News

• 29 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO NON BELIEVERS AND RE-AWAKEN GRACE OF BAPTISM AMONG CATHOLICS; LAY MEMBERS OF BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES MAKE COMMITMENT Seoul (Fides Service) – Sadang-dong parish in Seoul has launched a mission to re-evangelise the capital. The decision was reached at meeting in mid-July attended by more than 1,000 Catholics mostly lay people. The Miss ...
• 29 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - WHY DOES THE WORLD HESITATE TO INTERVENE? CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES IN LIBERIA LAUNCH CRY OF ALARM. MISSIONS HAVE ALSO RUN OUT OF SUPPLIES Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We are concerned for our Sisters at Buchanan” say Consolata Sisters in Harbel, some 50 km south of the Liberian capital Monrovia. “The MODEL rebels, (recently formed Movement for Demco ...
• 29 July 2003
  VATICAN - “WITNESSES AND MISSIONARIES OF A FLOCK WHICH IS DISPERSED BUT STRONG IN FAITH” CARDINAL SEPE CLOSES MEETING FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS CONSIGNING THE MISSIONARY CROSS Vatican City (Fides Service) –
• 29 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - FORMATION: “IS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERY PERSON WHO DESIRES TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF EVANGELISATION AND GOD’S CALL TO HOLINESS ”.- ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS Madrid (Fides Service) – “Without these efforts for formation our life is impoverished and our work of evangelisation loses in quality”: this emerged from the ordinary assembly of the St Francis Xavier Spanish Inst ...
• 29 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - NAIROBI 2 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN SLUMS WITHOUT WATER, SANITATION, ELECTRICITY Nairobi (Fides Service) – “In Nairobi there are 130 slum communities that are home to over 2 million people. The residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements constitute 55% of the city’s total population and yet t ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “EUROPE TODAY NEEDS THE PRESENCE OF CATHOLICS ADULT IN THEIR FAITH AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY COMMUNITIES WHO BEAR WITNESS TO GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL PEOPLES – APPEAL FOR LIBERIA Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Sunday 27 July from his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II launched a call to all Christians in Europe to “rediscover the enthusiasm of proclaiming the Gospel a ...
• 28 July 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - BABUYU AND BABEMBE TRIBES MAKE PEACE, PROMISE RECIPROCAL FORGIVENESS FOR WRONGS SUFFERED AND TALKS TO LAY BASIS FOR LASTING PEACE Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is a ray of hope for peace in the civil war which since 1998 has killed between 2 and 4 million people in Congo. Through mediation by the local Catholic Church a tribal conflict which h ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS 18 CONSULTORS FOR CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service ) – On Saturday 26 July 2003 Pope John Paul II appointed 18 Consultors for the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: 7 archbishops, 4 bishops, 6 priests, 1 woman religious. Arch ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PMS CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has on 22 July 2003, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan, f ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN – REV. JOHN B. LEE KEH-MIEN APPOINTED RECTOR OF TAIPEI INTERDIOCESAN SEMINARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 22 July 2003, has appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan Seminary of Taipei in Taiwan, Reverend ...
• 28 July 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - BANGUI – ARCHBISHOP JOACHIM N’DAYEN RESIGNS, MGR PAULIN POMODIMO APPOINTED METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (26 July 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bangui in Central African Republic, presented by Archbisho ...
• 28 July 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS DETERMINED TO HELP RESTORE PEACE AND RECONCILIATION WHERE PEOPLE STILL SUFFER BECAUSE OF CIVIL WAR Honiara (Fides Service) – The Catholic religious of Solomon Island are committed to help stop ethnic fighting by fostering reconciliation and help rebuild a culture of peace and non-violence. This resolution was taken ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - AUXILIARY BISHOP JOHN TONG HON APPOINTED CONSULTOR OF CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES: RECOGNITION FOR HOLY SPIRIT STUDY CENTRE Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Bishop John Tong Hon auxiliary of the diocese of Hong Kong has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for a five year term. With regard to his appoin ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - NEW MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR IN N. VIETNAM TO MARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF SISTERS LOVERS OF THE CROSS LOCAL CONGREGATION Hanoi (Fides Service) – For 75 years the Sisters Lovers of the Cross, a local Vietnamese congregation of women religious, have served the poor, the excluded, lepers, terminally ill patients in central Vietnam in rural ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - “LIKE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WE ARE A LITTLE FLOCK CALLED TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS SO AS TO BE A GREAT SIGN” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Geraldo Majela Agnelo, Archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia Brazil, the new president of the Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference CNBB was recently in Rome to present Pope Joh ...