News

• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - THERE IS NO WAR BETWEEN RELIGIONS IN IRAQ, SAYS ARCHBISHOP ISHAQ RECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL BABEL UNIVERSITY IN BAGHDAD Rome (Fides Service) - “I am confident about the future of the Church in Iraq” says Chaldean Archbishop Ishaq Jacques, emeritus of Arbil of the Chaldeans, presently rector of Babel Pontifical University in Baghdad. ...
• 25 July 2003
  IN NOVEMBER A SYMPOSIUM ON ST THERESA OF LISIEUX AND THE IMPORTANCE TODAY OF HER MESSAGE The Cardinal Suenens Centre in collaboration with the Pontifical Gregorian University, is organising a Symposium 10-11 November “Therese of Lisieux and her Message today”. Speakers, all experts on the saint, will inc ...
• 25 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - YOUNG VOLUNTEERS SPEND SUMMER HOLIDAYS ON MISSION Madrid (Fides Service) – Besides being a time for rest and enjoyment, Summer holidays can also be a time to help the work of the Church particularly where there is most need. Again this year a good number of young Span ...
• 25 July 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - LAY CATHOLICS AND YOUTH AT THE CENTRE OF PLENARY COUNCIL OF LOCAL CHURCH OPENS TOMORROW Caracas (Fides Service) – From 26 to 31 July at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas the 4th session of the plenary council of the Church in Venezuela will bring together about three hundred people includin ...
• 25 July 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - HIV AND TRANSFUSION SECURITY: CONFERENCE IN LUANDA Rome (Fides Service) – According to a press statement issued by the Coalition for HIV Positive People, control of blood quality is still a serious problem in Angola where only 30 percent of the donations are tested. To ...
• 25 July 2003
  AFRICA - AIDS: BY 2010 TWENTY FIVE MILLION ORPHANS Rome (Fides Service) – The living conditions of people in southern Africa are alarming for various reasons, including drought, bad government, political instability and in particular AIDS, The poorest countries are the ...
• 25 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - WE WERE 6 NOW WE ARE 165 SAYS SISTER HELENA KOTANDOLA ONE OF THE FIRST SISTERS OF THE CONGREGATION OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOUNDED 50 YEARS AGO IN TSHUMBE DIOCESE Tshumbe (Fides Service) – “It is a great joy to see our family grow day by day” says Sister Helena Kotandola one of the foundresses of the diocesan congregation of Saint Francis of Assisi which celebrated it 50th a ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - UNITED TO LIVE THE GOSPEL AND PROCLAIM IT TO OTHERS: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS Rome (Fides Service) – With traditional Vietnamese song and dance and colourful festivities, the first meeting of the new millennium for overseas Vietnamese Catholics opened on 24 July at the Pontifical Urban Universit ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS, MANY FORMER ‘BOAT PEOPLE’ FERVENT IN FAITH AND COMMITTED TO MISSION FOR CIVIL AND MORAL REBUILDING OF THEIR HOMELAND Rome (Fides Service) – Today there are more than 2 million Vietnamese living outside their homeland in 30 different countries and about 500,000 of them are Catholics. Besides these two million, there are another 300,00 ...
• 24 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING: “WE ARE NOT ABANDONED TO OURSELVES OR TO THE COSMIC FORCES, WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD IN HIS PLAN FOR SALVATION” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II met about 2,500 people in the courtyard of his Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for the weekly audience on Wednesday July 23. His teaching focussed on Psalm 146: � ...
• 24 July 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - REDEMPTORIST FATHERS LEAD SPECIAL PARISH MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR OF CERRO CORDILLERA DISTRICT TO MARK 100 YEARS OF MISSIONARY PRESENCE Valparaiso (Fides Service) – The Redemptorist missionaries first arrived in Cerro Cordigliera, on the outskirts of Valparaiso, in 1903. As part of centenary celebrations the Redemptorist Fathers of the Santiago provinc ...
• 24 July 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – SECOND REGIONAL MEETING OF MEDELLIN AND SANTA FE DE ANTIOQUIA CLOSES WITH THE SENDING OF TWO DIOCESAN PRIESTS ON MISSION TO MOZAMBIQUE Medellin (Fides Service) – On its path towards the American Mission Congress (CAM 2), from 10 to 12 July in Medellin the Church in Colombia held a 2nd regional missionary meeting with the motto “we are missionaries f ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND – RATCHABURI - BISHOP JOHN BOSCO MANAT CHUABSAMAI RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (24 July 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Ratchaburi (Thailand), presented by Bishop John Bosco Manat Ch ...
• 24 July 2003
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’ MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR THE MONTH AUGUST “THAT THE CATECHISTS OF THE YOUNG CHURCHES, MAY BEAR WITNESS FAITHFULLY TO THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE GOSPEL” Comment by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the congregation for the clergy. Vatican City (Fides Service) - I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.” (Jn 4, 35). These words of the Lord resound today in our heart and they show the vast horizon of the ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP TO VISIT N. KOREA SINCE THE WAR, IS TODAY PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOPS CONFERENCE, AND CONSULTOR OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Seoul (Fides Service) – Archbishop Andrew Choi Chang-mou of Kwangju has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples . His appointment is a recognition of the important role of the ...