News

• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - CARITAS CONGO SENDS 8 TONNES OF MEDICINES TO BUNIA CITY TRAPPED IN TRIBAL FIGHTING Kinshasa (Fides Service) – On 29 May 8 tonnes of medicine sent by Caritas Congo arrived in Bunia city. Flying with the medical supplies, purchased with funds from Caritas Germany and Trocaire Ireland, was the director ...
• 30 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: SPANISH BISHOPS’ MESSAGE “COMMUNICATORS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD OF SOCIETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON” Madrid (Fides Service) – In a message issued for Communications’ Day (in Spain June 1) the Commission for Social Communications of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has called on Catholic media workers to fulfil thei ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: RADIO FOR PEACE IN THE HEART OF WAR TORN AFRICA: ON THE SHORES OF LAKE KIVU, RWANDA/BURUNDI BORDER, THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS Bukavu (Fides Service) – Radio Mary Queen of Peace, Maria Malkia wa Amani is only two years old and yet even its name is a programme. Maria Malkia wa Amani the Catholic radio of Bukavu archdiocese was started at a ston ...
• 30 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INTERVIEW WITH CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CALCUTTA: STOP ANTI-CONVERSION BILL. EVERY PERSON MUST ENJOY FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE –MOTHER TERESA IS “GLOBAL”, SHE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE CHURCH AND THE WHOLE WORLD Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Salvation is for all peoples. The Church proclaims and bears witness to the Good News, despite persecution”. This affirmation was made by Archbishop Lucas Sirkar of Calcutta, who was ...
• 30 May 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: NEW LYMPH FOR ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS Bangkok (Fides Service) – To mark Communications Day 2003, the Asian Research Centre for Religion and Social Communications has a new director, a new review, new cultural initiatives. The Catholic centre located in Ban ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC BISHOP IN GUJARAT: GROWING FUNDAMENTALISM BUT THRIVING CHURCH INTENDS TO MAKE SUPREME COURT APPEAL AGAINST ANTI-CONVERSION BILL – INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP THOMAS MACWAN OF AHMEDABAD Vatican City (Fides Service) – “We are not afraid. Our mission is to bear witness to Jesus Christ even during persecution. The anti-conversion bill approved in Gujarat is unconstitutional. We, the local Catholic Chur ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA IN 1999 POPE JOHN PAUL II AFFIRMED: “NO STATE HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY A PERSON’S RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS” New Delhi (Fides Service) - “No State, no group has the right to control either directly or indirectly a person’s religious convictions, nor can it justifiably claim the right to impose or impede the public professi ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “WE ARE WORKING WITH MUSLIMS TO ASSIST TO IRAQI PEOPLE” SAYS HEAD OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS IN INTERVIEW WITH FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – “We have established good collaboration with the Muslim world despite difficulties arising from the lack of security” Mr Karel Zelenka head of Caritas Internationalis department for internati ...
• 28 May 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE TELLS BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE: “THE COUNTRY NEEDS PEOPLE ABLE TO BUILD PEACE AND NATIONAL UNITY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF RECONCILIATION, FORGIVENESS AND MUTUAL LOVE” Kigali (Fides Service) – “The wounds inflicted on the human and religious dignity of the Rwandan people are profound and for them to gradually heal, adequate spiritual, moral and psychological assistance is necessary ...
• 28 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - IN BUNIA, MARTYRED CITY IN NORTH EAST, FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN RIVAL LENDU AND HEMA TRIBES Bunia (Fides Service) – Still tense the situation in Bunia, in north east Congo disrupted by weeks of fighting between Hema and Lendu tribesmen. “For the moment there is no fighting” a local source tells Fides Serv ...
• 28 May 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY SOME 100,000 EXPECTED TO TAKE PART IN 26TH ROSARIO-SAN LORENZO YOUTH PILGRIMAGE Rosario (Fides Service) – On June 1st there will be the 26th Rosario-San Lorenzo youth pilgrimage, dedicated this year, the year of the Rosary, to the words Jesus spoke to his disciple John, “Behold your Mother”, i ...
• 28 May 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “LET’S GLOBALISE SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS”: BISHOPS LAUNCH SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE CULTURE OF ACCEPTANCE AS A REQUIREMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE Lima (Fides Service) – According to reports by the General Direction of Migration and Naturalisation in Peru, up to July 2002, about 10% of the population had been forced to leave its land of origin in search of better ...
• 28 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - DEHONIANS ELECT NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL, PORTUGUESE FATHER JOSE ORNELAS CARVALHO Rome (Fides Service) - Father Jose Ornelas Carvalho has been elected new Superior General of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians). He is the eighth successor of the founder Venerable Jean Leon ...
• 28 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SARS – MISSIONARIES CALL FOR VACCINATION AGAINST EPIDEMIC; FIDES ASKED THE OPINION OF ITALIAN PROFESSOR AT LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY IN ROME Lome (Fides Service) – Disquieting information on the number of cases of SARS and deaths continues to arrive, provoking inevitably an increase in anxiety. The most recent figures issued by the World Health Organisatio ...
• 28 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INTERVIEW WITH CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CALCUTTA: STOP ANTI-CONVERSION BILL. EVERY PERSON MUST ENJOY FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE –MOTHER TERESA IS “GLOBAL”, SHE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE CHURCH AND THE WHOLE WORLD Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Salvation is for all peoples. The Church proclaims and bears witness to the Good News, despite persecution”. This affirmation was made by Archbishop Lucas Sirkar of Calcutta, who was ...