News

• 2 March 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Two months after the tsunami solidarity effort of Catholic communities in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan continues Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Catholics in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have not forgotten the victims of the December tsunami disaster and are keeping up their solidarity efforts. In mid February the Kong Ko Bao b ...
• 2 March 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In a Guarani Indian reserve 290 children suffer from acute malnutrition and 35% of those under age six is underfed. The death of six Guarani children brings to the fore the drama of Brazil’s forgotten people Rome (Fides Service) - The deaths of six children caused by hunger in a Guarani Indian reserve bring to the fore the tragedy of Indians peoples in Brazil and the inefficiency of social assistance programmes. In the Dour ...
• 2 March 2005
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - UNHCR in Malaysia to assist refugees: maxi government clamp-down on illegal immigration Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - Malaysia has at least 400,000 illegal immigrants fleeing from poverty and war and coming mainly from Myanmar, Cambodia and the Aceh province of Indonesia working in highly industrial areas. ...
• 2 March 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Towards a culture of education and prevention”, seminar on the Church and HIV, organised by the health pastoral office of Lima Lima (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the 13th World XIII which recently concluded in Cameroon the office for Health Pastoral in Lima organised a seminar on “the Church and AIDS”, with the theme “Towards a cult ...
• 2 March 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - What is this new militia which has appeared in the west of Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Calm has returned but fire still glows under the embers and violence could explode any moment” a missionary source in Duekoue, west Côte d'Ivoire told Fides following fighting over the past ...
• 1 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Doctor what is a tracheotomy?” children in Bukavu, east Congo ask when they hear that the Pope is in hospital Bukavu (Fides Service)- “Children here are very interested in the Pope’s operation and his illness” said Father Luigi Lo Stocco, director of Radio Maria Malkia wa Amani (Radio Maria Queen of Peace) Bukavu south Kiv ...
• 1 March 2005
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - In Mongolia rescued street children at Catholic centre pray every day for the Pope who is a point of reference for their fledging faith Ulan Bator (Fides Service) -Mongolian children rescued by Catholic missionaries from life on the streets and in the sewers of Ulan Bator, pray every day for the Pope. They know him and see him as a “grandfather”, a p ...
• 1 March 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Bishops launch Australian Catholic Church Television Sydney (Fides Service) - Christians in Australia have a new means of listening to the Word of God, hearing meditations on the Bible or following televised Mass thanks to Aurora Community Television, opened by the Catholi ...
• 1 March 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission in Australia past and present: Fides Dossier with documentation from Propaganda Fide mission history archives Sydney (Fides Service) - It was the year 1676 when Dominican Father Vittorio Riccio wrote from Manila to the “De Propaganda Fide” College in Rome offering to lead a mission of evangelisation in lands still further to ...
• 1 March 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Peace, a gift and a commitment, for harmony in fraternity: Forum and prayer-meeting to demonstrate how ecumenical and interreligious dialogue can promote peace Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - In continuity with other similar events in Argentina on 17 April in Buenos Aires there will be a National Meeting for Peace - Ecumenical and Intereligious Dialogue on the theme “Peace, a ...
• 1 March 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY- “A just man among the nations” award in memory of medical doctor Borromeo top clinician at St John of God Brother Hospital on the River Tiber during World War II who saved the lives of many Roman Jews ‘infected with K disease’ Rome (Fides Service) -The “Giusto fra le Nazioni” medal will be awarded in memory of medical doctor Giovanni Borromeo top clinician at St John of God Brother Hospital on the River Tiber who saved the lives of many J ...
• 1 March 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “America receives and sends missionaries”: Church in Spain confirms mission commitment on Hispanic-America Day; Spain has 946 diocesan priests on mission in various different countries Madrid (Fides Service) - On March 6 the Church in Spain celebrates Hispanic-America Day with the slogan “America receives and sends missionaries”. Promoted fifty years ago by the Spanish Bishops’ Commission for Mi ...
• 1 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Foreign hands behind massacre of 9 UN peace keepers in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Bunia (Fides Service)- “People here are convinced that foreign interference was behind the massacre of 9 peace keepers of the UN mission in Congo, MONUC” say local sources in east Congo with regard to the ambush on F ...
• 1 March 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D 'IVOIRE - Côte d'Ivoire crisis enters new stage of uncertainty following fresh fighting in the west Abidjan (Fides Service)- Has the Côte d'Ivoire crisis entered a new stage, international observers are wondering because of the new outbreak of fighting in the west of the country with the entrance on the scene of a pro ...
• 1 March 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Government ready to launch “direct attack on poverty”: financial law to promote development, attention for disadvantaged sectors of society New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in India, other religious minorities missionaries, and social organisations have welcomed the new financial law presented today by the governing Congress Party. The law aim ...