News

• 3 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – REV. DOMNATO UDOETTE APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST JOSEPH’S MAJOR SEMINARY IN IKOT EKPENE DIOCESE Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed on 15 August 2003, Rector of St Joseph’s Major Seminary in the diocese of Ikot Ekpen ...
• 3 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “IN DEFENCE OF LIFE” : BISHOPS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT POLICY WHICH THREATENS HUMAN DIGNITY AND LIFE Lima (Fides Service) - The standing council of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Peru recently issued a statement entitled “In Defence of Life” in which they express profound concern for the population policy b ...
• 3 September 2003
  AMERICA - TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – HOW LATIN AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESSES (COMLA) GREW TO BECOME ALL-AMERICA MISSION CONGRESSES (CAM) AMERICA TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – HOW LATIN AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESSES (COMLA) GREW TO BECOME ALL-AMERICA MISSION CONGRESSES (CAM) Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Second all-America M ...
• 3 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NATIONAL MEETING OF ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PASTORAL FOR HEALTH CARE Rome (Fides Service) – “Happy the person who cares for the weak” is the theme of the annual meeting of the Italian Association for Pastoral for the Sick which will take place 6-10 October in Collevalenza. The Meeti ...
• 3 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQ IS A GAMBLING TABLE WHERE EVERYONE WANTS TO PLAY AND EVERYONE WANTS TO WIN, EVEN AT THE COST OF MASS MURDER, SAYS IRAQI CATHOLIC PRIEST FATHER NIZAR Rome (Fides Service) – “Together with the entire nation I want to express my grief over the assassination of Ayatollah Al Hakim” Iraqi Catholic priest Father Nizar in Ninive, northern Iraq tells Fides Service, comm ...
• 3 September 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - ARCHBISHOP ODAMA COMMENTS ON YET ANOTHER CATHOLIC PRIEST MURDERED BY LRA REBELS Kampala (Fides Service) – “Father Lawrence Oyuru is the latest of the countless victims of this war forgotten by everyone” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, northern Uganda, tells Fides Service with regard to ...
• 3 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - MORE THAN HALF A MILLION EXPECTED TO JOIN ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO MARIAMBAD IN LAHORE 5-7 SEPTEMBER Lahore (Fides Service) – At least half a million people are expected to join the annual pilgrimage to Mariambad in the archdiocese of Lahore 5-7 September. The pilgrimage, now a central annual event for the Catholic Ch ...
• 3 September 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - PEACE WALKS WITH CHILDREN: JESUITS IN THE NORTH LAUNCH PROGRAMME FOR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN SINHALESE AND TAMIL YOUTH Batticaloa (Fides Service) – Peace is built with small steps say the Jesuit Fathers in northern Sri Lanka in Batticaloa, a mainly Tamil area for many years the scene of civil conflict between the army and Tamil separat ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SPANISH BORN FATHER JOSEP ABELLA ELECTED NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL OF CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – Father Josep Maria Abella Batlle, 53, born in Lleida (Catalonia-Spain) is the new Superior General of the Missionary Sons of the Heart of di Mary (Claretian Missionaries). He was elected yesterd ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - RELIGIONS AND CULTURE IN DIALOGUE TO BUILD PEACE: 500 RELIGIOUS LEADERS FROM ALL OVER THE GATHER IN THE HEART OF EUROPE FOR A “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS” MEETING Rome (Fides Service) - “Between war and peace: religions and cultures meet” is the theme of the “17th International Meeting of Peoples and Religions”, 7 - 9 September Aachen, Germany, promoted by the S. Egidio C ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/MONGOLIA: SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CARDINAL SEPE’S VISIT AS POPE'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON THE OCCASION OF THE EPISCOPAL ORDINATION OF FIRST APOSTOLIC PREFECT AND CONSECRATION OF LOCAL CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL ON FIDES SERVICE WEBSITE On our website – Section Congregations – you may view a series of photographs of a recent visit to Mongolia by Cardinal Sepe. The photographs may be downloaded and freely used. The Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregati ...
• 2 September 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS (CAM 2) – 3RD CONGRESS OF SALTA ARCHDIOCESE MARKS GROWTH OF MISSIONARY AWARENESS Salta (Fides Service ) – With the motto “Church of Salta, your life is mission”, the archdiocese of Salta in Argentina will hold its 3rd Mission Congress from 10 to 12 October in preparation for the 2nd all America ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WE MUST THINK NOT ONLY OF DEMOLISHING, BUT OF COMMITTING OURSELVES TO BUILDING NEW MISSIONARY PATHS TO RESPOND TO TODAY’S WORLD: ITALIAN NATIONAL WEEK OF MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION IN ASSISI COMES TO AN END Assisi (Fides Service ) – Diocesan Missionary Centres become ‘fraternal teams’ of people able to transmit concretely to parishes the Church’s missionary dimension; parish communities strive to identify ways and w ...
• 2 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS REPLACE EU TROOPS IN BUNIA BUT THERE IS ANOTHER SILENT WAR IN OUTLYING VILLAGES TO BE STOPPED Bunia (Fides Service)- There was no trouble in the hand-over of control by the European Union peace force in Ituri (north-east Democratic Congo) to the United Nations peacekeepers, as part of the MONUC (UN Mission in Con ...
• 2 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES IN NORTH IVORY COAST SAY: “EVERYTHING IS BLOCKED… WE FEAR HOSTILITIES MAY RESUME MORE VIRULENT THAN EVER ” Abidjan (Fides Service)- “We still live a situation of war, despite the peace agreements and the setting up of the national unity government” a missionary in Korhogo, in northern Ivory Coast, reports to Fides Service ...