News

• 23 June 2004
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Over 500,000 women all over the world die during pregnancy or childbirth and 18 million pregnant mothers develop disabilities or chronic diseases Rome (Fides Service) - Every year more than half a million women in the world die during pregnancy or childbirth mainly because of the lack of health care in poor countries. Due to pathologies during pregnancy, every y ...
• 23 June 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur faces food and water emergency and risk of epidemics: Save the Children denounces serious situation Rome (Fides Service) - Save the Children, an independent international organisation for the protection and promotion of children’s rights, has sounded the alarm for the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan where eth ...
• 23 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly Wednesday teaching: “ Expectation for judgement present in every culture, the need for truth and love felt by every spirituality contain a tending towards the Lord which only on reaching Him is placated ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Canticle “Hymn of adoration and praise” (cfr Rev 15,3-4 - Vespers Friday Week one) was the subject of Pope John Paul II’s teaching during the weekly general audience this morning ...
• 23 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Ethnic violence in Congo can be stopped on the condition that foreign interference is stopped” says Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza a member of the Banyamulege Tutsi people in east Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We Congolese will be able to settle our disputes peacefully on the condition that foreign interference stops” said Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza, member of Democratic Congo’s National Assemb ...
• 23 June 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Not everyone knows that according to tradition the Tables of the Law are kept in Ethiopia. Local people tell the story Rome (Fides Service)- According to popular tradition the Tables of the Law are preserved in Ethiopia. The Queen of Sheba stole the Tables from Solomon and kept them at Axum her palace, the remains of which were discovere ...
• 23 June 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We do not want Colombia to be known only for terrorism and drug trafficking, we want people to talk about a young Colombia with people who want peace and are working for peace ”: Colombian Bishops in Rome for ad limina visit launch an appeal. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are aware of the pain and fear caused by terrorism, the plague of drug trafficking, the horror of arms trade and so we call on the world for global solidarity: we ask for help to buil ...
• 23 June 2004
  ASIA/TURKEY - Historical step forward towards juridical recognition of the Catholic Church in Turkey: for the first time in the history of the Republic of Turkey Prime Minister meets with Catholic Bishops Ankara (Fides Service) - Hope and steps forward for the juridical recognition of the Catholic Church in Turkey: on 21 June for the first time in the history of the Republic of Turkey the Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan had ...
• 22 June 2004
  St Egidio Community to meet multiethnic and multi-religious delegation from Indonesia Rome (Fides Service) - A visit to Italy of a multiethnic and multi-religious delegation from Indonesia organised by the Indonesian Ministry for Religious Affairs and the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference, will include a m ...
• 22 June 2004
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Disappointment in Malawi after last month’s elections. Disbanding of Opposition could cause precipitation of precarious balance of democracy Lilongwe (Fides Service)- Unfortunately growing confusion in the political situation is causing such a reaction among the people who can hardly believe what is happening and has to accept that it has been tricked” said ...
• 22 June 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Day Pilgrimage ” in Chia Yi diocese congratulates three priests and a Sister celebrating 50 years of service Chia Yi (Fides) -Chia Yi diocese in central-western Taiwan has a traditional Day Pilgrimage every year. This year the Day was held on the eve of Pentecost with a programme packed with events. According to the bulletin is ...
• 22 June 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Returned missionaries on leave start course of renewal, updating and missionary spirituality Madrid (Fides Service) - Missionaries on leave have an opportunity for personal and vocational renewal offered by a course of renewal, updating and missionary spirituality which opened on June 19 in Madrid organised by t ...
• 22 June 2004
  VATICAN - Special holiness of numerous Catholic priests, men and women religious and lay people, persecuted in Mexico and Spain in the 20th century recognised with 16 solemn decrees by Congregation for the Causes of Saints Vatican City (Fides) - This morning, 22 June, in the Sala Clementina in the Vatican, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated Decrees regarding the heroic virtues, mirac ...
• 22 June 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Turkey and Iraqi Kurds start dialogue: “A very important step towards peace in Iraq” says Nizar Semaan, Iraqi priest in Mosul Baghdad (Fides Service)- “I think this is most important for the stabilisation of the situation in Iraq” Father Nizar Semaan, Iraqi priest in Mosul told Fides commenting the news published by the Italian daily “Il ...
• 22 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - History of Chinese Christian Art in Hong Kong: conference by Prof. Gu Wei Min of Shanghai University Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Chinese Christian Art, Past and Future” is one of the most popular programmes at a recent Festival of Chinese Christian Culture sponsored by Chinese University of Hong Kong. The programme ...
• 22 June 2004
  VATICAN - On the feast day of Peter and Paul, patron saints of Rome, the Pope will preside a solemn Mass in St Peter’s Square. This year a most welcome guest will be Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Vatican City (Fides Service) - In St Peter’s Square at 6pm, on Tuesday 29 June, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, patron saints of Rome, Pope John Paul II will preside a solemn Mass, attended by the Orthodox Ecumenic ...