Europe

• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI FIRST TO HARNESS “FEMALE GENIUS” FOR MISSION: FIDES INTERVIEWS SR ADELE BRAMBILLA, SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS Rome (Fides Service) – Where there are Sisters, mission is solid ” Daniele Comboni (1831-1881) used to say in days when few people recognised the importance of the “female genius” in every sphere of human activi ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY -CACAO PLANTATIONS IN IVORY COAST EXPLOIT CHILDREN WHO IN THIS PART OF AFRICA ARE USED ALSO FOR WAR. FIRST DOSSIER BY NATIONAL INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORY Rome (Fides Service) – Each year in Ivory Coast alone 615,000 children are forced to work in cacao fields and it is estimated that in the world 1.2 million children are victims of trafficking and that 5.7 million are i ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 55 MISSIONARIES SALESIAN – RELIGIOUS AND LAY – SET OUT FOR 22 COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD Torino (Fides Service /Ans) - Some 55 Saleisan missionaries are about to depart for mission in 22 different countries in various parts of the world. The missionaries are 23 Religious (17 Salesians and 6 Daughters of Mar ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - PREPARATIONS FOR HIS FUNERAL BEGAN BUT YOUNG JUN YAMADA WAS SUDDENLY HEALED THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF FR. FREINADEMETZ Rome (Fides Service) – The miracle which led to the canonisation of Father Josef Freinademetz was the healing of a young Japanese boy Jun Yamada who was told at the age of 24 that he would soon die of leukaemia. The bo ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - JOSEF FREINADEMETZ FIRST NON MARTYR SAINT IN CHINA THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE IS THE ONE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS INTERVIEW WITH SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 5 October Pope John Paul II will canonise three great missionaries including Josef Freinademetz (1852-1908) one of the first two Divine Word missionaries to go to China. While still a s ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MIGRATION NOT ONLY A TECHNICAL MATTER IT IS A HUMAN, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEM Rome (Fides Service) - Caritas Roma, sponsored by CNEL and International Organisation for Migrants IOM, presented “Contemporary Immigration in Italy - Current trends and future prospects”, on Wednesday 1 October 200 ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NEW CENTRE FOR ROME’S CHINESE CATHOLICS: FUTURE FOR APOSTOLATE AND EVANGELISATION PROMISING CHAPLAIN FR JOHN CHIU TELLS FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – The Chinese Catholic community in Rome has a new Centre next to the Church of San Bernardino da Siena, Via Panisperna 256. The community will gather for the official opening of the Agostino Chao ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - YOUNG PEOPLE PROTAGONISTS OF MISSION IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE– HARAMBEE MEETING OF HISTORIES, PEOPLES AND CULTURES , GREAT EVENT FOR THE SALESIAN WORLD Turin (Fides Service) – The Salesian world is celebrating the great event of Harambee, a major Salesian Missionary Animation initiative to share experiences of serving in developing countries following the spirit of St ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CANONISATION OF DON ORIONE: ORGANISING COMMITTEE GETS TO WORK, INITIATIVES INCLUDE WEB SITE Rome (Fides Service) – Yesterday at the general Curia, there was a meeting of the organising committee for the canonisation of Don Orione (COC). “The meeting marks the passage from the theoretical to the practical st ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY RECONSTRUCTION OF MATERNITY DEPARTMENT ST MARY’S HOSPITAL KHARTOUM TO MARK COMBONI CANONISATION: IN ROME WEEK OF EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVITIES AND PRAYER GETS UNDERWAY Rome (Fides Service) – As a tangible sign of the canonisation of Blessed Daniele Comboni and a sign of hope for the nation and the people to whom Comboni devoted his entire life, the Comboni institutes he founded have ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FATHER TERESINO SERRA NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL OF COMBONI MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – The 16th general chapter of the Comboni Missionaries elected this morning Father Teresino Serra new Superior General of the Institute. Father Serra was presently Vice-Provincial for Italy. Born i ...
• 24 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CHARITY SOIREE IN AID OF BAMBINO GESU HOSPITAL AND MISSION ENFANCE Rome (Fides Service) – On Friday 26 September at Palazzo Colonna in Rome there will be a charity Soiree in aid of Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome and Mission Enfance, a charity organisation in Monte Carlo presided by Pri ...
• 24 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 69TH CONGREGATION OF JESUIT PROCURATORS COMES TO A CLOSE: LAITY, FORMATION, GOVERNMENT AND GLOBALISATION AMONG THEMES DISCUSSED Loyola (Fides Service) – At Loyola Cathedral in Spain with a solemn concelebration of Mass presided by Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Preposito General of the Society of Jesus, the 69th congregation of Jesuit procurator ...
• 23 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - HAPPINESS, HEALTH WORKERS, CARING, THE SICK, FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF PASTORAL WORK AT THE AIPAS NATIONAL MEETING Rome (Fides Service) - The annual meeting of the Italian Association for Pastoral for the Sick will take place 6-10 October in Collevalenza with the theme “Happy the person who cares for the weak: the joy of giving”. ...
• 22 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CHRIST IN THE COLD OF THE EAST” TV PROGRAMME WINS PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC QUALITY AWARD AT PRIX ITALIA Catania (Fides Service) – The award presented by the President of the Italian Republic for quality was assigned this year to “Christ in the Cold of the East” television programme produced by the present Director of ...