News

• 20 February 2004
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - In the battle against meningitis courageous Glasgow Mum calls on George the gorilla to help. Glasgow (Fides Service) - A brand new weapon in the battle against killer disease, meningitis, is being deployed by bereaved mum and former Scotswoman of the year Eileen McKiernan and her colleagues at the Meningitis Ass ...
• 20 February 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Missionary Childhood children in Germany help provide food for starving children in North Korea Aachen (Fides Service ) - To help children in North Korea threatened by starvation, children members of Missionary Childhood in Germany have offered 20,000 Euro to buy food supplies. For many years the German branch of ...
• 20 February 2004
  EUROPE/ RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Visit of President of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity of Christians, Cardinal Walter Kasper in Moscow: brief report on meeting with Orthodox Metropolita Kirill Moscow (Fides Service) - On the second day of his visit to Moscow Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity of Christians had a meeting with the head of the Orthodox Patriarchate ...
• 20 February 2004
  OCEANIA/ TUVALU - Tuvalu submerged by giant tidal wave Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Much of Tuvalu, a small group of coral islands with a population of 11, 500 people in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and Hawaii, was submerged for about one hour by a giant tidal wav ...
• 20 February 2004
  VATICAN - “As the years pass the importance of the Pontifical Academy for Life is ever more evident. While progress in bio-medical science offer glimpses of promising prospects for the good of humanity and for the treatment for serious and distressful illnesses, not rarely serious problems arise with regard to respect for human life and the dignity of the human person” the Pope says in a Message to the Pontifical Academy for Life Vatican City (Fides Service) - “With joy I address this Message to you on the commemoration day for the 10th anniversary of the Pontifical Academy for Life. To each of you I renew the expression of my gratitude for the ...
• 20 February 2004
  VATICAN - Pope John Paul II sends Iranian authorities a message of sympathy after the tragic train accident on 18 February Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II sent a message of condolence to the Iranian authorities after the train accident on 18 February in which hundreds of people lost their lives. In a telegramme, signed on be ...
• 20 February 2004
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - The role of Consecrated Life in formation of a moral conscience in the new multi-cultural Europe: Meeting of the Union of European Conferences of Religious Major Superiors Ljubljana (Fides Service) - The Union of European Conferences of Religious Major Superiors U.C.E.S.M, established 23 years ago to promote cooperation and reciprocal help among Major Superiors in Europe and encourage col ...
• 20 February 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “A poor Church encourages us not to pass by the afflicted but to be pilgrims following the footsteps of Jesus the Good Shepherd” says President of CELAM closing celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the Puebla Conference Mexico City (Fides Service) - The closing act of celebrations 12-15 February in Puebla, Mexico for the 25th anniversary of the 3rd general conference of the Council of Latin American Bishop’s Conferences CELAM in Puebl ...
• 20 February 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Sacred Heart Missionaries (MSC): 150 years proclaiming God’s love for all men and women Rome (Fides Service) - On December 8, 1854, the day Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, in France Father Jules Chevalier (1824-1907) founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC who thi ...
• 20 February 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - “We must work to promote respect for the dignity of every human being ”. the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace visits second largest shanty town in Nairobi Nairobi (Fides Service) - Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace started his visit to Kenya in Kibera, the second largest slum in Nairobi. A report from the African Catholic n ...
• 20 February 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Church in Brazil starts annual Lenten “Fraternity Campaign” to evangelise in a spirit of conversion, interior renewal and community commitment Brasilia (Fides Service) - As the Season of Lent opens, the Church in Brazil embarks on its 40th “Fraternity Campaign which will be presented in Brasilia tomorrow, 25 February, Ash Wednesday at the head quarters of the ...
• 20 February 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Everyday life of a missionary in Congo shared by missionary Father Sergio Vandini Rome (Fides Service)- Rev. Father Sergio Vandini, from Terni diocese in Italy, sent as a Fidei Donum priest to Ntambue, 10 km from Kananga, West Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo, sent Fides a brief report on his life ...
• 20 February 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “No cloning of human embryos ”: local Catholic Church and associations in Korea protest against experiments carried out by local scientists Seoul (Fides Service) - Strong protest, street demonstrations, condemnation for morally incorrect and irresponsible behaviour: these were the reactions in Korea of the Catholic Church and several associations, Catholic a ...
• 19 February 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Elections cannot be organised in 9 months: open debate Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “The enormous amount of work awaiting us cannot be completed in nine months. The political leaders must realise that elections cannot be organised in such a short time”, this opinion was ex ...
• 19 February 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - In Moscow Cardinal Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, speaks on “Orthodox Christianity and the Catholic Church forty years after the Vatican II decree on ecumenism Unitatis redintegratio” Moscow (Fides Service) - At the invitation of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian unity, is on a six da ...