News

• 23 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Kidney dialysis and transplant Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital: in 12 years 130 operations and programmes for social reinsertion Rome (Fides Service) - In 12 years 130 children of different ages with serious kidney trouble have resumed normal life thanks to transplants performed by doctors at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. Since this ...
• 23 July 2005
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Council of European Bishops' Conferences in Zagreb examines Europe, Ecumenism and Dialogue with Islam of Meeting Zagabria (Fides Service) - The Presidency of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), the body comprising the continent’s 34 Conferences, met in Zagreb from 17-21 July. The CCEE Presidency planned the CCEE ...
• 22 July 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 22 April 2005 confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Argentina for ...
• 22 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Young people are not indifferent to the Gospel they realise it helps them mature in their human experience which is a call to happiness in Christ. This Summer almost 11,000 young men and women will take part in annual mission initiatives or travel to mission countries” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Fides Service) - At this difficult time Spain must be more united in efforts to regenerate society. We must “rediscover the meaning of life lifting our eyes to see what transcends life while keeping our feet on ...
• 22 July 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Operation Restore Order: German Bishops express solidarity with the poor of Zimbabwe in a letter addressed to the Catholic Bishops Conference of Zimbawe Harare (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Germany have written to the Bishops of Zimbabwe expressing deep concern for the plight of the people affected by the recent Operation Restore Order (see Fides May 30, 2005 ...
• 22 July 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - President of Togo and main Opposition leader reach agreement in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- Thanks to the intervention of the social activist S. Egidio Community based in Rome, the President of Togo and the main oppostion leader have agreed to work together to further to process of the cou ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The mission of women to meet the challenges of the 21st century: East Asian Meeting on Women Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The role of women to meet the challenges of the 21st century will be the theme of an East Asian Meeting on Women promoted by the Office of Laity Women’s Desk of the FABC (Federation of Asian ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Honorary citizenship awarded to 8 missionaries of the Sisters of Mary of the Holy Cross on the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first four women religious from Europe Tai Tung (Fides Service) - “They love Taiwan as if it were home and they have spent the best years of their life, some 20 and some 40 years, serving the people of Taiwan” This was the motivation for the honorary citi ...
• 22 July 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - About 12,000 young people will attend 10th Youth Meeting organised by Charismatic Renewal Movement in the archdiocese of Guadalajara Guadalajara (Fides Service) - “See how he loves you!” is the slogan chosen for the 10th Youth Meeting organised by Charismatic Renewal movement in the archdiocese of Guadalajara on Saturday 23 July and Sunday 24 July ...
• 22 July 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Strike the demand and create programmes to reinsert victims of sexual exploitation: video conference at US Embaasy in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- On July 21 during a conference on “Supply and demand: Behind the Business of Trafficking in Persons” the director of the US State Deparment’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Tajikistan Catholic mission organises Summer activities for children and young people: camps and excursion are opportunities for evangelisation and education to human and spiritual values Dushanbe (Fides Service) - Pastoral work in the Summer for the Catholic mission in Tajikistan does not take a holiday indeed it is even more intense. Besides routine pastoral activities the four Incarnate Word Missionari ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope creates new diocese of Jaipur and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedic XVI on 20 July 2005 created the diocese of Jaipur (India) with territory taken from the diocese of Ajmer-Jaipur making it suffragan of the Metropolitan See of ...
• 21 July 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Undeterred by an attack in the sacresty Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso new Administrator Apostolic of Cabinda assures Fides: “I will stay and carry on the task entrusted to me by the Church” Cabinda (Fides Service)- “I am still alive although I was struck violently on the head several times but without serious consequences thank God” Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso of Saurimo in northern Angola, who is also Adm ...
• 21 July 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Indigenous Leadership in the Christian Vision”: Meeting for Indigenous Peoples and Missionaries in November Caracas (Fides Service) - The Commission for Missions of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela has convoked the 4th National Meeting for Indigenous Peoples and Missionaries on the theme “Indigenous Leadership ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Catholic Bishops defend freedom of religion and human rights threatened by proposed anti-conversion laws: concern after the attack on Holy Cross church in Anuradhapura diocese Colombo (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka are profoundly concerned about a spreading anti-Christian movement among extremists groups of the the Buddhist majority and two prosposed laws which represent a ...