News

• 20 January 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - First Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru 100 years ago, Japanese Cardinal Fumio Hamao, President of Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, presides Centenary Celebrations in Lima Lima (Fides Service) - The first Japanese immigrants landed in Peru a hundred years ago on 21 November 1906. A group of 774 farm workers arrived with a contract to work at the Hacienda Santa Clara, 36 of them had left th ...
• 20 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Democratic Republic of Congo - info Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The Democratic Republic of Congo with its area of 2,345,410 sq. km., is the third largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria. It has borders with the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville ...
• 19 January 2006
  Book Review - Helmut Moll at the request of the German Bishops’ Conference: ZEUGEN FÜR CHRISTUS - DAS DEUTSCHE MARTYROLOGIUM DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. WITNESSES FOR CHRIST - MARTYROLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY PADERBORN 1999 (SCHÖNINGH VERLAG) Rome (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II who in his youth lived not far from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, called in 1994 for the Martyrology of the Church to be updated to include th ...
• 19 January 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Feel mission in your heart”: Sunday 22 January Holy Childhood Day in Spain: concern for millions of children ill, exploited, deprived of rights, many have never heard about Jesus Christ Madrid (Fides Service) - “We must feel mission in our heart because if it is something cold and lacks the warmth of love and charity our experience would be absurd and useless” says Archbishop Francisco Pérez Gonzá ...
• 19 January 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian women religious committed to fighting human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and girls Sydney (Fides Service) - The phenomenon of human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and children is an attack on human dignity and a crime against humanity and against God. It must be fought with the involvement of pu ...
• 19 January 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - A communion of communities diocese of Yokohama largest in Japan exemplary welcome for immigrants Yokohama (Fides Service) - The diocese of Yokohama, the largest by area of Japan’s 16 Catholic diocese, has a population of 172,000 Catholics, but 70% are non Japanese, they are immigrants come from various different c ...
• 19 January 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Jesuit Provinces in China launch celebrations for St Francis Xavier Jubilee Taipei (Fides Service) - In this Jesuit Jubilee year - to mark the 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506), and 450 years since the death of 450 St Ignatius of Loyola (1556) - the ...
• 19 January 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Disorder continues in Abidjan whereas in rebel controlled areas all is quiet Abidjan (Fides Service)- “It’s like living in a completely different country from the psychological point of view as well” says a local source in Bouaké, main town of northern Côte d'Ivoire since September 2002 i ...
• 19 January 2006
  AFRICA/GABON - “Dialogue has always been the basis for resolving conflict” say Catholic Bishops of Gabon after recent incidents of violence Libreville (Fides Service)- “In our traditional society dialogue has always been the basis for resolving conflict. This is true also in modern society” the Catholic Bishops of Gabon affirm in a message addressed to � ...
• 19 January 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic SAR News concerned that February Hindu rally in Gujarat may turn into an anti-Christian campaign New Delhi (Fides Service) - The news site of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India SAR News has expressed concern that an imminent gathering of Hindu militants in the western state of Gujarat may turn into an anti- ...
• 18 January 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe appoints new Rector of the Pontifical Korean College in Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 15 January appointed Rev. John Kim Jong-su of the archdiocesan diocese of Seoul. Rector of the Pon ...
• 18 January 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 50 years since first twinning between a French diocese and an African diocese archdiocese of Lyons in France and archdiocese of Koupéla Burkina Faso exchange official visits Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Representatives of 7 parishes of the archdiocese of Lyons in France twinned with 7 parishes in the archdiocese of Koupéla in Burkina Faso, are making a visit to their African twins 17 - 24 ...
• 18 January 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Delegation of religious men and women will investigate conditions in southern Sudan awaiting returning refugees in view of providing assistance Khartoum (Fides Service)- A delegation of religious men and women will make a fact finding visit to southern Sudan to investigate the situation in view of assisting returning refugees who fled to escape the civil war whi ...
• 18 January 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Vatican II: prospects for 3rd Millennium, International Congress on ecclesial event celebrated 40 years ago Lima (Fides Service) - Vatican II: prospects for 3rd Millennium is the title of an International Congress to be held 21 and 22 January at the Antonio Raimondi Auditorium in Lima, Peru. The Congress organised by the VE M ...
• 18 January 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Triple jubilee for archdiocese of Koupela: foundation, anniversary ordination first bishop and twinning with archdiocese of Lyons Koupela (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Koupela in Burkina Faso celebrated 21 and 22 January a triple 50th jubilee: foundation, anniversary of the ordination of the first bishop and twinning with the French archdioc ...