News

• 30 June 2003
  VATICAN - EUROPE’S CHRISTIAN ROOTS ARE MAIN GUARANTEE OF ITS FUTURE: THE POPE PROMULGATES APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION “ECCLESIA IN EUROPA” DURING FIRST VESPERS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The Good News was and continues to be the source of life for Europe. Although it is true that Christianity cannot be limited to one particular culture instead it dialogues with each in ...
• 30 June 2003
  VATICAN - ECCLESIA IN EUROPA JESUS CHRIST IS THE HOPE OF EUROPE Vatican City (Fides Service) – In preparation for the Great Jubilee 2000, Pope John Paul II convoked a series of continental synods of Bishops (see TMA 38) the last of which devoted to Europe (1-23 October 1999) on the ...
• 30 June 2003
  VATICAN - WHEN BUILDING A NEW EUROPE WE MUST NOT FORGET GYPSY PEOPLES SAYS ARCHBISHOP MARCHETTO OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR MIGRANTS AND ITINERANT PEOPLES Conference on the Pastoral Care of Gypsies opens today in Hungary with the theme “The Church and Gypsies: for a spirituality of communion”. The Conference, which will last until 7 July, is organised by the Pontifical ...
• 30 June 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - MACAO – BISHOP DOMINGOS LAM KA TSEUNG RESIGNS, SUCCEEDED BY COADJUTOR BISHOP JOSE LAI HUNG-SENG Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Macao (China) presented by Bishop Domingos Lam Ka Tseung, in conformity wi ...
• 30 June 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - MANOKWARI-SORONG – BISHOP FRANCIS XAVIER SUDARTANA HADISUMATRA RESIGNS, REV. DATUS HILARION LEGA APPOINTED Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has accepted (12 June 2003) the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Manokwari-Sorong (Indonesia) presented by Bishop Francis Xav ...
• 30 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA: NEW STRATEGIES, MEETING ORGANISED BY THE ITALIAN HEALTH MINISTRY AND MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES Rome (Fides Service) – Malaria is a growing threat. According to recent estimates every year malaria kills as many as two million people. In this situation it is increasingly urgent to form a global alliance against ma ...
• 30 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - SITUATION CALM, BUT FEAR REIGNS. THREATS TO THE CHURCH Monrovia (Fides Service) – “After the cease fire announced by the rebels at the weekend, in Monrovia there is a situation of calm charged with tension” a local Missionary in Monrovia tells Fides Service. Monrovia h ...
• 30 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC CITY YOUTH ON MISSION AMONG RURAL YOUTH – PREPARATION FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY CONTINUES Diphu (Fides Service) – “Young people on mission to other young people” initiatives are being undertaken by a number of Indian dioceses in preparation for Asian Youth Day in Bangalore 9-16 August 2003. The major yo ...
• 30 June 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A CHIP TO SPEED UP RESEARCH ON SARS Rome (Fides Service) – To speed up research on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS the American National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease NIAID has made available a micro-array for rapid discernmen ...
• 27 June 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ENCOURAGES INDIAN BISHOPS TO PREACH CHRIST DESPITE DIFFICULTIES: “CHURCH IN INDIA, RENEW YOUR MISSIONARY COMMITMENT!” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Evangelisation is a charge in which all the members of the Church share by virtue of their baptism. Therefore, all the baptised…How unfortunate it is then that even today in many pla ...
• 27 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION AND YOUNG CHURCHES AGENTS OF NEW EVANGELISATION: INTERVIEW WITH FATHER PIERO GHEDDO ON HALF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE MISSIONARY WORLD Milan (Fides Service) – Father Piero Gheddo, missionary of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) is one of the most known “missionary faces” in Italy and abroad. Ordained a priest on 28 June 1953 by Card ...
• 27 June 2003
  AMERICA/BAHAMAS - NASSAU – MGR. PATRICK PINDER APPOINTED AUXILIARY BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (12 June 2003) appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Nassau archdiocese (Bahamas) Mgr Patrick Pinder, vicar general of the same archdiocese, assigning to h ...
• 27 June 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 24TH INTERNATIONAL TOURISM DAY: TOURISM CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ROLE IN THE STRUGGLE TO ELIMINATE POVERTY Vatican City (Fides Service) – “It is impossible to be indifferent and inert in front of poverty and underdevelopment. We cannot close ourselves in egoistic interests, abandoning numerous brothers and sisters in dire ...
• 27 June 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - UNITED NATIONS REPORT: AVAILABLE LESS THAN HALF THE FUNDS NECESSARY FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS New York (Fides Service) – Governments and centres of research all over the world have diminished funds for treating AIDS to give more to producing a vaccine, prevention and distribution of medicines for HIV people. Th ...
• 27 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - A FRUIT OF THE GREAT JUBILEE: INAUGURATION OF JOHN PAUL II HOME FOR DISABLED PILGRIMS TO ROME Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday June 29, feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patron saints of Rome, the John Paul II Home for the Disabled - Opera Don Orione will be officially inaugurated. The Home is situated in Rom ...