News
31 May 2005
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - “Clementina Cantoni: why is there no general mobilisation?” asks the president of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan calling for the release of the Italian volunteer “kidnapping is against the precepts of any religion”
Lahore (Fides Service - “Not much is said about the kidnapping of Clementina Cantoni. In Pakistan there is hardly any mention of it. There has been no general mobilisation among world media as in the cases of other ho ...
31 May 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Charles Taylor is only the tip of the iceberg of what is happening here in Liberia” a missionary told Fides
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Former President Charles Taylor is an example of the situation in Liberia in recent years” Fr Mauro Armanino (Provincial SMA) in Monrovia told Fides. “Although Taylor is wanted by the Uni ...
31 May 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Tension and disorder in Karachi: Christian leaders call on government to guarantee more security and promote social and inter-religious harmony
Lahore (Fides Service) - There is tension in the southern Pakistan port of Karach where violent disorder followed a suicide bomb on 30 May which devastated the Mandinatul Ilm Shiite mosque in the district of Gulshan-e-I ...
31 May 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Calm replaces tension of past few days
Bissau (Fides Service)- “At last calm has returned and the electoral process has started again” said local Church sources in locale Bissaucapital of Guinea Bissau where tension rose after former president Kumba Yala ...
30 May 2005
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Pope appoints Bishop Coadjutor of Okigwe
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 28 May 2005 appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Okigwe (Nigeria) Bishop Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu transferring him from the titular see of Sabr ...
30 May 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Benedict XVI closes 24th Italian National Eucharistic Congress: “The one and the same Christ is present in the Eucharistic Bread everywhere in the world. This means we cannot encounter him alone without all the others. We can only receive him in unity. The consequence is clear: we cannot communicate with the Lord unless we communicate among ourselves”
Bari (Fides Service) - “I wanted to be here with you today to celebrate with particular emphasis the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and so pay homage to Christ in the Sacrament of his love and at the same time to strength ...
30 May 2005
VATICAN - "The Church will never stop saying that marriage and the family are part of God’s plan and nothing can replace them or act as a substitute for them": The Pope confirms the convocation of 5th World Meeting of Families in Spain in 2006
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed the convocation of the 5th World Meeting for Families promoted by the Catholic Church to be held in the first week in July 2006 in Valencia Spain with the th ...
30 May 2005
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Premier’s Party declared winner of May 15 elections. But Opposition says battle is not over
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The political situation in Ethiopia remains uncertain after the independent electoral commission announced that the May 15 elections had been won by the Party led by Prime Minister Meles Zen ...
30 May 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Radio, a channel for ‘understanding among peoples’; youth formation seminar: Catholic radio network can strengthen national unity
Honiara (Fides Service) - Using radio to communicate and promote understanding among peoples and cultures, dialogue and sharing. This was the theme of a seminar for youth hosted by Solomon Islands Broadcasting Company S ...
30 May 2005
AMERICA/PERU - There exists a sort of “international club” which aims to promote social aberrations, hedonist sex as a life style, a new sort of feminism which fails to realise that maternity is God’s most valuable gift to women and upholds homosexuality as a sexual option: Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima interviewed by Fides
Lima (Fides Service) - In view of repeated attempts by certain Latin American governments to approve laws which attack human life and the family, Fides asked the opinion of Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop ...
30 May 2005
VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children’s ‘Happy Hospital’: Special anaesthetics and operating theatre
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The child has a right to the least invasive and least painful means of diagnosis and therapy” according to article 8 of the Charter of Patient’s Rights at the Bambino Gesù Children ...
30 May 2005
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - While in Zimbabwe the grip of hunger is ever tighter, the government invests in modern technology to close communications frontiers. The opposition calls for solidarity denouncing vexation and violence against the poor. Neighbour countries increasingly affected by food crisis
Harare (Fides Service)- “Make war on poverty rather than on the poor” said representatives of the Christian Churches in Zimbabwe in an appeal in which they joined the opposition and civil society in calling on the go ...
30 May 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - UNICEF starts building 200 new schools for 40,000 children in tsunami affected areas
Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - UNICEF in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration IOM has started a programme to put in place 200 new temporary primary schools in areas around Aceh most seriously af ...
30 May 2005
ASIA/INDIA - RSS (Hindu fundamentalism): 300,000 training schools, 10 million members, 100 million supporters. One of 39 centres of terror listed by Terrorism Research Centre in Virginia USA
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS (National Volunteers Corps) is a movement notorious for anti Christian and anti Muslim violence in India. A fundamentalist Hindu organisation which promotes wit ...
28 May 2005
AFRICA/NIGER - Many more than 4 million lives at stake. Drought and locusts bring on serious food shortage. Niamey diocese calls for help and solidarity
Niamey (Fides Service)- “The situation is more desperate that anyone could imagine and it threatens to become a catastrophe before the world realise what is happening” Fides Mgr Laurent Lompo from Niamey diocese in N ...
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