News

• 26 February 2004
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Reverend Caietano Pimenta Pereira confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 13 February 2004, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Cape Verde ...
• 26 February 2004
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - New National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Reverend Eugenio Scarpellini Mazzoleni Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, 13 February 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bolivia Rev ...
• 26 February 2004
  Fides inuagurates new powerful modern search techniqe: see 470 exclusive photos documentation of the history of Catholic missionary work Vatican City (Fides Service) - Fides section “history in photos” and “news in photos” (www.fides.org) has a new method of searching by area, nation and date. We recently added 470 exclusive photos from Fides Arch ...
• 26 February 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - On the first day of Lent French Cardinal Barbarin calls Christians and all people of good will to show solidarity with earthquake victims in Morocco Lyons (Fides Service) - On the first day of Lent the season of fasting, prayer and sharing, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyons, urged Catholics to show solidarity towards victims of the earthquake in Morrocc ...
• 26 February 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED NATIONS - United Nations vaccination campaign to prevent feared epidemic of yellow fever in Liberia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations says that in Liberia three people have died of yellow fever and another 11 suspect cases of infection are reported. The World Health Organisation WHO said that in Liberia there a ...
• 26 February 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - epidemic of rotavirus continues to strike in South America, now also in El Salvador where 18 cases are reported Rome (Fides Service) - At least 18 children have died and 10,000 people have been infected by the epidemic of rotavirus in Guatemala since last November. Now the virus has crossed the border to El Salvador where 18 cases ...
• 26 February 2004
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Building peace with culture: Catholic school pupils turn ethnic and cultural differences into enriching theatre Honiara (Fides Service) - Schools and school children are helping to build peace in Solomon Islands with a variety of activities to promote dialogue and reconciliation including theatre. The pupils of St. Joseph’s Cath ...
• 26 February 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s annual meeting with his priests of Rome diocese: “Marriage and the family cannot be considered simply a product of circumstances or a superstructure imposed on human love from outside … We must see our apostolate with families as a source of grace, a gift given to us by God” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “To give the family a central place or, better still, to recognise the family’s centrality in God’s plan for mankind and hence in the life of the Church and society, is a task which c ...
• 26 February 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Some school doors open, some pupils arrive but no teachers. A missionary from northern Ivory Coast tells the story Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Some pupils went to school but they found no teachers” said a missionary in Bouake, main city in northern Ivory Coast held by “New Forces” rebel group. “Schools were officially opened ...
• 25 February 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope starts Lent by presiding Ash Wednesday Liturgy in St Peter’s: “To be authentic disciples of Christ it is necessary to renounce self, to take up our cross every day and follow Him. This is the difficult path to holiness which every baptised Christian is called to walk.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 10.30 this morning, 25 February, Pope John Paul II presided the Ash Wednesday Liturgy in St Peter’s Basilica filled to capacity with pilgrims and visitors from all over the world. In h ...
• 25 February 2004
  VATICAN - “Catholic moral teaching cannot accept artificial procreation whatever methods are used ”, said Archbishop Elio Sgreccia at the end of the 10th general assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Life Vatican City (Fides Service) - Archbishop Elio Sgreccia had this to say at the end of the 10th general assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Life: “The assembly this year was unique because it marked the 10th annivers ...
• 25 February 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Muslim and Christian school teachers from all over Mindanao agree that peace begins at school, where children must be educated to reciprocal esteem and respect Davao (Fides Service) - Peace in the large southern Philippines island of Mindanao where there are several groups of armed Muslim separatists begins at school where children must be educated to tolerance, dialogue, recip ...
• 25 February 2004
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholic Church says draft of new Firearms Control Act must give greater attention to protecting women from domestic violence Pretoria (Fides Service) - The Parliamentary Liaison Office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference SACBC, that has several times expressed concern about the delay in the finalisation of the regulations, i ...
• 25 February 2004
  VATICAN - Catechesis and Communication: integrating the Christian message in the new culture of the third millennium: a reflection by Prof. Pighin Vatican City (Fides Service) - Father Claudio Pighin, member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions PIME and Director of the Communications Centre of the Pontifical Urban University reflects on a very topical s ...
• 25 February 2004
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Earth tremor in Morocco: official toll of death and destruction; the Pope sends message of sympathy Rome (Fides Service) - According to official statements at least 600 hundred people were killed, many while still asleep, thousands injured, and hundreds of homes destroyed by a violent earthquake early on Tuesday 24 Fe ...