News

• 2 December 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A REFLECTION BY GENETIST REVEREND SIMPORE FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: HOPE AND FEAR: DO WE LET PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES ACCUMULATE DRUGS IN THEIR STORE HOUSES WHILE THE POOR DIE FOR LACK OF TREATMENT? AFRICA/BURKINA FASO A REFLECTION BY GENETIST REVEREND SIMPORE FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: HOPE AND FEAR: DO WE LET PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES ACCUMULATE DRUGS IN THEIR STORE HOUSES WHILE THE POOR DIE FOR LACK OF TREA ...
• 1 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: “TO PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS MEANS REAWAKENING HOPE FOR PEACE AMONGST OURSELVES AND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. HOW GREAT IS THE WORLD'S NEED OF THIS PEACE! I REPEAT MY CALL TO THE LEADERS OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS: LET US UNITE EFFORTS TO PREACH NON-VIOLENCE, FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION!” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On 30 November, the first Sunday of Advent, Pope John Paul II made yet another call for world peace urging the leaders of the great religions to unite efforts to preach pardon and reconci ...
• 1 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: A CALL AND HOPE FOR AFRICA DOVE WITH 30 MILLION SUFFERING FROM HIV/AIDS, BUT NO THERAPY Rome (Fides Service) – The Rome based community of S. Egidio supports the warning launched by Kofi Annan on the risk that the AIDS battle may be lost and it supports the moral appeal of the AIDS struggle as a central ...
• 1 December 2003
  AFRICA - “OUR PRAYER IS ALWAYS FULL OF HOPE ”: A MESSAGE FROM MORE THAN 600 AFRICAN BISHOPS FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS 1 DECEMBER Rome (Fides Service)- The Catholic Church’s commitment to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa and assist those suffering from the terrible scourge was confirmed once again by SECAM Symposium of Episcopal Conferences ...
• 1 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: CHURCH IN GOA DETERMINED TO PROTECT YOUTH FROM HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC Goa (Fides Service) – The alarming AIDS pandemic in India places a series of challenges which the Church in Goa is determined to answer to prevent the young generation in this region formerly under Portuguese governmen ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS AMERICA/GUATEMALA “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSIO ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “WE CANNOT BE SILENT ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD”: CAM2 MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “We cannot be silent about what we have seen and heard” is the title of the CAM2 Message to the People of God dated 29 November 2003. Under five sub headings the Message speaks of t ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CENTRAL AMERICA’S MISSIONARY PLAN “A DREAM TO MAKE TRUE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”: OBJECTIVES INCLUDE A CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION FORMATION CENTRE AND STRONGER LOCAL ANIMATION STRUCTURES: NEXT CAM 3 IN ECUADOR 2007 Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Central American Missionary ad gentes Plan was presented to participants at CAM2 on Saturday 29 November, Europe Day, Father Victor Livori Fides correspondent in Guatemala reported. ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD CHILDREN AND YOUTH: “YOU ARE THE YOUNG MISSIONARIES OF THE YOUNG CHURCH, YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN THIS LAND OF AMERICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD” Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On Saturday 29 November Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Pope John Paul II’s Special Envoy to CAM2, met children of the Missionary Childhood Society. He went to the town of Santa Caterina d ...
• 1 December 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - FRIARS TELL PILGRIMS: “COME, INVADE THE HOLY LAND!” COME TO BETHLEHEM FOR CHRISTMAS Jerusalem (Fides Service) – An call for a “peaceful invasion” of the Holy Land 2003 has been launched by the Franciscans in Jerusalem, Holy Land Custodians. After news from travel agents that bookings for the Holy ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - OCEANIA DAY: CAM 2 LOOKS AT CHALLENGES TO MISSION AND REFLECTS ON THE MEANING OF BEING A MISSIONARY TODAY: CARDINAL SEPE MEETS THE SICK AND THE ELDERLY: “IN YOUR WEAKNESS YOU ARE A SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND LIFE FOR THE CHURCH AND FOR HUMANITY ”. Guatemala City (Fides) – During the Day dedicated to Oceania, Friday 28 November , CAM2 recalled also the 160th anniversary of Missionary Childhood , we were told by Fides correspondent Rev. Victor Livori. At morning p ...
• 29 November 2003
  AFRICA/GHANA – KUMASI ARCHDIOCESE, REVEREND GABRIEL JUSTICE YAW ANOKYE APPOINTED AUXILIARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has 30 October 2003, appointed Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Kumasi (Ghana) Reverend Father Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye, Professor and vice rector of S ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - DOWNLOAD FREE OF CHARGE FROM FIDES 70 PHOTOS OF CAM2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS Vatican City (Fides Service) – For CAM2 the 2nd American Mission Congress Fides has a special photo section (www.fides.org.) in two parts: Fides Archives and New Photos both may be downloaded free of charge, but plea ...
• 29 November 2003
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - CARDINAL O'BRIEN CALLS FOR NATIONAL EFFORT TO RE-CHRISTIANISE SCOTLAND: CHRISTIAN MESSAGE HANDED ON AND LIVED FOR ALMOST 2000 YEARS IS THE STANDARD BY WHICH WE SHOULD BE LIVING OUR LIVES AND WHICH WE SHOULD BE HANDING ON TO OUR YOUNG. Edinburgh (Fides Service) - Cardinal O'Brien calls for national effort to re-Christianise Scotland and reminds Scots of 1600 years of Christian history and urges resistance to tide of secularisation, especially concernin ...
• 29 November 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - YOUTH CONGRESS IN KHARTOUM: A SIGN OF VITALITY OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN A COUNTRY WHERE LIFE IS A STRUGGLE Khartoum (Fides Service)- “This year the Lord wanted us to begin and hold our Diocesan Youth Congress under the banner of Christ the King. He is the Leader and King who is guiding his people in the third millennium”. ...