News

• 26 October 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - After three years dedicated to rediscovering and contemplating Jesus present in the Eucharist, on Sunday 30 October parishes in the diocese of Setubal will conclude the Year of the Eucharist with solemn Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Setubal (Fides Service) - On Sunday 30 October the diocese of Setubal in Portugal will conclude the Year of the Eucharist after a three year period 2002-2005 devoted to rediscovering the presence of Jesus in the Eucharis ...
• 26 October 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas warning: “This is a very serious medical emergency”. Caritas volunteers help patients at devastated Leprosy Centre in the earthquake affected area of Kashmir Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - True to its mission the local Catholic aid agency Caritas is helping people most in need after the devastating earthquake in Kashmir. A Caritas Pakistan team led by Dr Andreas Fabricius sent ...
• 26 October 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New President of Korean Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Augustune Cheong Myeng-cho presents plans Seoul (Fides Service) - The Church in Korea will continue to give serious attention to the mission of evangelisation, to promoting the good of the nation, to keeping the Church ‘young and dynamic and working for nation ...
• 26 October 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA Aboriginal Catholics at Other Way Centre celebrate 25th anniversary Adelaide (Fides Service) - For 25 years Other Way Centre in Adelaide has been a reference point of Aboriginal Catholics in and around the city. Its name derives from a desire of the Aboriginal community to find another ...
• 25 October 2005
  EUROPE/ICELAND - Year of the Eucharist brings new impulse to the faith for small Catholic community; Liturgy of the Hours now in Icelandic Hafnarfjörður (Fides Service) - The Sisters Servants of the Lord and Our Lady of Matara arrived in Iceland last October with the Year of the Eucharist. They settled in a parish in Hafnarfjörður about 15 minutes from ...
• 25 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Now that Hurricane Stan has gone leaving in its wake over 2,000 dead, Guatemala seems to be once again a country of little interest for the rest of the world” Bishop Gabriel Peñate, Vicar Apostolic in Izabal said sadly. People in affected areas will need aid for many months to come Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Bishop Gabriel Peñate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal, has expressed concern and disappointment that international media have removed the spotlight from the tragedy in countries affected by t ...
• 25 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Protect life, the family, human values and right: various pro-vida activities in Lima involving adults, children and young people Lima (Fides Service) - In the face of persistent, global and determined attacks on human life and the family (birth control abortion, easy divorce, same sex ‘marriages’, euthanasia, manipulation of human embryos etc. ...
• 25 October 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Proclamation, witness and sharing, young Salesians in Daejeong Daejeong (Fides Service) - Two thousands people contacted, met, evangelised: this was the fruit of activities of festivity and proclamation connected with the Feast of Saint John Bosco, recently by pupils at Salesian sch ...
• 25 October 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - new impulse to missionary animation through the PMS and new National Missions Council. Poland has 2,060 missionaries all over the world Warsaw (Fides Service) - “We draw great encouragement in our missionary activity from the missionary legacy of John Paul II and the words of Pope Benedict XVI on 25 April at St Paul’s Basilica on the importance of mi ...
• 25 October 2005
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Franciscan Missionaries of Mary celebrate 30 years of evangelisation and service to the poor Port Louis (Fides Service)- This year the community of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at St Anne’s parish in Stanley, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is marking thirty years of service. Spiritual daughters of St Fra ...
• 25 October 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Students “silent” victims of three years of lacerating conflict Abidjan (Fides Service)- In the past three years the silent victims of conflict in north of Côte d'Ivoire controlled by rebel groups, have been school pupils. And it would seem that once again they will be denied the op ...
• 25 October 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Fontilles anti-leprosy association “Act for Africa” collection in aid of healthcare programmes for Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana and Rwanda Madrid (Fides Service) - With the motto “Act for Africa, a future of health and development”, Fontilles anti-leprosy association has launched a campaign to improve the health of people so they can play an active par ...
• 25 October 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Protests and rising tension in Kerala after attack on Catholic Bishop’s residence Cochin (Fides Service) - While the police have arrested 8 suspects with regard to the recent attack on the residence of the Catholic Bishop of Neyyatinkara actions of protest are being organised by the civil community . ...
• 25 October 2005
  AFRICA - Growing concern for avian flu in Africa: the Republic of Congo bans poultry imports from countries at risk but the real threat is migrant birds from Eurasia which spend Winter in Africa Rome (Fides Service)- Fear of bird flu is spreading in central Africa. In the Republic of Congo the authorities have banned imports of poultry from affected countries. The country imports poultry from Asia, Europe and So ...
• 25 October 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Do not forget last year’s tsunami victims!”: Jesuits call to international community Jakarta (Fides Service) - The earthquake disaster in Pakistan must not make people forget the victims of the December 2004 tsunami, say Indonesian volunteers working to assist seaquake victims. One of the most active or ...