News

• 18 March 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Our Lady of Fatima Centre opens new paediatric ward: 12 beds for HIV+ children Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Our Lady of Fatima medical centre where Camillian Fathers care for terminally ill AIDS patients, many often abandoned and excluded, is extending its activity to help an increasing number of ...
• 18 March 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - World Food Programme warns it has not enough food supplies for the estimated about 5.5 million people in need of food aid in 2005 Rome - (Fides Service) - The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that many poor people in various parts of Sudan may soon be without food because of two reasons, poor cereal harvest and rising prices of basic ...
• 18 March 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Every 15 minutes a child dies of AIDS, one out of every 8 babies dies at birth. Precarious health structures: food shortage threatens more than 55% of the country’s 12 million people Rome (Fides Service) - Every 15 minutes in Zimbabwe a child dies of AIDS. According to UNICEF since 1990 the mortality rate among children under 5 has increased by 50% and one out of every 8 babies dies at birth. A UNIC ...
• 18 March 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics very devoted to Saint Joseph the saint of humility, Patron Saint of China Beijing (Fides Service) - Catholics in China have always been deeply devoted to St Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St Joseph is the patron of China and March 19th his feast day is always a great celebration. A ...
• 18 March 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New translation of the Bible, a statement on bio-ethics: fruits of Assembly of Korean Bishops Seoul (Fides Service) - During a recent meeting in Seoul the Catholic Bishops of Korea approved a new Korean translation of the Bible, a new handbook on Catechetics, and discussed the celebration of the Day of Prayer and ...
• 18 March 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - Boys and girls sold as slaves: hidden scourge in Togo militarised with technical support for North Korea Lome (Agenzia Fides)- “The army must step to one side, it must no longer be the main factor in political life in Togo” a local source told Fides with regard to the present situation in this African country, in a seri ...
• 17 March 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - "FamilyFest 2005": series of International of Family Congresses to connect 120 world cities will highlight families striving to live the Gospel and the family’s important role for the development of humanity Rome(Fides Service) - Toronto, Tokyo, Teheran, Jerusalem, Krasnojarsk (Siberia), Johannesburg, Melbourne, Algiers, Nairobi, Zagreb are among the 120 cities which will be involved in the next "Family-Fest", on 16 April fo ...
• 17 March 2005
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “Eucharist sign of unity and bond of Charity”: Lenten Message in the Year of the Eucharist. “The Family of God must always be a community which grows in the one spirit united in the one bond of love” Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service) - The Eucharist as a sign of unity and bond of charity was the theme of a Lenten Message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Tanzania in this Year of the Eucharist in which the Bishops call on ...
• 17 March 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Portuguese Missionários dà Boa Nova celebrate 75th anniversary. “The activity of the laity in the Church is very important today and so we aim to involve more and more lay persons in missionary work” Superior General Fr. Antonio José da Rocha Couto speaks with Fides Vatican City (Fides Service) - This year the Portuguese Society for Missions (Missionários dà Boa Nova) founded 3 October 1930, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. As part of celebrations, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, P ...
• 17 March 2005
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Climate of tension in Central Africa waiting for results of first round of presidential and legislative elections Bangui (Fides Service)- “The Central African Republic is in a climate of tension waiting for the results of the first round of legislative and presidential elections”, a local source in the capital Bangui, told Fide ...
• 17 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian violence: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announces a speech to Parliament and a letter to the leaders of the states of the federation asking them to take suitable measures New Delhi (Fides Service) - A speech to raise the problem in front of parliament and an official letter to the chief minister of every state of the Indian Federation: these measures were announced by India’s Prime Mini ...
• 17 March 2005
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - 10,000 young people for a national meeting for World Youth Day, in former separatist region Casamance. “a meeting under the banner of peace” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Dakar (Fides Service)- “Ziguinchor, main city of Casamance, was chosen to give a clear signal of support for peace” Fr Giuseppe Giordano, OMI, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Senegal and Maur ...
• 17 March 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Foreigners and NGOs must not leave Aceh we need them to help with reconstruction”: tsunami refugees fear they will be alone to fend for themselves Aceh (Fides Service) - If, almost three months after the tsunami in south east Asia, the actual emergency stage has ended, now greater international efforts are needed for reconstruction and the resettlement of refugees. ...
• 17 March 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The challenges of Justice Peace in Asia: missionaries, religious and lay people operating in Catholic communities all over the continent focus on human rights Lahore (Fides Service) - Democracy, sustainable development, impact of the tsunami, refugees human rights, religious fundamentalism were the main topics at the 6th Work Shop for Justice and Peace Operators in Asia held ...
• 16 March 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes between Somali clans in Kenya: at least 28 killed. At the root, a fight over meagre water resources in arid region Nairobi (Fides Service) - These sort of clashes happen all the time in Somalia, only this one was in Kenya” Fr Eugenio Ferrari, IMC, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya told Fides with regard ...