News

• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Tragedy of forced Congolese repatriates expelled by Angola: national Caritas intervenes Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Caritas Congo is coming to the assistance of Congolese expelled from Angola (see Fides 21 and 26 April 2004). According to the local DIA Catholic news agency sponsored by the Catholic Bishops Co ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tragedy of forced Congolese repatriates expelled by Angola: national Caritas intervenes Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Caritas Congo is coming to the assistance of Congolese expelled from Angola (see Fides 21 and 26 April 2004). According to the local DIA Catholic news agency sponsored by the Catholic Bishops Co ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Calm charged with tension in Kano northern Nigeria after recent clashes. Fides sources say hundreds were killed in the violence Kano (Fides Service)- “The situation is still tense although at the moment there is no fighting and the city lives in relative calm” say local Church sources in Kano, northern Nigeria, where Muslim extremists recentl ...
• 13 May 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA- “A Concern for Peace, Unity And Harmony in Uganda” Easter Message of the Catholic Bishops essential to understand the present national situation Kampala (Fides Service) -“We can never, never keep silent on this great evil in our country. We can never say enough has been done to restore peace” the Catholic Bishops of Uganda say with regard to the civil war whi ...
• 13 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - General elections, tolerance wins: in peace, harmony and social progress - Congress Party in the lead: Bishops’ Conference spokesman tells Fides New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The people of India have voted for peace and social harmony. They have chosen not to give in to fundamentalism, not to mix politics and religion, they have demonstrated that they want a sec ...
• 13 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Prayer, forgiveness, reconciliation in 20 years of Christian-Muslim dialogue in southern Philippines for Silsilah Movement founded by a Catholic missionary from Italy Zamboanga (Fides Service) - Twenty years ago it seemed a utopia, the idea of a visionary: today Silsilah Movement for Christian-Muslim dialogue is a splendid reality in Mindanao, where there is Muslim minority group of a ...
• 13 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Corruption, unemployment, poverty: emergencies the new President will have to face without delay Manila (Fides Service) - Awaiting the final results of the elections the first forecasts say outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has an 8 point advantage over her main adversary in presidential elections on 10 May ...
• 12 May 2004
  AMERICA/CANADA-QUEBEC - Mrs Huguette Le Blanc new National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Canada Quebec Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed 7 May 2004, National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies for Canada-Quebec Mrs Hu ...
• 12 May 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Mgr Marie Daniel Dadiet new Metropolitan Archbishop of Korhogo and Rev. Bessi Dogbo new Bishop of Katiola Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 12 May 2004, made the following changes in the Church in Ivory Coast He has appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Korhogo, Bishop Marie Daniel Dadiet ...
• 12 May 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan has “new martyr”: tragic death of Javed Anjum, young Catholic boy who died after 5 days of atrocious torture inflicted by Muslims extremists bent on making him renounce his faith Faisalabad (Fides Service) - There is grief and concern among Christians in Pakistan after the death of a young Catholic boy Javed Anjum, who died after 5 days of atrocious torture inflicted by Muslims extremists to make ...
• 12 May 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong International Film Festival institutes a Catholic Culture Prize Hong Kong (Fides Service) - During the recent International Film Festival in Hong Kong, a Catholic Culture Prize was instituted by the International Catholic Organisation of the Cinema and Audio-Visuals. The goal of the ...
• 12 May 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The “TaoYuan Centre of Formation for the Apostolate ” promotes prison pastoral Hsinchu (Fides Service) - To promote spiritual and psychological assistance for prison inmates the TaoYuan Centre of Formation for the Apostolate in Hsinchu diocese, Taiwan, organised a meeting at the LongTan Prison for ...
• 12 May 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly Teaching “We must never let ourselves be ensnared by the obscure tangle of desperation, when all seems lost…neither must we allow ourselves to fall into the illusion that we can save ourselves with our own resources.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Sweet and sincere thanksgiving” coming from the heart of one who has been delivered from death: this was how Pope John Paul described the theme of Psalm 29 (“Thanksgiving for Deliver ...
• 12 May 2004
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 16 MAY - Josep Manyanet (1833-1901): honour, imitate and propagate the example of the Holy Family of Nazareth Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Josep Manyanet was born into a large and Christian family on January 7, 1933 in North eastern Spain, in the city of Tremp, province of Lleida. He was baptised on the same day at his parish ...
• 12 May 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Clashes in northern Nigeria. “At least one Catholic church has been destroyed by Muslim extremists” Fides receives dramatic report Kano (Fides Service)-“The situation in Kanu is tense. The curfew in force until yesterday was lifted this morning but people are still afraid to leave their homes although police and army troop patrol the streets” lo ...