News

• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Intense prayer for the Pope all over China, great media attention Beijing (Fides Service) - From Beijing it was confirmed to Fides that all Chinese Catholics are concerned for the health of the Pope and that they are praying intensely for the Holy Father, asking the Lord to “grant li ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - The editor of the main Catholic publication Faith says Catholic communities all over China are praying for the Pope Shi Jia Zhuang (Fides Service) - Rev. Zhang Shi Jiang, editor of Faith magazine, the most widely read Catholic publication in China, told Fides that since the news of the Pope ailing condition was released Catholic clerg ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic prisoners in the National Penitentiary in Manila keep vigil for the Pope with fasting, Way of the Cross, non stop prayers Manila (Fides Service) - Catholic prisoners at the National Penitentiary in Manila fasted and took part in a Stations of the Cross liturgy to ask God to comfort the Pope at this time, the Catholic prison chaplain Rev. Ro ...
• 1 April 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda’s sick Catholics in hospitals and at home unite in prayer to sustain the Holy Father Lachor (Fides Service) - At St. Mary’s Hospital di Lachor Catholic patients pray intensely for Pope John Paul II at this difficult moment. The sick, in hospital and at home united now more than ever with the ailing and ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - “His illness, suffering and old age, make him loved and venerated just as he is”, Catholics in Thai hospitals pray for Pope John Paul II Rayong (Fides Service) - Patients and staff in Catholic hospitals in Thailand are praying for the Pope. In this country Catholics care above all for people with AIDS and for AIDS orphans. The sick at the small Camillian ...
• 1 April 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - All Kenya is close to Pope John Paul II Nairobi (Fides Service) - “Christians in Kenya are close to the Pope with their prayers” Father Eugenio Ferrari, IMC, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya told Fides. “The Holy Father is l ...
• 1 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Camillians pray to the patron of the sick St Camillus de Lellis to intercede for the health of Pope John Paul II Rome (Fides Service) - Patients and staff in Camillian hospitals and clinics all over the world are praying to St Camillus de Lellis their founder to intercede for the health of the Pope. Saint Camillus is the patron sai ...
• 1 April 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Poor people, sick and dying at the Catholic Camillian hospital in Ouagadougou suffer and pray with and for the Pope Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Terminally AIDS patients at the Camillian hospital in Ouagadougou are deeply concerned for the Pope and assure him their sympathy and prayers. (AP) (1/4/2005 Agenzia Fides; Righe:8; Parole: ...
• 1 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - S. Egidio community prays for the Pope: 8.30 prayer vigil at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere Rome (Fides Service) - The S. Egidio community is particularly close to the Pope, John Paul II. Today Friday 1 April, the community’s regular evening prayer at 8.30 pm at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere will ...
• 1 April 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “We have prayed for the Holy Father non stop” says a missionary in Madagascar Antananarivo (Fides)- “Ever since the Pope was admitted to hospital the first time in February, the entire diocese of Antananarivo has prayed for the Pope unceasingly” Italian missionary Fr Cosimo Alvati, director of ...
• 1 April 2005
  EUROPA/ALBANIA - Terminally ill patients, poor families and disabled people pray for the Pope Tirana (Fides Service) - Quiet and constant prayer is the strength of the Missionaries of Charity in Albania who care for the terminally ill, the elderly and the outcasts from society. Their prayers and those of the peop ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - The poorest of the poor offer their suffering to God for the Holy Father Calcutta (Fides Service) - At Nirmal Hriday “Home of the Pure in Heart” in Calcutta, opened by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, her Sisters the Missionaries of Charity and the “poorest of the poor” and the dying whom ...
• 1 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 15,110 Salesian Sisters all over the world pray for Pope John Paul II “father-mother, friend, courageous and gentle protector of the defenceless, especially concerned for the weaker members of society” Rome (Fides Service) - Sr Yvonne Reungoat, Mother General of the Salesian Sisters, the Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix, sent a message to each of the 1,535 communities in the world addressed to each and all of the 15,110 S ...
• 1 April 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Please God make the Pope get better!” kindergarten children pray with teachers Mocoa-Sibundoy (Fides Service) - Every day at the same time children at Mocoa-Sibundoy kindergarten go to the school chapel to say a special prayer to God the Father. Since the Pope was first admitted to hospital the chi ...
• 1 April 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Metropolitan Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II on 19 March 2005 appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore (India) Bishop Malayappan Chinnappa SDB relieving him of the pastoral government of ...