News

• 24 June 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQ SWINGS FROM EMERGENCY TO NORMALITY: IN THE NORTH SCHOOL PUPILS PREPARE FOR EXAMS, IN THE CENTRE CLASHES AND ATTACKS CONTINUE Baghdad (Fides Service) – “Despite the lack of security in most of Iraq people are trying to return to normal day to day living ” says Father Nizar Semaan of Ninive diocese. “At Karakoush, a Christian town of 25, ...
• 24 June 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - SARS NIGHTMARE OVER: “ SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMEN, POLITICIANS, FILM STARS FADE AWAY, POPULAR HEROES NOW EIGHT DOCTORS WHO DIED TO SAVE OTHERS” MISSIONARY TELLS FIDES SERVICE Hong Kong (Fides Service) – SARS was a shock for Hong Kong. But it changed people’s view of life and the city took a turn for the better” says Father Gianni Criveller, PIME mission in Hong Kong hours after the spec ...
• 24 June 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - RENEWING PASTORAL CARE WITH MISSIONARY PROJECT – MISSIOLOGY WEEKS PREPARE FOR CAM2 Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – “For the past ten years the archdiocese of Mexico has undertaken a process of pastoral renewal by means of a new a vigorous missionary project, the fruit of the 2nd archdiocesan Synod (1 ...
• 24 June 2003
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - NEW EVANGELISING IMPULSE FOR CHURCH IN PORTO RICO: 76 LAY MISSIONARIES SENT TO EVANGELISE IN NEW ARENAS San Juan de Puerto Rico (Fides Service ) – The Church in Porto Rico, faithful to the mission received by her Founder and in harmony with numerous appeals from the Pope, recently sent on mission ad gentes 76 lay Catholi ...
• 23 June 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - LAWLESS SOLOMONS ISLANDS LAUNCHES SOS TO AUSTRALIA: COMMITTED LAY CATHOLIC URGES PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT TO TAKE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE NATION FROM DESTRUCTION Honiara (Fides Service) – “Solomons last chance”, is the title of a wake up call sounded for the people and the authorities of crime ridden Solomon Islands forced call on Australia for help to restore r ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - LIFE STORY OF MOTHER TERESA NOW AVAILABLE IN KANNADA LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY 33 MILLION INDIANS Bangalore (Fides Service) – Also Kannada speaking Indians living mainly in central southern India will be able to learn more about Mother Teresa of Calcutta: on the occasion of the beatification of the white clad siste ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - ECUMENICAL SERVICE AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE FEAST DAY SAINTS PETER AND ST PAUL Antioch (Fides Service) – To mark the Feast Day of Saints Peter on Paul on June 29 an ecumenical Liturgy of the Word and an international symposium will be held in Antioch. The ecumenical service, attended by represent ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 4,000 GATHER TO PRAY IN DEMILITARISED ZONE DIVIDING NORTH AND SOUTH ON NATIONAL DAY FOR RECONCILIATION AND UNITY OF KOREAN PEOPLE Seoul (Fides Service) – At least 4,000 gathered in the demilitarised border zone between north and south Korea for Mass to mark the Day for Unity and Reconciliation of the Korean People on Sunday June 22. Bishops, prie ...
• 23 June 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-NIGER - CHURCH STILL YOUNG, DESPITE DIFFICULTIES TENDS TO MISSION, INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP OUEDRAGO, PRESIDENT OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Despite difficulties connected with the precarious living conditions of the local people, the missionary vitality of your diocesan Churches has expressed itself in various forms”, Po ...
• 23 June 2003
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE TELLS CATHOLICS IN BANJA LUKA: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, MULTIPLY EFFORTS TO MAKE BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ONCE AGAIN A LAND OF RECONCILIATION, ENCOUNTER AND PEACE Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “With deep gratitude for the invitation, I return after six years to Bosnia-Herzegovina and I thank God for allowing me to meet once again these people so dear to my heart”. With these ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - KUCHING - ARCHBISHOP PETER CHAUNG HOAN TING RESIGNS, MGR JOHN HA TIONG HOCK APPOINTED Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father Pope John Paul II has (18 June 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Kuching, Malaysia, presented by Archbishop Peter Chaung Hoa ...
• 23 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - TO FIGHT DRUG ABUSE IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO START FROM THE TRANSCENDENT AND UNIQUE VALUE OF EVERY PERSON: SYMPOSIUM FOR UN ANTI-DRUGS DAY Rome (Fides Service) – United Nations, the Vatican and therapy communities join forces to fight a phenomenon which is medical and psychological, but also cultural, social, ethic and political. To mark UN Anti-Drugs Day ...
• 23 June 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE CAUSED LATEST NIGERIAN OIL TRAGEDY SAYS ARCHBISHOP ONAIYEKAN OF ABUJA Abuja (Fides Service) – “This is the umpteenth tragedy caused by neglect on the part of those responsible for protecting one of the largest oil installations in Nigeria” Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuj ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES BISHOP JAMES CHAN Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (6 June 2003), National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Malaysia, Sing ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. PATRICK PA SVD Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (13 June 2003) National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Indonesia Reve ...