News

• 9 May 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL LETTER TO ARCHDIOCESE OF KRAKOW AND THE CHURCH IN POLAND FOR 750TH ANNIVERSARY OF CANONISATION OF SAINT STANISLAUS Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Grow in holiness! Build the house of your life on the rock of divine grace, so that its solidity is founded on fidelity to God and to his commandments!” With these words Pope John Pa ...
• 9 May 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - UNITED NATIONS SAY 85 MILLION DOLLARS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR 3 MILLION VICTIMS OF WAR Abidjan (Fides Service) – At least 3 million people are at risk because of war in Ivory Coast. This is reported by Carolyn McAskie, United Nations’ special envoy to Ivory Coast. According to the United Nations in I ...
• 9 May 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “TWELVE YEARS OF UN SANCTIONS REDUCED THE IRAQI PEOPLE TO POVERTY BUT NOW WE LOOK WITH HOPE TO THE FUTURE” CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NINIVE LAUNCHES APPEAL TO HELP IRAQI CHRISTIANS Baghdad (Fides Service) – “After 12 years of United Nations sanctions many people in Iraq are extremely poor” Father Nizar Semaan in the diocese of Ninive tells Fides Service when we asked about the present economi ...
• 9 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CENTENARY FOR NIROPYA CATHOLIC MONTHLY VERY POPULAR WITH HINDUS Pune (Fides Service) – Niropya (The Messenger) India’s second oldest Catholic magazine, published in Marathi, Pune diocese in Maharashtra state, this year is marking its centenary and is being congratulated by Catho ...
• 8 May 2003
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - IN 2004 PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO TO CELEBRATE EUROPEAN UNITY: BISHOPS ANNOUNCE A EUROPE DAY Brussels (Fides Service) – On May 9, Europe Day which recalls the history making event on May 1950 when the bases were laid for a united Europe, the Bishops of the COMECE Commission of Bishops Conferences of the Europe ...
• 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 ...