News

• 21 February 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The media should promote development of the human person and society rather than de-humanisation”: Bishops of all America launch pressing appeal Bogota (Fides Service) - “Secularisation of Society and Means of Communication” in the light of the post synodal exhortation Ecclesia in America was the theme of the 33rd meeting for Catholic Bishops of the continen ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics in China anxious to take part in World Youth Day 2005 in Germany Beijing (Fides Service) - As the next World Youth Day approaches enthusiasm among young Chinese Catholics is growing. The event will take place in August in Germany in the town of Cologne. After visiting the official WJT ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Thousands make the Lenten pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Bandel taking part in 400 year old traditional procession Bandel (Fides Service) - In this season of Lent thousands of Catholics are making their way to the Marian Shrine at Bandel, in the Indian state of West Bengal, for the customary annual Lenten pilgrimage in preparation fo ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Interreligious dialogue is all the more important at times of misunderstanding and inequality”, says Bishop of Mangalore Mangalore (Fides Service) - While fundamentalist Hindu groups in India continue to harass Christians in various ways, Catholics in Mangalore are reflecting on the need to increase interreligious dialogue, also on the bas ...
• 20 February 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “We have a Pope!” Message from Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong; 25 April solemn celebration in Hong Kong Cathedral Hong Kong (Fides Service) -“We have a Pope!” is the title of a message to the diocese issued by the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Zen following the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Kong Ko Bao diocesan bulletin ...
• 20 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Showers of congratulations from Catholics and non: “He has taken the name of the Pope who wrote Maximum illud which speaks of mission in China” Beijing (Fides Service) - Showers of congratulations for Benedict XVI are coming from Chinese Catholics everywhere. “Today at Mass we prayed for our Pope Benedict XVI and his mission. We wish him well. Benedict XVI ...
• 20 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Theological writings of Pope Ratzinger translated and published in China in 2002 by the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing Beijing (Fides Service) - Theological writings of Pope Benedict XVI when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were translated published in Chinese in 2002, an expert on relations between China and the Holy See told F ...
• 18 February 2005
  VATICAN - Special Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament tomorrow in St Peter’s Basilica to conclude annual retreat made by the Pope and the Roman Curia; all Vatican City employees warmly invited to take part Vatican City (Fides Service) - By way of conclusion to the annual week of spiritual exercises the Roman Curia will gather for a special Mass followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction, tomorrow 19 F ...
• 18 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Syro-Malankara Church raised to the rank of Major Archdiocese and Archbishop Cyril Baselios of Trivandrum raised to the rank of Major Archbishop Trivandrum (Fides Service) - The announcement that Pope John Paul II raised the sui uiris Syro-Makankara Metropolitan Church to the rank of Major Archdiocese while at the same time raising Archbishop Cyril Baselios Malan ...
• 18 February 2005
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - underdevelopment and landmines, real problems in certain regions of Cambodia: Caritas Australia assists farming families Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - For Lent 2005 Caritas Australia re-launched its Mercy Programme to guarantee food and water to farming villages in the Kompong Cham area of Cambodia. For the past three years Australia’s Ca ...
• 18 February 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Buddhists join Catholics caring for people with leprosy at St Lazarus Centre, Suwon Seoul (Fides Service) - Recently the Catholic St Lazarus Centre for the care of people with leprosy in Uiwang-si in the South Korean diocese of Suwon celebrated 30 years of friendship with the Buddhists volunteers who ac ...
• 18 February 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 11th Meeting of Japanese-Korean Youth to promote Reconciliation Seoul (Fides Service) - Peace and friendly relations between Japan and Korea, after the horrors of war which sowed hatred between the two countries, need to be built at grass roots and therefore among young people, who a ...
• 18 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Paul, from Tarsus to the world: a film in seven parts on the missionary adventure of the Apostle of the Gentiles and the life of the first Christian communities Rome (Fides Service) - A long journey by land and sea offers the viewer insight into the life and thought of Paul of Tarsus, Apostle of the Gentiles by revisiting the sites of his intense missionary activity: Turkey, Cre ...
• 18 February 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We have inherited 20 years of war and 2 million dead” Pastoral Letter from Catholic Bishops of Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service) - “True peace is much more than the absence of war - the Catholic Bishops of Sudan wrote in a Pastoral Letter issued on the occasion of the recent Peace Agreement which ended civil strife in so ...
• 18 February 2005
  AFRICA/GHANA - “Unemployment, illiteracy, clashes among 22 different ethnic groups are main obstacles for evangelisation” says Bishop Naameh of Damongo diocese in northern Ghana Accra (Fides Service)- “The presence of 22 different ethnic groups in our diocese is a problem but it is also a reason for hope for the future” Bishop Philip Naameh of Damongo diocese in northern Ghana told Fides. ...