News

• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Go out with enthusiasm to embrace your mission!” Cardinal Sepe said during the Mass to open the Catholic Action International Congress. “You are missionaries of daily life and bearers of hopes which are strong and founded” Rome (Fides Service) - “The task of announcing Jesus Christ Church falls to the Church as such, the whole Church and therefore to each one of her sons and daughters. Therefore we all, because of baptism are sent like C ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage”. Catholic Action International Congress opens in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage!” This call which the Pope John Paul II addressed to delegates attending the 11th Assembly of Catholic Action Italy on 26 Apr ...
• 1 September 2004
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - New hopes for release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor in prison in Saudi Arabia for his Christian faith says Middle East Concern Riyadh (Fides Service) - There are new hopes for the release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor, a Catholic working in Saudi Arabia arrested and imprisoned because of his faith earlier this year. Daniel Hoffman, direc ...
• 1 September 2004
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Mission continues: vocations flourish in the Pacific Islands Papeete (Fides Service) - Thanks to years of missionary activity in this local Church and the high quality of formation offered at the major seminary Our Lady of Pentecost in Tahiti, there is a steady rise in the number ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Catholic Bishops voice the closeness of the entire Church in France to the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, to their families and to all journalists: “we share their anxiety and their hope”. A call to French Catholics to unite in prayer. Paris (Fides Service) - Solidarity with the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot taken hostage in Iraq has been voiced by the Catholic Bishops of France in two different statements. The President of ...
• 31 August 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Rev. Father Guillermo A. Morales Martinez appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 16 July 2004, appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Mexico for a fi ...
• 31 August 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Rev. Patrick M. Kabba appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 24 June 2004, appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Liberia for a f ...
• 31 August 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Initiatives and activities for a special national Eucharistic and Marian Year opened by the Church in the Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - The Church in the Philippines has just opened a special Eucharistic and Marian Year August 2004 to September 2005. The announcement of the Year was made by the Bishops after a plenary assembly in ...
• 31 August 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Word of God brings hope to prisoners facing death penalty or life imprisonment at Kamiti high state security prison Nairobi (Fides Service) - Recently in Nairobi, the DSP Sisters, Daughters of Saint Paul, succeeded in carrying the Word of God to 4000 detainees at Kamiti maximum security state prison. In agreement with the chaplain the ...
• 31 August 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest stabbed to death in Kerala: local Church deeply shaken New Delhi (Fides Service) - Catholics in Kerala, south west India, are deeply shaken after a priest, Father Job Chittilappilly aged 71, was murdered his home next to the parish church of Our Lady of Grace in the town of ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Making a fresh start from Loreto with new vigour for our missionary work”: presentation of Pope John Paul s meeting on Sunday in Loreto with Catholic Action members from all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - During a press conference to present a special meeting next Sunday, September 5, in Loreto, of Catholic Action members from all over the world with Pope John Paul II, Paola Bignardi president of Ca ...
• 30 August 2004
  Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention for September 2004: “That in Africa authentic brotherly cooperation may develop among all those who work for the growth and development of ecclesial Communities” Comment by Sr. Giuseppina Tresoldi SMC, Missionary in Uganda Vatican City (Fides Service) - This month’s prayer intention calls our attention and reflection to Africa so that our prayer may be more intense and sincere. Africa is a continent of light and hope despite the shadow ...
• 30 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate start their 34th General Charter. Urgent challenges include: evangelisation of secularised world, interreligious dialogue and reconciliation and healing, speaking for the poor, first evangelisation in former Communist countries Rome (Fides Service) - “Witnesses of Hope: a call, our mission” is the theme of the 34th general chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate which starts today, Monday 30th August. The Chapter, which will l ...
• 30 August 2004
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope recalls St John the Baptist and all martyrs for the faith “who have courageously followed his footsteps through the centuries... In a special way the many Christians victims in the last century of religious hatred in various countries of Europe ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 29 August, the date on which the Church recalls the martyrdom of St John the Baptist who “bore supreme witness to God offering his life for truth and justice”, in his address ...
• 30 August 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Catholic Bishops of Sudan appeal for Darfur: “If the government of Khartoum is unwilling to shoulder its responsibilities then we call for an immediate intervention by the international community ” Khartoum (Fides Service)- “As Bishops we cannot overlook the annihilation of any ethnic group whatever their creed, nature or clan”, the Bishops of Sudan affirm in a declaration issued in late August with regard to t ...