News

• 4 February 2004
  AMERICA/CHILE - “IN THE LIGHT OF THE FAITH, EVERYTHING IS GRACE”: MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLES AND FAMILIES OF AMERICA AT THE END OF 20TH INTERNATIONAL CIEC CONGRESS ON THE FAMILY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM MILLENNIO Santiago del Chile (Fides Service) – More than one thousand participants, bishops, teachers, mother and fathers, from all over the Continent of America, attended the 20th International Congress of the Inter American Co ...
• 3 February 2004
  VATICAN – THE POPE CELEBRATES DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: “IN THE QUIET OF THE MONASTERY OR CLOISTER, OR BESIDE THE POOR AND THE EXCLUDED, AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, OR IN CHURCH STRUCTURES, ENGAGED IN VARIOUS APOSTOLIC ACTIVITIES OR IN MISSION LANDS, GOD WANTS YOU TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS MISSION AND DEDICATED TO THE GOOD OF OTHERS.”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Those who have offered their life to Christ for ever for the coming of the Kingdom are invited to repeat their “yes” to the special vocation they have received. But also the entire ...
• 3 February 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN – DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE - “OUR MISSIONARY CONCERN WITH REGARD TO THE FUTURE MUST BE NOT TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF COMMITMENTS BUT TO FILL WHAT WE DO WITH LIFE AND MEANING ” Madrid (Fides Service) – I64.966 Spanish religious in 7.526 communities belonging to 391 different congregations celebrated the 8th Day for the Consecrated Life with the motto “Seduced by Jesus for the Cause of Justi ...
• 3 February 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY – CONCRETE COMMITMENT FOR PROMOTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS A DUTY FOR ALL BELIEVERS: GERMAN BISHOPS FOCUS THIS YEAR’S CAMPAIGN OF SOLIDARITY ON PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA Bonn (Fides Service) –“Solidarity with Persecuted and Discriminated Christians in our Day ” is the slogan of a second annual campaign launched by the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Germany to increase awareness ...
• 3 February 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – “AUTHORITIES AND PEOPLE ARE CALLED TO WALK THE PATH OF SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE TO BUILD A FUTURE OF AUTHENTIC PEACE”: SAY BISHOPS IN ANNUAL STATEMENT Guatemala de l’Asunción (Fides Service) – At the end of the annual plenary assembly the Bishops of Guatemala issued a statement “Urgent need for solidarity and justice ”, dated 30 January 2004. The document has ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA: WORST HEALTH INDICATORS ON THE PLANET; LIFE EXPECTANCY 47 YEARS; INFANT MORTALITY RATE 125 FOR EVERY 1.000 BORN ALIVE; MORTALITY OF MOTHERS ESTIMATED 1,500 FOR EVERY 100,000 BORN ALIVE. CUAMM Medici Doctors with Africa has been in Angola since 1997. Here peace arrived only in February 2002 after a long devastating war. But Angola is till a difficult, complex country, with regard to which it is difficult ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - TRAGIC ACCIDENT AT CHIULO INVOLVING HEALTH WORKERS SENT BY CUAMM MEDICI CON L’AFRICA: ONE KILLED THE OTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED Rome (Fides Service) - Not mines, not some terrible disease but a tragic road accident due to bad roads in the rainy season was the cause of the accident involving Italian CUAMM health care workers at Chiulo in Angola. O ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN – FIGHTING CONTINUES IN WEST SUDAN. REPORTS OF VIOLENCE AND MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS. MORE THAN 100,000 TAKE REFUGE IN NEARBY CHAD. SINCE FEBRUARY LAST YEAR 3,000 KILLED Khartoum (Fides Service)- The humanitarian situation in Darfur, west Sudan, is ever more critical. International humanitarian organisations say the Sudanese army and airforce are attacking villages along the border with ...
• 3 February 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – ISLAMIC GUERRILLA AND PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT RESUME EXPLORATIVE TALKS FOR PEACE PROCESS Manila (Fides Service) – The Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Muslim separatist active in southern Philippines have resumed talks to explore the possibility of re-opening of the peac ...
• 3 February 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - AFTER RECOVERING FROM ATTACKS BY HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS SALESIAN SCHOOL REOPENS WITH 75% OF PUPILS BUT ONLY 50% OF STAFF New Delhi (Fides Service) – Threats continue, tension is latent and violence has left its mark especially on Salesian Father Stanny Ferreira, seriously wounded by Hindu fundamentalists who attacked the school two week ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – ELIMINATE CORRUPTION TO RESTORE PEACE. RADIO MARIA MALKIA WA AMANI DI BUKAVU EXPLAINS SITUATION TO FIDES Bukavu (Fides Service)- A government delegation to Bukavu, in east Democratic Congo in late January was the bearer of a message of peace and reconciliation for the entire country. For several years Bukavu was in the hand ...
• 2 February 2004
  VATICAN - 2 FEBRUARY: DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE - “THE MISSION OF CONSECRATED LIFE IN THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH, CONCERNS NOT ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THIS SPECIAL CHARISMA, BUT THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Today 2 February, Feast of the Presentation of the Infant Jesus at the Temple, the Church celebrates the 8th Day for Consecrated Life. In his message for the first such Day in 1997, the ...
• 2 February 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - A DELEGATION OF S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY LED BY MONS. VINCENZO PAGLIA VISITS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN MOSCOW Rome (Fides Service ) – From 25 to 28 January a delegation of the Rome based charity association S. Egidio Community led by its Spiritual Counsellor Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia paid another vi ...
• 2 February 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY – “AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED” OPENS NEW RADIO STUDIOS WHICH WILL FOCUS ON AREAS WHERE THE CHURCH IS PERSECUTED OR IN PARTICULAR NEED Munich (Fides Service) – The German branch of “Aid to the Church in Need” ACN recently opened a new Radio Studios in Munich. According to ACN Statement the studios will begin by broadcasting Universal Church News ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA - DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – SPANISH SISTER MARINA HAS SPENT 20 YEARS HELPING AFRICAN WOMEN REALISE THEIR DIGNITY AND SPECIAL ROLE IN SOCIETY Rome (Fides Service) - Sister Marina Martínez González, a Spanish member of the Teresian Carmelite Missionaries has spent more than 20 years in Africa promoting the conditions of women in different countries Democratic ...