News
28 May 2005
VATICAN - The Pope receives Burundian Bishops on ad Limina visit: “announce the Gospel and heal memory and hearts, foster solidarity among all Burundians and ban all spirit of revenge and resentment, encourage forgiveness and reconciliation”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI received in audience a group of Bishops of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi on the occasion of their five-yearly ad limina visit ...
28 May 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “For 45 years and the last 15 in particular the people of Congo have suffered because of civil war and serious disorder. We call for violence to stop from which ever side it comes” says President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Congo
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We call on those responsible to stop all violence” said Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Democratic Congo, calling on the ...
28 May 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New Korean translation of the Bible
Seoul (Fides Service) - The imminent circulation of a new Korean translation of the Bible in early June, a campaign on bio-ethical matters on the occasion of the Day for Life (29 May) and the opening of the diocesan stag ...
28 May 2005
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Chamber of Deputies rejects national plan which goes against life and the family; success for Ecumenical Demonstration which called on legislators to reflect before approving laws contrary to life
Asuncion (Fides Service) - With 57 votes out of 66, Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposed “National programme for the prevention of punishable crimes against sexual autonomy and minors and assistance to ...
28 May 2005
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Under-construction, help us build a world of greater justice!”: for the first time World Youth Day preparation includes social programmes of solidarity “to build a civilisation of love and justice”
Cologne (Fides Service) - During the “Days of encounter in German dioceses” 11 to 15 August in preparation for the Catholic Church’s 20th World Youth Day organised this year in Cologne Germany, the young participa ...
28 May 2005
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Nothing and no one can authorise the death of a human person, and certainly not when the person is helpless and unprotected”: says President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference with regard to the inapplicability of an article of law which penalises abortion
Bogota (Fides Service) - “The situation in this country with regard to crimes against life is most concerning. We are grieved and concerned for criminal actions which happen day after day: homicide, violent deaths, as ...
28 May 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Bomb blasts in Sulawesi, tension in the Moluccas: Christians fear possible return of generalised violence
Ambon (Fides Service) - There is growing concern among Christians in eastern Indonesia after recent bomb blasts and killings in Sulawesi and the Moluccas where people fear the return of civil war. A prospect which local ...
27 May 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Disabled artistes from China win Roman hearts and get a special blessing from the Pope
Rome (Fides Service) - Disabled musicians and dancers from China who had a great success with a performance in Rome on May 23 received a special mention and blessing from Pope Benedict XVI during the weekly Wednesday aud ...
27 May 2005
VATICAN - “The Corpus Christi procession responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lord: I am going before you to Galilee. Go out to the ends of the earth, carry the Gospel to the world.” The Pope says during Mass celebrated in front of the Cathedral of Rome
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The procession on Holy Thursday accompanies Jesus in his solitude towards the "via crucis". The procession on Corpus Christi, instead responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lo ...
27 May 2005
VATICAN - “Each year infectious diseases are responsible for the death of 17 million persons of whom 90 percent live in developing countries: Holy See delegation addresses 58th World Health Assembly
Geneva (Fides Service) - “Unfortunately, illnesses, especially infectious ones, are ever more virulent in the poorest countries that, precisely because they are poor, do not have the resources to obtain medicine that, ...
27 May 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - To deny a child the right to have a mother and a father of different sexes is to violate an inalienable human right: Dr Belén Vendrell offers contribution to Fides
Castellón (Fides Service) - “There are many types of injustice in this life but one of the most painful is the injustice which legitimates on behalf of society a proposal which violates the inalienable rights of the h ...
27 May 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Concern in Guinea Bissau after performances of former Presidents Kumba Yala and João Bernardo Viera
Bissau (Fides Service)-“There is apparent calm, but tension remains” said local Church sources in Bissau, capital of Guinea Bissau where the reported occupation of the Presidential Residence by former president Kumba ...
27 May 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - “The situation in Darfur has not improved, Janjaweed Arab militia raids on civilians continue” Laura Boldrini of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees told Fides
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Unfortunately the situation in Darfur has not improved” United Nations High Commission for Refugees spokesperson Laura Boldrini told Fides. “Armed incursions on civilians on the part of t ...
27 May 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - National Day For Life: Catholic Church in Korea condemns human cloning and recalls Evangelium Vitae encyclical ten years on
Seoul (Fides Service) - Respect for life from the moment of conception, protect rights of human embryo which is not an object; no to the abhorrent practice of cloning which involves an attempt to take the place of God th ...
25 May 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - First case of polio since 1995: an 18 month old boy. The number of cases has since risen to 14
Rome (Fides Service) - The World Health Organisation has confirmed that another six children in Indonesia have polio and this brings the number of confirmed cases to 14 after a decade without any case of polio being regi ...
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