News

• 23 July 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Talks between India and Pakistan to increase economic cooperation and strengthen peace in Kashmir: the role of Christians for reconciliation Islamabad (Fides Service) - Strengthen peace, increase economic cooperation were the main topics of talks between Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and India’s Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, as part of the proces ...
• 22 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - In Gujarat a Church under construction was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalist extremists Ahmedabad (Fides Agency) - After the recent episode in Hyderabad, in Andra Pradesh State (southeastern India), where a group of 100 extremists attacked several priests and Catholic believers, the Hindu extremists have ag ...
• 22 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Bangalore, Archbishop Ignatius Pinto resigns, Mgr Bernard Moras appointed Metropolitan Archbishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 22 July 2004, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bangalore in India presented by Archbishop Ignatius Pinto in ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Angolan authorities oppose diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. Is it an attack against one of the channels financing fundamentalist Muslim terrorism? An exclusive report from Fides Luanda (Fides Agency)- The Angolan government strikes again against illegal diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. According to Fides Agency sources, “in the night between July 14th and 15th, the police in Cafun ...
• 21 July 2004
  VATICAN - At the general audience in the Vatican the Pope continues his catechesis on the Psalms: "Man often walks through the dark path of life, but suddenly the darkness is breached by the splendour of the Word of God". Vatican City (Fides Agency) - "Now, after a break due to my stay in Valle d'Aosta, at this General Audience let us move on along our itinerary through the Psalms proposed by the Liturgy of the Vespers. Today we encounter ...
• 21 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Consolata Missionaries propose Street missionary animation at Ostia, to give back their voice to the Roraima indigenous people, to the people of Sub-Saharan Africa with HIV/AIDS and to the Colombian campesinos forced to cultivate cocaine. Rome (Fides Agency) - “The Street” is an experience of missionary and street animation, tested during the summer of the two previous years in two beach sites. With this initiative, together with the voluntary workers ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - New clashes in the Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Agency) - Fighting still goes on in Kalehe, a place 40 km north of Bukavu, the district capital of Southern Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We heard of fighting between the force ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Arms’ recovery in Liberia is connected to the one in Cote d’Ivoire” says commander of the UN troops in Liberia. The Fides dossier of Saturday July 24th shall look into the problem of light weapons’ proliferation in Africa Monrovia (Fides Agency) - “I can assure you that by the end of our mission to Liberia we will have collected all weapons, but Liberia remains a Country in danger if weapons are left in the wrong hands in Cote d’Ivoir ...
• 16 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - First volume of “ Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate” Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate have published the first volume in French of “Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: France at the time of the Founder ...
• 16 July 2004
  VATICAN - “...will we soon be dominated by a new race built in a laboratory? Who will be father and mother, I? You? And tomorrow who will be our parents?” These questions posed by professor Edmund Pellegrino, former President of Catholic Universities in America recently on Italian television, are answered for Fides by Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice President della Pontifical Academy for Life: “The being is the border for man to remain human and the principle of humanity to remain integral, indeed to be promoted by all ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The advent of the Neolithic era in the history of humanity led man out of the caves and set him to conquer the world; man became a shepherd and a farmer, he learned to work metal and bui ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan and its wars: less conventional arms (hunger) less conventional soldiers (children). Fides spoke to Mill Hill missionary who has just published a book on Sudan and its conflicts “Travelling With Soldiers and Bishops” Khartoum (Fides)- “The civil war in Sudan is a complex war. It is too simple to describe it as a conflict between ideologies of North and South ” Mill Hill missionary Fr Mathew Haumann in Sudan told Fides. Fr Haumann ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Pastoral and social-charity work in Popokabaka diocese south west Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Schools, medical centres and soon a Radio station are the main services offered by the Catholic diocese of Popokabaka in south west Congo, according to the local Catholic news agency DIA. Pop ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops meet Christian members of parliament: religious discrimination must stop; India’s Catholics have a role in society New Delhi (Fides Service) - Efforts to eliminate religious discrimination, offer equal opportunities to all religious communities, lift pressure on India’s Christians, promote development of poorest people: these were ...
• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 1,300 seminarians in the tiny community of 600,000 MyanmarCatholics, which prepares missionaries for central Asia Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is rich in vocations, Bishop Nicholas Man Thang, Bishop of Hakha diocese told representatives of Aid to the Church in Need organisation. The Bishop was recen ...
• 16 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - The rosary and a statue of Our Lady are the banners of a successful Great City Mission, ‘put out to sea’ in Lima, capital of Peru Lima (Fides Service) - Praying a Dawn Rosary is a custom which is increasingly popular among families Lima as part of the City Mission “Put out to Sea”. Very early before dawn more and more people gather at home or i ...