News

• 1 August 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – “BE JOYFUL WITNESSES AND ENTHUSIASTIC APOSTLES OF THE GOSPEL!”: CARDINAL SEPE ENCOURGAES MEXICAN YOUTH AT THE OPENING OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR MISSIONARY YOUTH Queretaro (Fides Service) - “Young people of the new millennium do not be afraid to carry the Gospel to the world”: This is the slogan of the 8th National Congress of Mexican Missionary Youth (8° CONAJUM) which ope ...
• 1 August 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: NEXT MONTH GENERAL CHAPTER WILL HAVE ITS CLIMAX IN THE CANONISATION OF BLESSED DANIELE COMBONI – FIDES INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JUAN GONZALEZ NUNEZ, HEAD OF THE CHAPTER PREPARATORY COMMISSION Rome (Fides Service) – Founded in 1867 by Blessed Daniel Comboni (1831-1881) who will be canonised on 5 October, the Comboni missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCI) are today in all 1,823 working on four continents: ...
• 1 August 2003
  AMERICA/CANADA - DATABASE ON LINE FOR SARS: MANY GROUPS ARE TRYING TO REPRODUCE SARS PROTEIN IN LABORATORY TO WORK ON MEDICINES AND VACCINES Rome (Fides Service) – A new database on line of genetic information on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS could help to control SARS. A least this is the hope of Canadian scientists co-ordinating the programme ...
• 1 August 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - SIGNALS OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN RELIGIONS ARE CONFIRMED BUT NOT IN PUNJAB WHERE MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISM GROWS: CHRISTIANS DENIED FOOD AND WORK CONCERN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Lahore (Fides Service) – While in the world signals of co-existence between religions are multiplied and Christian/Muslim relations are strengthened along the lines of peace and dialogue, in some areas of Pakistan grou ...
• 1 August 2003
  VATICAN - “CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS”: A DOCUMENT TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE DIGNITY OF MATRIMONY FOUNDATION OF THE FAMILY AND THE STABILITY OF SOCIETY Vatican City (Fides Service) – On July 31 it was announced that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a document Considerations Regarding Proposals To Give Legal Recognition To Unions Between Homose ...
• 1 August 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - ON SHOW IN SHANGHAI PRECIOUS HERITAGE OF ITALIAN JESUIT MISSIONARY MATTEO RICCI Shanghai (Fides Service) – While the Italian town of Macerata, birthplace of Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary to China in the 16th century is honouring its famous citizen with an exhibition, (see Fides 23/7/2003), Shang ...
• 1 August 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “ALTHOUGH CEASE FIRE HOLDS BOTH ARMY AND REBELS PREPARE FOR WAR. REBELS, DIVIDED AMONG THEMSELVES, COULD EVEN EXPLODE IN ARMED CONFLICT” MISSIONARY TELLS FIDES SERVICE Abidjan (Fides Service) – “If I did not live in Ivory Coast I would say that it is the most beautiful country in the world, at least according to the official statements of the government” a missionary in Bouake no ...
• 31 July 2003
  NOTICE FOR READERS - FROM 4 AUGUST TO 1 SEPTEMBER FIDES SERVICE WILL INTERRUPT ITS DAILY NEWS FOR A PERIOD OF TECHNICAL UPDATING We inform subscribers and readers that for the next month during the natural Summer lull in activity in the field of information, our web site will undergo some technical adjustments to ensure even better service and thi ...
• 31 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING: THE MOST PLEASING SACRIFICE IS NOT A HOLOCAUST OF BULLS OR RAMS BUT RATHER A HUMBLE AND CONTRITE HEART Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – In his teaching to the people who gathered at his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday 30 July, to listen to his words and receive his blessing, Pope John Paul II reflected ...
• 31 July 2003
  FIDES SERVICE WEB SITE INFORMS TODAY At our web site – section Interviews – you can choose from a list of more than 40 interviews by Fides in the last four months on questions of major social and ecclesial importance. Among the persons most recently int ...
• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD N’DJAMENA – ARCHBISHOP CHARLES VANDAME RESIGNS, NEW METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP MATHIA N’GARTERI MAYADI Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (31 July 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of N’Djamena (Chad) presented by Archbishop Charles Vandame ...
• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - HUAMBO: ARCHBISHOP FRANCISCO VITI RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (31 July 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Huambo (Angola) presented by Archbishop Francisco Viti in ...
• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - REV. PROTAIS NKURIKIYE APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed, 25 July 2003, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burundi, Rever ...
• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - FOUR THOUSAND SHELTER AT CONSOLATA MISSION AT BUCHANAN. TRAGEDY AT MONROVIA SPORTS STADIUM Monrovia (Fides Service) – There are at least 3 or 4 thousands displaced persons sheltering inside the compound of the Consolata Mission at Buchanan, the main port of Liberia about 90 km from the capital Monrovia. This ...
• 31 July 2003
  VATICAN - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, FUNDAMENTAL FOR MISSION TO OBEY THE COMMAND OF JESUS: MEDICINE AND MISSION THEME OF 2004-2005 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE OFFERED BY PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY UNION Vatican City (Fides Service) – The 2004-2005 Correspondence Course offered by the Pontifical Missionary Union will focus on Medicine and Mission. The Course, available in four languages, English, French, Italian and Sp ...