News

• 29 May 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - President of Holy See’s Council for Justice and Peace Cardinal Renato Martino visits war torn Uganda: solemn Mass on June 3 to commemorate Ugandan Martyrs. Vatican City (Fides Service) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato R. Martino will visit Gulu, Kalongo and Kitgum three towns in war torn northern area of Uganda. The main purpo ...
• 29 May 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - More than 2,000 priests, religious and laity at the service of children: National Congress for Catholic Educators in Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Walking Beside Them” was the theme of a recent National Congress for Catholic Educators held in Seoul. The event was attended by 2,000 teachers, educators, pastoral workers, priests, men and ...
• 29 May 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A forgotten war. “The Church has no political interest in the crisis in Cabinda, but it cannot remain silent in the face of the tragedy afflicting the people ” says Catholic Vicar General of Cabinda diocese Rome (Fides Service)- “We must emphasise that the Church’s activity is always pastoral, never political ” Mgr Raul Tati, Vicar General of the diocese of Cabinda, said in his intervention at a two day Seminar held 2 ...
• 29 May 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Hebei: two Catholic priests detained by police for five days are released but no sign of two arrested Bishops Baoding (Fides Service) - Two Catholic priests, Father Lu Genjun, aged 42, and Father Cheng Xiaoli, aged 40, arrested on 14 May were released four days later on May 18. The priests were arrested in Anguo, 200 km south we ...
• 28 May 2004
  Pope John Paul II's missionary prayer intention June 2004: “That religious freedom - a fundamental right of humankind - may meet with ever growing respect in Asian countries.” Comment by Archbishop Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Agra, India Vatican City (Fides Service) - The world committed itself to the promotion of Human Rights with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. For many this was a target to be achieved and an ideal to be realized. ...
• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Carrying love to the Whole World": two day Missionary Childhood Congress in Poland Częstochowa (Fides Service) - The 5th National Missionary Childhood Congress Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland is being held 28 and 29 May at Jasna Gora, Częstochowa. The theme of the congress is "Carrying ...
• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Internet to evangelise the world: 2nd meeting for Catholic net surfers Rome (Fides Service) - TotusTuus Network is organising 29 and 30 May in Bologna the 2nd meeting for Catholic net surfers. “Internet does not function with hierarchical logic, it is based on the authority of a presence� ...
• 28 May 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Silver microphone” award for best programme in evangelisation goes to “Children evangelising Children” radio programme broadcast from Belém involving local Missionary Childhood Brasilia (Fides Service) - On May 26 at the studios of Rede Vida de Televisão Brasília, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Brazil and UNDA Brazil (Union of Catholic Radio) presented the “Silver Microphone” award fo ...
• 28 May 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN Now that southern Sudan war has ended, tragedy in Darfur must not be forgotten Roma (Fides Service)- Although a peace agreement has ended the war in southern Sudan (see Fides 27 May 2004), the conflict in the western Sudan region of Darfur is still a tragic reality. In Darfur Arab government, mili ...
• 28 May 2004
  VATICAN - New challenges for ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural dialogue in the world of human mobility: 16th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Plenary Assembly confirmed the conviction that dialogue is the indispensable path to enable every person to become really alive, in the search for the truth about God, mankind and th ...
• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Papaboys forum promotes new young opinion movement “Europa Cristiana” Rome (Fides Service) - Europa Cristiana, a new opinion movement of young Catholics in various countries of Europe who want to help the continent re-discover its Christian identity, will be officially launched on Sunday 3 ...
• 28 May 2004
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Letter from the African forest: Italian missionary Father Angelo Ciccone fifty years of giving lepers love and hope Mzimpofu (Fides Service) - The precarious conditions which missionaries face in the mission territory to which they are called does not undermine their determination to serve their brothers and sisters in need, indeed th ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Education and catechesis and social assistance: Marist Brothers in mostly Muslim area of southern Philippines welcome local novices Kidapawan (Fides Service) - The community of the Marist Brothers in Kidapawan, southern Philippines recently gave a warm welcome to two local novices Brother Jeff Rhey Antiquiza and Brother Albert Munoz. Both young men s ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/QATAR - “Religious freedom antidote to fundamentalism”: 2nd International Conference on Christian/Muslim Dialogue opens in Doha Doha (Agenzia Fides) - Some 300 people have gathered in Doha, Qatar, for the 2nd International Conference on Christian/Muslim Dialogue organised by the commission for relations with Muslims of the Pontifical Council for ...
• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Smoking kills 13,500 people every day. World No Tobacco Day: various initiatives, ranging from “Feel Free to Say No” campaign promoted by the European Commission, to the 6th national conference “Tabagismo e Servizio Sanitario Nazionale” organised by the Italian Higher Institute for Health Rome (Fides Service) - Monday 31 May is World No Tobacco Day. In the world today there are 1.3 billion people who smoke and 84% live in developing countries. Smoking kills 13,500 people every day. At the world level 47.5 ...