News

• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS (CAM 2) AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS, GUATEMALA CITY PREPARES TO WELCOME 300 DELEGATES OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – There are only 144 days to the inauguration of the 2nd all American Mission Congress “and on the journey towards this important missionary event the preparatory meetings are ever more ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/ERITREA - TOWARDS A CULTURE OF PEACE: RELIGIONS ARE A BRIDGE FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DIALOGUE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Peace and reconciliation were our first concerns and so we discussed and reflected on the situations in our countries.” This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia and Erit ...
• 3 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - EVANGELISATION AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE VIA RADIO AT YOGYAKARTA Jakarta (Fides Service) – Yogyakarta is the city with the most radio stations in the whole of Indonesia. Fifty two local radios have been opened since a new telecommunications law was passed in 2002 by the Indonesian g ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS A RIGHT TO RESPECT NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATE OF HEALTH: AN ETHIC-SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON AIDS Santiago (Fides Service) – The figures issued by the World Health Organisation with regard to AIDS in the world are alarming: 14,000 new cases every day, 95% in developing countries. Of these 14,000, about 2,000 are ch ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “IN LIBERIA, TAYLOR IS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM” SAYS LOCAL MISSIONARY Monrovia (Fides Service) – “The appeal launched by the Pope will certainly help keep the spotlight and international attention on the tragic situation in Liberia” a missionary in Liberia told Fides Service after Po ...
• 2 July 2003
  VATICAN - IN WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE TEACHING THE POPE SAYS: “WE ARE NOT LEFT ALONE, OUR DAYS ARE NOT RULED BY CHAOS OR FATE” AND HE APPEALS FOR PEACE IN LIBERIA AND UGANDA Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the General Audience today Wednesday 2 July, Pope John Paul II commented on psalm 145 – “Blessed are those who hope in the Lord” and at the end of the audience he appealed fo ...
• 2 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - EURO-AFRICAN PACT TO WIPE OUT MALARIA Rome (Fides Service) – In a few weeks time a European project based on partnership with Africa will begin testing drugs and vaccines to treat and prevent the diseases of the poor: malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis. Over t ...
• 2 July 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - ARCHBISHOP OF MARINGA: THE PALLIUM STANDS FOR A CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN IDENTITY OF THE LOCAL CHURCH WHILE BUILDING COMMUNION WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH Vatican City (Fides Service) – “These meetings with the Pope over the past few days were truly precious moments, I was deeply touched by the love he showed to each of us” Archbishop Jao Braz de Aviz of Maringa in ...
• 2 July 2003
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - TOWARDS 2ND ALL AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) - FIRST ARCHDIOCESAN MEETING, 400 DIOCESAN DELEGATES “UNITED FOR MISSION” San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) – Promote, animate and increase missionary spirit so as to increase awareness of the evangelising mission of the Church and the duty to respond to mission “ad gentes”. These ...
• 2 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN OF COMMUNION, IN DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE: NEW SUPERIOR OF MISSIONARERY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE APOSTLES SPEAKS TO FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – “We believe in dialogue, relations and communion. We share day to day life with the poor and the excluded, working above all for the promotion of the dignity of women”. Sister Eileen Cummins, ...
• 2 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SOS FROM BUNIA: HELP US BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE Bunia (Fides Service) – “When the international peacekeeping force arrived we thought they would help restore peace; but we are perplexed to see the way they work”. This was reported to Fides Service by a local obs ...
• 2 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - NO TO THE CULTURE OF ANTAGONISM YES TO DIALOGUE WITH HINDUS: JESUITS WORK TO SAFEGUARD INDIA’S TRADITIONAL INTERRELIGIOUS CO-EXISTENCE New Delhi (Fides Service) – Love your enemies. To obey commandment of Jesus in these times of interreligious tension in India, the Jesuits Fathers in Madhya Pradesh state have decided to travel all the possible paths t ...
• 1 July 2003
  VATICAN - “BEING THE VOICE THAT THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE WANTS TO HEAR” IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SEE’S PRESENCE IN THE COMMUNITY OF NATIONS – A COLLECTION OF THE HOLY SEE’S INTERVENTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Words that Matter” is the title of a volume, presented on 30 June at the Holy See Press office, prepared by Bishop Andre Dupuy and published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and ...
• 1 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FROM SERVICE TO SERVANTS: IDENTITY AND ROLE OF LAY LEADERS FOCAL POINT OF MEETING OF ITALIAN PMS STARTING TODAY Rome (Fides Service) – This afternoon, July 1, at Frattocchie (Rome), the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy will start their general assembly, which brings together regional leaders, diocesan directors and lay dioc ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY BRINGS A NEW SPRINGTIME FOR THE CHURCH IN MALAWI – ROSARY POSTERS IN CHICHEWA Balaka (Fides Service) – “The year of the Rosary is certainly helping the Church in Malawi to live a new springtime after celebrating its first centenary of evangelisation in 2001. The faith is taking deeper root in ...