News

• 8 November 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR – REV. GUSTAVO BOMBIN ESPINO APPOINTED BISHOP OF TSIROANOMANDIDY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has ( 8 November 2003) appointed Bishop of the diocese of Tsiroanomandidy (Madagascar) Reverend Father P. Gustavo Bombin Espino OSST, parish priest an ...
• 8 November 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - PRESIDENT TAYA IN THE LEAD AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS YESTERDAY Nouakchott (Fides Service)- President Maaouiya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya appears to be in the lead in the count of votes placed during presidential elections yesterday 7 November in Mauritania. The first results give Taya 61% ...
• 8 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - BISHOPS' STATEMENT: “THE CHURCH HAS PAID A HIGH PRICE WITH TWENTY PRIESTS KILLED IN THREE YEARS, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO CALL FOR RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS AS CONDITIONS FOR LASTING PEACE” Bogota (Fides Service) – “The Bishops of Colombia lament and deplore the assassination of Reverend Father Saulo Carreño Hernández, parish priest at Christ the King Parish Saravena (Arauca) and Reverend Father Henry ...
• 8 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - AIDS: 4.5 MILLION CASES IN 15 YEARS; BY 2020 INDIA COULD BE THE AIDS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD Rome (Fides Service) – To mark World AIDS Day on December 1 the President of the Health Commission of the Indian Bishops’ Conference Bishop Bernard Moras of Belgaum (Bangalore), issued a memorandum warning that if me ...
• 8 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - NATIONAL MINORITY COMMISSION: CHRISTIANS PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICE, THEIR RIGHTS MUST BE DEFENDED New Delhi (Fides Service) – India’s National Minority Commission comprising representatives of the different of ethnic and religious minorities, has called on Christian church leaders in India to work to defend the r ...
• 7 November 2003
  SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8 IN ROME INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EPA/A. Ge.: INTERNET, AN EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE! Rome (Fides Service) - On 8 November 2003, all the actors of the educational world will be brought together in Rome to debate about youths and the Internet : parents, head teachers, teachers, pupils, but also political d ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO PONTIFICAL ACADEMIES: “THE NUMEROUS WITNESSES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WHO LIVED IN THE LAST CENTURY WHO PERSEVERED IN THEIR ADHESION TO THE GOSPEL IN SITUATIONS OF HOSTILITY AND PERSECUTION ARE A SIGN OF HOPE FIRST OF ALL FOR THE CHURCHES OF EUROPE” Vatican City (Fides) – “Christ’s disciples are called to contemplate and imitate the numerous witnesses of the Christian faith of the last century, in the East and the West, who persevered in their adhesion to the ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BELGIAN RESEARCHERS TRY RODENTS TO NEUTRALISE TRAGIC WAR HERITAGE OF LAND MINES Rome (Fides) - A group of Belgian researchers is working on a project to solve the problem of millions of land mines spread all over Africa. British daily The Guardian in its on line edition today, Friday 7 November 2003 ...
• 7 November 2003
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2):INTENSE PREPARATION AT DIOCESAN AND NATIONAL LEVEL CULMINATES WITH THE SENDING OF A YOUNG COMBONI MISSIONARY “AD GENTES” Quito (Fides Service) – “You represent our Particular Churches and you are new heralds of the life of our Church in Ecuador” Father Timoteo Lehane SVD, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER THE POPE WILL BEATIFY FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD FROM SPAIN, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND ITALY Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Sunday 9 November 2003, the feast of the dedication of the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran, at 9.30 am, Pope John Paul II will preside a solemn Mass in St Pet ...
• 7 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - VOLUNTARY WORK AND SOCIAL COOPERATION IN A WORLD IN MOVEMENT: HOSPITALLER BROTHERS ASSOCIATION OUTREACH TO DISTANT SICK CONFERENCE Roma (Fides Service) - Solidali con la solidarietà, volontari con il volontariato is the slogan launched by the Genzano section of AFMAL – Hospitaller Brothers Association Outreach to Distant Sick – on the occasion ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS ATTACKED, ONE INJURED, IN BUNIA CAPITAL OF ITURI REGION. NORMALISATION IN NORTH CONGO SLOW IN RETURNING Bunia (Fides Service)- “Night time shooting battles have become a common thing” a local source in Bunia main town of north eastern region of Ituri in Democratic Congo tells Fides. Ituri has been the centre of a civil ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS CALLING FOR AN END TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE: “WE ARE ALL SENEGALESE, ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WECANNOT KILL ONE ANOTHER ” Dakar (Fides Service)- “Yesterday’s protest took place peacefully and it was a demonstration of the Senegalese spirit of democracy ” a missionary in Dakar, Senegal tells Fides. Thousands gathered yesterday, 6 Novem ...
• 7 November 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - FILM ON LIFE AND WORK OF ITALIAN JESUIT GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE, GREAT MISSIONARY ARTIST TO THE COURT OF CHINA IN 17-18TH CENTURIES Beijing (Fides Service) – Early next year a film on the life and work of Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione (1688– 1766), well known in China as an artist and architect, will be shown on national television. The fil ...
• 7 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CHURCH IN COLOMBIA ADDS TWO MORE NAMES TO MARTYROLOGY: CATHOLIC PRIESTS SHOT DEAD WITHIN HOURS OF EACH OTHER Vatican City (Fides Service) - Father Paulo Carreno, parish priest of Saravena, a town on the border with Venezuela, in the Arauca region where conflict and violence are the order of the day, was shot dead on 3 November ...