News
13 October 2005
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Pontifical Mission Societies Solidarity Fund to help Church Pakistan with long term projects “looking to the future”
New York (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the United States have opened their Solidarity Fund for the Church in Southeast Asia to include help for long-term rebuilding of the infrastructure of ...
13 October 2005
VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe opens Academic year at the Pontifical Urban University: “We are sent and our mission is not ours it is the mission of the Son! We carry nothing of ourselves. We carry only Christ always and everywhere”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ < As the Father sent me so I send you >. These words of the Gospel we have just heard speak of a profound reality of our faith: we are sent like Christ; our mission is the same mission ...
13 October 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Eucharist “source of peace and joy” in a country still recovering from a tragic civil war: national Youth Meetings on the Eucharist will be held every year
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Celebrations for the Year of the Eucharist in our country have been marked by peace and national reconciliation and joy” said local Catholic priest Rev Salvatore Niciteretse, in Burundi, a co ...
13 October 2005
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Jesuits mark 100 years of service for evangelisation and human promotion in Zambia
Lusaka (Fides Service)- This year the Jesuits are marking their centenary of service in Zambia. After a few unsuccessful attempts in 1880, on 14 July 1905 Fr Joseph Moreau opened the first Jesuit mission in a part of sou ...
13 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Pontifical Mission Societies assist Kashmir earthquake victims
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in India is busy assisting people affected by the recent earthquake in Kashmir. National PMS director Mgr Ingnazio Siluvai immediately c ...
13 October 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Notre Dame and St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney joint nursing degree from 2006 will focus on quality training and medical ethics
Sydney (Fides Service) - Sidney’s newest University Notre Dame and St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney have entered a partnership to offer a joint nursing degree from 2006. Notre Dame’s executive director Peter Glasso ...
13 October 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Children must be a priority in care for hurricane victims”. In many centres medical supplies are dwindling; out of reach for humanitarian workers Chichoy villagers have run out of food
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - In the latest report on the situation after hurricane Stan Caritas Guatemala said many of the victims were children: “Stan left in its wake grief, death and destruction. Hundreds died, ...
13 October 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - March to commemorate Quiché missionary martyrs: one of many PMS activities for Mission Sunday which finds the country struggling with devastation left by hurricane Stan. Church workers operate in all affected areas
Guatemala City (Fides) - For Mission Sunday in this Year of the Eucharist, Guatemala has chosen the same theme that Pope John Paul II chose for his message “Mission: Bread broken for the life of the world”. “This a ...
13 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Amici di Raoul Follereau association assists earthquake victims in Pakistan
Rome (Fides Service) - The earthquake in Pakistan Kashmir on 8 October involved local NGOs working in partnership with AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau) Rehabilitation and Community Development Progra ...
13 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Groups of Spanish co-operators set up hospital in remote area of Pakistan not yet reached by aid workers
Rome (Fides Service) - Spanish Agency for International Cooperation AECI is opening a camp in Arya a remote interior region of Kashmir affected by the 8 October earthquake and which has not been reached by other aid work ...
13 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN -Catholic volunteers operate in north east Pakistan: school pupils and students of Catholic schools as well as priests, religious and lay adults bring aid where it is most needed
Lahore (Fides Service) - Catholic volunteers from all over Pakistan and other countries are arriving in the city of Islamabad in north east Pakistan to help with rescue work, assistance and resettling. Many of the volunt ...
12 October 2005
VATICAN - The Pope’s general audience teaching on Psalm 121: “An ideal portrayal of the Holy City and its religious and social functions to demonstrate that biblical religion is neither abstract nor intimist but rather ferment of justice and solidarity”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 121 (Greeting from the Holy City of Jerusalem - 1st vespers Sunday week 4) is one of the “most beautiful and passionate” canticles of ascent, “a lively and participated celebra ...
12 October 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Year of the Eucharist was one of the last gifts God gave his Church through John Paul II”: with priestly ordinations on the Feast of Our Lady of Pilar Getafe diocese marks the closing of the Year of the Eucharist
Getafe (Fides Service) - Getafe diocese in Spain has organised a series of celebrations to accompany the closing of the special Year of the Eucharist of which the most important is a Mass with priestly ordinations today, ...
12 October 2005
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “March for Mission” 16 October in Caracas one of many PMS initiatives for the missionary month of October and World Mission Sunday 2005 on the theme “The Missionary, bread for the life of the world”
Caracas (Fides Service) - A “March for Mission” will take place on 16 October in Caracas organised by the diocese to recall the long distances travelled by missionaries who brought the Gospel to Venezuela. The march ...
12 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Young people and the Eucharist: “It is important to find a way to lead people to Christ. People long to experience the presence of God in the consecrated Bread”
Rome (Fides Service) - We give some of the testimonials presented during the recent Meeting of Adoration Groups in Rome and Rome’s city mission, Jesus at the City Centre.
“For me the Eucharist has always been impo ...
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