News

• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Caritas India continues major commitment to assist tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Kerala - Catholic volunteers first to reach some remote districts New Delhi (Fides Service) - Caritas India continues major commitment to assist tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Kerala. Caritas is working closely with local state organisations in Channai, Pondicherry, Kott ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - Camillian healthcare team help 300 Morgan fisherfolk forced to abandon their village as the tsunami approached Bangkok (Fides Service) - Camillian healthcare team leaves Bangkok to assist 300 Morgan people who fled their fishing village Bang Sak when the tsunami struck. The Morgans are extremely poor and primitive fisherfolk wi ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA - International Organisation for Migration assists 500,000 tsunami refugees in Indonesia and 300,000 in Sri Lanka Jakarta (Fides Service) - The International Organisation for Migration IOM is working alongside missionaries, local Churches and Catholic NGOs to help tsunami victims in south east Asia. IOM a non-confessional organisati ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Justice and Peace commission seminar calls on media to giver more attention to the weaker members of society Hong Kong (Fides Service ) - The justice and Peace commission of Hong Kong diocese recently organised a seminar for scholars, experts and members of various associations to discuss the range and type of questions highlig ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - This report received by Fides is a testimony of concrete help offered by local religious free of prejudice or discrimination to all tsunami victims; it will discredit opinions that Christian missionaries have other aims than that solidarity with people whatever their religion Bangkok (Fides Service) - Father Paul Cherdchai Lertjitlekha, Vice Provincial of the Camillian Fathers Thailand sent this report on aid to victims of the 26 tsunami: “Dear confreres and friends I am sure you have had ...
• 12 January 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Open your eyes to mission”: Sunday 23 January Missionary Childhood Day in Spain aims to open the eyes of children to see the needs of their brothers and sisters all over the world Madrid (Fides Service) - "We rely on our children" says National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Bishop Francisco Pérez in an interview on the occasion of Missionary Childhood Day in Spain 23 Janua ...
• 12 January 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general Audience: Martyrs are associated with Christ’s victory over sin and death because “they have chosen the way of the cross rather than give in to evil and offering themselves to the Father united in the death of Christ with to witness of self giving and courage” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Resuming his teaching on the Psalms and Canticles, this morning during his weekly audience Pope John Paul II reflected on the Canticle taken from the Book of Revelation: "The Judgement of ...
• 12 January 2005
  VATICAN - Friday 14 January the Pope will preside a funeral Mass for Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte in St Peter’s Basilica Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Friday 14 January at 11 am in St Peter’s Basilica Pope John Paul II will preside the funeral Mass for Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M., former Secretary General of the Synod of Bi ...
• 12 January 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundi famine alarm in north east. Thousands face food shortage. Tsunami and other emergencies test solidarity among peoples Bujumbura (Fides Service) - A hunger alarm has been raised in northern Burundi. The government in Bujumbura says dozens are dying and thousands are in danger of starving to death in the provinces of Kirundo in the north ...
• 12 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Stop Funding Hate”: aid for tsunami victims must not go to Hindu fundamentalist groups Calcutta (Fides Service) - Donations in aid of tsunami victims must not find their way to the pockets of Hindu fundamentalist groups which spread religious hatred and social discriminate, Indian citizens resident in the ...
• 12 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Every minute of every day another person is infected with leprosy: 30 January 52nd World Day. AIFO Solidarity Honey campaign and other initiatives to fight leprosy which affects 513,798 people all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - It is estimated that more than 6 million people suffer physical and social effects of leprosy of which in 2003 a total number of 513.798 cases was reported, 457,792 of whom are receiving treatment. ...
• 12 January 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Don Bosco school pupils in Pakistan send help to children victims of the tsunami Lahore (Fides Service) - In Pakistan pupils at Don Bosco in Lahore were quick to forget their own troubles and turn to helping children victims of the December 26 tsunami, organising charity raffles to collect money to s ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic fundamentalists warn Catholic priest humanitarian helper not to try to convert Muslim orphans Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - Father Chris Riley, an Australian Catholic priest who arrived in tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh on 7 January to set up an orphanage, sparked a warning from hard-line Islamic grou ...
• 11 January 2005
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Sicknesses connected with poverty still main cause of death for 700,000 people in Beira. CUAMM, Doctors with Africa, undertake public health intervention Rome (Fides Service) - Since January 2004 Beira and the healthcare district of Dondo, 30 km from the city are the object of an intervention of public health undertaken by CUAMM Doctors with Africa to improve the health c ...
• 11 January 2005
  VATICAN - Dear young people, Christ is asking you to "put out into the deep" and the Virgin Mary is encouraging you not to hesitate in following Him: Pope John Paul II’s Message for the 42nd World Day of Prayer for Vocation Vatican City (Fides Service) - "Called to put out into the deep" is the theme chosen by Pope John Paul II for his Message for the 42nd World Day of Prayer for Vocations, to be held on 17 April, 4th Sunday of Easter. "Cal ...