News

• 25 November 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Federation of Asian Bishops Conference discusses< Communicating through inter-religious dialogue Bali (Fides Service) - About 30 bishops and 40 priests and lay persons, Delegates of Bishops Commissions for social communications and Commissions for inter-religious dialogue from all over Asia, are meeting in Bali, Ind ...
• 25 November 2004
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Central America present Bishops with “Memories of CAM 2” and examine Central American Mission ad Gentes Plan: developments and goals reached San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) - This morning the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Central American countries, members of the Central American Mission Commission, will address an assembly ...
• 25 November 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Love, Hope and Faith in Family Health Care: International Federation of Catholic Doctors holds 13th Congress Taipei (Fides Service) - The 13th Congress of the International Federation of Catholic Doctors is starting its 13th Congress today, 26 - 27 November to reflect on the theme, Love, Hope and Faith in Family Health Care to ...
• 25 November 2004
  Charity Concert in aid of Senegal on the Tiber Island organised by the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers Vatican City (Fides Service) - An evening event devoted to solidarity has been organised for Friday 26 November on the Tiber Island at the St John of God Hospital by the Order’s press office on the occasion of the 25th ...
• 24 November 2004
  VATICAN - “Reduction of the price of the anti-viral drugs needed to treat HIV/AIDS patients; intensification of information campaigns in order to avoid mother/child transmission of the virus; greater attention for most vulnerable social groups.” Message for World AIDS Day from the President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health workers and the Sick Vatican City (Fides Service) - December 1 is World AIDS day. A recent study showed that women are physically more liable to become infected than men. This year the United Nations Organisation programme for AIDS UNAIDS d ...
• 24 November 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “With his divine "fullness", but also through shedding his blood on the Cross, Christ "reconciles" and "restores" all things in heaven and on earth…recreating the original harmony, willed by God in accordance with his loving plan of life.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The great Christological hymn from the Letter to the Colossians (cfr Col 1,3.12-20), which extols “the glorious figure of Christ, heart of the liturgy and centre of the entire life of the ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Here in Iraq things are improving for religious minorities. Everyone looks forward with optimism to the elections and a future of peace” a Chaldean monk told Fides Mosul (Fides Service) - After recent episodes of anti-Christian violence in the capital Baghdad and in the third largest city Mosul, the situation for religious minorities appears to be improving a Chaldean monk in Mosul ...
• 24 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Saturday 27 November 2004, 8th National Food Collection Day: sharing basic necessities in order to share the meaning of life. Rome (Fides Service) - This year’s national Food Collection Day, involving 4,000 supermarkets all over Italy, including 200 in Lazio region and 130 in the city of Rome alone, scheduled for 27 November, was presented th ...
• 24 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - People are still dying in northern Uganda despite recent negotiations Gulu (Fides Service)- “We are waiting with great expectation. There is an atmosphere of cautious hope, although the situation is still unsettled” said a missionary in Gulu, in northern Uganda ravaged for many years t ...
• 24 November 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur recent developments Rome (Fides Service) - There are reports of fresh fighting in the western Sudan region of Darfur tormented by months of civil war. Today, 24 November, the Sudan Liberation Army one of the two anti-government rebel moveme ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Seminars, prayers, marches to increase awareness during “Peace Week” in Mindanao 25 November to 1 December Manila (Fides Service) - “A reconciled family is an agent of reconciliation” is the theme of a Peace Week organised in Mindanao 25 November 1 December, launched by the Bishops Ulama Forum comprising Catholic and Prot ...
• 24 November 2004
  VATICAN - “Rediscovering the authentic image of the parish" theme of Pontifical Council for the Laity plenary assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Rediscovering the authentic image of the parish" is the theme of the 21st plenary assembly Pontifical Council for the Laity which opens today in the Vatican. The theme takes its inspirat ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Outbreak of Dengue: 14 dead and 60 admitted to hospital in Sumatra Rome (Fides Service)- Fourteen people have died and about sixty have been admitted to hospital in Medan, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in a violent outbreak of Dengue or break bone fever. The hospitalised patient ...
• 24 November 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Stop the political feud which is bloodying the country: essential condition for re-launching peace process Colombo (Fides Service) - It is necessary to stop the long series of political homicides in order to give new impulse to peace talks in Sri Lanka, local Church sources told Fides. Although the cease fire is respected, m ...
• 23 November 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope appoints new auxiliary Bishop of Bukavu Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, appointed, 22 November 2004, Auxiliary Bishop of Bukavu (Democratic Congo) Mgr. François Xavier Maroy, Vicar General of the same archdiocese assigning ...