News

• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops meet Christian members of parliament: religious discrimination must stop; India’s Catholics have a role in society New Delhi (Fides Service) - Efforts to eliminate religious discrimination, offer equal opportunities to all religious communities, lift pressure on India’s Christians, promote development of poorest people: these were ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 1,300 seminarians in the tiny community of 600,000 MyanmarCatholics, which prepares missionaries for central Asia Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is rich in vocations, Bishop Nicholas Man Thang, Bishop of Hakha diocese told representatives of Aid to the Church in Need organisation. The Bishop was recen ...
• 16 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - The rosary and a statue of Our Lady are the banners of a successful Great City Mission, ‘put out to sea’ in Lima, capital of Peru Lima (Fides Service) - Praying a Dawn Rosary is a custom which is increasingly popular among families Lima as part of the City Mission “Put out to Sea”. Very early before dawn more and more people gather at home or i ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Peace talks for Darfur start in Ethiopia S. Egidio community observers among those present Rome (Fides Service)- “The fact that the talks are taking place is already a good sign” Vittorio Scelzo, a S. Egidio Observer to a meeting between the government of Sudan and the two rebel movements fighting governme ...
• 16 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “We cannot win the battle with AIDS unless we win the war on TB”. Tomorrow Fides Dossier on main killer for HIV+ patients and the complex situation of TB which strikes mainly the Continents of poverty. 9 million cases each year Rome (Fides Service) - In his first address to the World Conference on AIDS in Bangkok former South African president Nelson Mandela said that to fight AIDS it is necessary to fight TB which kills more than 5,000 people ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage and charity: Tian Jin pilgrims to Cang Zhou offer spiritual and material help to local orphans Tian Jin (Fides Service) - Recently a group of 220 people from Xi Kai parish in Tian Jin, not far from Beijing, went on a pilgrimage to Cang Zhou in Hebei province led by assistant parish priest Father Li Dong. According ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Already 20,000 enrolments for European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with the theme: "Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope" Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - " Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope " is the theme of the 2004 European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela which draws young people from all over the continent. ...
• 15 July 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Church in France engages in mission via web site run by lay Catholics Paris (Fides Service) - The Mission of the Chaldean Catholic Church born of the preaching of St Thomas the Apostle and which has its cradle in Iraq, has begun a mission via the Internet with a new web site www.mission-ch ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini International Migration Institute offers theological and sociological formation on themes of Migration and a new Masters Rome (Fides Service) - “We are very happy that our Institute has been recognised by the Congregation for Catholic Education. We intend to continue our work of studying the different migratory realities, from two approa ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Amidst drought and corruption Kenya’s political crisis deepens Nairobi (Fides Service) - The President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki has warned of the threat of drought but his call was all but ignored by the local media more interested in the debate in course since the British representati ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Former East German factory workers occupy German Embassy in Maputo for a few hours Maputo (Fides Service)- The occupation of the German embassy in Maputo by a group of forty people was “a demonstration out of exasperation over a situation of impasse which has dragged on for years ” according to loc ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Spreading drug abuse is a concern but the major problem in Sierra Leone is unemployment” a missionary tells Fides Freetown (Fides Service)- “The main problem in Sierra Leone is that there is no work. Drug abuse is an issue but not the main one” Father Giuseppe Berton, Italian Xaverian mission in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone ...
• 15 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church engages in integral evangelisation and pastoral dialogue to defeat violence and build peace in Colombia: Bishop of Magangue speaks with Fides Bogota (Fides Service) - To be faithful to its commitment for peace the Church in Colombia is convinced that there two main paths to contribute to reaching its goal, integral evangelisation and dialogue and consultation. ...
• 15 July 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “The law is unjust and it should be abolished”: Archbishop President of Pakistan’s Conference of Bishops speaks to Fides about law on blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - “I am not very optimistic about promises to revise the blasphemy law.. There us strong opposition from extremists groups. What is more any amendment must be examined and passed by the Council o ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Focolari Movement recalls Vincenzo-Eletto Folonari, who lived thirty three years under the banner of love for Christ. Rome (Fides Service) - “To Eletto we owe above all the birth of the Youth Movement. This can be confirmed by the boys of those days to whom with his sister Camilla he devoted special attention with a very special love ...