News

• 29 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - China has the second highest number of HIV+ people in Asia. Family Planning Ministry warns that the country could have 10 million HIV carriers in 2010 Rome (Fides Service) - China could have as many as 10 million carriers of HIV virus which spread AIDS by the year 2010 unless serious measures are taken. The alarm was sounded by the Chinese Family Planning Ministry duri ...
• 29 October 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Dengue: the country’s major enemy is unfairness Rome (Fides Service) - “Unfairness in the field of health is unjust and immoral” the Argentinean Minister of Health said at the beginning of a regional meeting to prevent and control Dengue fever. Among those prese ...
• 29 October 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses participants at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace plenary: “In our day characterised by globalisation of the social question, the Church urges everyone to recognise and affirm the centrality of the human person in every ambit and manifestation of sociality” Vatican City (Fides ) - Addressing participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace received in audience this morning in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II said: “Social teaching is an � ...
• 29 October 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Eucharist is an excellent means for re-launching with boldness mission ad gentes” said Bishop Manuel Neto Quintas, President of the Portuguese Bishops’ Commission for Missions Lisbon (Fides Service) - In an article on “Eucharist and Mission two inseparable words” Bishop Manuel Neto Quintas, auxiliary Bishop of Faro and President of the Portuguese Bishops’ Commission for Missions said � ...
• 29 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Religious leaders tell political leaders: “Your sole aim must be to lead the nation to democracy!” Kinshasa (Fides Service) - In a joint appeal the religious leaders of Democratic Congo encouraged the country’s politicians to conclude the period of transition and lead the country to democracy. The memorandum was sig ...
• 29 October 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Rumours of war. “No one here has disarmed, indeed, all have rearmed and if war resumes it will be a blood bath” local sources told Fides Abidjan (Fides Service) - Tensions grows in Ivory Caost since the New Forces rebels accused the President, Laurent Gbagbo, of wanting to take rebel controlled areas with force. At a press conference in Bouake, the main ...
• 29 October 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “before becoming activity, mission is contemplation and willingness to be part of God’s plan and goodness” the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil said at the 1st Missionary Congress organised by the archdiocese of Vitoria (ES) Vitoria (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Vitoria closed twelve months of reflection and intense activity including forum, formation, sharing of experience and other events organised for a special “Year of Mission� ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, president of Bishops’ Conference, visits Fides: “We are not afraid of attacks on Christians by Hindu fundamentalists: this only strengthens our faith and we view the future of the nation with optimism” New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - At a time when Hindu attacks on Christians in India continue, the Catholic Church in India continues to bear witness to Christ and looks ahead with Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, Archbishop of Ra ...
• 28 October 2004
  Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention for November 2004: That all those who work in the missionary will never forget that personal holiness and intimate union with Christ are the source of the efficacy of evangelisation. Comment by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Dean emeritus of the College of Cardinals Vatican City (Fides Service) - We all know that in his long pontificate and even recently Pope John Paul II has elevated numerous men and women, priests and consecrated persons, members of religious families to the honou ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - 3,300 doctors, nurses in hospitals health centres serving the country’s poor Rome (Fides) - CHAI, an Indian Catholic Healthcare NGO one of the most important in the world in the sector, has organised a campaign to guarantee “universal access to basic health care services for the poor and the ex ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Mission Sunday with Missionaries” celebration in Seoul Cathedral. “The authentic Christian is always missionary” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “On Mission Sunday with Missionaries” was the title of a Meeting for representatives of male and female religious congregations in South Korea held in Seoul Cathedral on 24 October Mission Sun ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - “Ai Min Hospital” built and managed by German Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing Beijing (Fides Service) - The latest missionary endeavour of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing (Germany) is the well equipped modern Ai Min Hospital in Mei he kou, a town in north eastern China in Ji Lin on ...
• 28 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - 4.000 Italian charismatics at 28th Renewal in the Spirit Conference Rome (Fides Service) - Animators of the Italian branch of Renewal in the Spirit charismatic movement from all over the country will attend the 28th Renewal in the Spirit Conference in Rimini, 29 October to 1 November, to ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Thank you Holy Father for your words of comfort: you have strengthened our faith and hope” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Iraqi Christians are grateful to the Pope for his words of encouragement which strengthen our faith and hope amidst so much hardship and suffering” Fr Nizar Semaan, a Catholic priest in Mosu ...
• 28 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Bukavu main town in eastern Congo hub of political activity. Tomorrow Bukavu commemorates Archbishop Munzihirwa murdered in 1996 Bukavu (Fides Service) - Leading government members continue to visit Bukavu the main town in South Kivu, in the east of Democratic Congo. Last week vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo spent the morning in Bukavu “ ...