Francis of Assisi are on the web with Franciscan Youth International New York (Agenzia Fides) - Franciscan Youth International has opened a web site under the aegis of the United Nations Programme on Youth. From today news, activities, and information on the Franciscan Youth International ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of dialogue and service for two new deacons in a mainly Muslim district of Mindanao Kidapawan (Fides Service) - Two new deacons are about to start a mission of service and dialogue in the diocese of Kidapawn, a mainly Muslim area near Cotabato, on the Island of Mindanao. The local Catholic community he ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Occult actors in Moluccas conflict: “Tension and fear in Ambon; Moluccas are paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta ”, Bishop of Amboina told Fides Ambon (Fides Service) - Christian and Muslim city districts rigidly separated, fear reigns and a new conflict threatens: Moluccas is paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta, Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, Bishop of ...