News

• 17 March 2004
  VATICAN - Missionary Stations of the Cross prayer recalls suffering of children in the world: a response to Pope John Paul II’s call for Lent 2004 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The general secretariat of the Pontifical Mission Society for Missionary Childhood has produced a special Missionary Stations of the Cross which unites the suffering of children with the su ...
• 17 March 2004
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - The family must be a priority for the European Union: COMECE statement Brussels (Fides Service) - The COMECE Secretariat has today 16 March 2004 published detailed proposals for an EU Family Strategy designed to make the enlarged EU "the most family-friendly region of the world by 2010". ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Render operative principle lines of evangelisation in Brazil: one of the most important objectives of the 6th Meeting of Organisms of the People of God Brasilia (Fides Service) - Promoted and organised by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil, CNBB, in co-ordination with the Organisms of the People of God, from 26 to 28 March at the SESC Venda Nuova at Belo Hori ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Lord, show me your way!” is the slogan of the Inculturation Work Shop for missionaries in the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas: knowing and valorising Amazon regional myths to integrate them in the work of evangelisation Indiana (Fides Service ) - From 11 to 14 March in Indiana (Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas) an Inculturation Work Shop for missionaries was held in the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas with the ...
• 17 March 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese police release Catholic Bishop Wei Jingyi arrested on 5 March Vatican City (Fides Service) - With great joy Fides learned of the release of Bishop Wei Jingyi, Bishop of the Chinese diocese of Qiqihar, detained by the Chinese police on March 5. The news of the arrest of Bishop Wei J ...
• 17 March 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the Wednesday audience: “The face of Christ, messianic King is the irradiation of the Father’s glory. He is the Son in the fullest sense and therefore the perfect presence of God among humanity ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the Weekly Audience this morning, 17 March, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II addressed thousands of visitors from all over the world and he focussed his teaching on Psalm 20 ...
• 17 March 2004
  ASIA/JAPAN - Catholic students in Japan fight trafficking and sexual abuse of minors Tokyo (Fides Service) - Catholic students in Japan are working to eliminate trafficking and sexual abuse of minors in Japan and elsewhere: many of Tokyo’s young people work as volunteers at the offices of the Japanese ...
• 17 March 2004
  EUROPE - Mutant tuberculosis virus develops resistance to drugs used to treat the disease and threatens Europe Rome (Fides Service) - The European Union is said to be threatened by a wave of tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organisation which warns that no country is completely safe from contagion. In the world some 30 ...
• 17 March 2004
  VATICAN - What sort of assistance should be given to patients in a vegetative state? International Conference on “ Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” opens today in Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - Some 370 participants from 42 different countries are in Rome to attend an International Congress on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dile ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/USA - Iraqi Christians in the United States: a community spiritually united and strong Rome (Fides Service)- “It was a joy to see the community so spiritually united and strong” Iraqi Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, from Ninive diocese in Iraq told Fides after a recent visit to Catholics in the Un ...
• 17 March 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Discussion about presidential powers: government withdraws from National Constitutional Reform Conference Nairobi (Fides Service)-“This is a difficult time in Kenya’s political life” a local Church source in Nairobi told Fides with regard to the stall in the debate on the reform of the Constitution since the government ...
• 17 March 2004
  ASIA/ PHILIPPINES - “Reconciliation will only come through forgiveness” say Christians and Muslims leaders in the southern Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - “The only way to heal the trauma, the wounds of war victims is to promote reconciliation through forgiveness”: this affirmation was made by the Bishops-Ulema Conference, (BUC), formed in 1996 ...
• 16 March 2004
  VATICAN - How to connect the Christian City with Worldly City which seems to ignore God? Atheism and religious indifference at the centre of the recent plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture Vatican City (Fides Service) - If we wanted to describe with an image the situation discussed by participants at the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, held recently in the Vatican, we could give the ...
• 16 March 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dialogue, tolerance, truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation are values needed for rebuilding the nation and respect for institutions: Catholic Bishops of Haiti issue message to the people. Port au Prince (Fides Service) - Concerned at the situation of spreading poverty and insecurity despite the presence of foreign troops, which provokes violence, revenge, hatred which like in a nightmare strike repeatedly ...
• 16 March 2004
  18 March: International Conference at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College “Women and human rights ”. Rome (Fides Service) - Which is the most important of human rights? What is the role of women to defend and protect human rights? The building of a culture of peace is one of the most important challenges of the 21st ce ...