News

• 19 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “DOWN WITH GREY” S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CONTINUES WITH DISABLED ARTISTS’ ART EXHIBITION Rome (Fides Service) –The European Year of the Disabled continues to be marked by a variety of Initiatives. The latest is an art exhibition on show inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, 22-24 September ...
• 19 September 2003
  VATICAN - COMMUNION AMONG BISHOPS, FORMATION; GUIDELINES FOR MISSION: SEMINAR FOR NEW BISHOPS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSION TERRITORIES COMES TO A CLOSE Vatican City (Fides Service) – A successful event which has already borne fruits of communion and will undoubtedly serve to boost the mission of evangelisation: these positive reactions were voiced by Bishops taking pa ...
• 19 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO BISHOPS FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSION COUNTRIES: FOR YOU ALSO, THE CALL OF JESUS RESOUNDS FORCEFULLY: “GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE CREATION!” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Friday 19 September Pope John Paul II received in a private audience a group of Bishops from English speaking mission countries attending a course of Aggiornamento organised by the ...
• 19 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - TERRORISM: FOREIGN TO EVERY FORM OF RELIGION AND THE ENEMY OF HUMANITY, SAYS ARCHBISHOP SALDHANA OF LAHORE Lahore (Fides Service) – “I condemn all forms of terrorism in Pakistan and in the rest of the world”. This statement was made by Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana when he addressed Muslims and Christians at recent meeti ...
• 19 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - FR. KOLVENBACH OPENS JESUIT PROCURATORS MEETING: “WE MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS, IN THE NAME OF THE ONE WHO IS THEIR FRIEND” Loyola (Fides Service) – “Not only the good seed has been sown but also the darnel which in some places can be so vigorous that we need all our faith in the Master of the field to believe that, despite the mass of da ...
• 19 September 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - THANKS TO THE WORKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WE HAVE A MATURE LAITY, A FORCE FOR EVANGELISATION” SAY CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KENYA Rome (Fides Service) – “Our catechists sustain the Catholic communities in the diocese” . This is the opinion of Bishop Virgilio Pante of Maralal and Bishop Luigi Paiaro of Nyahururu who are attending a Seminar for ...
• 19 September 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY GUIDANCE PROGRAMME TO HELP DEEPEN FAITH OF CHINESE LAITY, YOUTH ESPECIALLY Beijing (Fides Service) – “There is a strong desire among Chinese Catholics, young people in particular, to deepen their knowledge faith. Not content with the elements of faith handed on orally by parents or grandpar ...
• 19 September 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - CATHOLIC CLERGY LAUNCH CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN SOLOMON ISLANDS: ENOUGH WITH CLASHES BETWEEN RIVAL GANGS AND EXECUTIONS WITHOUT JUSTICE Honiara (Fides Service) – There is concern in the local Catholic Church for the situation in Solomon islands where law and order has not been completely restored. Ethnic and social unrest continues despite the presence ...
• 18 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - GOSPEL AND SOCIETY: A REFLECTION BY CARDINAL JUAN LUIS CIPRIANI ARCHBISHOP OF LIMA Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Archbishop of Lima, illustrates for Fides Service the many aspects of the relation between Gospel and Society today. John Paul II speaks of the virtue of pove ...
• 18 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: MAY SLOVAKIA “TREASURE THE GOSPEL, THE GREATEST GOOD, SHARE IT AND WITNESS TO IT WITH OF HOLINESS OF LIFE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 17 September the Pope told the thousands of visitors from various parts of the world present in St Peter’s Square about his recent apostolic journey to ...
• 18 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN “THE HOUR OF MISSION” NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS OPENS IN BURGOS: OPENING CONFERENCE BY ARCHBISHOP ROBERT SARAH, SECRETARY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Madrid (Fides Service) – “The Hour of Mission” is the theme of the Spanish National Mission Congress which opened in Burgos today 18 September. The first conference “The Church and the Challenge of Mission Today� ...
• 18 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NEW LOOK WEB SITE DAUGHTERS OF SAINT PAUL, COMMUNICATORS OF THE GOSPEL: SPECIAL SECTION “SPREADING THE GOSPEL” TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Rome (Fides Service) - The Daughters of Saint Paul, communicators of the Gospel, known as DSP Sisters, have a given a new look to their web site www.paoline.org first opened in 1997. The site has five languages: English ...
• 18 September 2003
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - ‘BORN TO LIVE’ CAMPAIGN: LOCAL CATHOLIC CHURCH DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS Vanimo (Fides Service) – ‘Born to Live’ is the slogan of a campaign launched by the local Church in Papua New Guinea on 16 September, national independence day, by a special Commission set up by the PNG Catholic Bi ...
• 18 September 2003
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION FUNDED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING CENTRE RUN BY CANOSSIAN SISTERS IN DILI OPENED BY ARCHBISHOP MARTINO Dili (Fides Service) – Some 120 students have enrolled for courses in domestic science, sowing and computer techniques, at a new Professional Training Centre run by the Canossian Sisters in Dili, capital of East Timor ...
• 17 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – MISSION CANNOT BEAR FRUIT WITHOUT SOUND MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY: A PRIORITY EMERGING FROM FIRST NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN PERU Chiclayo (Fides Service) – The spiritual dimension is a priority in the work of evangelisation because “mission cannot bear fruit unless it is based on convinced and sound missionary spirituality…. Those who evange ...