News

• 2 April 2005
  ASIA/NEPAL - In Nepal many Catholics pray for the Pope throughout the night: Apostolic Pro Prefect told Fides: although they have never seen him in person, the people of Nepal show great affection for the Pope Rome (Fides Service) - “The tiny Catholic community in Nepal is watching anxiously for news of the Pope. Clergy, religious and laity are praying non stop”: Rev. Pius Perumana, Apostolic Pro Prefect of Nepal. “Ca ...
• 2 April 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholics, other Christians and people of good will are watching the news and accompanying the Pope with their prayers Sydney (Fides Service) - In Australia believers and non believers are watching and waiting as Pope John Paul II clings to life. All eyes are on Rome and St Peter’s. Fides sources in Sydney say many churches remained op ...
• 2 April 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Catholics in Guinea Bissau shed tears as they pray for the Pope Bissau (Fides Service)- “Yesterday the church was filled with people who had come to pray for the Pope and I saw many faces lined with tears” said Italian PIME missionary Father Dioniso Ferraro, parish priest at Our ...
• 2 April 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “As soon as the news was given that the Pope’s condition had become critical the town ground to a halt” a missionary in Bukavu told Fides Bukavu (Fides Service)- “The whole town has been praying for the Pope since yesterday. In church people recite the rosary and take part in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Young members of movements, for example Cat ...
• 2 April 2005
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - Orthodox Bishop Alexander of Baku, assures prayers for the Pope Baku (Fides Service) - Fr Jan Kapla Superior of Baku Catholic Mission in Azerbaijan told Fides that local Orthodox Bishop Alexander was among the many people who have been inquiring about the Pope’s health. He said the ...
• 2 April 2005
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - “This tiny Catholic community in Azerbaijan is spiritually close beside the Holy Father”, says Rev. Jan Kapla, Superior of the Catholic Mission of Baku Baku (Fides Service) - A tiny community of Catholics in Baku on the banks of the Caspian Sea, in the impervious region of the Caucuses has its heart in Rome around dying Pope John Paul II. “Yesterday evening we offered ...
• 2 April 2005
  VATICAN - John Paul II pilgrim to the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow, Poland, near the burial place of Saint Faustina Kowalska: “From here went forth the Message of Divine Mercy which Christ himself wished to transmit to our generation through Blessed Faustina” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The mercies of the Lord I will sing forever (Cf. Ps 89,2). I come to this sanctuary as a pilgrim to join in uninterrupted chant in honour of the Divine Mercy. The Psalmist of the Lord had ...
• 2 April 2005
  VATICAN - Devotion to the Divine Mercy Vatican City (Fides Service) - The forms of worship of the Divine Mercy transmitted through Blessed Sister Faustina by John Paul II are the following: - the image of the Merciful Jesus; - the little rosary of the ...
• 2 April 2005
  VATICAN - John Paul II and the message of Divine Mercy Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow, the second Sunday of Easter, we celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy. In the Year of the Eucharist the offering to God of the life of John Paul II takes on particular light. It ca ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The Pope creates Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan and appoints first Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II on 1 April 2005 raised the Mission sui iuris of Uzbekistan to the rank of the Apostolic Administration and appointed first Apostolic Administrator Rev. Fat ...
• 1 April 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - A ‘Hail Mary’ for the Pope on the lips of an Italian missionary working among 1.5 million refugees in northern Uganda Kitgum (Fides Service)- “Pray for us now and at the hour of our death”, Father Tarcisio Pazzaglia, Italian missionary in northern Uganda prays instinctively as he learns from Fides the critical situation of the Pope� ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Thousands of Catholics especially Manila’s poor and outcast fill churches to pray for ailing Pope Manila (Fides Service) - Thousands of Catholics, mostly the poorest and most neglected citizens are flocking to the capital’s churches to pray for the Pope amidst anguished silence. Manila Cathedral has been crowded si ...
• 1 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Messages of love and sympathy for the Pope come from JP II’s young people “papaboys” all over the world: “We his “boys and girls”, are close to him, we love him, he belongs to us” Rome (Fides Service) - Many spent the night in prayer, rosary beads in hand, in St Peter’s Square or at home. Others are connected to the Internet in search of the latest news and to acknowledge message of love and sym ...
• 1 April 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Refugees in Cape Town pray for the Pope Cape Town (Fides Service)- “I informed my parishioners about the critical situation of the Pope’s health and we started to pray for him at this difficult time in his life” Scalabrini missionary Father Mario who wor ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - At Xaverian missions the sick, the disabled, volunteers, charismatic Catholics all pray for the Pope Dacca (Fides Service) - From one of the poorest countries in the world there rises a pray to Almighty God for the Holy Father. At the mission run by the Xaverian Fathers in Dacca charismatic Catholics are gathered in pra ...