News

• 8 September 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - KINYAMATEKA CATHOLIC PAPER COMMENTS ON RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Rome (Fides Service) – Rwandans gave a 95% victory to President Paul Kagame in elections on 25 August. We publish here an article on the vote printed in Kinyamateka Catholic paper in French. Here is our English transla ...
• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - FATHER NIZAR IN IRAQ SAYS FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE “END “ OF THE WAR, THE SITUATION IS UNBEARABLE Baghdad (Fides Service) – Five months have passed since the fall of Saddam Hussein and his regime and the Iraqi people who hoped for a better life than the one they left behind, are disappointed” Iraqi Catholic pries ...
• 5 September 2003
  VATICAN - DESPITE YEARS OF PERSECUTION PEOPLE ARE STILL THIRSTING FOR GOD: SAYS CARDINAL SEPE AFTER HIS VISIT TO MONGOLIA WHERE ON BEHALF OF THE POPE HE PRESIDED THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST BISHOP AND THE CONSECRATION OF THE FIRST CATHEDRAL IN ULAAN BAATOR Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 21 to 31 August Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, made a pastoral visit to Mongolia as special envoy of Pope John Paul II, to p ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – REV. CLEOPHA MUJIKA APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER SEMINARY IN MBUJIMAYI DIOCESE Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (23 August 2003) Rector of St Francis Xavier inter-diocesan philosophy seminary in Mbu ...
• 5 September 2003
  VATICAN - STUDY-SEMINAR FOR NEWLY APPOINTED BISHOPS OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSIONARY TERRITORIES OPENS ON MONDAY PROMOTED BY CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service) – A Study-Seminar for newly appointed Bishops of English-speaking missionary territories promoted by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP) opens on Monday, September 8, i ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RATE RISES DESPITE DIFFICULT ECONOMIC SITUATION Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Burkina Faso, listed among the world’s poorest countries, is living one of the worst economic crisis in its history. In fact the number of Burkina people living below the poverty line in ...
• 5 September 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PILGRIM IMAGES OF CRUCIFIED CHRIST OF ESQUIPULAS OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE ARRIVE IN GUATEMALA AFTER VISITING CENTRAL AMERICA Guatemala City (Fides Service) – A special pilgrimage of Sacred Images in preparation for the Second American Mission Congress has arrived in Guatemala, where the Congress will take place. Since November 2002 images of ...
• 5 September 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - PRESBITEROS.COM.BR NEW PORTUGUESE WEB SITE TO BOOST PASTORAL WORK AND MISSION São Paulo (Fides Service) – www.presbíteros.com.br is the name of a new web site in Portuguese offering ongoing formation for the clergy. Inaugurated recently by Father Antônio Carlos Rossi Keller of the archdioces ...
• 5 September 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - STILL 200,000 MOLUCCAS PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES: WAR MADE ISLANDS ONE OF INDONESIA’S POOREST REGIONS Ambon (Fides Service) – Still 200,000 displaced persons, an economy which cannot find its legs, tourism still at the starting line, no public funds for rebuilding infrastructures, roads, schools, hospitals, universitie ...
• 5 September 2003
  JOURNEY THROUGH CINEMA “FROM AFAR” SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER FIDES SERVICE PUBLISHES CINEMA DOSSIER IN ITALIAN PART 3: FOCUSSING ON ASIA Saturday 6 September Fides Service will publish part 3 of its Dossier (in Italian only) on Cinema “from afar” with the title “Asia racconta” (Asia narrates). After part 1 and 2 which focused on the world scene, t ...
• 5 September 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - CHINESE CATHOLICS OVERSEAS ATTEND PASTORAL MISSIONARY CONGRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO: RELATION BETWEEN CHRIST AND CONFUCIUS, INCULTURATION, MISSION: San Francisco (Fides Service ) –The 2nd Pastoral and Mission Congress of Chinese Catholics Overseas held in San Francisco (USA) closed on 5 September after reflecting on the theme “Confucianism, prelude to the Gospel ...
• 5 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE NEVER ENDING BISHOP OF KASHMIR SAYS: “ENOUGH WAR AND TERRORISM, CIVILIANS CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “People are too afraid even to leave the house. Civilians have had enough of war and terrorism, of this situation of tension and fear with army and police all over the place. Kashmir de ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - PEACE HAS DIFFICULTY GETTING STARTED, SPECTRE OF FOOD SHORTAGE IN REBEL CONTROLLED AREAS THREATENS Abidjan (Fides Service) – “The peace process has certainly come to an abrupt halt” a local Church source tells Fides Service after the discovery of a plan to assassinate President Gbagbo. The detection late last m ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AT LAST EMPOWERED TO PROTECT CIVILIANS AND STOP FIGHTING BETWEEN REBEL GROUPS NEW UN MISSION DEPLOYED: BUT SOME WONDER WHY MOST ARE NON-FRENCH SPEAKING SOLDIERS Bunia (Fides Service) – “So far all the UN peacekeepers have done is to go on a fact-finding mission to Fataki” local sources in Bunia, main city of Ituri in Northern Congo, tell Fides Service. “UN Mission troops ...
• 4 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING AT THE GENERAL AUDIENCE: LET US ASK GOD FOR THE GIFTS OF TRUST, HOPE AND OPTIMISM, PARTICULARLY AT THIS TIME WHEN THE TEMPTATION TO DESPAIR IS STRONG Vatican City (Fides Service) – At the general Audience on Wednesday 3 September, held in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, for which the Pope travelled by car from his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Fathe ...