News

• 14 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope receives a group of Bishops from New Zealand: “pressing need for Christ’s liberating message in a society experiencing the tragic consequences of the eclipse of the sense of God” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “New Zealanders look to you to be men of hope, preaching and teaching with passion the splendour of Christ’s truth which dispels the darkness and illuminates the true path of life”. T ...
• 14 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living mission - daring to meet others”: German PMS launches mission campaign for October 2004 to encourage Catholics to go out and meet people who are different, Muslims especially. Aachen (Fides Service) - “Living mission - daring to meet others” is the theme of a campaign launched in view of the missionary month of October 2004 by the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germ ...
• 14 September 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Female genius can play a prominent part in the Church”: survey by CBCK Committee for Women Seoul (Fides Service) - The Church stands to benefit from more involvement of women in pastoral decision making and activity. This was said by the Committee for Women which is part of the Commission for Lay Apostolate of ...
• 14 September 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The Truth will make you free”: International Congress organised by the national Catholic University ten years after the publication of Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor encyclical Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - As part of various initiatives to mark the tenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor, the John Paul II chair of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentin ...
• 14 September 2004
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “We have reached the point of having two generations who survive by begging. Silent suicides among adults, caused by the economic crash, are affecting children and adolescents”: dramatic statement by the Uruguay Council of Christian Churches (CICU) Montevideo (Fides Service) - Faced with the alarming deterioration of the standard of living in Uruguay, the national Council of Churches, CICU, issued a statement with the title “A call to the country, institutions, p ...
• 14 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Every month as many as 10,000 people among the 1.2 million displaced persons in Darfur die, compared to about 1,500 average monthly deaths in poor regions of Africa Rome (Fides Service) - According to a recent survey by the World Health Organisation with regard to the humanitarian crisis in the eastern Sudanese region of Darfur, the mortality rate among 1.2 million persons displaced ...
• 14 September 2004
  HIV/AIDS: antiretroviral therapy, caesarean birth and artificial milk for babies reduce mother/child transmission of HIV/AIDS. Contagion risk drops from 20-25% without therapy to as low as 2-3% with treatment Rome (Fides Service) - Alarming results have been published by the Italian national monitoring programme for antiretroviral therapy among expectant mothers co-ordinated by the Higher Institute for Health. The programme w ...
• 14 September 2004
  ASIA/JAPAN - Japanese missionary Sister in Algeria shares the experience of a Franciscan Sister witnessing to Jesus by serving others Tokyo (Fides Service) - Sr Sano Mitsuko, aged 65, a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary spent 25 years on mission in Algeria. Those were the dark years of civil war, social violence among Islamic fundamentalist ...
• 14 September 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - “A Year of Evangelisation a new start for the Church in Vietnam”: Salesian Bishop Van Tiem of Bui Chu diocese speaks to Fides Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are living a year of Evangelisation which is proving to be a new start for the Church in Vietnam. People are returning to the faith and there is growing awareness that every Christian ...
• 13 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection at the midday Sunday Angelus prayer: “May Mary watch over humanity suffering today from distressing explosions of violence. May she watch over the young generations especially who desire to build a future of hope for all”. Castel Gandolofo (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 12 September, before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome, Pope John Paul II recalled th ...
• 13 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - Cardinal Nicora illustrates duties and risks of service in administration “to guarantee material means so that the mission Jesus entrusted to his Church may continue” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Worship, pastoral, charity, ecclesiastic personnel: are the four constitutive ends of the possession and use of ecclesial resources as such. The Church may possess resources only for the ...
• 13 September 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - “Communion, the power behind mission in the Church in Africa” is the theme of a meeting for French speaking National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Africa which opens tomorrow in Yaounde Yaounde (Fides Service) - On Tuesday 14 September in Yaounde Cameroon national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in French speaking countries of Africa will start a meeting to reflect on the theme: “Communi ...
• 13 September 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Family formation and evangelisation is urgent to help families opt for a culture of life: scarce knowledge of Catholic Teaching on the family and life Seoul (Fides Service) - The family in Asia needs to be oriented towards a culture of life, the Bishops of Asia agreed during a general assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences FABC held in Korea in Augu ...
• 13 September 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Legislative Council elections - Democrats make small step forward, parties in favour of tighter bonds with Mainland China win people’s preference Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Contrary to expectations and surveys which predicted a large majority of votes in their favour in the September 12 elections in Hong Kong, pro-democracy parties gained only 3 seats more then t ...
• 13 September 2004
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Building a culture of dialogue, peace and reconciliation in south East Asia: appeal launched by Caritas Australia after the bomb blast in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta Canberra (Fides Service) - The tragic bombing of the Australian embassy in a Jakarta “reminds us of how close the issue of terror is to our shores and emphasises our need for peace and reconciliation”: according to a ...