News

• 2 June 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - The new Iraqi government is “a decisive step towards free and democratic Iraq” said Fr Nizar Semaan, Iraqi priest Baghdad (Fides Agency) - “A very important step for the creation of a free and independent Iraq, fully re-inserted into the international community”: this is how Fr Nizar Semaan, a Syrian priest from Mosul, welcomed ...
• 2 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The executive secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences Laypeople Committee visits Hong Kong and stresses the importance of promoting women in society today Hong Kong (Fides Agency) - The Executive Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Laypeople Committee, Mrs V. Saldhana, paid visit to Hong Kong and stressed the importance of the promotion of wo ...
• 2 June 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Young Buddhists and Christians united in interreligious and intercultural dialogue Bangkok (Fides Agency) - “The bonds joining us together are stronger than the barriers which divide us”: it is what young Buddhists and Christians said at a recent five day seminar organised in Bangkok by the Institu ...
• 2 June 2004
  ASIA/CINA - The Catholic Church in China helps poor children to continue their studies Zun Yi (Fides Agency) - The local Church in the province of Gui Zhou, the poorest area in Continental China, always focused much of its attention on child education. The catholic community has built schools, offering the ...
• 2 June 2004
  ASIA - For Asian Bishops interreligious dialogue represents their hope to build harmony throughout the whole continent Bangkok (Fides Agency) - Interreligious dialogue is an effective way of bringing reconciliation and building peace throughout the Asian continent: the Bishops of Asia believe this is true and they are working to increase ...
• 2 June 2004
  ASIA PHILIPPINES - “In the Philippines we need a government of national unity to bring peace to the country and resolve economic problems” is the opinion of a Fides Agency missionary Manila (Fides Agency) - “In the Philippines we need a government of national unity to bring peace to the country and resolve the problems affecting economy, politics and society as a whole. There is a high rate in unem ...
• 2 June 2004
  ANNOUNCEMENTS - Acli and Focsiv join the wake of prayer on June 3rd organised by the Community of Sant’Egidio in Rome. Rome (Fides Agency) - “The anniversary of June 4th is part of our DNA - explain Acli president, Luigi Bobba, and Focsiv director, Sergio Marelli - because that day, sixty years ago, was a milestone along the path of ou ...
• 2 June 2004
  BOOK REVIEW - EUROPE/ITALY - Guarire fino in fondo (To Recover Completely) - Elisabetta Garuti - Maria M. Rossi - Antonio Pari - Sandra Malacci -EMI, 2004, pp. 176, Euro 9,00 Rome (Fides Agency) - The cause for the outburst of AIDS is the HIV virus, but poverty helps its widespread contagion. Where there is poverty, there is AIDS. If only we think that in Africa there are 70% of the HIV posit ...
• 1 June 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - From Colombia missionaries for Africa and Asia: 14th edition of Course for Missionaries ad gentes promoted by Colombian Bishops’ Conference Bogota (Fides Service) - The 14th edition of a four week Course for Missionaries ad gentes promoted by Colombian Bishops’ Conference June 6 - July 2, will be held at the Conference’s offices. The Course is unusual be ...
• 1 June 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Health emergency in one of the world’s poorest countries. Tuberculosis continues to be the third cause of death for people who cannot afford treatment for 16,00 Euro. St John of God Brothers helping far away sick (AFMAL) promote initiatives for the people of the Philippines Rome (Fides Service) - The Philippines is one of the world’s poorest countries. This country has no national health service and people who fall ill are condemned. Because of poverty which affects most of the people, ev ...
• 1 June 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - More than a thousand young Catholics take part in 1st Diocesan Youth Congress in Cang Zhou on the theme “Rise and go your way ” (Lk 17, 19) Cang Zhou (Fides Service) - In Cang Zhou diocese, Hebei province, where most of the Catholics in mainland China live, (more then 1 million) 2004 is the Year of Youth. To mark the year the diocese held its 1st Diocesan Yo ...
• 1 June 2004
  VATICAN - Papal message at the end of the Marian Month of May: “Be light in your homes, in every place and under every circumstance of life. Be light with your faithful witness to the Gospel, learning day after day from Mary the perfect disciple of her Divine Son.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The month of May closes with the liturgical feast of the Visitation: the second joyful mystery which fills hearts with ever new hope. The encounter between Mary and Elisabeth is animated ...
• 1 June 2004
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Quarrel among merchants caused clashes in Mogadishu in which at least 100 died Mogadishu (Fides Service) - A simple quarrel between merchants which degenerated into a real battle with heavy weapons. This was the scenario of recent clashes over recent days in Mogadishu; capital of Somalia, in which ...
• 1 June 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - “Split among guerrillas besieging the city”: report from Fides sources in Bukavu in east Congo Bukavu (Fides Service)-“Two souls are emerging in the RCD-Goma (Union Congolese for Democracy, guerrillas connected with Rwanda), one extremist and one moderate” local sources in Bukavu, north Kivu in the Democratic ...
• 1 June 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Paul Shan tells Fides: “The Church is working to get the death penalty abolished in Taiwan and to promote full respect for life at eve level of society ” Kaohsiung (Fides Service) - “We have called on the government to abolish the death penalty in Taiwan. Many times I have spoken with President Chen Shui-bian and the Minister of Justice making an explicit request for th ...