News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...