News

• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - DISASTROUS HEALTH CONDITIONS INFANT MORTALITY RATE 100/1000 (100 OUT OF EVERY 1000 DIE IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE) Rome (Fides Service) – Disastrous sanitary conditions in Madagascar were aggravated during the years of war particularly with regard to children and health care. Seeing this situation the Lazzarist Fathers built a Vill ...
• 7 November 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CHALLENGES FACING PASTORAL CARE FOR IMMIGRANTS Rome (Fides Service) –The number of Filipino immigrants to Europe grows steadily and this presents a major challenge for the Churches in the West. In Middle East countries Catholic Filipino immigrants find it difficult ...
• 7 November 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - CRISIS IN SRI LANKA, A QUESTION OF REACHING POLITICAL AGREEMENT , COULD ASSUME A RELIGIOUS HUE Colombo (Fides Service) – The present crisis in Sri Lanka risks becoming a mixture of politics and religion: reliable local analysts who prefer to remain unnamed tell Fides. They say that the peace process is influence ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - PEACE IN UGANDA AND PEACE IN SUDAN ARE CONNECTED” SAYS ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU. REPORTED DEATH OF CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NORTHERN UGANDA DENIED Kampala (Fides Service)- “The path to peace in Sudan and the path to peace in Uganda are connected: national reconciliation in our great neighbour will certainly lead to positive developments here in Uganda” Archbish ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. FATHER JIRÍ SLÉGR CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has confirmed, 31 October 2003, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Czech ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NOVEMBER 7 IN MILAN: SPECIAL PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL Rome (Fides Service) – In the cycle of Monthly Prayer Meetings organised by the Church in Need, on Friday 7 November in Milan there will be a special prayer thanksgiving on the 14th anniversary of the fall of the Berli ...
• 6 November 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - MISSIONARY SISTER AND MATHS TEACHERS LEAVES SOLOMON ISLANDS AFTER 35 YEARS OF MISSION TO EDUCATE YOUTH Honiara (Fides Service) – Algebra and geometry hold no secrets for Sister Margaret Tisch SMSM but her real passion was Jesus and his Gospel and preaching the Kingdom of God. Sister Margaret, a Missionary Sister of the ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES, VETERAN AND NEW, CELEBRATE BLESSED BISHOP GUIDO M. CONFORTI – ANNOUNCING 2004 CHAPTER FOR ITALY Parma (Fides Service) – On 5 November Xaverian Missionaries in every corner of the world commemorate their spiritual Father: Blessed Bishop Guido M. Conforti, of Parma the Institutes Founder who died on 5 November 1931 ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - RESEARCHERS HUNT FOR SARS VIRUS CARRIER, WHO SAYS NO VACCINE FOR TWO YEARS AT LEAST Roma (Fides Service) – Early diagnosis, surveillance, infection control in health structures and exchange of information at national and international level are the points stressed by 50 researchers working on the Sars ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - 40 MILLION CHILDREN EXPLOITED IN LABOUR AND TWO MILLION WORKERS KILLED AT WORK EVERY YEAR Rome (Fides Service) – The World Health Organisation has issued alarming figures with regard to health and security of workers. WHO says that three million workers in the world work in insecure conditions and that ever ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MIRACLE OF LEPERS WHO ESCAPED WAR. LEPROSY SCARES WARLORDS BUT NOT CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Leaders of the two rebel movements LURD and MODEL are now negotiating with heads of the international peacekeeping force to put an end to fighting in northern Liberia” a local Consolata Mis ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - GIORGIO LA PIRA, “SAINTLY MAYOR” OF FLORENCE, LUMINOUS MODEL OF LAY HOLINESS. INITIATIVES FOR CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH Florence (Fides Service) - «In Giorgio La Pira we see a shining example of lay holiness» said Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence when he spoke of the «saintly mayor», during a special Mass for the 26th ...
• 6 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS THE SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) –EXPLANATION OF THE OFFICIAL LOGO: “CHRIST CAME TO SAVE MANKIND” Guatemala City (Fides Service) - The aim of the artist who designed the logo for the 2nd American Mission Congress (CAM 2) was to highlight the most important aspect of the Gospel: “Christ came to save mankind” fro ...
• 6 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - YOUNG FILM DIRECTORS PROMOTE NON VIOLENCE WITH THEIR FIRST FILMS AT “DON BOSCO FILM FESTIVAL FOR PEACE” Bombay (Fides Service) – A campaign for peace through cinema, with the help of the figure of Saint John Bosco: this is the objective of Don Bosco Film Festival For Peace, organised by Salesian Fathers in Bombay. The Fe ...
• 6 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANS IN ORISSA COMMITTED TO DEFEND TRIBAL CULTURE AND PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPRESSED AREAS THREATENED BY HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM Bhubaneswar (Fides Service ) – The situation for Christians in the Indian state of Orissa is not one of the easiest since it is one of the states with the largest number of fundamentalist Hindu groups which in the past ...