News

• 28 May 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bomb blasts in Sulawesi, tension in the Moluccas: Christians fear possible return of generalised violence Ambon (Fides Service) - There is growing concern among Christians in eastern Indonesia after recent bomb blasts and killings in Sulawesi and the Moluccas where people fear the return of civil war. A prospect which local ...
• 27 May 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Disabled artistes from China win Roman hearts and get a special blessing from the Pope Rome (Fides Service) - Disabled musicians and dancers from China who had a great success with a performance in Rome on May 23 received a special mention and blessing from Pope Benedict XVI during the weekly Wednesday aud ...
• 27 May 2005
  VATICAN - “The Corpus Christi procession responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lord: I am going before you to Galilee. Go out to the ends of the earth, carry the Gospel to the world.” The Pope says during Mass celebrated in front of the Cathedral of Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The procession on Holy Thursday accompanies Jesus in his solitude towards the "via crucis". The procession on Corpus Christi, instead responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lo ...
• 27 May 2005
  VATICAN - “Each year infectious diseases are responsible for the death of 17 million persons of whom 90 percent live in developing countries: Holy See delegation addresses 58th World Health Assembly Geneva (Fides Service) - “Unfortunately, illnesses, especially infectious ones, are ever more virulent in the poorest countries that, precisely because they are poor, do not have the resources to obtain medicine that, ...
• 27 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - To deny a child the right to have a mother and a father of different sexes is to violate an inalienable human right: Dr Belén Vendrell offers contribution to Fides Castellón (Fides Service) - “There are many types of injustice in this life but one of the most painful is the injustice which legitimates on behalf of society a proposal which violates the inalienable rights of the h ...
• 27 May 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Concern in Guinea Bissau after performances of former Presidents Kumba Yala and João Bernardo Viera Bissau (Fides Service)-“There is apparent calm, but tension remains” said local Church sources in Bissau, capital of Guinea Bissau where the reported occupation of the Presidential Residence by former president Kumba ...
• 27 May 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “The situation in Darfur has not improved, Janjaweed Arab militia raids on civilians continue” Laura Boldrini of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees told Fides Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Unfortunately the situation in Darfur has not improved” United Nations High Commission for Refugees spokesperson Laura Boldrini told Fides. “Armed incursions on civilians on the part of t ...
• 27 May 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - National Day For Life: Catholic Church in Korea condemns human cloning and recalls Evangelium Vitae encyclical ten years on Seoul (Fides Service) - Respect for life from the moment of conception, protect rights of human embryo which is not an object; no to the abhorrent practice of cloning which involves an attempt to take the place of God th ...
• 25 May 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - First case of polio since 1995: an 18 month old boy. The number of cases has since risen to 14 Rome (Fides Service) - The World Health Organisation has confirmed that another six children in Indonesia have polio and this brings the number of confirmed cases to 14 after a decade without any case of polio being regi ...
• 25 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - War is the main cause of persisting hunger in the world. Food Security Commission raises alarm Rome (Fides Service) - Devastating floods in Asia, severe drought in Africa, the greenhouse effect and progressive melting of half of the world’s glaciers are all threats to the world’s food situation, but war remain ...
• 25 May 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Year of the Eucharist - “New Evangelisation in a de-Christianised Europe can only be from the Eucharist and towards the Eucharist”: all-night adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Seville (Fides Service) - The Spanish association for all-night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, founded in Madrid in 1877, is present today in every diocese of the country with a total number of 1,500 sections and ci ...
• 25 May 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Year of the Eucharist:Corpus Christi may give new impulse to Catholic mission in Australia Sydney (Fides Service) - In Australia the 'Eucharist source of mission' is the theme of inspiration for various initiatives in view of the annual feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday 26 May which is particularly intense a ...
• 25 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope comments on Psalm 115: “The entire people of God, thank the Lord of life, Who never abandons the just in the dark bosom of pain and death, but leads then to hope and to life." Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the original Hebrew Psalm 115 forms one composition with the previous psalm 114. Both form a unitary act of thanksgiving to the Lord who frees us from the nightmare of death. In our ...
• 25 May 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Positive end to kidnapping in Mindanao: a bishop helped obtain release of sixteen women and children Manila (Fides Service) - The kidnapping and release of sixteen bus passengers yesterday in Zamboanga Sur in Mindanao southern Philippines which caused great alarm among the local people was happily concluded without any ...
• 25 May 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Year of the Eucharist: The Eucharist is fundamental, essential in the life of the missionary. It is like going to the source to be filled with that which we wish to offer to others Rome (Fides Service) - “The Eucharist is fundamental, essential in the life of the missionary. It is the most important moment for us, like going to the source to be filled with that which we wish to offer to others: t ...