News

• 2 December 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Eastern Congo hope mixed with fear that war may resume Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We welcome international pressure on Rwanda not to invade eastern Congo” local sources in Bukavu, main town in South Kivu, where tension has risen since the Rwandan government said it inten ...
• 2 December 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Our goal is to sow seeds of peace in the hearts of the people” said Father Tonino of Radio Pacis, the country’s 5th Catholic broadcaster inaugurated at the end of November Kampala (Fides Service)- “It was our Bishop Frederick Drandua who chose the name Radio Pacis because our main goal is to work to promote peace” the Radio’s director Italian Comboni missionary Father Tonino Pasoline ...
• 2 December 2004
  ASIA/HONGKONG - Hong Kong Catholic doctors teach health care in Taunggyi diocese in Myanmar Hong Kong (Fides Service) - A medical team of four Hong Kong doctors and a nurse recently returned from a mission in Myanmar, where, in Taunggyi diocese, one of the poorest in the county, they trained missionaries and lo ...
• 1 December 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the Wednesday Audience: “As the Lord rules the world in truth and justice (cf. Ps. 35:7), likewise the king, his visible representative on earth according to the Biblical perspective, must imitate God’s actions. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 71, one of the ‘royal psalms’ meditated by the Fathers of the Church and reinterpreted in a messianic key, was the subject of the Pope’s teaching at his general Wednesday audien ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/CAMBODIA -info Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of a visit by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some information ...
• 1 December 2004
  VATICAN - “Now, it is our turn to continue the same mission initiated in this territory long time ago!” Cardinal Sepe said from the first Catholic mission in Thailand and Chiang Mai Cathedral Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his pastoral visit in South East Asia the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, visited the church of St Joseph at Ayutthaya, the first Catholic mission in T ...
• 1 December 2004
  VATICAN - Pontifical Council for the Laity publishes “Register of International Associations of Lay Catholics”: 123 associations all over the world with millions of members Vatican City (Fides Service) - In response to a call by Pope John Paul II to make a list of associations of lay Catholics in the world which receive official approval of the Holy See, the Pontifical Council for the Laity ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Winnie hits northern Philippines: many killed and missing after flash floods and landslides Manila (Fides Service) - The death toll caused by typhoon Winnie in northern Philippines continues to rise. Local authorities in Luzon, say that flash floods and landslides left at least 447 persons dead and over 300 mo ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Once again… 36 Tribal Christian converts are sent away from their village New Delhi (Fides Service) - There is no end to anti-minority discrimination and violence in India. A report from Jagdalpur diocese in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, said that recently the people of the village ...
• 1 December 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Official sources raise concern for infiltration of Islamic extremist in Angola’s diamond market “It is strange that twice in the past few days people have spoken of Muslims in Angola operating with terrorist intents” sources in Angola told Fides Luanda (Fides Service)- “It is strange that twice in the past few days people have spoken of Muslims in Angola operating with terrorist intents” a local source in northern Angola told Fides commenting recent concern ...
• 1 December 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Idumbe parish in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, marks 70th anniversary Kinshasa ( Fides Service) - Christ the King parish in Idumbe, at the heart of Democratic Congo about 200 kilometres from Kole, celebrated its 70th anniversary on November 21 with a Mass presided by the Episcopal Vicar of ...
• 1 December 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan: never ending emergency. United Nations launches appeal for 1.5 billion dollars to fund humanitarian programmes in 2005 Rome (Fides Service)- The United Nations Organisation has called on the international community to raise 1.5 billion dollars for urgently needed humanitarian intervention in Sudan. The appeal was issued by the Office of ...
• 1 December 2004
  DECEMBER 1 WORLD AIDS DAY EUROPE/ITALY - 110-130,000 Italians infected, only “good” news: no paediatric cases registered 30 June 2004 in Emilia Romagna, but 3 in Italy Rome (Fides Service) - The grip of AIDS on Italy is ever stronger. Less people die but more are infected. Every two hours another person become HIV+. One out of 2 realises it only when the disease is serious. There are m ...
• 30 November 2004
  On Friday 3 December the pontifical University of Holy Cross will host presentation of a video: "Giovanni Paolo II. Testimone dell'invisibile" ‘John Paul II Witness to the Invisible’ Rome (Fides Service) - “John Paul II, Witness to the Invisible” is the title of a video in Italian which will be presented at an event hosted by the Chaplaincy of the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome. The pre ...
• 30 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “No to the death penalty”: Cities all over the world join Sant’Egidio Day against the Death Penalty Rome (Fides Service) - “it all started in 2002, when we lit up the Colosseum to increase awareness on the problem of the death penalty all over the world” Stefania Tallei, head of the Sant’Egidio Community’s Anti ...