News

• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/JAPAN - PRIESTS IN TEAMS PROVIDE BETTER PASTORAL SERVICE AND FORMATION FOR YOUTH AND LAITY Yokohama (Fides Service) – To improve pastoral work priests of Yokohama archdiocese in Japan, have told their Bishop that they would like to form “common administration parishes” in the different areas of the archd ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DEATH OF FIRST FILIPINO VICAR APOSTOLIC OF CALAPAN Manila (Fides Service) – On 23 June at Quezon City Seminary after a long illness, which afflicted him for three years, Bishop Simeon Valerio, Divine Word Missionary, passed away. The Bishop, who was 86 will be remem ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - VOCATIONS AMONG TRIBAL PEOPLES: ADIVASI VILLAGE IN EASTERN INDIA REJOICES OVER ORDINATION OF FIRST LOCAL PRIEST Ranchi (Fides Service) – Tribal peoples in India are very open to the message of Christ and they embrace the faith with joy. In remote villages in eastern India there are Catholic communities which live the faith with ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - JAPANESE NOTE DAME TEACHING SISTERS RESUME MISSION HIGH IN NEPAL MOUNTAINS Tokyo (Fides Service) – For over twenty years the School Sisters of Notre Dame taught poor children in Bandipur village in the mountains of Nepal. In 2001, because of disorder and danger due to spreading violence on th ...
• 27 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - IN MONROVIA “KILLING, SACKING AND TERROR” MISSIONARY TELLS OF YET ANOTHER OF AFRICA’S FORGOTTEN WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) – Killing, sacking, terror. This is how a missionary stationed in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, describes to Fides Service the situation in the town for days caught in conflict between troops l ...
• 27 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A CRISIS LASTING MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS: BACKGROUND Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century, since a coup in 1980 led by Sergeant Samuel K. Doe put an end to centres of dominion of the so-called “Afro-Americans”. The ...
• 26 June 2003
  VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II’S WEEKLY AUDIENCE FOCUSSED ON THE RECENT PAPAL VISIT TO BOSNIA AND POPE PAUL VI “AN APOSTLE STRONG YET MEEK, HE LOVED THE CHURCH, WORKED FOR UNITY AND FOR MORE INTENSE MISSION” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During his weekly audience on June 25 in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II spoke about Pope Paul VI on the 40th anniversary of his election as Supreme Pontiff, his ministry marked ma ...
• 26 June 2003
  VATICAN - THE EUCHARIST AND THE PRIEST; INSEPARABLY UNITED IN GOD’S LOVE” REFLECTION FOR THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF PRIESTS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The divine gift par excellence, the Eucharist, is given in particular to priests who, receiving it, are responsible for its effectiveness in the world. This is the theme for reflection pr ...
• 26 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - HARAMBEE 2002 AFRICA PROJECT WHICH MARKED CANONISATION OF JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA, WILL FUND 18 PROJECTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – Out of 122 education projects in 20 countries presented to the Harambee 2002 Office (a solidarity programme started to mark the canonisation of the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaria Escriva) 1 ...
• 26 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD BROTHERS WORK FOR HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – The St John of God Hospitaller Brothers have reached an agreement for health cooperation in Cameroon. The president of the Association of the Brothers for Distant Sick, AFMAL Brother Pietro Cicin ...
• 26 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - DRUG ADDICTION IS SUBORDINATED TO THIRST FOR LOVE, LATENT SUFFERING, INNER FRAGILITY AND LACK OF EDUCATION TO LIFE Rome (Fides Service) – Many questions were tackled during the International Symposium “Caring for Others: drug addiction, experience and ethics” held 23-25 June in Rome. From the conclusions presented by Rev. Egidi ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - UNHCR AWARD TO ITALIAN VOLUNTEER FOR THIRTY THREE YEARS OF WORK WITH TB SUFFERERS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA “TELLING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL WITH HER LIFE” Geneva (Fides Service) – A prestigious award has been given to an Italian volunteer who has worked for thirty three years in Somalia treating people with tuberculosis. On June 25 in Geneva the United Nations High Commi ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “OUR ONLY HOPE IS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION”, SAYS MISSIONARY IN THE CAPITAL IN THE GRIP OF FRESH FIGHTING Monrovia (Fides Service) – “Liberia’s only hope now is for an international intervention” a missionary in Monrovia tells Fides Service. For the past few days in various city districts of the capital there has bee ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - RELIGIONS UNITE FOR PEACE. ARCHBISHOP ODAMA AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS SLEEP IN THE OPEN WITH 200,000 CHILDREN TO PROTECT THEM FROM WARLORDS. Kampala (Fides Service) – “We are here with about 20,000 children and young people offering concrete solidarity to people being persecuted” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu in northern Uganda tells Fides Servi ...
• 26 June 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - JUNE 29 BEIJING CHURCHES OPEN AFTER SARS NIGHTMARE, CATHOLICS CAN GO TO MASS AGAIN Beijing (Fides Service) – June 29 will be a day to remember for believers in Beijing. That day places of worship, closed for the SARS scare, will once again open their doors. Some parishes have already resumed daily ma ...