News

• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The mission of women to meet the challenges of the 21st century: East Asian Meeting on Women Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The role of women to meet the challenges of the 21st century will be the theme of an East Asian Meeting on Women promoted by the Office of Laity Women’s Desk of the FABC (Federation of Asian ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Honorary citizenship awarded to 8 missionaries of the Sisters of Mary of the Holy Cross on the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first four women religious from Europe Tai Tung (Fides Service) - “They love Taiwan as if it were home and they have spent the best years of their life, some 20 and some 40 years, serving the people of Taiwan” This was the motivation for the honorary citi ...
• 22 July 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - About 12,000 young people will attend 10th Youth Meeting organised by Charismatic Renewal Movement in the archdiocese of Guadalajara Guadalajara (Fides Service) - “See how he loves you!” is the slogan chosen for the 10th Youth Meeting organised by Charismatic Renewal movement in the archdiocese of Guadalajara on Saturday 23 July and Sunday 24 July ...
• 22 July 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Strike the demand and create programmes to reinsert victims of sexual exploitation: video conference at US Embaasy in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- On July 21 during a conference on “Supply and demand: Behind the Business of Trafficking in Persons” the director of the US State Deparment’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Tajikistan Catholic mission organises Summer activities for children and young people: camps and excursion are opportunities for evangelisation and education to human and spiritual values Dushanbe (Fides Service) - Pastoral work in the Summer for the Catholic mission in Tajikistan does not take a holiday indeed it is even more intense. Besides routine pastoral activities the four Incarnate Word Missionari ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope creates new diocese of Jaipur and appoints first Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedic XVI on 20 July 2005 created the diocese of Jaipur (India) with territory taken from the diocese of Ajmer-Jaipur making it suffragan of the Metropolitan See of ...
• 21 July 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Undeterred by an attack in the sacresty Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso new Administrator Apostolic of Cabinda assures Fides: “I will stay and carry on the task entrusted to me by the Church” Cabinda (Fides Service)- “I am still alive although I was struck violently on the head several times but without serious consequences thank God” Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso of Saurimo in northern Angola, who is also Adm ...
• 21 July 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Indigenous Leadership in the Christian Vision”: Meeting for Indigenous Peoples and Missionaries in November Caracas (Fides Service) - The Commission for Missions of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela has convoked the 4th National Meeting for Indigenous Peoples and Missionaries on the theme “Indigenous Leadership ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Catholic Bishops defend freedom of religion and human rights threatened by proposed anti-conversion laws: concern after the attack on Holy Cross church in Anuradhapura diocese Colombo (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka are profoundly concerned about a spreading anti-Christian movement among extremists groups of the the Buddhist majority and two prosposed laws which represent a ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/IRAQ - “A clear sign of civilisation” says Iraqi priest Fr Nizar Semaan commenting the nation’s 3 minutes silence to commemorate victims of terrorism Baghdad (Fides Service)- “A clear sign of civilisation” said Iraqi Catholic priest Fr Nizar Semaan in Mosul with regard to yesterday’s 3 minutes silence held all over the country to commemorate the victims of terro ...
• 21 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “They seem to want to impose the principle that any personal life style may be made a public institution” Benigno Blanco told Fides after Canada approves same sex “marriage” Madrid (Fides Service) - “What is happening in many parts of the world is a syndrome of our day as absolute relativism establishes its reign in more and more consciences in the West and people no longer know the truth ...
• 21 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes over draft Constitution : “This is the start of the fight for 2007 elections” Nairobi (Fides Service)- “The unrest over the past few days are connected with the electoral campaign for 2007 which has already opened” said local sources with regard to clashes between police and demonstrators in N ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “We must offer hope to the world and promote a culture of life”: Bishops issue pastoral letter on bio-ethics and stem cell research Seoul (Fides Service) - “The embryo is life. We have all been embryos. We have no right to meddle with human life” Bishop Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok, president of the Korean Bishops’ Commission for the Doctrine of ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of the Immacolate Heart of Mary continue to welcome new vocations: three sisters make perpetual vows, eight others take temporary vows Lin Fen (Fides Service) - The Congregation of Sisters of the Immacolate Heart of Mary in Li nFen diocese, Shan Xi province of mainland China continues to welcome new vocations. Recently on the same day that three new Sis ...
• 21 July 2005
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Muslim-Christian dialogue in Australia: prejudice and sterotypes must be put aside says Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - Following the terrorist attacks in London, Bishop Christopher Prowse Auxiliary of Melbourne stressed the need to build good relations and bonds of friendship between Christian and Muslim commu ...