News

• 8 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Archbishop of Delhi encourages new leader of the BJP nationalist party to “Protect minorities and promote social harmony” New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Archbishop of New Delhi, Archbishop Vincent Concessao sent a message of congratulations to Lal Krishna Advani, newly elected leader of the nationalist Hindu Party Baratiya Janata ...
• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Bishop of Bambari resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, on 6 November 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Bambari (Central African Republic), presented by Bishop Jean-C ...
• 6 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Rector of Vianney Bhavan regional philosophy seminary Gopalpur appointed Vatican (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples appointed, 26 August 2004, Rector of Vianney Bhavan regional philosophy seminary Gopalpur, India for a two ...
• 6 November 2004
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Rector of Holy Cross inter-diocesan Seminary in Auckland appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples appointed, 15 September 2004, Rector of the Seminary for all the ecclesiastical circumscriptions in N ...
• 6 November 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Evangelisation and prophetical mission of the Church in the face of present day challenges …” theme of 43rd General Assembly of Brazilian Bishops in April Brasilia (Fides Service) - The standing council of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference has chosen as the theme for the Conference’s 43rd general assembly 6-15 April 2005 in Itaici-Indaiatuba “Evangelisation and proph ...
• 6 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Ten years of church activity, mission, news, figures in Korea in a volume published by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops’ Conference of Korea has published a volume containing information of the past ten years of Church life and activity in Korea as well as an overview of the Holy See and Catholic comm ...
• 6 November 2004
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Flow of Vietnamese Montagnard refugees to Cambodia: UNHCR offers assistance Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - Increasing numbers of mountain peoples from central Vietnam are arriving in Cambodia in search of help and many ask local officials of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to help ...
• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Information blackout with regard to military operations in northern Ivory Coast. Rebel held areas without water or electricity Abidjan (Fides Service) - There is a blackout of information in Ivory Coast. “People in government controlled areas have little chance of finding out what is happening in northern part of the country where New Forces r ...
• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Besides providing medical treatment St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor is also “home” for 5,000 displaced persons and “commuter refugees” Rome (Fides Service) - Lacor Hospital in the northern Ugandan district of Gulu founded in 1958 by Comboni missionaries, is the largest private charity hospital in this part of Africa. Directed since 1961 by the Corti fam ...
• 6 November 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Religious leaders committed to overcoming national divisions: “we must lay the basis for a new understanding of citizenship” a missionary told Fides Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Our aim was to heal divisions caused by last week’s clashes (see Fides 30 October 2004)” SMA Provincial Father Mauro Armanino told Fides with regard to an interreligious meeting on Novemb ...
• 6 November 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Taiwan Catholics celebrate with gratitude the arrival of first Carmelite nuns and opening of first Carmelite convent on the Island Taipei (Fides Service) - With a series of events and initiatives Catholics in Taiwan recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Carmelite Sisters. According to Christian Life Weekly, Taipei archdiocese bu ...
• 5 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - On the feast day of Blessed Conforti his spiritual sons and daughters all over the world renew their commitment to mission ad gentes Parma (Fides Service) - All over the world on November 5, the spiritual sons and daughters of Blessed Guido M. Conforti remember with gratitude their great father and founder who died in Parma on November 5, 1931. Wherev ...
• 5 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Spread of new religions and sects: Catholic Church takes steps to counter threat to the faith Seoul (Fides Service) -Aware of the challenge and danger of new pseudo religious movements, the Catholic Church in Korea has stressed the need to provide Catholics with proper formation and experience of spirituality. ...
• 5 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians happy and relieved for the release of Indian born Catholic O’Connor arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia New Delhi (Fides Service) - Christians in India are happy and relieved at the return on November 1 of Indian born Catholic Brian Savio O’Connor after a tragic experience in Saudi Arabia where his personal freedom of ...
• 5 November 2004
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - More than 650 young people take part in 3rd National Missionary Youth Meeting which concludes missionary month of October in Honduras Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) - About 650 young people from dioceses, youth groups and movements from all over the country attended the 3rd National Missionary Youth Meeting 29 to 31 October in Danli (92 km from Tegucigal ...