News

• 18 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY Martyrology 2003: 36 missionaries killed while spreading the Gospel. Saturday 20 March Fides Dossier in preparation for the 12th Day of Prayer and Fasting in memory of missionary martyrs. Rome (Fides Service) - According to information collected by Fides, during 2003 the number of church personnel who lost their lives while on mission was 36, including archbishops, priests, religious men and women and lay ...
• 18 March 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Archbishop Silas Silvius Njiru of Meru resigns, he is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Salesius Mugambi Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (March 18, 2004) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Meru (Kenya), presented by Archbishop Silas Silvius Njiru, in ...
• 18 March 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - New Ecclesiastic Province of Raipur created and first Archbishop appointed Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 27 February 2004, created the new Ecclesiastic Province of Raipur, dividing it from the Ecclesiastic Province of Bhopal (India). The new Ecclesiastic ...
• 18 March 2004
  VATICAN - The religious mission of the Church includes defending and promoting fundamental human rights: Cardinal Martino affirms at International Conference on “Women and Human Rights”. Rome (Fides Service) - Cultures based on efficiency, practical materialism, utilitarian and hedonist egoism threaten the entire human rights system. Unless our point of reference is the integral vision of man and woman, ...
• 18 March 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - UN High Commission for Refugees Unite prepares to assist repatriation of more than 3.6 million Sudanese refugees Rome (Fides Service)- “We thought it was important to find out how refugees felt with regard to repatriation” said Dennis McNamara, Inspector general of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Unite UNHCR, wh ...
• 18 March 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Evangelisation through music in Lent looking towards Easter: Catholic “Wave” studios announces new production Lahore (Fides Service) - Announcing the Easter Message of Resurrection through music is the latest initiative undertaken by Wave Studio in Lahore, directed by Father John Nadeem. The project consists of a new audio-casse ...
• 18 March 2004
  ERUOPE/ITALY - Running for health: Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital will run in Rome Marathon Vatican City (Fides Service) - Sports activities for athletes with autistic syndromes or pathologies which affect autistic behaviour, is the aim of Progetto Filippide sponsored by the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital i ...
• 17 March 2004
  VATICAN - Missionary Stations of the Cross prayer recalls suffering of children in the world: a response to Pope John Paul II’s call for Lent 2004 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The general secretariat of the Pontifical Mission Society for Missionary Childhood has produced a special Missionary Stations of the Cross which unites the suffering of children with the su ...
• 17 March 2004
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - The family must be a priority for the European Union: COMECE statement Brussels (Fides Service) - The COMECE Secretariat has today 16 March 2004 published detailed proposals for an EU Family Strategy designed to make the enlarged EU "the most family-friendly region of the world by 2010". ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Render operative principle lines of evangelisation in Brazil: one of the most important objectives of the 6th Meeting of Organisms of the People of God Brasilia (Fides Service) - Promoted and organised by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil, CNBB, in co-ordination with the Organisms of the People of God, from 26 to 28 March at the SESC Venda Nuova at Belo Hori ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Lord, show me your way!” is the slogan of the Inculturation Work Shop for missionaries in the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas: knowing and valorising Amazon regional myths to integrate them in the work of evangelisation Indiana (Fides Service ) - From 11 to 14 March in Indiana (Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas) an Inculturation Work Shop for missionaries was held in the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas with the ...
• 17 March 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese police release Catholic Bishop Wei Jingyi arrested on 5 March Vatican City (Fides Service) - With great joy Fides learned of the release of Bishop Wei Jingyi, Bishop of the Chinese diocese of Qiqihar, detained by the Chinese police on March 5. The news of the arrest of Bishop Wei J ...
• 17 March 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the Wednesday audience: “The face of Christ, messianic King is the irradiation of the Father’s glory. He is the Son in the fullest sense and therefore the perfect presence of God among humanity ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the Weekly Audience this morning, 17 March, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II addressed thousands of visitors from all over the world and he focussed his teaching on Psalm 20 ...
• 17 March 2004
  ASIA/JAPAN - Catholic students in Japan fight trafficking and sexual abuse of minors Tokyo (Fides Service) - Catholic students in Japan are working to eliminate trafficking and sexual abuse of minors in Japan and elsewhere: many of Tokyo’s young people work as volunteers at the offices of the Japanese ...
• 17 March 2004
  EUROPE - Mutant tuberculosis virus develops resistance to drugs used to treat the disease and threatens Europe Rome (Fides Service) - The European Union is said to be threatened by a wave of tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organisation which warns that no country is completely safe from contagion. In the world some 30 ...