News

• 19 February 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope announces that Blessed Luigi Orione and five other new Saints will be canonised on May 16 Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Orione family all over the world is rejoicing: during a public Concistory in the Vatican Pope John Paul II announced that Blessed Luigi Orione founder of the Piccola Opera della Divina ...
• 19 February 2004
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Clean water for 100,000 people Rome (Fides Service) - In mid January the Movement for the Fight Against Hunger in the World (MLFM) went on a mission to evaluate a water project underway in Humure, Rwanda. The work is progressing. With the help of a lo ...
• 19 February 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti’s Catholic Bishops plead: “take necessary measures to prevent a blood bath of civilians” Port au Prince (Fides Service)- “We appeal to the consciences of our governors to take the necessary measures to put an end to this situation and avoid a blood bath of civilians”. The Bishops of Haiti launched this a ...
• 19 February 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Growing synergy among religious engaged in evangelisation through culture and publications: in January 2005 third meeting for operators in the sector Rome (Fides Service) - An increasing number of religious congregations are putting energies, funds and human resources into print and electronic media to evangelise culture. With this in mind the Union of Superiors Gene ...
• 19 February 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - After the Olympic Games, World Youth Day: the Church in Australia is a candidate for World Youth Day 2007 Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Australia would like to host the World Youth Day 2007. As preparations for WYD in Germany 2005 go ahead, in a statement issued at the end of a plenary assembly in Sydney t ...
• 19 February 2004
  ASIA/IRAN - Tomorrow elections in Iran. Turnout uncertain: women and youth expected to stay at home Teheran (Fides Service) - Iran prepares for elections tomorrow, 20 February, in an atmosphere of deep uncertainty. Most reform parties have said they will desert the vote. Several reform party members have called for the ...
• 19 February 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Local Church fully supports peace talks between India and Pakistan New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The local Church is strongly in favour of peace talks: we hope India-Pakistan relations will be normalised at all levels, political, economic, commercial, cultural and religious”, Father ...
• 18 February 2004
  EUROPE/SERBIA-MONTENEGRO - Annual Meeting of the South-East European Bishops’ Conference with strong ecumenical and interreligious emphasis Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the invitation of the Catholic Archbishop of Belgrade, Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar, Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe are to meet in Belgrade from 20-22 February ...
• 18 February 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Korean priest on mission in Japan to help the local Church with pastoral and missionary work Seoul (Fides Service) - Rev. Anthony Youn Yeo-ok, a priest at the parish of Sapgyo in the Korean diocese of Taejon, said goodbye to confreres, friends and the faithful and took up the mission mandate given by his Bishop ...
• 18 February 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Visit to Moscow by Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity among Christians. See Cardinal Kasper’s homily at the Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Mary Moscow (Fides Service) - At the invitation of the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation, Cardinal Walter Kasper President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity among Chr ...
• 18 February 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong journalist one of five new women Consultors to the Pontifical Council for Culture Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Annie Lam Shun-wai, a journalist from Hong Kong, will carry the rich heritage of the Far East to the Pontifical Council for Culture PCC which has the mission to promote dialogue between fait ...
• 18 February 2004
  VATICAN - “God passionately desires and ardently longs for our salvation” the Pope said in his Wednesday teaching focused on the ancient hymn of blessing for “the wonders God has worked for us in Christ”: Vatican City (Fides Service) - At his Wednesday Audience on 18 February Pope John Paul II focussed his teaching on a hymn dedicated to ‘God the Saviour’ (cfr Eph 1,3-10): “The splendid hymn of «blessing», which i ...
• 18 February 2004
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Dramatic appeal from Caritas Internationalis: Eritrea urgently needs clean water, seed for farmers, medical care for millions of impoverished people Rome (Fides Service)- “Eritrea is battling with the consequences of 4 successive years of drought and has still not recovered from the tragic war with Ethiopia” said a member of Caritas in Britain CAFOD Catholic Agen ...
• 18 February 2004
  AFRICA - Cholera is still spreading in Africa, Africans still die of a disease which today can be prevented with simple precautions Rome (Fides Service) - Togo’s health ministry has issued a warming about an epidemic of cholera which has already killed 17 people in the capital Lome. Confirmed 413 cases and the presence of new infections in surround ...
• 18 February 2004
  VATICAN - Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Life opens with celebrations to make the 10th anniversary of its institution Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow, 19 February 2004, the Pontifical Council for Life, established by Pope John Paul II on 11th February 1994, will start its 10th General Assembly with celebrations to mark the 10th ...