News

• 11 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - BY 2005 CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE FOR RELIGIOUS LIFE IN AFRICA SHOULD BE A REALITY MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA SUPERIOR GENERAL FATHER RICHARD FRANCOIS TELLS FIDES SERVICE Nairobi (Fides Service) – “Before the end of 2005 we will establish the Continental Conference for Religious Life in Africa” Father Richard Francois Missionaries of Africa Superior General tells Fides Service, chai ...
• 11 July 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - FOR FIVE DAYS BUJUMBURA HAS BEEN IN GRIP OF FIERCE FIGHTING. CARITAS CENTRES OVERFLOWING WITH INJURED AND DISPLACED PERSONS Bujumbura (Fides Service) - “From where we are we cannot hear the artillery firing, but for five days National Liberation Front rebels FNL have been attacking Bujumbura” a local missionary told Fides Service. “The ...
• 11 July 2003
  AMERICA/PANAMA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – “SPIRITUALITY OF MISSION, A CHALLENGE FOR OUR PARTICULAR CHURCHES”: PREPARATORY MEETING OF CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMISSION Panama (Fides Service – “At this final stage of preparation for the American Mission Congress (CAM 2), the theme of missionary spirituality is vital to give unity to the path we are travelling”: this was affirmed i ...
• 11 July 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - HIV/AIDS KILLER IN CHINA, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG MEN UNDER 30 – CATHOLIC CHURCH FULLY COMMITTED TO CARING AND FIGHTING Beijing (Fides Service) – China, the most populated country in Asia and in the world, is battling to check spreading AIDS which strikes particularly its young males. According to the recent data issued by the Chinese ...
• 11 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CARITAS ACTIVITY IN POST-WAR PERIOD: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL PROMOTION FOR CHILDREN, THE SICK AND DISPLACED PERSONS Baghdad (Fides Service) - In post war Iraq marked by instability and social problems, such as spreading drug addiction and an increase in the phenomenon of street children, Caritas is intensifying its activity. The 14 c ...
• 11 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - IN INDONESIA DEFEAT FOR EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN DIVERSITY OF RELIGIONS – NEW EDUCATION BILL: THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH Jakarta (Fides Service) – “We are deeply saddened and concerned. The passing of the Education Bill is a defeat for the very idea of education. The bill politicises education, penalises the autonomy of schools and bro ...
• 10 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: OUR GREATEST GOOD IS THE UNION OF OUR WILL WITH THE WILL OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 9 July, Pope John Paul II continued his teaching on the psalms, reflecting this week on psalm 142, a “prayer in time of tribulation.” “Our mornin ...
• 10 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – LIKE THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1,526 INDIGENOUS LAY MISSIONARIES ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL TO THEIR OWN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES Guatemala City (Fides Service/ANS) – Since Pentecost, every Sunday many churches in the indigenous Carcha and Chisec mission in northern Guatemala have been celebrating sending of missionaries ceremonies. This is one r ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - RELIGIOUS LIFE ON THE WEB: NEW INTERNET PAGE FOR CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS IN KOREA Seoul (Fides Service) – www.brothers.or.kr is the new web page opened by the Conference of Religious Major Superiors of male institutes in South Korea. The page is vivacious and interactive with news on spirituality, i ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - TAEJON DIOCESE, REV. LAZARUS YOU HEUNG-SK APPOINTED COADJUTOR BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (24 June 2003) appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Taejon (Korea) Reverend Father Lazarus You Heung-sik, rector of Taejon major seminary. Reverend Fath ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - KWANGJU ARCHDIOCESE, REV. HYGINUS KIM HEE-JONG APPOINTED AUXILIARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (24 June 2003) appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Kwangju (Korea) Reverend Father Hyginus Hee-jong parish priest at Kumba Dong, assig ...
• 10 July 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - MALAWI’S FIRST CONVENT OF CLOISTERED NUNS: INCESSANT PRAYER TO COMFORT ONE OF WORLD’S HUNGRIEST AND POOREST COUNTRIES Zomba (Fides Service) – Malawi will soon have its first Convent of enclosed nuns, Discalced Carmelites. The official inauguration of a Carmelite church and convent at Zomba will take place on 15 October, feast of Saint ...
• 10 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - IN NAIROBI A HISTORY MAKING MEETING TO SET UP A CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN IN AFRICA Nairobi (Fides Service) – “Africa may soon have an All-Africa association of all Religious men and women”. This was affirmed by Consolata missionary Father Vincenzo Salemi, co-ordinator of a Meeting for Religious M ...
• 10 July 2003
  EUROPE/POLAND - ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN VOCATIONS SERVICE: VOCATIONS PASTORAL, ORDINARY PASTORAL AND NEW EVANGELISATION Warsaw (Fides Service) –“The integration of the New Vocations Ministry into the broader structures of pastoral life” was the theme of the Annual Meeting of the European Vocations Service (EVS) held in Warsaw 2-6 Ju ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEANS WANT TO PLAY THEIR PART TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIC, CIVIL AND MORAL GROWTH OF NEW IRAQ Baghdad (Fides Service) – After years of exclusion and absence from public life Chaldeans in Iraq want to take part in the political activity of their country. Following the news that Iraq will soon have a Leadership C ...