News

• 29 September 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Country devastated by AIDS: one thousand new infections each day, already three million out of 65 million Ethiopians are HIV+ Rome (Fides Service) - Ethiopia, like most of Africa, is in the grip of AIDS. According to official statistics one thousand people are infected each day and more than three of the country’s 65 million people are HIV+. ...
• 29 September 2004
  ASIA/NEPAL - A small Catholic community in the Tibetan mountains celebrates and witnesses to the Gospel, offers services of social assistance and education in a situation of Maoist guerrilla warfare: interview with Pro-Prefect Apostolic Rev. Pius Perumana Kathmandu (Fides Service) - While the country is living a general strike and there are rumours that government-rebels negotiations are about to resume, the small Catholic community in Nepal carries on with its pastoral a ...
• 29 September 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - AIDS kills more than civil war in northern Uganda which has twice the number of HIV/AIDS sufferers than the whole country out together Rome (Fides Service) - In northern Uganda AIDS kills three times more people than the civil war there which has raged for 18 years. According to a British humanitarian organisation the percentage of infected people in no ...
• 28 September 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “I have heard my people cry!”: Portugal’s theme for World Mission Day is a call to respond to the cries of the peoples with mission without frontiers Lisbon (Fides Service) - ‘I have heard my people cry’ is the theme chosen for World Mission Day by the Church in Portugal, taken from the Liturgy of that Sunday. This local Church is preparing to celebrate the missi ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Growing concern for probable case of transmission person to person Rome (Fides Service) - Health and hospital authorities in Thailand are worried that bird flu may spread to humans. Thailand has announced that a “probable” case of transmission among humans , might have caused the de ...
• 28 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur is not the only tragedy, all over Sudan the situation is precarious and dangerous, Bishop Gassis Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides Rome (Fides Service)- “The world is rightly concerned for the situation in Darfur, but that tragedy threatens to make people forget there are other crisis areas in Sudan” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of ...
• 28 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Uto Ughi: “The language of Music is universal”. Little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital treated to a concert Rome (Fides Service) - As part of an initiative “Uto Ughi per Roma” , today September 28, this famous violinist will give a concert to a very special audience, little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital i ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA- “Children’s Village” in New Delhi in memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, champion of religious freedom in India New Delhi (Fides Service) - In memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, a champion of religious freedom, a secular state and respect for rights of minority groups rights, the archdiocese of Delhi has opened a Memorial Childr ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Salesians mark fifty years of service to Korean youth: education, professional training and evangelisation Seoul (Fides Service) - “Pray and work that one day your love may reach also North Korea, in a united country” Archbishop Nicholas Cheong of Seoul told the Salesian Fathers who recently celebrated 50 years of servic ...
• 28 September 2004
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 2nd Assembly of the International Association of Catholic Missiologists 29 in Cochabamba Cochabamba (Fides Service) - The 2nd Assembly International Association of Catholic Missiologists IACM will start on Wednesday 29 September in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the Salesian Fatima Centre. The first part of the Ass ...
• 28 September 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic Bishops of Nigeria: “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics” Lagos (Fides Service)- “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics and are occupying various posts. We congratulate those of them who have been trying to be true witnesses of justice and pe ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides Lahore (Fides Service) - “We are very pleased that president Musharraf will have a meeting with the Pope. This will be good for the Church in Pakistan and for the whole country” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission” is the title of a 74 page ‘Bischofswort’ (Bishops’ Word) issued by the Catholic Bishops of Germany at the end of their Au ...
• 27 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Bishops strongly condemn this attack on Catholic Sisters, in Kerala yesterday” the spokesman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, Fr Babu Joseph Karakombil told Fides. “W ...
• 27 September 2004
  October 2004: “That the due presence of Catholics in national life and in the media of the Latin American continent may increase” Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention. Comment by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the post-synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in America”, Pope John Paul II encourages lay Catholics to be fully aware of their dignity as baptised Christians and he calls on bishops and p ...