News

• 5 February 2004
  18/21 February: 14th International Colloquium and Mariology dedicated to Ippolito Marracci - “The Immaculate Mother of God in the 17th Century ” Rome (Fides Service) – “The immaculate Mother of God in the 17th Century” is the title of the 14th International Colloquium on Mariology dedicated to Ippolito Marracci promoted jointly by the Italian Interdisciplin ...
• 5 February 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - “We must not be afraid to announce Christ’s message!”: Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, president of the Indian Bishops’ Conference encourages fearful Catholics after Hindu fundamentalist attacks and ant-Church campaigns Guwahati (Fides Service) – Catholics must not let attacks by Hindu fundamentalists weaken the Church’s missionary spirit, indeed this is a trial to be faced with the courage of the faith: this appeal to the Church in ...
• 4 February 2004
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY AUDIENCE TEACHING: TO BE IN COMMUNION WITH THE LORD IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE LITURGY IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO PURIFY THE EXTERIOR BUT TO PURIFY CONSCIENCE. Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the Audience on Wednesday 4 February Pope John Paul II continued his teaching on the Psalms prayed at Vespers, commenting Psalm 14 “Who is worthy to stand before the Lord?” ( M ...
• 4 February 2004
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL YEAR BOOK 2004: NUMBER OF PRIESTS REMAINS STABLE, INCREASE IN PERMANENT DEACONS AND LAY MISSIONARIES, NUMBERS OF SEMINARIANS RISING IN AFRICA AND AMERICA Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Pontifical Year Book 2004 presented to Pope John Paul II yesterday 3 February by Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano, supplies information on the pastoral activity of the Catho ...
• 4 February 2004
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’S PRAYER INTENTIONS 2005 ASSIGNED TO THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER FOR THE YEAR JANUARY Missionary - For vocations in mission lands: may the Lord continue to call holy and selfless men and women eager to proclaim the Gospel. General - For people working for peace in the Middle East: may they neve ...
• 4 February 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - ROTAVIRUS ATTACKS GUATEMALA, CHILDREN FIRST HIT: 12 DEAD AND 11,000 INFECTED Rome (Fides Service) – An epidemic of rotavirus in Guatemala has killed 12 children and infected 11,000 in a few days. The health ministry has declared a situation of emergency in 5 of the country’s 22 departments. ...
• 4 February 2004
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES (CCEE) AND OF THE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN CHURCHES (CEC) LOOK TOWARDS THIRD EUROPEAN ECUMENICAL ASSEMBLY ON THE THEME ‘CHRIST IS THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE’ St Gallen (Fides Service ) - The Joint Committee of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) met in Kamien Slanski, (archdiocese of Opole) Poland, from 29 Jan ...
• 4 February 2004
  FROM TOMORROW NEW LOOK FOR FIDES NEWS ...
• 4 February 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD - SUDANESE MILITIA PUSH AS FAR AS 70 KM INTO CHAD CHASING REFUGEES FROM VIOLENCE IN WEST SUDAN Rome (Fides Service) - the situation of Sudanese refugees in Chad is ever more dramatic. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR says there are more than 110,000 refugees along the border with Sudan. UNHCR ...
• 4 February 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FIRST COMMUNITY OF DON ORIONE SISTERS NOT FAR FROM EVIL-SMELLING DUMP IN QUEZON CITY Manila (Fides Service) - "For years we dreamed of having a community of Little Missionary Sisters of Charity in the Philippines and now the dream has come true" said Sr. Maria Ortensia Turati, Superior General of this re ...
• 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 ...