News

• 14 May 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the whole of America, Brazil had almost 96% of the 39,939 new cases of leprosy registered in 2002. Government campaign to eliminate leprosy in Brazil by 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The Brazilian government has launched a campaign with which it hopes by 2005 to eliminate leprosy in Brazil where more than 90% of the reported cases in the whole of America were registered. More ...
• 14 May 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Nairobi Archdiocese celebrates for the ordination of six priests and 5 deacons Nairobi (Fides Service) - For the next two Saturdays 15 May and 22 May there will be great celebrations in the Catholic archdiocese of Nairobi for the ordinations of eleven young men, six to the priesthood and five to th ...
• 14 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - From Pakistan Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, President of the Pakistan Bishops’ Conference, welcomes Congress Party victory in India Lahore (Fides Service) - “We welcome the news that Congress Party has won the elections and we hope the party will carry forward and intensify the peace process started between India and Pakistan. This victory is a goo ...
• 14 May 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - An Exhibition of photographs of Pope John Paul II draws enthusiastic visitors, Catholics and non Taipei (Fides Service) - May 27 is the closing day for a travelling Exhibition of Photographs of Pope John Paul II which has won the hears of people all over Taiwan, Catholics and non. The exhibition, organised by the Ch ...
• 14 May 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Local Catholic parish blesses non Christian wedding couples and spreads the value of Christian love XuZhou (Fides Service) - Church weddings are in great demand in China and not only for Christians. Many non Christian couples show great interest in Christian values and Christian family life and come to Catholic churche ...
• 14 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATION 16 MAY - Paola Elisabetta Cerioli (1816-1865): the uplifting and development of society starting from the family Vatican City (Fides Service) - Paola Elisabetta Cerioli, was born to noble parents in 1816 in Soncino, Cremona, Italy. She was an obedient and docile child. At the age of eleven she was sent to a boarding school run by t ...
• 14 May 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “One of our greatest concerns is the situation of violence insecurity in which our people have to live ” says Catholic Bishops’ Conference Guatemala City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Guatemala have voiced deep concern for the situation of violence and insecurity with which the people have to contend every day and the crisis in values which is t ...
• 14 May 2004
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the faith among these people”: Father Marco Mikalonis, missionary from Argentina shares with Fides his first Easter in Lithuania. Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was deeply moving to see the Easter sun rise on a land where 50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the people’s faith” Father Marco Mikalonis a young missionary from A ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - One quarter of the initiatives to help people suffering from HIV/AIDS are run by Catholic organisations: the contribution of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood Vatican (Fides Service) - “According to the United Nations report on AIDS, 42 million people in the world are HIV+ and of these 19 million are women and 3.2 are children under 15. In Africa more than 11 million childre ...
• 13 May 2004
  Looking for something at Fides? Now you can find it a the click of a mouse New Fides “Site Search” allows you to search the contents of all the publicly available WWW documents at this site, news, dossier and in depth reflections published by Fides Service (Fides Service 13/5/2004 - Righe ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Society of St Peter Apostle supports 80.000 seminarians in formation all over the world: “changing the mentality and encouraging shared commitment for missionary cooperation ” Rome (Fides Service) - Capillary work to make seminarians in missionary territories understand that they are being supported by mission offerings and the great effort made to collect and distribute this aid, and this in ...
• 13 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The right to life cannot depend on geography.” Appeal to fight AIDS in Africa launched by international conference organised by the Sant’Egidio Community Rome (Fides Service) - Today May 13, an appeal to fight AIDS in Africa was signed by 13 African health ministers attending an International Conference organised in Rome by the Sant'Egidio Community. AIDS is a silent th ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU Appointment of Catholic woman as minister for the family and to overcome poverty meets with approval Bissau (Fides Service)- “Catholics in Guinea are very pleased that a Catholic woman Eugenia Saldania has been appointed Minister for the Family and to overcome Poverty” Father Davide Sciocco of Radio Radio Sol Mansi ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses General Chapter of the Pauline Fathers and Brothers: “Be first of all men of prayer and joyous witnesses of unswerving loyalty to Christ. At the head of every project, may there be the divine Master, towards whom must converge all apostolic and missionary activity in a field, that of social communications, most important for new evangelisation.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Strive always to combine necessary professional competence with ongoing effort for holiness. Be first of all men of prayer and joyous witnesses of unswerving loyalty to Christ. At the he ...
• 13 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS DEL 16 MAY - Nimatullah Al-Hardini (1808-1858): the «Saint» of Kfifan, a man of God and a man of science. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Nimatullah Al-Hardini, a Lebanese Maronite monk, was born in 1808 at Hardin, in the north of Lebanon. At the baptismal font he receives the name of Youssef. He belonged to a Maronite family ...