News

• 2 July 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - ARCHBISHOP OF MARINGA: THE PALLIUM STANDS FOR A CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN IDENTITY OF THE LOCAL CHURCH WHILE BUILDING COMMUNION WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH Vatican City (Fides Service) – “These meetings with the Pope over the past few days were truly precious moments, I was deeply touched by the love he showed to each of us” Archbishop Jao Braz de Aviz of Maringa in ...
• 2 July 2003
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - TOWARDS 2ND ALL AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) - FIRST ARCHDIOCESAN MEETING, 400 DIOCESAN DELEGATES “UNITED FOR MISSION” San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) – Promote, animate and increase missionary spirit so as to increase awareness of the evangelising mission of the Church and the duty to respond to mission “ad gentes”. These ...
• 2 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN OF COMMUNION, IN DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE: NEW SUPERIOR OF MISSIONARERY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE APOSTLES SPEAKS TO FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – “We believe in dialogue, relations and communion. We share day to day life with the poor and the excluded, working above all for the promotion of the dignity of women”. Sister Eileen Cummins, ...
• 2 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SOS FROM BUNIA: HELP US BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE Bunia (Fides Service) – “When the international peacekeeping force arrived we thought they would help restore peace; but we are perplexed to see the way they work”. This was reported to Fides Service by a local obs ...
• 2 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - NO TO THE CULTURE OF ANTAGONISM YES TO DIALOGUE WITH HINDUS: JESUITS WORK TO SAFEGUARD INDIA’S TRADITIONAL INTERRELIGIOUS CO-EXISTENCE New Delhi (Fides Service) – Love your enemies. To obey commandment of Jesus in these times of interreligious tension in India, the Jesuits Fathers in Madhya Pradesh state have decided to travel all the possible paths t ...
• 1 July 2003
  VATICAN - “BEING THE VOICE THAT THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE WANTS TO HEAR” IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SEE’S PRESENCE IN THE COMMUNITY OF NATIONS – A COLLECTION OF THE HOLY SEE’S INTERVENTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Words that Matter” is the title of a volume, presented on 30 June at the Holy See Press office, prepared by Bishop Andre Dupuy and published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and ...
• 1 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FROM SERVICE TO SERVANTS: IDENTITY AND ROLE OF LAY LEADERS FOCAL POINT OF MEETING OF ITALIAN PMS STARTING TODAY Rome (Fides Service) – This afternoon, July 1, at Frattocchie (Rome), the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy will start their general assembly, which brings together regional leaders, diocesan directors and lay dioc ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY BRINGS A NEW SPRINGTIME FOR THE CHURCH IN MALAWI – ROSARY POSTERS IN CHICHEWA Balaka (Fides Service) – “The year of the Rosary is certainly helping the Church in Malawi to live a new springtime after celebrating its first centenary of evangelisation in 2001. The faith is taking deeper root in ...
• 1 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - PALEMBANG – NEW ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE AND NEW METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (12 June 2003) created the new ecclesiastical province of Palembang separating it from the ecclesiastical province of Medan (Indonesia). The new ecc ...
• 1 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MALARIA STILL FOUGHT WITH INEFFECTIVE TREATMENT TO WHICH THE DISEASE HAS BECOME RESISTANT Rome (Fides Service) – “Too many in Africa and Asia still die of a curable disease, malaria. And yet there is a cure: to ignore the fact that there is a cure for malaria, to forget it or pretend that it does not exis ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “ WE MUST WORK WITH PATIENCE TO OVERCOME THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE LEFT BY THE WAR PROMOTING THE VALUES OF THE GOSPEL” SAYS ARCHBISHOP OF MAPUTO Vatican City (Fides Service) – “When the Pope placed the pallium on my shoulders I felt all the responsibility with which I have been charged”. This was how Archbishop Francisco Chimoio, OFM Cap., of Maputo in Moza ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - CRISIS OR HITCH? THIS IS THE QUESTION AFTER REBELS DECIDE TO STOP DISARMING Abidjan (Fides Service) “Let’s hope it is only a hitch in the process of peace” say local observers in Ivory Coast contacted by Fides Service with regard to the decision of rebels to suspend disarmament. United as ...
• 1 July 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PRIESTS ORDAINED IN LAHORE: FIVE CAPUCHINS WILL MINISTER IN PUNJAB Lahore (Fides Service) – “The Lord has chosen you to be his messengers. You are called to carry out your pastoral duties with zeal and dedication”. With these words Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana of Lahore, encourag ...
• 1 July 2003
  ASIA/MYANMAR - ARCHBISHOP OF YANGON: THE LITTLE CHURCH OF MYANMAR GROWS DESPITE TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES, ALSO THANKS TO COMMITTED LAITY Vatican City (Fides Service) – “We are a very close knit community and despite difficulties and trials we praise God, we pray, we evangelise and engage in social and charity work”. This is how Archbishop Charles Ma ...
• 30 June 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE GIVES THE PALLIUM TO 42 NEW ARCHBISHOPS ON THE SOLEMNITY OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL “GOD’S FRIENDS”, AND RENEWS HIS PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO WORK FOR FULL COMMUNION AMONG CHRISTIANS Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Peter and Paul are ‘friends of God’ in a singular way, because they drank the Cup of the Lord…if we think of the calling and personal story of the apostles, Peter and Paul, we se ...