News

• 27 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Interreligious Forum gives impulse to Anti-Death Penalty activity Seoul (Fides Service) - Religions in Korea have launched a camping to promote awareness and support for the abolition of the death penalty. A forum of 7 religious communities, including the local Catholic Church, some pr ...
• 27 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 10,000 pilgrims visit Bom Jesus basilica every day to venerate relics of St Francis Xavier Goa (Fides Service) - Every day more than 10,000 pilgrims, far more than expected, flock to venerate the relics of Saint Francis Xavier on show at the Bom Jesus Basilica in God. The exposition of the relics of this great ...
• 27 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Four thousand new HIV+ cases ever year in Italy, a new case every two hours and one out of every two persons infected is unaware: 18th National AIDS Meeting Rome (Fides Service) - Italy’s 18th National Anlaids Meeting will be held in Milan 28-30 November in view of World AIDS Day. Anlaids is the National Association for the Fight against AIDS. According to Italian infect ...
• 27 November 2004
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - 45,000 AIDS patients: Health Ministry intervenes to purchase anti-retroviral drugs Rome (Fides Service) - The reported number of Africans who have contracted AIDS this year 2004 is 3.1 million and the number of those who died of AIDS in Africa is 2.3 million. In Sierra Leone the minister of Health has ...
• 27 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Tomorrow mobilisation for peace in Churches throughout Ivory Coast Abidjan (Fides Service)- “We intend to pray for peace and national reconciliation and for the victims of the violence over the past few weeks” sources of the Bishops’ Conference in Ivory Coast told Fides, with rega ...
• 27 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fifty nine Legionaries of Christ are ordained priests. The Pope signs decree approving statutes of Regnum Christi Movement Rome (Fides Service) - On 26 November 2004 Father Marcial Maciel, founder and director general of the congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement celebrated 60 years of priesthood. The event ...
• 26 November 2004
  VATICAN - Tomorrow November 27 Ecumenical Celebration in St Peter’s. Relics of Ecumenical celebration: Pope John Paul II will make a gift of the Relics of St Gregory Nazianzen and St John Chrysostom to the Patriarch of Constantinople Vatican City (Fides Service) - Tomorrow Saturday 27 November at 11 am in St Peter’s basilica there will be an ecumenical Liturgy during which Pope John Paul II will make a gift of relics of St Gregory Nazianzen and St ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/LAOS - Info Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe’s pastoral visit to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some information on Laos. area: 237.000 sq. km population: 5.600,000 Capi ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/KOREA - “The Family, a place of love and life” is the title of a pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops for Advent 2004 Seoul (Fides Service) - Advent is a time to sanctify and evangelise the family, the Korean Bishops say in a pastoral letter for Advent with the title The Family, Place of love and Life. The letter with 83 paragraphs took ...
• 26 November 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - “The tragic murder of missionary Father Hannon, yet another sign of great insecurity in the area” says report from Ngong diocese Nairobi (Fides Service) - In a official statement from the Bishops’ House signed by the Bishop Cornelius Schilder Ngong diocese announced the brutal murder of an Irish missionary Father John Hannon: “It is with deep ...
• 26 November 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “We must go beyond our borders because we are not only the future of humanity, we want to be the missionaries of the present in America and the world” say young participants at 3rd American Meeting of Missionary Youth (III ENAJOMIS) Caracas (Fides Service) - Delegations of 23 countries of the continent of America and a delegation from Spain attended the 3rd American Meeting of Missionary Youth held recently in Guaira Vargas-Venezuela, in order to � ...
• 26 November 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu resolves to fight AIDS with intelligence, love and respect Rome (Fides Service) - St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu is involved in a number of programmes to support the fight against HIV/AIDS. Among the initiatives we mention: prevention group “Awake” which organises ...
• 26 November 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe’s pastoral visit in Laos: I have come above all to thank you for your loyalty to the Apostolic See and to encourage you to bear ever bolder witness to Jesus and his Gospel in daily life Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Thursday 25 November, on another lap of his pastoral visit in South East Asia, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples celebrated mass in ...
• 26 November 2004
  AFRICA/ETIOPIA - Ethiopia decides to bury the hatchet and accept the border line marked by the international commission. Now it is up to Eritrea to give a positive answer Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Ethiopia has decided for the war on hunger and poverty rather than real war” local sources in Addis Ababa told Fides commenting the decision taken by the government of Ethiopia to accept ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesians open new Don Bosco Institute in Assam; government closes Catholic school in Kashmir New Delhi (Fides Service) - Catholic education in India is highly appreciated by Christians, Hindus, Muslims, civil authorities, intellectuals, men of the world of culture. It is always at the centre of attention sometim ...