News

• 20 April 2004
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Caritas network offers emergency assistance following worst cyclones in 20 years with a project costing 522,000 Euro Antananarivo (Fides Service) - The worst humanitarian tragedy in Madagascar in 20 years taking hundred of lives, affecting 774,000 people, 30,000 of whom in desperate need of food and emergency medical-care; 216,000 home ...
• 20 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Intercultural Dialogue a tool for peace: 14th African Film Festival, including films from Asia and Latin America. Fides meets one of the founders Annamaria Gallone Rome (Fides Service) - From 22 to 28 March the 14th African Film Festival was held in Milan. This year’s edition included a “Window on the World competition of films from Africa but also Asia and Latin America. A ...
• 20 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Mosul send humanitarian aid to Muslims in besieged city of Falluja Baghdad (Fides Service)- “We want to show that we are one with all Iraqis whatever their beliefs, and in joy and in sorrow ” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, in Mosul diocese told Fides explaining a new humanita ...
• 19 April 2004
  VATICAN - At the Sunday Regina Cæli prayer the Pope says: “Jesus is our peace, because he is the perfect manifestation of Divine Mercy” - Appeal for the peoples of the Holy Land and Iraq: “I am especially close in thought and prayer to the families who fear for the safety of their loved ones, particularly those taken hostage”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Peace, a gift of the Risen Christ, Divine Mercy Sunday, the serious situation in the Holy Land and in Iraq, and an appeal for the release of all hostages, were the main contents of Pope Joh ...
• 19 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY “New wine in new skins” : Xaverian Missionaries in Italy open 12th regional Chapter Ravenna (Fides Service) - At 5pm on Sunday 18 April in the St Peter in Chains House in Ravenna, 31 delegates of Italian Xaverian missionaries gathered in church to pray and to invoke the Holy Spirit for the 12th Chapter ...
• 19 April 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Spokesman of Southern African Bishops’ Conference, Father Efrem Tresoldi, comments for Fides election results in South Africa Johannesburg (Fides Service)- “The South African electorate gave great credit of confidence to the National African Congress (NAC), which now bears the great responsibility of given trust” spokesman of Southern Afric ...
• 19 April 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Positive results from meeting between Prime Minister and Opposition. Agreement on freedom of press, security for Party leaders and party headquarters, freedom of assembly and demonstration Abidjan (Fides Service)- “This is a positive result which inspires cautious optimism”. Local Church sources voiced to Fides satisfaction for the outcome of talks on 17 April between Prime Minister Seydou Diarra and 7 ...
• 19 April 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Meeting of Central America missionary forces after CAM 2: what pastoral strategies to implement a Missionary plan ad gentes in Central America? Guatemala City (Fides Service) - To follow up the Mission ad gentes plan presented to the Second American Mission Congress (CAM 2) last November, the Church in Central America in front line for mission is meeting 19 to ...
• 17 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Dossier Fides: Iraq religion yesterday and today Vatican City (Fides Service) - In view of the tragic situation in Iraq and the growing weight of several Muslim leaders on the scene Fides re-proposes today its Dossier "Iraq and Religions", produced in March 2003, o ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Today 16 April in Baghdad children make their first Holy Communion. Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, of Syrian Catholics in Baghdad told Fides: “Iraqis of different faiths can live side by side Baghdad (Fides Service) - “We ask all Christians to pray for the people of Iraq at this difficult time” Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, Archbishop of the Catholic Syrian Church in Baghdad, told Fides. “All ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Italian Xaverian Missionary Giuseppe Mauri killed in car accident: teaching, AIDS assistance and missionary animation were the main occupations of his day Maputo (Fides Service) -* Italian Xaverian Missionary Giuseppe Mauri, died yesterday, 15 April, in Mozambique, of injuries caused by a road accident. The news was released by Father Joao Bortoloci, head of Xaverian Mi ...
• 16 April 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progressive party wins general elections, President Roh entrusted with the re-launching of the economy Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea begins a new political era with the victory of the liberal-progressive Uri Party which defeated a coalition of conservative and moderate parties. The results were announced by the South Kore ...
• 16 April 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Divine Mercy Sunday must promote the building of a Culture of Mercy as part of the evangelising activity of the Church” says Catholic Bishop of Santo André Santo André (Fides Service) - “The celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday should promote not only devotion to Divine Mercy but it should also give rise to a new Culture of Mercy of the world ” said Bishop Nelson Westrup ...
• 16 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italo-African vaccine to stop the transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus to children Rome (Fides Service) - A vaccine to prevent the mother/child transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus during breast feeding has been produced by researchers at Rome’s Tor Vergata University in collaboration with health centr ...
• 16 April 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Wolisso centre with a population of 400,000 is to have a hospital and a school for training nurses and public health workers Rome (Fides Service) - A good health care centre in a densely populated area important (130/km2) such as Wolisso was extremely necessary because in the Woreda district with a population of 340.000 people there are no m ...