News

• 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 ...
• 26 November 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - “The tragic murder of missionary Father Hannon, yet another sign of great insecurity in the area” says report from Ngong diocese Nairobi (Fides Service) - In a official statement from the Bishops’ House signed by the Bishop Cornelius Schilder Ngong diocese announced the brutal murder of an Irish missionary Father John Hannon: “It is with deep ...
• 26 November 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “We must go beyond our borders because we are not only the future of humanity, we want to be the missionaries of the present in America and the world” say young participants at 3rd American Meeting of Missionary Youth (III ENAJOMIS) Caracas (Fides Service) - Delegations of 23 countries of the continent of America and a delegation from Spain attended the 3rd American Meeting of Missionary Youth held recently in Guaira Vargas-Venezuela, in order to � ...
• 26 November 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu resolves to fight AIDS with intelligence, love and respect Rome (Fides Service) - St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu is involved in a number of programmes to support the fight against HIV/AIDS. Among the initiatives we mention: prevention group “Awake” which organises ...
• 26 November 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe’s pastoral visit in Laos: I have come above all to thank you for your loyalty to the Apostolic See and to encourage you to bear ever bolder witness to Jesus and his Gospel in daily life Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Thursday 25 November, on another lap of his pastoral visit in South East Asia, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples celebrated mass in ...
• 26 November 2004
  AFRICA/ETIOPIA - Ethiopia decides to bury the hatchet and accept the border line marked by the international commission. Now it is up to Eritrea to give a positive answer Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Ethiopia has decided for the war on hunger and poverty rather than real war” local sources in Addis Ababa told Fides commenting the decision taken by the government of Ethiopia to accept ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesians open new Don Bosco Institute in Assam; government closes Catholic school in Kashmir New Delhi (Fides Service) - Catholic education in India is highly appreciated by Christians, Hindus, Muslims, civil authorities, intellectuals, men of the world of culture. It is always at the centre of attention sometim ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Poverty new plague in Moluccas: after years of civil war reconstruction and development is slow Ambon (Fides Service) - Poverty is the sad heritage of years of civil war 1999-2002 which ravaged the Moluccas Islands in the east of the archipelago of Indonesia. According to a report from the Amboina Diocese Crisis Ce ...
• 25 November 2004
  VATICAN - Pope John Paul II’s missionary intention for December 2004: "That the incarnation of Jesus Christ may be the authentic model for every attempt at inculturating the Gospel" Comment by Paul Cardinal Poupard President of the Pontifical Council for Culture Rome (Fides Service) - "The seed which is the Word of God sprouts from the good ground watered by divine dew. From this good ground the seed draws nourishing elements which it transforms and assimilates into itself. Fina ...
• 25 November 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Pontifical Council for the Laity: “The parish is the place par excellence for the proclamation of Christ and education in the faith. This is why it must renew itself to become "community of communities", capable of effective missionary activity” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, addressing participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Pope John Paul II said: “Having closed the cycle of assemblies dedicated to the Sac ...
• 25 November 2004
  VATICAN - Assumption University Bangkok confers Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law on Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. “Catholic schools are at the service of the whole of society to form young people to be responsible and honest citizens”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his pastoral visit to countries in South East Asia, yesterday 24 November, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Crescenzio Sepe, vi ...
• 25 November 2004
  ASIA/TURKEY - Celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit: former President gives main address Ankara (Fides Service) - Former President Suleyman Demirel, the 9th president in the history of the Republic of Turkey, gave the main speech at a ceremony today 25th November to commemorate Pope John Paul II’s visit to ...
• 25 November 2004
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Long wave of a cyclone in March now has Madagascar in grip of hunger. Exasperation triggers bomb explosion as protest. Antananarivo (Fides)- “People are literally starving and in this situation acts of violence in protest can be an extreme and violent sign of widespread desperation” said Father Leonardo, head of the Salesian House in ...
• 25 November 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Voices of hope mixed with fear of war in Bukavu Bukavu (Fides Service) -“People in Bukavu knew about the visit by a United Nations delegation and they were interested. But unfortunately, because the delegation was delayed and only stayed a few hours the delegates, t ...
• 25 November 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - All that was feared has happened: when domestic tension override international interests. Another of Africa’s cease fire agreements violated Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Only a firm intervention by the international community can stop the war in Darfur” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, of El Obeid (Sudan), told Fides commenting the violation of the cease fire in ...