News

• 4 September 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR INTER-CHRISTIAN SYMPOSIUM AT JOANNINA IN GREECE: “THE SEARCH FOR DEEPER COMMUNION BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN CHRISTIANITY MUST NOT LIMIT ITSELF TO OFFICIAL CONTACTS AND HIGH LEVEL INITIATIVES” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On the occasion of an Inter-Christian Symposium taking place in Joannina, Epire, Greece, 3-7 September, on the theme: “The relationship between Christian spirituality and dogma in the E ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - IN MAPUTO DOCTORS, NURSES, LABORATORY AND SOCIAL WORKERS ATTEND FIRST INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON DRUG RESOURCES ENHANCEMENT AGAINST AIDS Rome (Fides Service) - From 20 to 29 August 85 doctors, nurses social workers, laboratory workers and biology experts from Malawi, Tanzania, Angola, Guinea Bissau and Mozambique attended the first course in Drug Resourc ...
• 4 September 2003
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - BOLIVIAN CATHOLC BISHOPS: “IT IS OUR DUTY TO FIND WAYS TO PREVENT FURTHER VIOLENCE…WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT WHILE THE COUNTRY IS DESTROYED” La Paz (Fides Service) – Following serious episodes of violence which disrupted Bolivia in February, the Catholic Bishops have voiced their commitment to “support efforts and initiatives to promote national reconcili ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - TAYLOR HAS GONE BUT HIS MILITIA ARE STILL RAMPANT. CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES LAUNCH APPEAL: “ FOOD SHORTAGE IN BUCHANAN NOW CRITICAL ” Monrovia (Fides Service)- “There is little or no food in Buchanan”, the Consolata missionaries in Harbel, 50 km south of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, tell Fides Service. Buchanan, the principal port, is about 90 km ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - CATHOLIC CHURCH DEEPLY CONCERNED FOR SITUATION KISANGANI, ONCE CONGO’S THIRD LARGEST CITY Kinshasa (Fides Service )- The Catholic Church in Congo has voiced deep concern for the situation in Kisangani, in the north eastern part of Democratic Congo. This is reported in the latest issue of DIA local church bull ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - OPPOSITION ELECTION VICTORY SHOWS PEOPLE’S WILL FOR CHANGE Harare (Fides Service )- “The results of the recent municipal elections in Zimbabwe demonstrate that the people want a change, says a local Church source who asks not to be named for security reasons. Municipal electio ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - PADRE NIZAR SEMAAN. “THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT IS NOT FAR FROM A RETURN TO NORMALITY” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The setting up of the new government is an important step on the way to normality for Iraq ” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, of Ninive diocese in northern Iraq, tells Fides with regard ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - DESPITE TENSION WITH MUSLIMS CHRISTIANS OCCUPY GROWING SPACE ON RADIO AND NOT ONLY CATHOLIC COMPANIES Lahore (Fides Service ) – The number of Christian commentators and personalities heard on the radio in Pakistan is growing steadily and not only on Catholic radios. Besides Radio Veritas in Urdu, which broadcasts an an ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - INTENSE PREPARATION FOR 8TH CONGRESS OF THE FAMILY OF RELIGIOUS IN ASIA AND OCEANIA: MAJOR EVEN OF COMMUNION AND SHARING FOR LOCAL CHURCHES Taipei (Fides) – The entire family of religious men and women in Asia and Oceania is preparing for the inter-continental Meeting of Religious 20-30 October in Taiwan. The Congress the 8th Asian-Oceania Meeting of Reli ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “MOTHER TERESA THE MOST PRECIOUS GEM”: SCHOOL CONTEST IN RAJASTHAN STATE, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES CHRISTIAN AND NON, BUSY PRODUCING ESSAYS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES ON MOTHER TERESA Jaipur (Fides Agency) – Jaipur is known for its precious resources and production of gems, but the local people consider the most precious of all gems Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the little nun clad in a white sari who ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “CATHOLICS HELPED FOUND OUR COUNTRY AND FORM NATIONAL IDENTITY SAYS FATHER BERNARD INAYAT Lahore (Fides Service) – Speaking of recent tension between Muslims and Christians in Pakistan and denying the statements that Christianity is seen as a “foreign religion” Father Bernard Inayat, Head of the Pakist ...
• 3 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – REV. DOMNATO UDOETTE APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST JOSEPH’S MAJOR SEMINARY IN IKOT EKPENE DIOCESE Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed on 15 August 2003, Rector of St Joseph’s Major Seminary in the diocese of Ikot Ekpen ...
• 3 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “IN DEFENCE OF LIFE” : BISHOPS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT POLICY WHICH THREATENS HUMAN DIGNITY AND LIFE Lima (Fides Service) - The standing council of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Peru recently issued a statement entitled “In Defence of Life” in which they express profound concern for the population policy b ...
• 3 September 2003
  AMERICA - TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – HOW LATIN AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESSES (COMLA) GREW TO BECOME ALL-AMERICA MISSION CONGRESSES (CAM) AMERICA TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – HOW LATIN AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESSES (COMLA) GREW TO BECOME ALL-AMERICA MISSION CONGRESSES (CAM) Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Second all-America M ...
• 3 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NATIONAL MEETING OF ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PASTORAL FOR HEALTH CARE Rome (Fides Service) – “Happy the person who cares for the weak” is the theme of the annual meeting of the Italian Association for Pastoral for the Sick which will take place 6-10 October in Collevalenza. The Meeti ...