News

• 11 March 2005
  VATICAN - In Mexico Cardinal Sepe addresses missionaries: “Revive the grace of your vocation and intensify, faithful to your original charisma, your path towards mission ad gentes. Prefer the most places most humble and arduous, to the far ends of the earth!” Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Institute of Santa Maria de Guadalupe for Foreign Missions in Mexico City hosted the last event on Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe’s brief pastoral visit to Mexico. Here, on Thursday 10 Marc ...
• 11 March 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We will continue”: after 57 of commitment and the present scarcity of mission resources, Basque dioceses opt to continue to support missions in Ecuador and Angola, because “for a diocese being missionary is not an option” Vitoria (Fides Service) - On Sunday March 13, the Basque dioceses of Spain will celebrate the traditional Day of Basque Diocesan Missions, an organisation present in the dioceses of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria, t ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/KOREA - 30.000 members of the Korean Catholic Health Association recently instituted with the support of the local Bishops’ Conference Rome (Fides Service) - It was approved in September 2004 during the general assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea under the aegis of the national Caritas and charged with the task of dealing with proble ...
• 11 March 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Human life is of sacred and inviolable value: any exception tends to consider it a good at our disposal, which can be negotiated, wounded, destroyed”: President of Brazilian Bishops’ Conference comments on Bio-Ethics Bill being discussed by parliament Brasilia (Fides Service) - Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Archbishop San Salvador de Bahia and President of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference, in an interview with the local press with regard to a proposed Bill on B ...
• 11 March 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Everywhere on the Continent profound cultural and religious changes are taking place, the Church is called to speak out in fidelity to her mission”: conclusions of meeting of general secretaries of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean Bogota (Fides Service) - The annual meeting of general secretaries of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean closed yesterday after reflecting on two important questions: the religious situation in th ...
• 11 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Consecrated brothers and sisters, wake up! Put out into the deep” Bishops say to religious in Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Consecrated life is a concrete reality in Congo today. According to statistics our country has an estimated 11,000 men and women religious among a population of 50 million, 50% Catholic. Thei ...
• 11 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - White Paper on Religious Minorities: satisfaction for government attention to rights of Christians New Delhi (Fides Service) - Christians in India have welcomed a recent “White Paper on Religious Minorities” approved the Indian government. The paper, which will be published soon, makes a global analysis of the sit ...
• 11 March 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Bombers of peace” to carry real peace to the hearts of Angolans after 25 years of civil war. Head of “Pro Peace” speaks after the movement’s second congress Luanda (Fides Service)- “The goal is to build a climate of trust so elections will be transparent without protest or suspicion”, Angolan Catholic Bishop José Francisco Moreira dos Santo head of the Pro Peace Movemen ...
• 10 March 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “John Paul II leans on the staff of our prayers, the prayers of the Church”: children, adolescents, young people, adults, the elderly, in the city and beyond, regardless of race or ideological divisions, unite in a crusade of prayer for the Pope Mexico City (Fides Service) - Every day at the end of mass in the chapel of Guadalajara minor seminary one of the students takes the microphone and says: “Let us pray for the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II. He needs us ...
• 10 March 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe ordains new Bishop of Tarahumara in Mexico: “A Church called to offer from the riches of its faith and testimony of communion among its different peoples an important contribution to the universal Church” Guachochi (Fides Service) - “The Church entrusts you with the responsibility and care of a part of the People of God: the Particular Church of Tarahumara in western Sierra Madre resplendent in the beauty of creation. A ...
• 10 March 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe meets the clergy in Tarahumara, Mexico: “Have trust in Jesus Christ who called you and trust the Church our Mother; offer your trust also to the new Bishop, who is the foundation of your own ministry” Guachochi (Fides Service) - Before presiding the Eucharistic concelebration for the Ordination of the new Bishop of Tarahumara, in the morning of Wednesday 9 March, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation ...
• 10 March 2005
  EUROPE - Solidarity and commitment for peace in Colombia: from the network of Caritas Europe a new appeal to favour the process of reconciliation and support for 3 million internally displaced persons Rome (Fides Service) - An appeal for the needs of the victims of the conflict in Colombia to be at the centre of the search for a peaceful solution. Peace which, guarantees the verification of responsibility for violatio ...
• 10 March 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Religion is a factor of peace. This was the subject of a meeting sponsored by the American Embassy to the Holy See held at the S. Egidio Community centre in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - Since the Treaties of Westphalia (1648) which marked the end of the Thirty Years War, the West has put aside the concept of a war of religion . The 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 in the United Stat ...
• 10 March 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Global Day of Prayer for Burma 13 March promoted by ‘Christians Concerned for Burma’ Brussels (Fides Service) - Many Christians in the world will be praying for Burma or Myanmar on March 13 a Global Day of Prayer for Burma promoted by Christians Concerned for Burma organistaion. They will pray for that t ...
• 10 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “You young people have the task of building a better India!” Superior major of the Salesian Fathers present for centenary celebrations in India Guwahati (Fides Service) - “You are the reason for the existence of the Salesians. India offers you much hope and many challenges, you must build a better India” Salesian Superior Major Fr Pascual Chavez told a gathe ...