News
17 February 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Through its New Evangelisation Fund the Spanish Bishops Conference provides 300,000 Euro for pastoral programmes in 21 mission territories
Madrid (Fides Service) - During a recent meeting in Madrid the Standing Committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference CEE approved a proposal put forward by the Consultant Commission of the New Evangelisation Fund to gr ...
17 February 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - Ever more isolated LRA rebels threaten to kill negotiator in favour of surrender: the army comes to his rescue. A comment for Fides
Gulu (Fides Service). “This is a highly positive fact which could mark a turning point in the conflict” a local Church source in Gulu (Northern Uganda) told Fides with regard to the surrender of Sam Kolo, chief negot ...
16 February 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA AND SÃO TOMÉ - National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 30 December 2004, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Angola and ...
16 February 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 80,000 Catholics attend National Eucharistic Congress in Myanmar
Yangon (Fides Service) - More than 80,000 Catholics gathered for the 2nd National Eucharistic Congress of Myanmar held for three days, 11-13 February at a Marian Centre in Nyaunglebin, in the diocese of Yangon. Catholic ...
16 February 2005
ASIA/KAZAKSTAN - On mission to “bear witness to the faith and sow the Gospel in the steppe lands of Kazakstan”: Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga of Karaganda diocese speaks with Fides
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are a young Church, which is growing. We are on the way, we have the enthusiasm of our young people and we strive to bear witness to the faith and sow seeds of the Word of God in the ...
16 February 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Charity of Christ towards migrants: ethnic mobility calls religious life to reflect on mission ‘at home’
Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of an annual course on Pastoral for Migrants women religious participants of various nationalities affirmed “We cannot simply choose to ignore the immigrants in our towns and in our pa ...
16 February 2005
AMERICA/CHILE - “National Youth Mission 2005”: young Chilean Catholics reach out to evangelise their peers. New web site offers information on mission
Santiago (Fides Service) - Preparations for National Youth Mission 2005, organised by Chilean Youth Pastoral Office with the slogan “You are my brother”, are at the final stage and will end on March 25. The Youth Mis ...
16 February 2005
AFRICA/TOGO - “We are waiting to hear a government statement that the crisis is over” says Fides source in Togo
Lome (Fides Service)- “We are waiting to hear a government statement that a positive solution has been found” said a local Church source in Lomé, capital of Togo, a country in crisis over the successor of its Presid ...
16 February 2005
AFRICA/GHANA - Exploited child workers on Lake Volta rescued and rehabilitated by international programme
Accra (Fides Service)- Another 114 children have been rescued from forced labour in Central Ghana thanks to a programme of the International Organisation for Migration IOM. The children were victims of traffickers withou ...
16 February 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - School meals, health and education in Sahel: Italian initiative in support World Food Programme. 1.250 tonnes of rice for about 200,000 people
Rome (Fides Service) - According to a Report on Millennium Development Goals in Guinea Bissau 124 in every 1000 children die before the age of 1 and 203 before the age of five. Infant mortality affects 822 out of every ...
16 February 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - Thousands gather at Nyaunglebin Marian shrine for recitation of the rosary and special Mass on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Yangon (Fides Service) - Thousands of Burmese Catholics made their way to the Marian Shrine in Nyaunglebin, diocese of Yangon for the recitation of the Rosary and a special Mass on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of L ...
16 February 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese New Year offers opportunity for inter-religious dining and dialogue
Beijing (Fides Service) - Celebrations for the Lunar New Year in Beijing provided an opportunity to promote inter-religious dialogue. In fact the communities of the main religions in China, Taoist, Buddhist, Christian an ...
16 February 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - Missionaries in northern Uganda build home to protect for high-school girls from violence
Gulu (Fides Service)- “I am here with the workmen, we are building a home for high-school girl pupils”. Loud and clear the voice of a missionary working in northern Uganda reaches Fides from the most forgotten region ...
15 February 2005
EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - The social situation, stability and solidarity focus of 5th annual meeting of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe
Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe are to meet in Sarajevo from 25-27 February. The nations represented - Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Sain ...
15 February 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Galle
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has, 15 February 2005, appointed Bishop of Galle (Sri Lanka) Bishop Harold Anthony Perera, until now Bishop of Ratnapura. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 15/2/2005 ...
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