News

• 24 May 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Sixty per cent of the country’s healthcare centres are Catholic hospitals” says Bishop of Kisantu in south west Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “If we love our people we must not allow the sale of medicine which is out of date, counterfeit or too costly” said the Catholic Bishop Fidèle Nsielele of Kisantu in an interview with a loc ...
• 23 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Sunday reflection at the Angelus: “God is not solitude, but perfect communion. This is why the human person, the image of God, is realised through love, sincere gift of self ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The words which summarise all revelation are these: ‘God is love’ (1 Jn 4,8.16); and love is always a mystery, a reality which goes beyond reason although without contradicting it, ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Guests are a blessing”: Days of Encounter in dioceses all over Germany will open 20th World Youth Day Cologne (Fides Service) -Young people all over the world are invited to take part in the 20th World Youth Day to be held in Cologne Germany from 11 to 21 August with the theme “We have come to adore Him” (Mt 2,2). Ab ...
• 23 May 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Intense Course in Missiology in Caracas in September will “animate and form local Churches to assume their missionary responsibility starting from the originality of the Venezuelan ecclesial experience” Caracas (Fides Service) - A Course in Missiology organised by the National Mission Council of Venezuela will be held in Caracas in September 12 to 16. In a report to Fides Fr José Rafael Villalobos Araujo, DEMIS-SPEV na ...
• 23 May 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Solemn Corpus Christ procession in Hong Kong will culminate with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction at a Home for the elderly Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong will preside the solemn Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi on Sunday 29 May, followed by the traditional procession with the Blessed Sacrament through the str ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE - “Meeting emergencies, protecting human rights, building peace: new President of Caritas Internationalis illustrates priorities Paris (Fides Service) - “We intend to extend our action to meet emergency needs anywhere in the world: today our attention is on Darfur, Sudan and tsunami affected areas in east Asia”, said Denis Viénot, new Presid ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Professionals Pro-ethics Memorandum: every adopted child has the right to have a female parent and a male parent, to belong to a family as similar as possible to the natural family and not to be exposed to traumatic experiments Madrid (Fides Service) - In response to the Spanish government’s proposal to amend the country’s Civil Code to allow children to be adopted by same-sex couples the Spanish Association of Professionals Pro-ethics issu ...
• 23 May 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - There is new hope in western Côte d'Ivoire but the spectre of ethnic war is still there Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The situation is improving every day. Basic services are beginning to work again and state administration has resumed” Capuchin Fathers in the diocese of Man told Fides. “Our mission is ...
• 23 May 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - The rich North is like the ‘rich man’ but ‘Lazarus’ Africa deserves real aid not scraps. Bishops of Kenya Letter Pastoral on external debts of poor countries Nairobi (Fides Service)- “Kenyan debt is the cause of oppression, of poverty, we dare say of neo-modern slavery” the Catholic Bishops of Kenya said in a Pastoral Letter “On the Burden of International Debt” date ...
• 23 May 2005
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Kuala Lumpur diocese celebrates 50th anniversary: “Harmony through reconciliation” Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - Today is an important day for Catholics in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, the community is celebrating two major events, the 50th anniversary of the diocese established 25 February 1955 ...
• 23 May 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - 5,000 young Catholics of Sydney receive the sacrament of Confirmation amidst jubilant crowds evoking memories of the Holy Year 2000 Sydney (Fides Service) - Local media gave ample coverage to a “great spiritual and social event” a solemn Mass during which 5,000 children of the archdiocese of Sydney received the Sacrament of Confirmation in the pr ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Although 28% lower than ten years ago, the poverty rate in Republic di Guyana is still high particularly in rural areas, minister of health tells General Assembly of the World Health Organisation Rome (Fides Service) - The annual assembly of the World Health Organisation WHO will close on 25 May. One of the emerging questions was the budget of the health ministry in the central American Republic of Guyana. Rece ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Papal Envoy Cardinal Ruini, opens 24th National Eucharistic Congress: “the Eucharist is the heart of the Church, nourishment for every individual member” Bari (Fides Service) - “It is precisely in the Most Holy Eucharist, in the Mass we are celebrating at this moment and in every Mass all over the world that the mystery of God, three in one, is made present for us, is g ...
• 21 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 24th National Eucharistic Congress opens this evening in Bari: “We cannot live without Sunday”. 29 May closing Mass presided by Benedict XVI Bari (Fides Service) - At 5pm this afternoon, Saturday 21 May in Bari, the 24 Italian National Eucharistic Congress will be officially opened by the Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto Mgr Francesco Cacucci who will welcome the ...
• 21 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Thousands of people accompanied by 52 Bishops make pilgrimage to Saragozza to re-consecrate the country to the care of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in this Year of the Immaculate Mary in Spain Saragozza (Fides Service) - Thousands of Catholics from all over Spain accompanied by 51 Spanish Bishops and the Pope’s representative in Spain, Papal Nuncio Archbishop Manuel Monteiro di Castro, are making a pilgrimag ...