News

• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN WARN TAYLOR TO STOP EFFORTS TO DESTABILISE SIERRA LEONE Freetown (Fides Service )- The United States and Great Britain have issued a severe warning to former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The two countries say they will take Taylor before a Special Court in Freetown to ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - BISHOPS OF CENTRAL AFRICA: “THE OIL IN OUR COUNTRIES MUST BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PEOPLE ” N’Djamena (Fides Service)- Catholic Bishops in Central Africa say that oil revenue must go to the people of Africa. The Justice and Peace Commission of ACERAC Association of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences has organise ...
• 30 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “HELP US TO HELP THE POOR AND THE SICK IN AFRICA” SAYS BROTHER LEOPOLD GNAMI, ST JOHN OF GOD COUNSELLOR FOR THE PROVINCE OF AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) - “Heath structures in Africa are not subsidised by national institutions and they have great economic difficulty in meeting the needs of a people for whom poverty and need are the order of the day ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF PAKISTAN: RAMADAN HAS STARTED UNDER BANNER OF DIALOGUE AND PEACE: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS BREAK FAST TOGETHER IN A SPIRIT OF SOLIDARITY AND SHARING Lahore (Fides Service) – “This Ramadan promises much for dialogue and consolidating good relations between Muslims and Christians. I am very happy and optimistic” Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan, head of the Commis ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INDIAN GOVERNMENT AWARD TO MANASA CATHOLIC REHABILITATION CENTRE WHICH CARES FOR 155 CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITIES Mangalore (Fides Service ) – Christians’ involvement in providing social assistance in India is visible for all to see and structures opened by Mother Teresa of Calcutta are only some of the examples, as the Indian g ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - LIFE DEDICATED TO LEPERS DRUG ADDICTS AND AIDS SUFFERERS: A COURAGEOUS PRIEST IN NEPAL Birganj (Fides Service) – People call the leprosy centre he runs Little Flower and it is a reality appreciated by all Nepalese. But today diocesan priest Father Christdas, aged 64, is also caring for drug addicts and ...
• 30 October 2003
  VATICAN - NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN BISHOP PEREZ GONZALEZ APPOINTED MILITARY ORDINARY Vatican City (Fides Service ) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has appointed, today 30 October 2003, Military Ordinary in Spain, Bishop Francisco Pérez González until now Bishop Osma-Soria. The Bishop is a membe ...
• 30 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE HOLY FATHER APPOINTS FIVE NEW ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II has appointed today five new ordinary members of the Pontifical Academy of Science: Prof. Antonio García-Bellido, from Spain, Professor of Genetics at the Severo Ochoa ...
• 30 October 2003
  VATICAN - PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR 20th WORLD YOUTH DAY 2005 IN COLOGNE, GERMANY: ORGANISERS PRESENT POPE WITH WYD LOGO AND WYD OFFICIAL HYMN CONTEST IS LAUNCHED Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Preparations for World Youth Day in Cologne are going well: we have regular monthly meetings with the organisers in Cologne to plan the organisation of the event - said Rev. Francis Ko ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - AFRICAN WOMEN UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE WITH AIDS. SISTER 2 SISTER MEETS FOR SECOND TIME IN SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town (Fides Service)- “This is not the usual Conference on AIDS, it is more of a coming together of people, most of them women, who battle every day against this illness, often with very restricted means” Father ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES SAY: WE SEE HATRED GROWING IN PEOPLE’S HEARTS. HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE! Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Hatred continues to grow in hearts, while political leaders carry on with their discussions” say Missionaries in Ivory Coast still divided in army and rebel controlled zones since the outbre ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - LORD's RESISTANCE ARMY REBELS KILL 13 CIVILIANS AND KIDNAP OTHERS Kampala (Fides Service ) - 13 civilians were beaten to death and many others abducted in a raid in northern Uganda by rebels of the LRA Lord’s Resistance Army yesterday 29 October in the Lira district. (Fides Service 3 ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RECTORS OF SHRINES IN ASIA FORM INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO MAKE SHRINES FRONTIER POSTS OF EVANGELISATION AND HUMAN PROMOTION ON THIS VAST CONTINENT Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “We, the rectors of Shrines in Asia, gathered in Makati, Philippines, on October 20 – 25, after Mission Sunday of the year 2003, on the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate ...
• 30 October 2003
  VATICAN - NEW RECTOR OF URBAN UNIVERSITY SPEAKS WITH FIDES: “THE SEARCH FOR GOD MUST NEVER DIVIDE RATHER IT MUST UNITE OVERCOMING EVERY FORM OF INTOLERANCE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – At the beginning of the academic year at the pontifical Urban University Fides interviewed the newly appointed Rector Mgr Giuseppe Cavallotto, former dean of the Faculty of Missiology. ...
• 29 October 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - “ONLY UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTION CAN MEDIATE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS”: PRO-PREFECT APOSTOLIC IN NEPAL LAUNCHES HEARTFELT APPEAL Kathmandu (Fides Service) – “The situation is precipitating, it calls for a third party to mediate. We ask for an intervention by the United Nations Organisation. Only this will restore dialogue”. This heartfelt ap ...