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28 May 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Vote candidates committed to fighting corruption and promoting social development: Bishops advise Catholic in view of presidential elections on 5 July
Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Vote for a president seriously committed to preventing the destruction of nature and who has the courage to work to eliminate corruption and punish the corrupt. We need a national leader who ...
27 May 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “We are the Church precisely because we send missionaries…missionaries are most obvious proof that we are Church ” says Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Ma Rouco Varela, in a pastoral letter for Diocesan Mission Day in Madrid.
Madrid (Fides Service) -Madrid Archdiocese will celebrate Diocesan Mission Day on Sunday 6 the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity and Pro Orantibus Day for persons consecrated to the contemplative life who offer their life f ...
27 May 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - Points of peace agreement signed yesterday ending civil war in southern Sudan. Conflict in western region of Darfur still unsolved.
Khartoum (Fides Service)- An agreement to end more than twenty years of civil war between the Sudanese government and SPLA Sudan Peoples Liberation Army was finally signed yesterday 26 May at Naivasha, some 70 km from th ...
27 May 2004
AMERICA - Death toll of floods in Dominican Republic and Haiti rises to 2,000. Local Church takes active part in providing relief aid
Rome (Fides Service) - “The dimensions of the tragedy on the Caribbean island La Española continue to grow” Father Luis Rosario Peña in the Dominican Republic told Fides. The death toll in the Dominican Republic is ...
27 May 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Fighting in Bukavu east Congo. Uncertainty with regard the dimensions of the episode
Kinshasa (Fides Service)-“The situation in Kivu is confused and it is difficult to say what exactly is happening” Xaverian missionaries told Fides. “Shooting continues in the city of Bukavu on the outskirts not far ...
27 May 2004
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Crowds mourn Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum one of 30 African bishops who attended Vatican II. Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sends local Church message of condolence: “In love with God and mankind, he strove to build peace, harmony and unity in his country”.
Dakar (Fides Service) - Crowds gathered in Dakar Cathedral this morning 27 May to pay their last respects to Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum, emeritus Archbishop of Dakar who died at the age of 83 on May 18 in Marseilles, F ...
27 May 2004
ASIA/INDIA - National paper front page cartoon offends India’s Christians: Catholic Bishops protest
New Delhi (Fides Service) - India’s Christians were deeply offended by a cartoon with regard to the recent elections in India published by a national newspaper. Strong protest was voiced by the country’s Catholic Bis ...
27 May 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Confusion reigns in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the scene of fighting for the past few days
Bukavu (Fides Service)- The situation in Bukavu, in southern Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) where there has been fighting for some days now between troops loyal to the central government in K ...
26 May 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching at the general audience: God is Judge, but he is also Saviour; he condemns evil and rewards fidelity and justice but above all love..
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In this prayer we hear the pulsing hearts of the just who await in hope the coming of the Lord to render more luminous the vicissitudes of humanity often immersed in the shadows of sin, ...
26 May 2004
VATICAN - Renewal in the Spirit movement welcomes call to pray with the Pope to invoke copious outpouring of the gifts of the Spirit upon the whole Church
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Last Sunday during the Regina Caeli prayer Pope John Paul II invited those who will be present in Rome on Saturday May 29 to join him for Solemn celebration of Vespers on the vigil of the F ...
26 May 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “New evangelisation will be possible only when Christians let themselves be filled by the Holy Spirit with love for Jesus to enable them to become builders of ecclesial communion, overcoming activism and willing to be a reflection of the Risen Lord at every moment of life””. Pentecost Sunday Day of Lay Catholic Apostolate
Madrid (Fides Service) - On Pentecost Sunday 30 May the Church in Spain will celebrate a Day of the Apostolate of the Laity and Catholic Action with the motto "Christian laity, builders of hope". This invitation is addre ...
26 May 2004
AMERICA/PERU - The Rosary, nourishment for evangelising mission. “Instead of speeches and explanations of spiritual themes people need to experience the living God and this is only possible through prayer ” says Bishop of Chosica.
Lima (Fides Service) - The Rosary is “nourishment for the Church’s evangelising mission” because it its from and contents it offers the praying person to experience the presence of God, Contemplating the life, deat ...
26 May 2004
AMERICA - At least 300 killed and hundreds missing in floods raging through Dominican Republic and Haiti
Rome (Fides Service) - According to the community of Camillian Brothers in Haiti, at least 300 people were killed in violent floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, two countries which share the Caribbean island of ...
26 May 2004
AFRICA/MALI - 70% of children infected by waters of Niger River and risk long term damage to vital organs. More than 250 million people in the world have Bilharziosis
Rome (Fides Service) - In developing countries dirty water causes 240 times as many deaths and diseases than in developed countries. In Mali 70% of the children have Bilharziosis, a disease caused by water infested with ...
26 May 2004
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS “The media and the family - A risk and a richness ”: forum for media and pastoral operators in Solomon Islands reflects on Pope John Paul II’s message for the Church’s World Communications Day marked this year on 23 May.
Honiara (Fides Service) - Pastoral and media operators gathered with priests, laity, families and religious to take part in a forum to reflect on Pope John Paul II’s message for this years Day of Social Communications ...
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