News

• 17 June 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Young people, please stay in Iraq!” says Iraqi Catholic priest Father Bashar Warda working to keep hope alive Baghdad (Fides) - “Young people please stay in Iraq and help our society develop!”: this was the calllaunched by Iraqi Catholic priest, Father Bashar Warda, aged 32, who teaches in Baghdad at Babel College for Philos ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop Darius Nggawa of Larantuka resigns, he is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Franciscus Kopong Kung, Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 16 June 2004, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Larantuka (Indonesia), presented by Bishop Darius Nggawa, S.V.D., ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New institute of consecrated life opened in Myanmar based on the spirituality of Saint Theresa the Little Flower Hakha (Fides Service) - “Sisters of the Little Way of Saint Theresa”: is the official name of an Institute of Consecrated Life of Carmelite spirituality, founded jointly by Bishop Nicholas Mang Thang, of Hakha dioces ...
• 16 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the General Audience: unwavering trust in God “our refuge and our strength always near in times of anguish…the world and its vicissitudes are governed by the Lord ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 45, which Pope John Paul II commented during his teaching at the Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square, “celebrates the Holy City of Jerusalem, «the City of God, the holy dwell ...
• 16 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses members of the post-synodal Council for the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops: the new chains binding the continent must be broken “a joint effort must be made by all the forces of society, and especially those of the Church already at work with interventions at every level with abnegation and dedication ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “I called the first Special Assembly the "Synod of resurrection and hope" (Ecclesia in Africa, 13) and it was true because already, here and there, we see the first signs of this new bloo ...
• 16 June 2004
  EUROPE - “Now is the time of a new discovery and proposal of the Gospel for our continent”. Conclusions of General Secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe CCEE Meeting in Belgrade Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the same time that the inhabitants of the 25 nations of the European Union were going to the polls for the election of Members of the European Parliament, the General Secretaries of the Bis ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “We have a real opportunity for peace in Southern Philippines ”: analysis by Father Eliseo Mercado, head of the Office for Justice and Peace of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Manila (Fides Service) - “The Philippines has a real opportunity to end the conflict between the government and rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front MILF in the southern islands”: this is the opinion voiced by ...
• 16 June 2004
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islands consolidates social peace and restarts engines of economy and tourism - local Church works to promote social reconciliation and offer psychological assistance to heal traumas caused by violence Honiara (Agenzia Fides) -Solomon Islands is rediscovering life, hope and serenity a year after the arrival of the peacekeepers from Australia who came to restore order and security in a situation of conflict which had la ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Form laity to carry out pastoral and social tasks: urgency for the Church in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Fides Service) - According to Italian missionary Father Giorgio Pasini, PIME, parish priest at St Andrews Catholic parish in Hong Kong, priests and especially parish priests must get out of their offices and c ...
• 16 June 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics learn the joy of voluntary work: more Catholics serving at centres for disabled persons and leprosy sufferers Beijing (Fides Service) - A growing number of Catholics are volunteering to serve at “Hui Ling Community Service for People with disabilities” in Beijing, a Church run centre with the help of missionaries for childre ...
• 15 June 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Universal mission at Germany’s 95th ‘Katholikentag’ opening tomorrow in Ulm: funds collected will go to help street children in various parts of the world Ulm (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 June in Ulm, in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the Church in Germany will celebrate its 95th “Katholikentag” with the motto “Drawing life from the Power of God”. The pro ...
• 15 June 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Seminar on “Evangelisation and Ecumenical Encounter” for young Catholics and young Presbyterians Taipei (Fides Service) - In Taiwan, and not only in Taiwan, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue are fundamental for social harmony. Recently Father Albert Poulet-Mathis, head of the Commission interreligious dialogue a ...
• 15 June 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Salesian Superior of the Chinese province leads course of spiritual theology for the Sisters of St Joseph in Beijing Beijing (Fides Service) - Salesian Father Savio Hon, Superior of the Chinese province, was recently invited to Beijing to give a series of conferences to the community of the Sisters of St Joseph. According to the local ...
• 15 June 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 3rd National Youth Mission Congress now imminent: about 700 participants will “celebrate, study and proclaim the gift of faith and the challenge of Mission Ad Gentes starting from the situation of youth in the Third Millennium” Caracas (Fides Service) - Last minute preparations for Venezuela’s 3rd National Youth Mission Congress to be held 24 to 27 giugno, at the parish of “Our Lady of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá del Santo Cristo della Vega ...
• 15 June 2004
  EUROPE/AFRICA - Dialogue with cultures and religions, particularly with Islam, building peace, fighting the AIDS pandemic, promoting African values: objectives discerned by White Fathers General Chapter which closes tomorrow. Fides interviewed new Superior General Father Gérard Chabanon. Rome (Fides Service) - Founded in 1868 in Algeria by Archbishop Charles Lavigerie of Algiers, the Missionaries of Africa came to be known as White Fathers because of the white habit they chose. Archbishop Lavigierie want ...