News

• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - MIRACULOUS HEALING OF LUBNA ABDEL AZIA, PRACTISING MUSLIM WOMAN, OPENED WAY TO COMBONI’S CANONISATION Khartoum (Fides Service) – On 11 November 1997, Lubna Abdel Aziz, aged 38, mother of four children, was admitted to St Mary’s hospital in Khartoum run by the Comboni Sisters, for the birth of her fifth child with a c ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA - 3,000 CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY OF MALARIA. UNICEF, WHO AND ACUMEN FOUNDATION UNITE TO DIFFUSE NEW MOSQUITO NET Rome (Fides Service) – A new Japanese product which can save millions of lives has just be taken to Africa by UNICEF, World Health Organisation, ACUMEN Foundation and other private organisations. The product could save ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CANONISATION OF DON ORIONE: ORGANISING COMMITTEE GETS TO WORK, INITIATIVES INCLUDE WEB SITE Rome (Fides Service) – Yesterday at the general Curia, there was a meeting of the organising committee for the canonisation of Don Orione (COC). “The meeting marks the passage from the theoretical to the practical st ...
• 26 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES PHILIPPINES BISHOPS: BE A CHURCH OF THE POOR, TRUE COMMUNITY OF THE LORD’S DISCIPLES, COMMITTED TO RENEWED INTEGRAL EVANGELISATION Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Three key pastoral priorities emerged from the plenary council: the need to be a Church of the poor, the pledge to become a true community of the Lord’s disciples, and the commitm ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA - ELECTRICITY ADVANCES IN AFRICA. POWER DOUBLED IN CONGO. CONTINENT’S HYDRO-ELECTRIC RESOURCES ARE TURNED TO ITS OWN ADVANTAGE AT LAST Rome (Fides Service) – Projects for providing electricity throughout sub-Saharan Africa are making progress. On 23 September at Imboulou in Republic of Congo work began to construct the largest hydroelectric plant the ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CONCLUDED INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN ASTANA: EXTREMISM TERRORISM AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GENUINE UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION, BUT ARE A THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE Astana (Fides Service) – At the end of the “First Congress of Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions” held from 23 to 24 September in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the participants, representing the ma ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - YOUNG PEOPLE PROTAGONISTS OF MISSION IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE– HARAMBEE MEETING OF HISTORIES, PEOPLES AND CULTURES , GREAT EVENT FOR THE SALESIAN WORLD Turin (Fides Service) – The Salesian world is celebrating the great event of Harambee, a major Salesian Missionary Animation initiative to share experiences of serving in developing countries following the spirit of St ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NO SIGN OF PEACE FOR EASTERN CONGO! GROWING FEAR OF FRESH VIOLENCE Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Rumours of imminent new outbreaks of violence continue to spread in south and north Kivu, region in Democratic Congo bordering on Rwanda and Burundi. Local Church sources contacted by Fides S ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NEW CENTRE FOR ROME’S CHINESE CATHOLICS: FUTURE FOR APOSTOLATE AND EVANGELISATION PROMISING CHAPLAIN FR JOHN CHIU TELLS FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – The Chinese Catholic community in Rome has a new Centre next to the Church of San Bernardino da Siena, Via Panisperna 256. The community will gather for the official opening of the Agostino Chao ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - BISHOP IN THE GUERRILLA WAR ZONE: MGR ANGELITO LAMPON APOSTOLIC VICAR OF JOLO, WHOSE PREDECESSOR WAS ASSASSINATED BY REBELS, TELLS FIDES SERVICE ABOUT DAILY LIFE AND DANGER Vatican City (Fides Service) – Despite an armed escort for his protection in the area infested with armed groups and fighting between army and rebels, Bishop Angelito Lampon Apostolic Vicar of Jolo goes ahead with this ...
• 25 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - AMINA WINS HER APPEAL: “THIS IS A GOOD DAY FOR NIGERIA” SAYS CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF JOS Lagos (Fides Service) – “This is a good day for Nigeria” Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos told Fides Service, after Amina, a northern Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery, won ...
• 25 September 2003
  AMERICA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN CONGRESS MISSION (CAM 2) WORKING PAPER: A UNITARY PATH OF ANIMATION FOR LOCAL CHURCHES Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Central Commission for CAM 2 has prepared a working paper for distribution to dioceses, parishes, associations as a guide for preparing contributions from particular Churches all o ...
• 25 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER - JOSEPH FREINADEMETZ 1852-1908: A LIFE FOR MISSION IN CHINA Vatican City (Fides Service) - Joseph Freinademetz was born on the 15th of April 1852 in Oies, a small hamlet of five houses situated in the Dolomite Alps of northern Italy. The region, known as “South Tyrol,” was th ...
• 25 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - ARCHBISHOP AGUSTE NOBOU OF KORHOGO RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (22 September 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of Korhogo diocese in Ivory Coast, presented by Archbishop Auguste Nobou in ...
• 25 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON: THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING ON PSALM 8, “ AN ADMIRABLE HYMN OF PRAISE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II was unable to join visitors to St Peter’s for the usual Wednesday Audience on 24 September, due to a slight indisposition. On his behalf Cardinal Angelo Sodano read th ...