News

• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Italian television programme speaks of food discrimination against women in Ethiopia Addis Abeba (Fides Service)- “Women suffer from discrimination even in tragic stiatuions of food shortage which periodically strike Ehtiopia”, Sr Elisa, an Italian Salesian missionary told Italian television. The nun ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tertio Millennio International Missiology Congress: the future of missionary activity ad gentes prospects for the 21st century Kinshasa (Fides Service) - On the 40th anniversary of the Ad Gentes Decree issued by Vatican II and the 10th anniversary of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, the Bishops’ Conference of Congo has ...
• 14 July 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Religious sects and sexual exploitation of girls in Brazil: Edinalva, a girl at “Casa Santa Bernardette” in Sau Paulo tells her story. Sau Paulo (Fides Service) - In Latin America the diffusion of religous sects and increasing explotation of girls is ever more concerning. This is seen from a touching testimony offered by Edinalva, who now lives at the � ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “An attempt destined to failure” Congo MP Enoch Sebineza tells Fides, commententing self-dismissal of 8 Banyamulenge hard wing National Assembly members Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “They are isolated persons risking an all out attempt. Unless they are backed by some foreign power they will not achieve much or go very far. The majority of the Banyamulenge disapproves of t ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA - From South Africa and Nigeria examples to re-launch collaboration among all the countries of Africa Rome (Fides Service)- One of the evils of Africa is lack of collaboration among the states of the continent. This is due partly to the heritage of colonial times. Territories administered by Europeans were connected with ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Girls of different ages tell their story of forced marriage and escape Ouagadougou (Fides Service)- “With the excuse of local customs women are forced into marriage without their consent. The story was told on Italian television by Esther Marie Judith of the Association of Women’s Right ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Tajikistan, with its troubles and hopes, communicates with the world through new Caritas web site www.caritas.tj Dushanbe (Fides Service) - Attention for children in need, help to families, assistance to the sick: these are the commitments courageously undertaken by Caritas in Tajikistan, for Soviet territory where the Catholic com ...
• 14 July 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The path to reconciliation and peace. The country needs a leadership which is authentic and responsible ": Bishops' statement in view of Revocatory Referendum on 15 August Caracas (Fides Service) - "Referendum, Conscience and Responsibility" is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Venezuela at the end of a plenary assembly in Caracas 7 to 12 July, focussed mainly on a ...
• 14 July 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexicans prepare with enthusiasm for the International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara: 400 Seminarians visit families in the archdiocese to foster and renew faith in the Eucharist; local or category Congresses draw large crowds. Guadalajara (Fides Service) - “In this month of July about 400 students from the major seminary of Guadalajara archdiocese are working with parishes to provide intense animation activities to help rediscover awareness ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - The race against AIDS forgets children: an estimated 50% of babies born HIV+ die before they reach the age of two says Medecines sans Frontieres Bangkok (Fides Service) - Multinational pharmaceutical companies and governments are not interested in developing therapies and means of diagnosis for children affected by HIV /AIDS. This was denounced by Doctors without ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Floods and drought in various parts of India - Summary of complex situation where desperate impoverished farmers see suicide as only way out: Caritas commitment New Delhi (Fides Service) - Two distinct tragedies affect the life of people in various parts of India, floods and drought. In the northeast the land is flooded after heavy monsoon rains while in the northwest and south ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic education commitment increases in highly scientific field: new Catholic College run by Pallotine Fathers will train engineers in west India Nagpur (Fides Service) - Education has always been an important field of service for the Catholic community in India. All over the country Catholic schools province high level of education appreciated and sought after an ...
• 13 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Women of the Gospel for Mission ad gentes today” -22 August 30 September 18th general chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters on Evangelisation Rome (Fides Service) - “What is important for me (and this has been the one and only passion of my whole life, and it will be until my death and of which I am not in the least ashamed) is the conversion of Africa, and ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - International Meeting for Missionaries opens today in Chiclayo, “to renew missionary spirit and underline the need to open Mission Centres in diocese and parishes ” Chiclayo (Fides Service) - From 13 to 16 July to mark the 10th anniversary of the Diocesan Mission Centre in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo, there will be an “International Meetings for Missionaries” with the aim o ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinians play side by side in the World Youth Orchestra with its music for hope Jerusalem (Fides Service) - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land. Just when the World Court in the Hague was declaring illegal Israel’s wall built to keep Palestinians out or in, an orchestra o ...