Dossier

• 19 June 2004
  THE 1905 LAW ON THE SECULARITY OF THE STATE The 1905 Law will celebrate its hundredth anniversary next year. It is the law regulating the secularity of the State. At the beginning, the Catholic Church felt it was anti-Clerical; the Pope rejected it and it was acce ...
• 19 June 2004
  THE FRENCH COUNCIL OF MUSLIM FAITH (CFCM) Since Islam has become the second largest religion in France, the State required an interlocutor representing the different Islamic communities present on its territory. This brought to the 1989 initiative of Minister Pi ...
• 24 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - A year after the fall of Saddam: different religious communities amidst traditional leaders and new radical groups Baghdad (Fides Service) - It is a composite scenario which is registered in Iraq a gear after the fall of Saddam Hussein: emerging new political groups, reawakening of traditional religious movements and birth of new for ...
• 24 April 2004
  FIDES DOSSIER - Religions in the new Iraq Vatican City (Fides Service) - In view of the tragic situation in Iraq and the growing weight which some Muslim leaders have assumed on the Iraqi scene, Fides has updated a Dossier "Iraq and Religions", produced in March ...
• 24 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “The extremists will not ruin good relations among religion in Iraq”, Father Nizar Semaan told Fides Vatican City (Fides Service) - “the situation of religions in Iraq, a year after the war of liberation, has not altered in substance. We have seen the appearance of radical and violent groups, formed mostly of extremis ...
• 24 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Iraq Islamic troops under the aegis of the United Nations to stabilise the country: Islamic Conference Organisation’s proposal meets consensus Putrajaya (Fides Service) - A role for the United Nations to stabilise Iraq, and the presence of troops from Muslim countries: this proposal emerged from a recent meeting in Malaysia of 57 delegates of the Islamic Confer ...
• 24 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Good relations among religious communities, humanitarian aid from churches and mosques without discrimination: action of Interreligious Council in for peace Baghdad (Fides Service) - That the authentic role of religion is to contribute to dialogue, reconciliation and peace has been affirmed more than once by John Paul II. Despite difficulties and the presence of some “prea ...
• 24 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Iraqis of all the different religious communities are a united people. It is a mistake to strike mosques” says Prof. Justo Lacunza, Rector of the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome Vatican City (Fides) - “The common denominator which today unites all Iraqi believers whether Shiite or Sunni Muslims, Christians or Kurds, is a strong nationalist sentiment. Iraqis, liberated from Saddam Hussein, tod ...
• 3 April 2004
  VATICAN - CHILDREN AND AIDS: “Fathers have eaten green grapes thus their children’s teeth are on edge ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - We known that HIV/AIDS is mainly transmitted through sexual relations. Adults are responsible for their actions of which they must face the consequences. But how does this virus if not by a ...
• 3 April 2004
  TANZANIA - AIDS IN AFRICA: a battle which can be won CUAMM Statement on AIDS by Marzia Franzetti, co-ordinator AIDS group Rome (Fides Service) - CUAMM - Doctors with Africa, which has worked to improve the health of people in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1950s found itself faced with the HIV/AIDS pandemic from the start and it has sought to ...
• 3 April 2004
  UGANDA - Overrun with AIDS Uganda is a laboratory for means to fight the virus Testimony from Ugandan born Mrs Rose Busingye directress of “Meeting Point” in Kampala (local NGO working to help AIDS patients and their families) on the occasion of the presentation of Pope John Paul II’s message for Lent 2001. Vatican City (Fides Service) - In Uganda 50% of the country’s children have lost at least one parent because of AIDS. Most of the children are in danger of ending up on the streets and made to work for crime gangs. In ...
• 3 April 2004
  PERU - “Hogar San Cammillo Peru’s first Family Home opened in 1997 for HIV+ mothers and infants” by Father Zeffirino Montin director of the Centre. Lima (Fides Service) - HOGAR SAN CAMILO, the first home for HIV+ persons in Peru was inaugurated on 30 September 1995 by Camillan Father General, Father Angelo Brusco. It was opened at a moment when there were no struc ...
• 3 April 2004
  VATICAN - HIV/AIDS among children: the HIV+ child becomes an adult By Dr. Castelli Gattinara, of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, President of the Paediatric Infectivology Society Vatican City (Fides Service) - The pandemic of the HIV virus which can cause AIDS, continues to spread all over the world. According to recent reports by the World Health Organisation, as many as 40 million people in the ...
• 3 April 2004
  PERU - 14.718 cases of Aids: summary by Doctor Doris Portocarrero, Directress of the National Initiative for Children’s Rights Group Lima (Fides Service) - According to a recent government report sent to the Committee for Children’s Rights, cases of HIV/AIDS among young people are caused mainly by sexual activity. The ratio of AIDS patients man woma ...
• 3 April 2004
  ITALY - ARCHE’: for association in Italy to care for HIV+ children. Summer holidays 2003 for HIV+ children and mothers living in poor social or health conditions with particular attention for rehabilitation of HIV/AIDS children and adolescents Rome (Fides Service) - It was the first association in Italy to address the problem of HIV/AIDS and children in need of assistance and to guarantee them a life as normal as possible like other children of their age. Born ...