News

• 7 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ANY MOMENT NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN SOUTH EAST CONGO, AN ANALYSIS FOR FIDES: WHY ARE RWANDAN SOLDIERS DEPLOYING, WHY HAS RECRUITMENT OF TROOPS RESUMED HERE AT THE HEART OF THE POOREST AND RICHEST PART OF CENTRAL AFRICA? Kinshasa (Fides Service) –Messages expressing fear of a new outbreak of war in south Kivu in the south east of Democratic Congo continue to arrive at Fides Offices. In a careful analysis sent to Fides Service, local ob ...
• 7 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - EXHIBITION ON MOTHER TERESA: A FEW POOR BELONGINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, WRITINGS REVEAL HER SOUL – AND AFTERWARDS VISITORS ARE INVITED TO STOP A WHILE FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Rome (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is a personality known and loved all over the world, but few people know about her spirituality: this is why the Postulators of her Beatification Cause have organised an exhibition ...
• 7 October 2003
  VATICAN/ITALY - POPE JOHN PAUL II AT POMPEI: THE ROSARY, RENEWED COMMITMENT FOR NEW EVANGELISATION AND BUILDING PEACE IN THE WORLD Pompei (Fides Service) – “The call of the Rosary rising from Pompei, a crossroads of people of all cultures attracted to the shrine and to the archaeological site, evokes also commitment by Christians, in collaborati ...
• 7 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - YOUNG PEOPLE FOR YOUNG MISSION: 30,000 MEMBERS OF JESUS YOUTH INTERNATIONAL FOCUS ON PRAYER AND EVANGELISATION – LOOKING TOWARDS 20TH WORLD YOUTH DAY IN COLOGNE GERMANY 2005 Rome (Fides Service) – To bring Jesus Christ to young people with young talk and young ways is the aim of Jesus Youth International a Catholic charismatic movement started in Kerala, India. The movement is growing rapi ...
• 7 October 2003
  REPUBLIC OF CAPE VERDE/ FOGO ISLAND - CAPUCHIN FRIARS OPEN SOCIAL-HEALTH CARE CENTRE FOR POOREST OF THE POOR Rome (Fides Service) –Fogo, Island, Cape Verde will soon have a new Centre for Health Care and Social assistance thanks to the Capuchin Friars Foreign Missions Centre, the Missionary Association Solidarity and Developm ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “WITH THE POPE WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” SAYS ARCHBISHOP SORRENTINO DELEGATE FOR THE MARIAN SHINE OF POMPEI Rome (Fides Service) – The community of Pompei is waiting with fervid expectation for the arrival of his Holiness, while spiritual and material preparation continues” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino tells Fides Servic ...
• 6 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "DOCTOR TONELLI MURDERED FOR HER WITNESS OF GOD’S LOVE” SAYS MGR DE PRETIS, VICAR GENERAL OF DJIBOUTI Djibouti (Fides Service) – “We were deeply shocked by the news of the murder of Annalena” Mgr De Pretis, Vicar General of Djibouti tells Fides with regard to the death of medical Doctor Annalena Tonelli, killed yes ...
• 6 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE CANONISES COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ: “THE NEW SAINTS TEACH US THAT EVANGELISATION, AS WELL AS INTERVENTIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT…ALWAYS ENTAILS EXPLICIT PROCLAMATION OF CHRIST Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Evangelisation, the new saints teach us, besides interventions of human promotion, sometimes dangerous as we see from the experience of many missionaries, always entails explicit procl ...
• 6 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “THE HOLY FATHER IS THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF THE WELCOMING FATHER WHO RECEIVES THE PRODIGAL SON HE IS THE FORTRESS OF THE MARTYR, HE IS THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: CARD. CIPRIANI AT THE END OF THE “ROSARY FOR THE POPE PAPA” FOR WHICH THOUSANDS GATHERED IN THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL Lima (Fides Service) – Thousands of faithful prayed yesterday Sunday 5 October in Piazza Maggiore in Lima (Peru), on the occasion of the closing of the year of the Rosary called by John Paul II and the recurrence of th ...
• 6 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ANGLICAN PRIMATE OF ENGLAND: “THE WORLD NEEDS THE WITNESS OF OUR UNITY”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The world needs the witness of our unity, rooted in our common love for and obedience to Christ and his Gospel. It is fidelity to Christ which compels us to continue to search for full ...
• 6 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - TOUCHING MESSAGE SENT TO FIDES LAST YEAR BY ITALIAN “MOTHER OF SOMALIA”, DR TONNELLI MURDERED YESTERDAY OUT OF HATRED AND IGNORANCE Rome (Fides Service) – In memory of Dr Tonnelli, killed in Somalia, yesterday 5 October, we publish the e-mail message she sent to Fides Africa section on 15 June 2002. Dear Luca, I am not a medical doctor. I have ...
• 6 October 2003
  VATICAN - “THREE LUMINOUS WITNESS OF MISSIONARY COMMITMENT, THREE CHAMPIONS OF EVANGELISATION”: THE POPE GIVES SPECIAL AUDIENCE TO THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS IN ROME FOR CANONISATION OF COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am happy to meet you the day after the canonisation of three luminous witnesses of missionary commitment, particularly dear to you, Saint Daniele Comboni, Saint Arnold Janssen and Sa ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - DESPITE FALSE INSINUATIONS OF LOCAL PRESS: SAYS NUNCIO IN BAKU – WORK ON NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH TO BEGIN SOON Baku (Fides Service) – Relations between the local Catholic Church and the government in Azerbaijan are excellent Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Nuncio in Baku tells Fides Service. Not long after a recent visit to Az ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MONDO MIGLIORE MOVEMENT TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ANIMATION MEETING Rome (Fides Service) – “Spirituality of Communion for a world of solidarity” is the theme of an international congress organised by the Service of Community Animation of the Movement Mondo Migliore, 9-12 October at ...
• 6 October 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BUILDING A CHURCH FOR EVERYONE, MEET CHALLENGES OF MODERN WORLD AND EVANGELISE SOCIETY: SEOUL DIOCESAN SYNOD CONCLUSION AND CHALLENGES Seoul (Fides Service) – “With hope towards God” is the title of the post-synodal letter issued recently by Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, of Seoul at the end of a four year diocesan synod. In the letter the Ar ...