News

• 26 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES PHILIPPINES BISHOPS: BE A CHURCH OF THE POOR, TRUE COMMUNITY OF THE LORD’S DISCIPLES, COMMITTED TO RENEWED INTEGRAL EVANGELISATION Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Three key pastoral priorities emerged from the plenary council: the need to be a Church of the poor, the pledge to become a true community of the Lord’s disciples, and the commitm ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA - ELECTRICITY ADVANCES IN AFRICA. POWER DOUBLED IN CONGO. CONTINENT’S HYDRO-ELECTRIC RESOURCES ARE TURNED TO ITS OWN ADVANTAGE AT LAST Rome (Fides Service) – Projects for providing electricity throughout sub-Saharan Africa are making progress. On 23 September at Imboulou in Republic of Congo work began to construct the largest hydroelectric plant the ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CONCLUDED INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN ASTANA: EXTREMISM TERRORISM AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GENUINE UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION, BUT ARE A THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE Astana (Fides Service) – At the end of the “First Congress of Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions” held from 23 to 24 September in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the participants, representing the ma ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - YOUNG PEOPLE PROTAGONISTS OF MISSION IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE– HARAMBEE MEETING OF HISTORIES, PEOPLES AND CULTURES , GREAT EVENT FOR THE SALESIAN WORLD Turin (Fides Service) – The Salesian world is celebrating the great event of Harambee, a major Salesian Missionary Animation initiative to share experiences of serving in developing countries following the spirit of St ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NO SIGN OF PEACE FOR EASTERN CONGO! GROWING FEAR OF FRESH VIOLENCE Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Rumours of imminent new outbreaks of violence continue to spread in south and north Kivu, region in Democratic Congo bordering on Rwanda and Burundi. Local Church sources contacted by Fides S ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NEW CENTRE FOR ROME’S CHINESE CATHOLICS: FUTURE FOR APOSTOLATE AND EVANGELISATION PROMISING CHAPLAIN FR JOHN CHIU TELLS FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – The Chinese Catholic community in Rome has a new Centre next to the Church of San Bernardino da Siena, Via Panisperna 256. The community will gather for the official opening of the Agostino Chao ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - BISHOP IN THE GUERRILLA WAR ZONE: MGR ANGELITO LAMPON APOSTOLIC VICAR OF JOLO, WHOSE PREDECESSOR WAS ASSASSINATED BY REBELS, TELLS FIDES SERVICE ABOUT DAILY LIFE AND DANGER Vatican City (Fides Service) – Despite an armed escort for his protection in the area infested with armed groups and fighting between army and rebels, Bishop Angelito Lampon Apostolic Vicar of Jolo goes ahead with this ...
• 25 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - AMINA WINS HER APPEAL: “THIS IS A GOOD DAY FOR NIGERIA” SAYS CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF JOS Lagos (Fides Service) – “This is a good day for Nigeria” Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos told Fides Service, after Amina, a northern Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery, won ...
• 25 September 2003
  AMERICA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN CONGRESS MISSION (CAM 2) WORKING PAPER: A UNITARY PATH OF ANIMATION FOR LOCAL CHURCHES Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Central Commission for CAM 2 has prepared a working paper for distribution to dioceses, parishes, associations as a guide for preparing contributions from particular Churches all o ...
• 25 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER - JOSEPH FREINADEMETZ 1852-1908: A LIFE FOR MISSION IN CHINA Vatican City (Fides Service) - Joseph Freinademetz was born on the 15th of April 1852 in Oies, a small hamlet of five houses situated in the Dolomite Alps of northern Italy. The region, known as “South Tyrol,” was th ...
• 25 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - ARCHBISHOP AGUSTE NOBOU OF KORHOGO RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (22 September 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of Korhogo diocese in Ivory Coast, presented by Archbishop Auguste Nobou in ...
• 25 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON: THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING ON PSALM 8, “ AN ADMIRABLE HYMN OF PRAISE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II was unable to join visitors to St Peter’s for the usual Wednesday Audience on 24 September, due to a slight indisposition. On his behalf Cardinal Angelo Sodano read th ...
• 25 September 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - SINCE MID 1980 AIDS HAS KILLED 1.5 MILLION KENYANS BUT SENEGAL REPORTS 2% LESS AIDS CASES COMPARED TO LAST YEAR Rome (Fides Service) – The 13th International Conference on AIDS held in Nairobi closed on 26 September. The meeting was attended by many international personalities. Testimony given at the meeting included comforting ...
• 25 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - TOO MANY PROFIT FROM A COUNTRY CUT IN TWO Abidjan (Fides Service) – “We are all very anxious to see the outcome of the government meeting this morning which rebels have refused to attend” local Church sources tell Fides asking not to be named for security ...
• 25 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY – REV. FATHER ERIC ENGLERT OSA APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES GERMANY-MUNICH. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has (16 October 2003) appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (Munich) German ...