News

• 7 May 2004
  ASIA/ NORTH KOREA - With its 2004-2005 Plan for Humanitarian aid in North Korea Caritas Hong Kong aims to help more than 500,000 children and offer wide range of social support Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “The humanitarian emergency in North Korea is not over. Results obtained thanks to international aid are threatened by persisting economic difficulties”: this is the appeal launched by Car ...
• 7 May 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Not only victims of recent train tragedy: hunger threatens more than 6.5 million people in North Korea Seoul (Fides Service) - A humanitarian alarm with regard the food situation in North Korea was launched yesterday by the United Nations’ World Food Programme WFP. “While the international community provided immediate ...
• 7 May 2004
  Saturday 8 May: Christians of different Churches and Communions “TOGETHER FOR EUROPE ” - International event involving more than 150 Movements, communities and groups. Stuttgart (Fides Service) - On Saturday 8 May in the German town of Stuttgart, a week after the European Union welcomed 10 new member countries, Christians of different Churches and communions will take part in an intern ...
• 7 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The faculty of Bio-Ethics at the Pontifical College Regina Apostolorum in Rome, has organised a Congress “ The rice of hope. Biotech helps look ahead” to fight underdevelopment and food shortage which cases hundreds of thousands of cases of blindness and other diseases in poor countries Rome (Fides Service) -The faculty of Bio-Ethics at the Pontifical College Regina Apostolorum in Rome, has organised a Congress “The rice of hope. Biotech helps look ahead”, Wednesday 12 May 2004. Among the special gu ...
• 7 May 2004
  Andrea Tornielli - “La PASSIONE, i Vangeli e il film di Mel Gibson” (The PASSIONE, The Gospels and Mel Gibson’s Film) Publishers PIEMME Preface by Vittorio Messori, postscript by Gianfranco Ravasi. x Andrea Tornielli - “La PASSIONE, i Vangeli e il film di Mel Gibson” (The PASSIONE, The Gospels and Mel Gibson’s Film) Publishers PIEMME Preface by Vittorio Messori, postscript by Gianfranco Ravasi. Rome (Fi ...
• 6 May 2004
  AMERICA/USA - “I will put up a fight if anyone tries to remove the Crucifix from classrooms” says Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim chaplain of Georgetown University Rome (Fides Service)- “I am convinced that the Cross is an important religious symbol for all people. And I would object to the cross being removed from classrooms at Georgetown University”. This statement was made y ...
• 6 May 2004
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “Poverty is still a major problem in our country” say Catholic Bishops of Bolivia: “the majority of the population experiences poverty which in many cases is extreme”. Cochabamba (Fides Service) - A message to denounce the suffering afflicting the people of Bolivia but at the same time to restore hope to a nation on the brink of desperation seeing no sign of a better future: this was t ...
• 6 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - More than 200 million people in developing countries affected by “duodenal jardis” carried by parasite, Italian Health Institute organises workshop Rome (Fides Service) - To offer an updated picture of progress in the field of epidemology and diagnosis of “duodenal jardis” on Monday 10 May the Italian Health Institute will hold a workshop at which several inter ...
• 6 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Test for Health Systems: what can be done to win the challenge to guarantee everyone’s right to health? Rome (Fides Service) - Differences in health in rich countries and poor countries, are growing as statistics reveal with regard to health, infant mortality rate, infant life expectancy. For Dr Stefano Santini who works ...
• 6 May 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “This is not a war about religion” local Church sources in Nigeria tell Fides with regard to violence in central Nigeria Lagos (Fides Service)- “We will never tire of repeating that this is not a battle between Christians and Muslims it is a question of ethnic identity and politics ” a local Church source in Nigeria told Fides with reg ...
• 6 May 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “400 prisoners on death row. Ten years ago there were 90. The death penalty does not reduce crime” says Father Agostoni, missionary in Uganda, expert in prison pastoral Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “Today in Ugandan prisons there are about 400 prisoners awaiting execution” Comboni missionary Father Tarcisio Agostoni, on mission in Uganda since 1951, told Fides. The missionary, who has prov ...
• 6 May 2004
  ASIA/JAPAN - A year of evangelisation reaps harvest of 83 new adult Christians in a Tokyo parish Tokyo (Fides Service) - Evangelising society, leading catechumens to receive Baptism is the mission of all Christians and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan keeps a steady record of these happy events. In Koeji ...
• 6 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesian heads NGO promotes technical training for young people in view of jobs in various sectors of the economy Guwahati (Fides Service) - A non confessional Non Governmental Organisation “Skills for Progress” (SKIP) has asked a Catholic missionary to be its new director. The Missionary chosen by the NGO, which promotes techni ...
• 6 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “The country needs a new era of peace and stability”: a local Missionary takes a look at the social and political scenario on the eve of May 10 elections Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Re-launch the economy, work for political and social unity, bring to conclusion the peace process undertaken with rebel groups. These are the main challenges which face the new President of the Phi ...
• 6 May 2004
  VATICAN - “Access to medicines in poor countries”: CUMVIVIUM organisation founded by the International Federation of Catholic Pharmacists in collaboration with representatives of Vatican office and pharmaceutical companies meets the press Vatican City (Fides) - On Friday 7 May at 12 noon at Vatican Radio offices, Sala Marconi, there will be a press conference to present activity and projects of CUMVIVIUM, an organisation founded by the International Feder ...