News

• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - WHILE THERE IS FEAR OF ANOTHER COUP THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR MORAL INTEGRITY AND SOCIAL HARMONY, AN END TO POLITICAL BICKERING, CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER Davao (Fides Service) – Stop political bickering, power games; stop infighting among politicians and accusations which upset the whole country; stop sensationalism in the media. This was said in a pastoral statement is ...
• 1 September 2003
  “THAT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES OF CENTRAL ASIA WHO LIVE AMONG PEOPLE OF OTHER RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, MAY BE COMMITTED TO SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM THROUGH ACTIVE TESTIMONY OF THE FAITH.” Comment by Metropolitan Archbishop Thaddeus Kondrusiewicz of the Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow Vatican City (Fides Service) – Central Asia, formed of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, is a vast territory of about 4 million square kilometres, with a total population of 49 million. A ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - REV. FATHER ANTOINE VU HUY CHUONG APPOINTED BISHOP OF HUNG HOA Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has (6 July 2003) appointed Bishop of Hung Hoa (Vietnam) Rev. Father Antoine Vu Huy Chuong professor of dogmatic theology at Can Tho inter-diocesan ma ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - ULAANBAATOR PREFECT APOSTOLIC REV. WENCESLAO PADILLA RAISED TO THE DIGNITY OF BISHOP ASIA/MONGOLIA ULAANBAATOR – PREFECT APOSTOLIC REV. WENCESLAO PADILLA RAISED TO THE DIGNITY OF BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has (2 August 2003) raised Rev. Wences ...
• 1 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - LUEBO:BISHOP EMERY KABONGO KANUNDOWI RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (14 August 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Luebo (Democratic Congo) presented by Bishop Emerry K ...
• 1 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES START GENERAL CHAPTER TODAY: NEW PATHS OF MISSION FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM Rome (Fides Service) - The 16th General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries opens today September 1st to reflect on “The Comboni mission at the beginning of the third millennium”. Father Juan Gonzalez Nunez, head of ...
• 1 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ENTRUSTS ONCE AGAIN THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: “MAY THE MOST HOLY VIRGIN MARY HELP EUROPE BECOME A SYMPHONY OF NATIONS WORKING TO BUILD TOGETHER A CIVILISATION OF LOVE AND PEACE” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “For the last few Sundays I have reflected on Europe and its Christian roots, looking at the text of the post synodal exhortation Ecclesia in Europe. This document ends with an ‘en ...
• 1 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – DISMAYED BY FIVE YEARS OF WAR IN CONGO CARITAS ITALY CALLS FOR RESPECT FOR PEACE PACT, A REGIONAL CONFERENCE, MORE EFFORT BY THE EU AND MORE MEDIA FOCUS ON EXISTING POSITIVE ASPECTS Rome (Fides Service) – Respect for peace agreement; convocation of a Regional Summit of all governments in the Great Lakes Region to find lasting, non violent solutions to the local problems; increase diplomatic and ai ...
• 1 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD RESUMES TO WAR EXHAUSTED PEOPLE. BANDITRY A PROBLEM IN MANY AREAS Monrovia (Fides Service)- “The people are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, after so many years of war and desperation” Consolata Missionary Sisters in Harbel tell Fides Service. Harbel lies 50 km s ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA – AT THEIR ASIAN YOUTH DAY YOUNG ASIANS PROMISE TO OVERCOME BARRIERS OF CULTURE, COUNTRY OR RELIGION IN ORDER TO BUILD PEACE Bangalore (Fides Service) – Reflection, sharing, fraternity, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, prayer, music and song: these were the ingredients of the third Asian Youth Meeting held in Bangalore, Karnataka ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - PADRE PIO MISSIONARY IN THE WORLD: A HOSPITAL AND A HOME FOR UNMARRIED MOTHERS AND ABANDONED CHILDREN BUILT IN HONOUR OF THE FRIAR FROM PIETRELCINA Tura (Fides Service) – A hospital and a home for unmarried mothers and abandoned children are the latest additions to a compound dedicated to Saint Pio da Pietrelcina in Thakmagre, in Tura diocese, north west India nea ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM – DUC IN ALTUM: FIRST MEETING OF BISHOPS’ COMMISSION FOR RELIGIOUS LIFE FOCUSES ON THEOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION Bui Chu (Fides Service ) – “The Church demands of Religious high quality spirituality and formation” Bishop Joseph Hoang Van Tiem, of Bui Chu, told Fides Service with regard to the first meeting of the Vietnamese C ...
• 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 ...