News
3 December 2004
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Myitkyina
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, on 3 December 2004, appointed Bishop of Myitkyina (Myanmar), Bishop Francis Daw Tang, until now Titular Bishop of Maturba and Auxiliary of Myitkyina dioc ...
3 December 2004
EUROPA/SPAIN - Feast of St Francis Xavier: preparations for special celebrations for the 5th centenary of the birth of this great missionary which will commence next year
Navarra (Fides Service) - Preparations are underway to celebrate the 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier 1506-1552 progress, Jesuit Father Ricardo Sada, Rector of Javier Shrine in Navarra, Spain told Fides. ...
3 December 2004
VATICAN - Through the intercession of St. Francis Xavier, may be this land of bountiful missionary harvest Cardinal Sepe said during Mass for Evangelisation in Bangkok
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear Brothers and Sisters, this celebration of the Feast of St. Francis Xavier becomes a fitting moment to deepen your religious vocation in its triple dimension of consecration, communi ...
3 December 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tension in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu rises as rumours circulate that popular military commander may be replaced
Bukavu (Fides Service)- Rumours that the popular military commander of the 10th military region Mbuza Mabe may be dismissed, are giving rise to apprehension in Bukavu, in eastern Democratic Congo, local sources told Fid ...
3 December 2004
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS, three disease of poverty: Italian Missionary Medical Union launches prevention, diagnosis and treatment programme
Rome (Fides Service) - In Angola today three diseases connected with poverty tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS are a major problem. For example the four million people living in the capital Luanda have no state health servi ...
3 December 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - “This looks more like sacrifice than just 'ordinary' killing” the Catholic Bishops of Kenya say referring to the recent murder of Irish missionary Father Hannon
Nairobi (Fides Service)-“ The country seems to be degenerating systematically to a state of anarchy, where there is no rule of law” the Catholic Bishops of Kenya said in a message of condolence addressed to ‘Bishop ...
3 December 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Humanitarian situation ever more desperate. A sea of homeless people from the north is pouring into the outlying districts of the capital Abidjan” PIME missionary told Fides
Rome (Fides Service)- In a statement sent to Fides the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions PIME has launched an appeal for solidarity and aid for the people of Ivory Coast. “It is two years now - since September ...
3 December 2004
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Unemployment, illiteracy, hunger and run down health services challenge missionaries in Norte Lunda diamond area
Luanda (Fides Service)- Lunda Norte was the last of Angola’s provinces to be evangelised. The first missionaries settled here in the early 20th century at Mussuco, in the far north west but because the area was vast, ...
3 December 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “In the Church of Christ no difficulties are insurmountable when love, justice and peace meet”: 23rd Ecumenical Conference of Bishop Friends of the Focolare Movement guests of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
Rome (Fides Service) - On Friday 26 November forty Christian Bishops, Orthodox, Syro-Orthodox, Apostolic Armenians, Anglicans, Lutherans and Catholics of various rites, coming from 18 different countries met in Nicaea wh ...
2 December 2004
ASIA/INDIA - “The Feast day of St Francis Xavier and the exposition of his relics offer an opportunity to rediscover our great missionary tradition”: Catholic Archbishop of Goa told Fides. Hindus and Muslims join Christians to venerate the Catholic saint
Goa (Fides Service) - “The Feast day of St Francis Xavier at this time when his relics are exposed for veneration is an opportunity to rediscover our great missionary tradition” the Catholic Archbishop of Goa Mgr Fel ...
2 December 2004
VATICAN - “The Church in Cambodia is still a small minority, this situation calls us to take our missionary duty towards our non Christian brothers and sisters seriously” Cardinal Sepe says during his pastoral visit to Phnom-Penh
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “My heart is filled with gratitude to God our Father for this day and this opportunity to visit your noble country, Cambodia, and to celebrate with you this Eucharist to offer thanks to G ...
2 December 2004
VATICAN - “Mary of Nazareth welcomes the Son of God into History”: 21st International Mariological Congress to mark 150th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Mary of Nazareth welcomes the Son of God to History” is the theme of 21st International Mariological Congress organised by the International Pontifical Marian Academy to mark the 150th ...
2 December 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Members of Asian Parliaments unite to rid the continent of poverty, hunger and terrorism
Islamabad (Fides Service) - Representatives from more than 30 countries in Asia, from Turkey to Japan, are taking part in an Assembly of Members of Asian Parliaments in Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss major challenges fa ...
2 December 2004
AFRICA/KENYA -“A new idea for Africa”: new professional training centre for young Kenyans in Malindi diocese
Malindi (Fides Service) - On Sunday 5 December the Mons. Guglielmo Motulese Professional Training School will be opened at the Pastoral Centre of Malindi diocese. The centre will offer in 5 trades for boys and girls: coo ...
2 December 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Eastern Congo hope mixed with fear that war may resume
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We welcome international pressure on Rwanda not to invade eastern Congo” local sources in Bukavu, main town in South Kivu, where tension has risen since the Rwandan government said it inten ...
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