News

• 15 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Religious communities work to promote reconciliation and peace- local Catholic Church holds Synod Ambon (Fides Service) - Religious communities in the Moluccas want to build a future of peace for their islands through more commitment at the level of education and social initiatives to promote a culture of peace, espe ...
• 14 October 2004
  ASIA/TERRA SANTA - Salesian bakery marks anniversary with initiative “Bread for Bethlehem” to help poor Palestinian families Bethlehem (Fides Service) -A Salesian bakery in Bethlehem, which helps Palestinian families impoverished by war and absence of tourists, is marking its hundred anniversary. Since the start of the second Intifada four ye ...
• 14 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Life is a nightmare for Christians in Mosul, fundamentalists kidnap and kill. Catholic nun tells Fides: “some Imam are saying it is not a crime to kill a Christian” Mosul (Fides) - “The situation is serious. Christian live in constant fear of being attacked, kidnapped and killed by radical Islamic groups of terrorists. Once Mosul was a quiet town now life is impossible, an Iraqi C ...
• 14 October 2004
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Mission Day advertised on 65 radio stations, posters in Kichua and Shuar: Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador work hard for missionary month of October Quito (Fides Service) - “Turning tears into smiles” is the motto chosen by the national Pontifical Mission Societies office in Ecuador for its programme to promote missionary animation, formation and reflection all o ...
• 14 October 2004
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Workshop on celibacy with 50 young Christians of different confessions confirms importance of celibacy for service in the Church Honiara (Fides Service) - 50 young participants, all called to celibate religious life attended a Seminar cum workshop on Celibacy at Holy Name of Mary Seminary, Tenaru. The programme organised and facilitated by the se ...
• 14 October 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Intifada in northern Ivory Coast against disarmament, which should start tomorrow Abidjan (Fides Service) - The process of disarmament process has provoked “a real Intifada with stone-throwing” a local Church source in Bouake, Ivory Coast told Fides. For more than a week in this main town in the c ...
• 14 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - International Eucharistic Congress - “The Eucharist viaticum for the journey accompanies our pilgrimage”: after Marian pilgrimage to Zapopan, Cardinals and Bishops visit Guadalajara hospitals and prisons Guadalajara (Fides Service) - The second day of the 48th International Eucharistic Congress 12 October focused on the theme “The Eucharist viaticum for the journey accompanies our pilgrimage”. The day began with a pi ...
• 14 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - International Eucharistic Congress - “Participation in the celebration of the Eucharist gives us spiritual life and strength for our mission” said Cardinal Francis Arinze on the Day dedicated to reflection on the “Eucharist, mystery of communion and mission” Guadalajara (Fides Service) - “The Eucharist, mystery of communion and mission” was the theme of the 3rd Day of the International Eucharistic Congress on 13 October. The day began with a mass presided by Cardinal Fr ...
• 14 October 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Meeting in Nairobi to save electoral process in Burundi Bujumbura (Fides Service) - To help Burundi solve its complex electoral problems African heads of states and governments of central and eastern Africa are attending a regional summit which opens today 14 October in Nairo ...
• 14 October 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Catholic Bishops’ Commission for Health Pastoral tackle respiratory infections, acute malnutrition and intestinal infections and AIDS with a “Life fights AIDS” programme of prevention and counselling Guatemala City (Fides Service) - The situation in Guatemala, a country with a 2.3%, annual birth rate of a 5.6% rate of inflation and a precarious health system, is worsened by widespread poverty which causes many deaths ...
• 14 October 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Outgoing President set to win elections. Perplexity in many areas of society and doubts about the ability of the Opposition which claims the vote was irregular Yaounde (Fides Service) - President Paul Biya is expected to win elections held on 11 October (see Fides 9 October 2004). The opposition has said the vote was irregular. The counting of the votes continues but results fr ...
• 13 October 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly Audience teaching: the Christological hymn from the Letter to the Ephesians is a call to “contemplate and savour this marvellous icon of Christ, the heart of Christian spirituality and worship, and also principle of unity and sense of the universe and of the entire human history” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Speaking at the general audience today, Wednesday 13 October, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II reflected on the canticle “God our Saviour” Vespers of Monday week 2, (reading Ep ...
• 13 October 2004
  See photos of 48th International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara Mexico Vatican City (Fides Service) - See photos of celebrations at 48th International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara, including thousands gathered in Jalisco sports stadium for the opening Mass and conferences at the Cong ...
• 13 October 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - In Portugal cardiovascular illnesses kill 31,000 a year. Heart diseases cause one third of the deaths in the world Rome (Fides Service) - According to a World Health Organisation survey in Portugal last year some 31,000 people died of cardiovascular illnesses and 8.6% of the country’s adult population suffers from diabetes. Moreov ...
• 13 October 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholics all over the country pray for the recovery of ailing Cardinal Jaime Sin Manila (Fides Service) - Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales of Manila has called on the people to pray for the deeply loved Cardinal Jaime Sin, hospitalised in Manila. Clergy, men and women religious, laity, movements, schools ...