News

• 28 June 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Little girl of 4 is first to die of Dengue fever in a recent outbreak in the north of the country Rome (Fides Service) - The health authorities in northern Colombia are on the alert after at least 57 people have been infected and one person died in an outbreak of Dengue haemorrhagic fever carried by infected mosquito ...
• 28 June 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Alarm for spread of TB: 11,600 new cases every year Rome (Fides Service) -In Colombia an average 11,600 new cases of TB are registered every year but it is feared that the number may rise because of co-infection with other diseases and the lack of rapid diagnosis. Tuberc ...
• 28 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Spirituality Day for Catechists in the Year of the Eucharist” to encourage deeper spiritual life Hong Kong (Fides Service) - On June 12 more than 250 catechists from different parishes in Hong Kong took part in a Day of Spirituality in the Year of the Eucharist organised by the Diocesan Centre for Catechesis at the ...
• 28 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Reasons why marriage and adoption should remain unchanged”: Hazteoir sends paper to Congress members in view of June 30 vote. “We trust that the fact that so many countries have not undertaken this sort of reform may provoke serious reflection” Madrid (Fides Service) - A paper with the title “Reasons why marriage and adoption cannot be changed” prepared by Hazteoir team of experts has been sent to members of Spain’s parliament in view of a second and fina ...
• 28 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Bihar Centre for inter-religious prayer and dialogue to promote friendship and co-operation among people of different faiths Vatican City (Fides Service) - Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Jainists are invited to use the same place of prayer in the state of Bihar, recently the scene of inter-religious violence. This is happening tha ...
• 28 June 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Yesterday’s strike was a sign of serious social unrest caused by widespread unemployment” Communications’ office of the Southern African Bishops’ Conference told Fides Johannesburg (Fides Service)- “Yesterday’s strike was a sign of serious social unrest and a situation which threatens to explode” Italian Comboni missionary Fr Efrem Tresoldi, communications officer of the SACBC (S ...
• 28 June 2005
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - “The Muslim authorities appreciate the Catholic community very committed in the field of education” Archbishop Paul Tschang In-Nam, papal nuncio in Bangladesh told Fides Vatican City (Fides Service) - The media usually only speak about Bangladesh when there is a natural disaster or for its sad primate in dire poverty and low position on the list of developed countries. But the papal nunc ...
• 27 June 2005
  The Pope’s missionary prayer intention for July 2005: “For the baptised all over the world: whatever their state of life may they be committed to transforming the world with the light of the Gospel”. Comment by Sr M. Antonieta Bruscato, Superior General Daughters of St Paul DSP Vatican City (Fides Service) - “"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (Jn 8.12). The theme of light emerges repeatedly in the Gospel but each tim ...
• 27 June 2005
  VATICAN - In the imminence of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul the Pope asks Our Lady Queen of the Apostles to watch over ‘the Church and her missionary activity all over the world’ and he encourages people to respect and protect life “also with correct and prudent behaviour on the roads” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Before reciting the Angelus prayer with pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square on Sunday 26 June, Pope Benedict XVI mentioned the imminent feast of Saint Peter and Paul: “We will soon c ...
• 27 June 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “My meeting with John Paul II”: as the Cause for the Beatification of Pope Wojtyla opens in Rome, thousands of Peruvians will remember and pay tribute to the late Pope Lima (Fides Service) - Tomorrow 28 June at Santa Ursula Education Centre in the capital Lima the Catholics of Peru, parishioners, members of church movements and fraternities, clergy, men and women religious, young peopl ...
• 27 June 2005
  ASIA/PILIPPINES - Manila prepares for funeral of Cardinal Jaime Sin “We have lost both a brother and a friend” Manila (Fides Service) - Thousands continue to visit Manila Cathedral to pay homage to the late Archbishop emeritus of the capital Cardinal Jaime Sin who died on 21 June. In the cathedral grieving Catholics pray as they ...
• 27 June 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The family of the local Church in Burkina welcomes new deacons including five Camillian Brothers Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - June 23 and 24 were important days for the family of the Church in Burkina, the local community of Camillian Brothers in particular. In fact those were the days chosen by the Superiors of ...
• 27 June 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Thursday June 30 another massive protest in favour of family rights: June 18 Pro-Family demonstrators will take to the streets again after the Premier refused their request to meet him Madrid (Fides Service ) - When on Thursday June 30 the Spanish Congress will take a second vote on the proposed law to give homosexual unions the same status as marriage, pro-family demonstrators who oppose the law will ...
• 27 June 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope tells Bishops of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands: “be courageous witnesses to Christ, vigilant in seeking new ways to teach the faith so that the power of the Gospel can permeate their way of thinking, standards of judgement, and norms of behaviour” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Jesus Christ continues to draw the peoples of your two island nations to a still deeper faith and life in him. As Bishops you respond to his voice by asking how the Church can become an ...
• 27 June 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomes G8 promise to cancel debts of poor countries Pretoria (Fides Service)- Commenting on the latest move by the G8 countries, the spokesperson for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference SACBC, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale said, “Debt cancellation is a respon ...