News

• 23 February 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies hold annual meeting: busy agenda of initiatives to make missionary dimension part of all pastoral activity Bogota (Fides Service) - Diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS from all over Colombia met for their annual meeting 1-4 February at Santandercito, Bogota to discuss the important theme: “the necessi ...
• 23 February 2005
  AMERICA/GUYANA - Three weeks of worst floods in a century in much of Guyana thousands abandon homes, thousands are missing: disaster completely ignored by international media Georgetown (Fides Service) - For three weeks much of Guyana suffered worst floods in a century which caused thousands to abandon homes and villages, and thousands more were reported missing. The floods started on 17 Janu ...
• 23 February 2005
  VATICAN - Issues examined by assembly of Pontifical Academy for Life day two, range from health policies to religion of health, from the figure of the doctor to the right to life Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the second day of the assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life on 22 February, there were various interventions on different aspects of the central theme “Quality of Life and the Et ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed Vatican City (Fides) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 10 December 2004, confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sudan for another ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/MALI - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 December 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Mali for a ...
• 22 February 2005
  VATICAN - “Do not be afraid of new technologies!! Do not be afraid of being opposed by the world!...Do not be afraid even of your own weakness and inadequacy!” Pope John Paul II addresses Apostolic Letter “The Rapid Development” to media operators Vatican City (Fides Service) - More than forty years after the publication of the Conciliar Decree “Inter mirifica”, seeing the rapid development of technology in the field of the mass media, it is opportune to refle ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - More than 10,000 escape fighting in north east Congo taking refuge in Uganda Kinshasa (Fides Service)- More than 10,000 people have fled from Congo to Uganda since the a new outbreak of fighting between tribal guerrillas and former rebels in the north eastern part of Democratic Congo. The refugee ...
• 22 February 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples addresses letter to Rev. Don Julian Carron and to all Friends of Communion and Liberation on the occasion of the death of Mons. Giussani Vatican City (Fides Service) - The following Letter was addressed by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples this morning to Rev. Don Julian Carron and all Friends of Commu ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - 3 die of hunger in camp for former rebel soldiers in Burundi Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Three former rebel soldiers died of hunger in a camp for former rebel militia in north east Burundi. The news was reported by the Burundian army chief of staff. “The members of the FDD (For ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “More financial transparency or aid will stop”: World Bank issues stern warning to Liberia’s interim government Monrovia (Fides Service)- The World Bank issued a serious warning to Liberia to take steps to prevent corruption and show more financial transparency. This emerged after a visit to Monrovia by Shengman Zhang World Bank m ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Don Massimo Camisasca shares with Fides thoughts on the death of don Luigi Giussani Rome (Fides Service) -With Don Luigi Giussani the lives of thousands and thousands of people have moved over the past fifty years. This happened because he did not fear the movement which the winds of God caused in him, ...
• 22 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Expectation for meeting of different Franciscan realities gathered in assembly Rome (Fides Service) - “The Eucharist: Sacrament of Communion” is the theme of the 29th General Assembly of the Union of Conferences of Franciscan Provincial Ministers of Italy, a body of 60 Superiors at the head of ...
• 22 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Government cease fire expires today but “negotiations continue” says Internal Minister Kampala (Fides Service) - The government’s cease fire with the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA rebels in northern Uganda ends today, (see Fides 17 February 2005). However a government spokesman said talks with the guerril ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Italian post tsunami aid in Sri Lanka: volunteers for development (VIS) and Italy’s national civil protection unit sign two agreements Colombo (Fides Service) - Two Italian development programmes in tsunami affected Negombo and Trincomalee have started as a result of an agreement between the Italian civil protection unit and Salesian NGO Volontariato In ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “If only the conflicting parties would see how the people suffer!”: director of Indonesian Catholic Bishops’ “Crisis and Reconciliation Service” says to Fides Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - “Peace is possible if both sides (government and rebels) would only see how the people suffer”: Father Ignazio Ismartono, SJ, head of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference Crisis and Recon ...