News

• 30 May 2005
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope appoints Bishop Coadjutor of Okigwe Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 28 May 2005 appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Okigwe (Nigeria) Bishop Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu transferring him from the titular see of Sabr ...
• 30 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Benedict XVI closes 24th Italian National Eucharistic Congress: “The one and the same Christ is present in the Eucharistic Bread everywhere in the world. This means we cannot encounter him alone without all the others. We can only receive him in unity. The consequence is clear: we cannot communicate with the Lord unless we communicate among ourselves” Bari (Fides Service) - “I wanted to be here with you today to celebrate with particular emphasis the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and so pay homage to Christ in the Sacrament of his love and at the same time to strength ...
• 30 May 2005
  VATICAN - "The Church will never stop saying that marriage and the family are part of God’s plan and nothing can replace them or act as a substitute for them": The Pope confirms the convocation of 5th World Meeting of Families in Spain in 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed the convocation of the 5th World Meeting for Families promoted by the Catholic Church to be held in the first week in July 2006 in Valencia Spain with the th ...
• 30 May 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Premier’s Party declared winner of May 15 elections. But Opposition says battle is not over Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The political situation in Ethiopia remains uncertain after the independent electoral commission announced that the May 15 elections had been won by the Party led by Prime Minister Meles Zen ...
• 30 May 2005
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Radio, a channel for ‘understanding among peoples’; youth formation seminar: Catholic radio network can strengthen national unity Honiara (Fides Service) - Using radio to communicate and promote understanding among peoples and cultures, dialogue and sharing. This was the theme of a seminar for youth hosted by Solomon Islands Broadcasting Company S ...
• 30 May 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - There exists a sort of “international club” which aims to promote social aberrations, hedonist sex as a life style, a new sort of feminism which fails to realise that maternity is God’s most valuable gift to women and upholds homosexuality as a sexual option: Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima interviewed by Fides Lima (Fides Service) - In view of repeated attempts by certain Latin American governments to approve laws which attack human life and the family, Fides asked the opinion of Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop ...
• 30 May 2005
  VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children’s ‘Happy Hospital’: Special anaesthetics and operating theatre Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The child has a right to the least invasive and least painful means of diagnosis and therapy” according to article 8 of the Charter of Patient’s Rights at the Bambino Gesù Children� ...
• 30 May 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - While in Zimbabwe the grip of hunger is ever tighter, the government invests in modern technology to close communications frontiers. The opposition calls for solidarity denouncing vexation and violence against the poor. Neighbour countries increasingly affected by food crisis Harare (Fides Service)- “Make war on poverty rather than on the poor” said representatives of the Christian Churches in Zimbabwe in an appeal in which they joined the opposition and civil society in calling on the go ...
• 30 May 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - UNICEF starts building 200 new schools for 40,000 children in tsunami affected areas Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - UNICEF in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration IOM has started a programme to put in place 200 new temporary primary schools in areas around Aceh most seriously af ...
• 30 May 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - RSS (Hindu fundamentalism): 300,000 training schools, 10 million members, 100 million supporters. One of 39 centres of terror listed by Terrorism Research Centre in Virginia USA New Delhi (Fides Service) - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS (National Volunteers Corps) is a movement notorious for anti Christian and anti Muslim violence in India. A fundamentalist Hindu organisation which promotes wit ...
• 28 May 2005
  AFRICA/NIGER - Many more than 4 million lives at stake. Drought and locusts bring on serious food shortage. Niamey diocese calls for help and solidarity Niamey (Fides Service)- “The situation is more desperate that anyone could imagine and it threatens to become a catastrophe before the world realise what is happening” Fides Mgr Laurent Lompo from Niamey diocese in N ...
• 28 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope receives Burundian Bishops on ad Limina visit: “announce the Gospel and heal memory and hearts, foster solidarity among all Burundians and ban all spirit of revenge and resentment, encourage forgiveness and reconciliation”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI received in audience a group of Bishops of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi on the occasion of their five-yearly ad limina visit ...
• 28 May 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “For 45 years and the last 15 in particular the people of Congo have suffered because of civil war and serious disorder. We call for violence to stop from which ever side it comes” says President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We call on those responsible to stop all violence” said Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Democratic Congo, calling on the ...
• 28 May 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New Korean translation of the Bible Seoul (Fides Service) - The imminent circulation of a new Korean translation of the Bible in early June, a campaign on bio-ethical matters on the occasion of the Day for Life (29 May) and the opening of the diocesan stag ...
• 28 May 2005
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Chamber of Deputies rejects national plan which goes against life and the family; success for Ecumenical Demonstration which called on legislators to reflect before approving laws contrary to life Asuncion (Fides Service) - With 57 votes out of 66, Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposed “National programme for the prevention of punishable crimes against sexual autonomy and minors and assistance to ...