News

• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sixty years since the death of Father Pfeiffer Salvatorian Fathers open “On Mission in Rome” Exhibition to commemorate the Catholic priest who saved hundreds of lives during Nazi occupation Rome (Fides Service) - To mark the 60th anniversary of the death of German born Fr Pancratius Pfeiffer (12 May 1945), the Society of the Divine Saviour of which he was a member has opened an exhibition in Rome in Via del ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital and Umana Mente Foundation join forces to fight autism, violence against minors and food behaviour disturbances. Since 1999 over 25,000 calls for help to “Girasole 2” project Rome (Fides Service) - An operative nucleus operative 24 hours a day faces the spreading phenomenon of physical and psychological abuse and violence against minors very often at home. They are the experts of the Girasole ...
• 12 May 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Flourishing Catholic community in the province of Yunan with the highest number of different ethnic groups Beijing (Fides Service) - In the south western mainland China province of Yunan, which has borders with Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos, people of 52 different ethnic groups make up 33.4% of the population. The Catholic Chur ...
• 11 May 2005
  AFRICA/GABON - 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 5 May 2005 confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Gabon for ano ...
• 11 May 2005
  AFRICA/SAN TOME’ Y PRINCIPE - Outbreak of cholera could strike 50 per cent of the population on the Island of San Tomé Rome (Fides Service) - An outbreak of cholera in San Tomé y Príncipe threatens to strike 80 per cent of the entire population. Three weeks since the virus was identified at least 131 people have been infected and thre ...
• 11 May 2005
  VATICAN - Wednesday Audience: the Pope continues teaching on Psalms and Canticles “Nations must learn to 'read' in history a message from God. The human adventure is not confused and meaningless … it is possible to discern God’s hidden intervention in history” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “History is not in the hands of dark forces, of chance, or of merely human choices," "The Lord, supreme arbiter of historical events, rises above the discharge of evil energies, the vehem ...
• 11 May 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Reconciling hearts after years of civil war: Jesuit Refugee Service programme for refugees in southern Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service)- Educate to peace to facilitate the return of refugees to their own country. This is the objective of a programme started by the Jesuit Refugee Service JRS, working in refugee camps in southern S ...
• 11 May 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - “Christians should not remain silent in front of the contemporary tendencies of some modern secularised states that try to impose on their people standards and values which are foreign to them, they should not give up witnessing to the values of the Gospel ” the highest authority of the Orthodox Church of Greece His Beatitude Christodoulos said at the 13th WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism Athens (Fides Service) - The highest authority of the Orthodox Church of Greece His Beatitude Christodoulos Archbishop of Athens and all Greece in his address to more than 700 participants and the Conference on World Mis ...
• 11 May 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Is Congo’s copper behind return of the Katanga Gendarmes? Lubumbashi (Fides Service)- “The events need still to be deciphered but from what has been said this was in actual fact an insurrection to overturn the nation’s political situation by detaching Katanga from the rest ...
• 11 May 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - 84 trees planted in Gujarat in memory of Pope John Paul II tireless promoter of peace and harmony among religions Gandhinagar (Fides Service) - To pay tribute to the late Pope John Paul II, a religious leader dedicated to promoting peace in the world and dialogue among religions, Gujarat state - in the past in the news for Hindu ext ...
• 11 May 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - At National Mission Congress closing ceremony Maya k´iche catechists receive papal award for their work of evangelisation among their people Quetzaltenango (Fides Service) - At the end of a solemn Mass to close the 2nd National Mission Congress in Guatemala held at the Mario Camposeco sports ground in Quezaltenago on Sunday 8 May with the participation of som ...
• 11 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - It is necessary to make people realise that “we are all missionaries” children especially, who are “the missionaries of tomorrow” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - While the annual general assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies is being held in Lyon, France, we publish an interview with the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spa ...
• 11 May 2005
  ASIA/YEMEN - Polio epidemic spreading: World Health Organisation sends 6 million doses of vaccine for Yemen’s children Rome (Fides Service) - The epidemic of poliomyelitis which has already affected 41 children in Yemen is spreading and the World Health Organisation has sent six million doses of vaccine to immunise the country’s childr ...
• 11 May 2005
  ASIA/JAPAN - Eliminate tension, promote reconciliation in the light of truth: young Japanese and Koreans meet to build peace and understanding between the two nations Tokyo (Fides Service) - After the horrors of war which led to hatred and enmity between Japan and Korea, young people from both sides are determined to build peace and good relations between their countries. For some ye ...
• 11 May 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - Tension reigns under apparent calm. New details on militia groups and their ‘death squads’ Lome (Fides Service)- “The situation is relatively tranquil but under the ashes their is still the fire of repression and revolt” said local sources in Lomé, capital of Togo, living a serious crisis since the electi ...