News

• 3 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA – SPECIAL EDITION OF “CHINA HEUTE” FOR THE CANONISATION OF JOSEF FREINADEMETZ Sankt Augustin (Fides Service) – A special issue dedicated to Saint Josef Freinademetz, Divine Word missionary in China bron in Tyrol has been published by the prestigious review of Chinese studies China heute (China T ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI FIRST TO HARNESS “FEMALE GENIUS” FOR MISSION: FIDES INTERVIEWS SR ADELE BRAMBILLA, SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS Rome (Fides Service) – Where there are Sisters, mission is solid ” Daniele Comboni (1831-1881) used to say in days when few people recognised the importance of the “female genius” in every sphere of human activi ...
• 2 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT WEDNESDAY GENERAL AUDIENCE: “OUR UNCERTAIN STEPS ARE SUSTAINED BY THE SPLENDOUR OF TRUTH WHICH CHRIST DIFFUSES IN THE WORLD AND IN HISTORY” – “PLACE YOURSELVES WITH TRUST INTO THE HANDS OF MARY, INVOKING HER HELP INCESSANTLY WITH THE ROSARY PRAYER” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Wednesday 1 October, Pope John Paul II held his usually general audience in St Peter’s Square and he concluded the series of teaching on the Psalms, with a discourse on the Benedictu ...
• 2 October 2003
  VATICAN - AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS MANDATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ARRIVES ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO POPE JOHN PAUL II Rome (Fides Service) – The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also president of the Anglican Communion, will arrive in Rome today, 2 October for an official visit to Pope John Paul II. The Arc ...
• 2 October 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - OUR HOMELAND, THE FUTURE IRAQ, WILL BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER! Baghdad (Fides Service) - To share and alleviate people’s troubles, show solidarity, help them grow in faith: with these objectives a group of Iraqi Catholic seminarians, presently studying theology at the Pontifical ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MIGRATION NOT ONLY A TECHNICAL MATTER IT IS A HUMAN, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEM Rome (Fides Service) - Caritas Roma, sponsored by CNEL and International Organisation for Migrants IOM, presented “Contemporary Immigration in Italy - Current trends and future prospects”, on Wednesday 1 October 200 ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - JOSEF FREINADEMETZ FIRST NON MARTYR SAINT IN CHINA THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE IS THE ONE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS INTERVIEW WITH SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 5 October Pope John Paul II will canonise three great missionaries including Josef Freinademetz (1852-1908) one of the first two Divine Word missionaries to go to China. While still a s ...
• 2 October 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISATION A TASK NOT ONLY FOR PRIESTS AD RELIGIOUS BUT ALSO FOR YOUTH SAYS PRESIDENT OF KOREAN BISHOPS SACRED SCRIPTURE COMMISSION AT THE START OF OCTOBER MONTH OF MISSION Seoul (Fides Service) – “The Word of God must be given central place in the Church’s mission and youth must be helped to take major role in missionary commitment” said Father Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong at the start ...
• 2 October 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - BISHOP JEAN BAPTISTE BUI TUAN OF LONG XUYEN DIOCESE RESIGNS, SUCCEEDED BY COADJUTOR BISHOP JOSEPH TRAN XUAN TIEU Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, accepted (2 October 2003) the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Long Xuyen (Vietnam) presented by Bishop Jean Baptiste Bui ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - PREPARATIONS FOR HIS FUNERAL BEGAN BUT YOUNG JUN YAMADA WAS SUDDENLY HEALED THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF FR. FREINADEMETZ Rome (Fides Service) – The miracle which led to the canonisation of Father Josef Freinademetz was the healing of a young Japanese boy Jun Yamada who was told at the age of 24 that he would soon die of leukaemia. The bo ...
• 1 October 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - COMBONI MISSIONARIES AND THE MEDIA: “WE HAVE EARNED READERS WHO KNOW THEY FIND IN OUR PUBLICATIONS INFORMATION THAT THEY CANNOT FIND ELSEWHERE” Mexico City (Fides Service) – On 21 May 1871 in a letter to the Bishop of Verona Daniele Comboni, the great evangeliser of Africa, said that since January 1 that year he had written no less than 1,347 letters to friend ...
• 1 October 2003
  VATICAN - OCTOBER THE MONTH OF MISSION OPENS WITH THE CANONISATION NEXT SUNDAY OF THREE IMPORTANT EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES DANIELE COMBONI, ARNOLD JANSSEN AND JOSEF FREINADEMETZ Vatican City (Fides Service) On Sunday 5 October at 10am in St Peter’s Square Pope John Paul II will preside Mass during which he will canonise DANIELE COMBONI 1831 –1881 founder of the Comboni Missionaries of the Sa ...
• 1 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF MOTHER TERESA WILL BE CARRIED TO ROME FOR BEATIFICATION: SWELLING FLOW OF VISITORS TO VENERATE THE HOLY NUN AT HER BURIAL PLACE IN CALCUTTA Calcutta (Fides Service) – It is natural for people to treasure the memory and belongings of a loved one who is no longer in this world. On the occasion of a Beatification the relics of the person are usually presented ...
• 1 October 2003
  VATICAN - FEAST OF ST THERESE OF LISIEUX PATRONESS OF MISSIONS, MARKS OPENING OF MISSIONARY MONTH OF OCTOBER Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Feast of St Therese of Lisieux 1873-1897 proclaimed patroness of missions with St Francis Xavier in 1927, marks opening of missionary month of October which will culminate on World Mi ...
• 1 October 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY A LIGHT OF HOPE AND DIALOGUE IN A WILDERNESS OF VIOLENCE: 30 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF EDUCATION AND CULTURAL GROWTH IN THE HOLY LAND Bethlehem (Fides Service) – Amidst the wilderness of war and violence in the Holy Land, in the little town of Bethlehem, where Jesus the Prince of Peace was born, a light of hope is burning. The light comes from the Be ...