News
20 February 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Church in Brazil starts annual Lenten “Fraternity Campaign” to evangelise in a spirit of conversion, interior renewal and community commitment
Brasilia (Fides Service) - As the Season of Lent opens, the Church in Brazil embarks on its 40th “Fraternity Campaign which will be presented in Brasilia tomorrow, 25 February, Ash Wednesday at the head quarters of the ...
20 February 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Everyday life of a missionary in Congo shared by missionary Father Sergio Vandini
Rome (Fides Service)- Rev. Father Sergio Vandini, from Terni diocese in Italy, sent as a Fidei Donum priest to Ntambue, 10 km from Kananga, West Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo, sent Fides a brief report on his life ...
20 February 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “No cloning of human embryos ”: local Catholic Church and associations in Korea protest against experiments carried out by local scientists
Seoul (Fides Service) - Strong protest, street demonstrations, condemnation for morally incorrect and irresponsible behaviour: these were the reactions in Korea of the Catholic Church and several associations, Catholic a ...
19 February 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Elections cannot be organised in 9 months: open debate
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “The enormous amount of work awaiting us cannot be completed in nine months. The political leaders must realise that elections cannot be organised in such a short time”, this opinion was ex ...
19 February 2004
EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - In Moscow Cardinal Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, speaks on “Orthodox Christianity and the Catholic Church forty years after the Vatican II decree on ecumenism Unitatis redintegratio”
Moscow (Fides Service) - At the invitation of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian unity, is on a six da ...
19 February 2004
VATICAN - The Pope announces that Blessed Luigi Orione and five other new Saints will be canonised on May 16
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Orione family all over the world is rejoicing: during a public Concistory in the Vatican Pope John Paul II announced that Blessed Luigi Orione founder of the Piccola Opera della Divina ...
19 February 2004
AFRICA/RWANDA - Clean water for 100,000 people
Rome (Fides Service) - In mid January the Movement for the Fight Against Hunger in the World (MLFM) went on a mission to evaluate a water project underway in Humure, Rwanda. The work is progressing. With the help of a lo ...
19 February 2004
AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti’s Catholic Bishops plead: “take necessary measures to prevent a blood bath of civilians”
Port au Prince (Fides Service)- “We appeal to the consciences of our governors to take the necessary measures to put an end to this situation and avoid a blood bath of civilians”. The Bishops of Haiti launched this a ...
19 February 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Growing synergy among religious engaged in evangelisation through culture and publications: in January 2005 third meeting for operators in the sector
Rome (Fides Service) - An increasing number of religious congregations are putting energies, funds and human resources into print and electronic media to evangelise culture. With this in mind the Union of Superiors Gene ...
19 February 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - After the Olympic Games, World Youth Day: the Church in Australia is a candidate for World Youth Day 2007
Sydney (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Australia would like to host the World Youth Day 2007. As preparations for WYD in Germany 2005 go ahead, in a statement issued at the end of a plenary assembly in Sydney t ...
19 February 2004
ASIA/IRAN - Tomorrow elections in Iran. Turnout uncertain: women and youth expected to stay at home
Teheran (Fides Service) - Iran prepares for elections tomorrow, 20 February, in an atmosphere of deep uncertainty. Most reform parties have said they will desert the vote. Several reform party members have called for the ...
19 February 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Local Church fully supports peace talks between India and Pakistan
New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The local Church is strongly in favour of peace talks: we hope India-Pakistan relations will be normalised at all levels, political, economic, commercial, cultural and religious”, Father ...
18 February 2004
EUROPE/SERBIA-MONTENEGRO - Annual Meeting of the South-East European Bishops’ Conference with strong ecumenical and interreligious emphasis
Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the invitation of the Catholic Archbishop of Belgrade, Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar, Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe are to meet in Belgrade from 20-22 February ...
18 February 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Korean priest on mission in Japan to help the local Church with pastoral and missionary work
Seoul (Fides Service) - Rev. Anthony Youn Yeo-ok, a priest at the parish of Sapgyo in the Korean diocese of Taejon, said goodbye to confreres, friends and the faithful and took up the mission mandate given by his Bishop ...
18 February 2004
EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Visit to Moscow by Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity among Christians. See Cardinal Kasper’s homily at the Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Mary
Moscow (Fides Service) - At the invitation of the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation, Cardinal Walter Kasper President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity among Chr ...
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