News

• 11 October 2004
  VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University opens Academic year 2004/2005 Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today, 11 October with a solemn Concelebration of the Eucharist and an invocation of the Holy Spirit presided by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation ...
• 11 October 2004
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope recalls the International Eucharistic Congress and the start of the Year of the Eucharist: “recognising the Risen Lord in the ‘breaking of the bread’ may Catholics be ready to bear witness to him with active charity ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The opening of the 48th International Eucharistic Congress on Sunday 10 October and the start of the Year of the Eucharist on Sunday 17 October, were the main focus of Pope John Paul’s re ...
• 11 October 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 1,200 missionaries at first Lay Missionaries Assessment Meeting in connection with Great City Mission “Remar Mar Adentro” in Lima Lima (Fides Service) - On 8 October at Rosenthal School in Lima lay Catholics taking part in the Great City Mission “Remar Mar Adentro held a first meeting to assess progress made. Some 1,200 lay people from the dist ...
• 11 October 2004
  VATICAN - Fides opens a new section on the Year of the Eucharist October 2004 - October 2005 with information on Papal teaching on the subject, Eucharistic Congresses, Synod of Bishops, how the Year will be celebrated around the world... Vatican City (Fides Service) - Fides has opened a new section (www.fides.org) offering information in view of this major Church event which involves Catholics all over the world. On Fides ‘Year of the Eucharist’ p ...
• 11 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New diocese of Uijongbu on the border with North Korea takes first steps Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - With a meeting of all its priests the newly created diocese of Uijongbu, situated close to the border with north Korea, took its first steps to organise pastoral activity . The Council of Presbyte ...
• 11 October 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Government and rebel soldiers who staged a revolt last week come to an agreement Bissau (Fides Service)- The government of Guinea Bissau and the authors of a military revolt last week (see Fides 7 and 8 October 2004) have reached an agreement. A statement, signed by prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior ...
• 11 October 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Sixty thousand gather for Concelebration of Mass to open the 48th International Eucharistic Congress. “We have come to him to find light for our life, answers to our doubts, courage to bear witness among our brothers and sisters in difficulty to our faith in the Eucharist, nourishment for life” the Papal Envoy told those present. Guadalajara (Fides) - The 48th International Eucharistic Congress opened on Sunday 10 October in Guadalajara with a solemn Mass presided by the Pope’s envoy Cardinal Jozef Tomko, president of the Committee for Internat ...
• 11 October 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Bishops urge President Gloria Arroyo to abolish capital punishment Manila (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, October 11, 2004, the Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines strongly ap ...
• 11 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - “Peace begins at home”: Catholic Bishops of north eastern India organise monthly First Friday for Peace to promote social harmony among at least 300 ethnic groups struggling with poverty and unemployment New Delhi (Fides Service) - The north eastern part of India, a region with situations of tension and conflict, feels neglected by the central government preoccupied with the question of Kashmir and problems caused by sp ...
• 11 October 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD - First day of school for 18,000 Sudanese children in refugee camps in eastern Chad thanks to UNHCR Rome (Fides Service) - In eight of the ten refugee camps in Chad run by the UN High Commission for Refugees this week school starts for some 18,000 children aged 5 to 17. In some camps adult refugees themselves had alrea ...
• 11 October 2004
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dengue fever kills two people in the north of the island. 282 cases already this year and concern grows Rome (Fides Service) - Two persons, a Haitian and a local in the province of Montecristi north western part of the Island near the border with Haiti have died of Dengue fever. There is growing concern because since the ...
• 11 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in trenches in Mosul call to Fides. In this situation how can these barbaric threats and acts of violence be stopped, how can co-existence continue? Baghdad (Fides Service)- Father Nizar Semaan a Catholic priest in Iraq sent Fides following report on the situation: “People in Mosul, mostly Christians, are afraid since radical groups act in broad daylight and no one ...
• 9 October 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Bishop of Surat Thani appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope John Paul II has (9 October 2004) appointed Reverend Joseph Prathan Sridanusil, SDB. Bishop of Surat Thani (Thailand). The Bishop elect was born on 9 February 1946 a ...
• 9 October 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio Archbishop of Buenos Aires calls to the capital’s children to traditional October missionary month Children’s Mass: “together we will build communion, union and solidarity and worship God” Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio Primate of Argentina, has invited the children of the capital to attend the traditional Children Mass for the month of October ...
• 9 October 2004
  AFRICA - Anti-polio vaccination campaign aims to reach 80 million children in 23 countries. Already 786 cases registered this year in six different countries Rome (Fides Service) - More than one million health workers and volunteers will be engaged in the most ambitious anti-polio vaccination campaign ever organised to protect 80 million children in 23 African countries from ...