News

• 11 November 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Catholic Bishops of Angola “celebrate with joy the 30th anniversary of independence” Luanda (Fides Service) -“Gathered in Luanda for our second plenary assembly this year, on 11 November National Independence Day we too celebrate with joy the 30th anniversary of the independence of Angola” the countr ...
• 11 November 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Caritas India opens new internet site entirely dedicated the tsunami disaster a year on: situation, updates, reflections New Delhi (Fides Service) - A year on from the tragic seaquake in southern Asia on 26 December 2004, Caritas India has opened a special web site dedicated entirely to the tsunami http://www.caritastsunamirelief.com. The ...
• 11 November 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux will cross Côte d'Ivoire divided by civil war Abidjan ( Fides Service) - Early next year, 15 February to 30 April 2006, under the banner of peace and harmony the relics of the Saint Therese of Lisieux will cross Côte d'Ivoire torn in two by civil war. The news was ...
• 11 November 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - 30 years of independence 27 marred by civil war Rome (Fides Service) - 27 years of civil war in Angola between the government and UNITA rebels left deep scars on the country. The war which exploded in 1975 and ended in 2002 left over 600,000 people dead and over four ...
• 11 November 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Poverty and terrorism: open questions in eastern Indonesia islands Sulawesi and Moluccas - Islamic militants training camps discovered Ambon (Fides Service) - Increasing poverty and the return of the terrorism nightmare are two major problems to which civil and religious authorities in the eastern Indonesian islands of Sulawesi and Moluccas are giving p ...
• 11 November 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Liberia is the first African country to elect a women President Monrovia (Fides Service) - Liberia is the first African country to elect a women head of state. The new President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won 59.1 % of the votes in a second round of presidential elections, (see Fides 8 ...
• 11 November 2005
  AFRICA - Although polio outbreaks are still possible the disease has been eradicated in 10 countries in central and west Africa Rome (Fides Service) - Since 1988, efforts to eradicate polio has reduced the number of cases by over 99%, from 350,000 in 1988 to 1,469 in 2005. Public health experts confirm that serious outbreaks of polio in 10 Afric ...
• 11 November 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Build good relations for social harmony: inter-religious Seminar at Griffith University Brisbane Brisbane (Fides Service) - It is necessary to work harder to improve inter-religious relations in Australia to build better coexistence and increase social harmony : on the basis of this conviction on 19 and 20 November ...
• 10 November 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - S. Egidio Community hosts meeting of Togo Government and opposition delegates in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- At the invitation of the Rome based S. Egidio Community and following a meeting on 21 July between the President of Togo Faure Gnassingbe and the national leader of the Union of Forces for Change G ...
• 10 November 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Chia Yi diocese starts Sunday School for children Chia Yi (Fides) - Children are the future and Catholic children need sound religious formation with the help of parents, teachers and catechists if they are to fulfil the mission which awaits them. According to Tai Pei d ...
• 10 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Society of Jesus: Situation, problems and initiatives, focus of Superiors Major meeting in Loyola 26 November Rome (Fides Service) - Major Superiors of the Society of Jesus will meet 26 November to 3 December in Loyola Spain to reflect on situations, problems and initiatives of the Society all over the world and to draft, after ...
• 10 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops in southern Spain denounce educational problems in proposed Organic Education Law: so far parents demands have been completely ignored Cordova (Fides Service) - Support for the 12 November protest in Madrid against a proposed LOE Organic Education Law has come also from the Catholic Bishops of southern Spain who issued a statement expressing “serious ...
• 10 November 2005
  ASIA/JORDAN - “We are faced with the extension of the attacks perpetrated in Iraq” says Papal Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq Amman (Fides Service)- “We are faced with the extension of the attacks perpetrated in Iraq which now involve other neighbouring countries threatening to disrupt the peaceful existence of these peoples” Archbishop Fer ...
• 10 November 2005
  VATICAN - Sunday in St Peter’s beatification of Charles de Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, November 13, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican Bas ...
• 10 November 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angola celebrates 30 years of independence with inauguration of Capanda Power Station which will provide 520 megawatts for development Luanda (Fides Service)- Angola, at the moment one of the poorest African countries but potentially very rich, stands to benefit enormously from a new hydro electrical power station under construction on the River Cuanza ...