News

• 29 November 2004
  AFRICA - Nairobi UN Conference ONU on the tragedy of land mines. It costs a little more than 3 dollars to kill. Angola may still have as many as 6 million mines Rome (Fides Service)- Antipersonnel mines are a major problem in Africa and elsewhere but in recent years some progress has been made in efforts to reduce the threat which these insidious weapons represent for civilians. ...
• 29 November 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope grants a special audience to Rev. Oreste Benzi and the Pope John XXIII Community on the 30th anniversary of the opening of the first Family-Home: “To give genuine love to others, love must be first drawn from God.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, 29 November Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to members of the "Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII", association founded by Rev. Oreste Benzi. In his address the Pope s ...
• 27 November 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople preside ecumenical celebration in St Peter’s: “I will never tire of striving resolutely and determinedly to restore communion among Christ’s disciples”, the Pope said. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Beloved Brother, I will never tire of striving resolutely and determinedly to restore communion among Christ’s disciples because I desire, in response to the will of the Lord, to be th ...
• 27 November 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe addresses Thai Bishop: “As we are at the beginning of the Third Millennium, I can only remind that the Church in Thailand is called to a new missionary momentum” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Addressing the Bishops of Thailand on Friday 26 November in Bangkok, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, assured them of the Pope’s wa ...
• 27 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Congress on Religious Life ends today: “we must aim for quality witness and commitment to evangelisation and human promotion” says José Maria Arnaiz Rome (Fides Service) - "Passion per Christ Passion for Humanity" was the theme of a six day International Congress in Rome attended by 850 religious, representing more than one million men (200,000) and women (800,000) m ...
• 27 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cease fire in northern Uganda extended Kampala (Fides Service)- The Ugandan government has decided to extend to 30 November the unilateral and geographically limited cease fire in northern Uganda with regard to the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA which has engag ...
• 27 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Interreligious Forum gives impulse to Anti-Death Penalty activity Seoul (Fides Service) - Religions in Korea have launched a camping to promote awareness and support for the abolition of the death penalty. A forum of 7 religious communities, including the local Catholic Church, some pr ...
• 27 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 10,000 pilgrims visit Bom Jesus basilica every day to venerate relics of St Francis Xavier Goa (Fides Service) - Every day more than 10,000 pilgrims, far more than expected, flock to venerate the relics of Saint Francis Xavier on show at the Bom Jesus Basilica in God. The exposition of the relics of this great ...
• 27 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Four thousand new HIV+ cases ever year in Italy, a new case every two hours and one out of every two persons infected is unaware: 18th National AIDS Meeting Rome (Fides Service) - Italy’s 18th National Anlaids Meeting will be held in Milan 28-30 November in view of World AIDS Day. Anlaids is the National Association for the Fight against AIDS. According to Italian infect ...
• 27 November 2004
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - 45,000 AIDS patients: Health Ministry intervenes to purchase anti-retroviral drugs Rome (Fides Service) - The reported number of Africans who have contracted AIDS this year 2004 is 3.1 million and the number of those who died of AIDS in Africa is 2.3 million. In Sierra Leone the minister of Health has ...
• 27 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Tomorrow mobilisation for peace in Churches throughout Ivory Coast Abidjan (Fides Service)- “We intend to pray for peace and national reconciliation and for the victims of the violence over the past few weeks” sources of the Bishops’ Conference in Ivory Coast told Fides, with rega ...
• 27 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fifty nine Legionaries of Christ are ordained priests. The Pope signs decree approving statutes of Regnum Christi Movement Rome (Fides Service) - On 26 November 2004 Father Marcial Maciel, founder and director general of the congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement celebrated 60 years of priesthood. The event ...
• 26 November 2004
  VATICAN - Tomorrow November 27 Ecumenical Celebration in St Peter’s. Relics of Ecumenical celebration: Pope John Paul II will make a gift of the Relics of St Gregory Nazianzen and St John Chrysostom to the Patriarch of Constantinople Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow Saturday 27 November at 11 am in St Peter’s basilica there will be an ecumenical Liturgy during which Pope John Paul II will make a gift of relics of St Gregory Nazianzen and St ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/LAOS - Info Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe’s pastoral visit to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some information on Laos. area: 237.000 sq. km population: 5.600,000 Capi ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/KOREA - “The Family, a place of love and life” is the title of a pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops for Advent 2004 Seoul (Fides Service) - Advent is a time to sanctify and evangelise the family, the Korean Bishops say in a pastoral letter for Advent with the title The Family, Place of love and Life. The letter with 83 paragraphs took ...