News

• 9 September 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drama of diamond hunters in northern Angola continues. Road accident kills 16 policemen and “garimpeiros” who had been expelled Luanda (Fides Service)- Yesterday 8 September on a dirt road leading from Mussuco, Cuango district, to the border with Congo, 16 people, Angolan policemen and illegal Congolese immigrants, were killed in a road accident. ...
• 9 September 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Respect for Congolese territorial sovereignty and a regional pact of non-aggression included in Bishops’ memorandum to South Africa’s president Mbeki, mediator in the Congo crisis Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “On behalf of the Bishops’ Conference of Congo I welcome with gratitude the tireless efforts made by you and your government to find a peaceful, just and concrete solution to the crises in D ...
• 9 September 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The Church is an important element for peace and unity in Congo”: Fides speaks with Bishops of Democratic Congo also in view of elections in 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - In a conversation with Fides recently appointed Bishops from Congo, in Rome to take part in the Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples , said that their Churc ...
• 9 September 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “The bomb blast was connected with international terrorism, not the local political situation, but could harm Indonesia at the economic and political level”, local sources in Jakarta tells Fides Jakarta (Fides Service) - “The attack was connected with international terrorism, not the local political situation. It does not affect the situation of Indonesia’s Christians”: local Church sources in Jakarta told ...
• 9 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Luigino Bruni, Docent Economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi Universities in Milan, presents International Meeting “New Horizons of the Economy of Communion”, organised by the Focolari movement 10-12 September in Castelgandolfo Rome (Fides Service) - “Since 1991 we have promoted a culture of giving” professor Luigino Bruni, docent in economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi universities in Milan who is the co-ordinator of an international meeting ...
• 8 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Each day HIV/AIDS makes more victims: the Church in Orissa state works on a plan to stop the spread of the virus Rome (Fides Service) - Today in India there are five million people, men, women and children who are HIV+ . “If we could save just one, this would be a success”, said the Catholic Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in ...
• 8 September 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To help disabled persons take an active part in the life of the Church and express their talents and potential, the Bishops’ Commission for the Family and Life has issued a special Pastoral Doc ...
• 8 September 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To help disabled persons take an active part in the life of the Church and express their talents and potential, the Bishops’ Commission for the Family and Life has issued a special Pastoral Doc ...
• 8 September 2004
  AFRICA/BENIN - “In Benin there has always been a spirit of tolerance and dialogue between religions; however in recent years we have seen infiltration of extremists,” said Bishop Victor Agbanou of Lokossa, who underlined the fervour of Catholics in Benin Rome (Fides Service)- “In Benin there has always been a spirit of tolerance and dialogue among people of different religions but in recent years we have noted with concern signs of creeping religious fundamentalism,” ...
• 8 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni Missionary Sisters fully immersed in general chapter: the vitality of a charism which continues to unleash the power of the Gospel as it becomes part of different cultures. Rome (Fides Service) - The Comboni Missionary Sisters are now fully immersed in their 18th General Chapter, the first of the new millennium, which opened in Rome on 22 August under the protection of the Founder, Saint Da ...
• 8 September 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Refugees who fled violence in Kivu in June leave Burundi to make their way back to Democratic Congo: news confirmed by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has confirmed in a recent report that a considerable number of refugees who had sought safety in Burundi are on their way back to Democrat ...
• 8 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope leads prayers for the children killed in Beslan and all innocent children abused by adults: This is the “anguished cry of childhood offended in its dignity”. Prayers for justice and peace in the world include the safe return of Italian women social workers taken hostage yesterday Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today, the liturgical feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, during his general audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II said once again that it is the duty ...
• 8 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Carrying the Bible to remote areas of India: Centre for research and translation of Sacred Scripture has a special mission Bangalore (Fides Service) - In Bangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka besides various industries and famous institutes of research there is also the World Bible Translation Centre WBTC which has the mission ...
• 8 September 2004
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - Warning and appeal from Papal Nuncio in Georgia: “We need ideas and means to ensure that the whole of the Caucus region does not turn into a powder keg”. Caritas Georgia (southern Ossezia) helps children in Beslan, northern Ossezia as well as exhausted displaced persons in its own region Rome (Fides Service) - “The massacre of the innocents a few days ago in northern Ossezia shook the world. But not to be forgotten either are more than 3,000 women and children in southern Ossezia, Georgia, who fled vio ...
• 7 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for new Bishops - Archbishop Mons. Nikola Eterovic Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops illustrates the institution: “The Synod of Bishops is a valuable fruit of the Council” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The post synodal exhortation ‘Pastores gregis’: an example of synodal method”: was the subject of a talk which the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, Archbishop Nikola Ete ...