News

• 5 March 2004
  VATICAN - Pressing appeal from the Congregation for the Oriental Churches to help the Church in the Holy Land in urgent need of prayer and concrete solidarity “to sustain the presence of the Christian community in the Holy Land ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - As customary at the beginning of Lent, Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches made an appeal to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on behalf o ...
• 5 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “In their service in Argentina the sons of Don Orione fulfil the passionate longing of their Founder to render more dignified the life of the humble people”: Don Orione Director General comments appointment of Orione Bishop as Bishop of Anatuya diocese, one of the poorest in Argentina Rome (Fides Service) - “The Pope has appointed our confrere Father Adolfo Armando Uriona Bishop of the diocese of Anatuya. We welcome the news as a sign of confidence in our Father Adolfo and a sign of esteem and affec ...
• 5 March 2004
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Growing Catholic community in Tajikistan welcomes two new priests from Argentina Dushanbe (Fides Service) - Two priests from Argentina, members of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, have reached their new destination: the Catholic Mission in Tagikistan. The priests are Father Ezequiel Ayala from Ba ...
• 5 March 2004
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Norberto Jose Marroquin Renderos appointed National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has, 27 February 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in El Salvado ...
• 5 March 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Land is at the centre of clashes in Ouragahio, in central southern Ivory Coast, 8 killed and 11 wounded Abidjan (Fides Service) - “This sad episode of violence is almost certainly connected with disputes over land ownership” local sources in Ivory Coast told Fides. At least 8 people were killed and 11 injured in an att ...
• 5 March 2004
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Trust in the Holy Spirit and pray for the missionary and evangelising courage of the early Christians to transform the Church and the world with witness of your life”: the Bishop of Florida in Uruguay issues Lenten Message Florida (Fides Service) - A call that prayer, conversion of life-style, listening and docility to the Word of God, practices typical of the Season of Lent, may reawaken the missionary vocation in every heart, was launche ...
• 5 March 2004
  AFRICA/ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tension in Bangui due to student protests and presence of Haiti’s ousted President Aristide Bangui (Fides Service)- “Students and teachers stage protests demanding payment of salaries and study grants regularly, every two or three months” local Church sources in Bangui capital of the Central African Republi ...
• 5 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “We cannot play with life: science has its times which must be respected”: Doctor Campisi speaker at “Stem Cells Science and Conscience” tells Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - Fides spoke with one of the speakers at the Conference “Stem Cells Science and Conscience” to be held in Rome, Doctor Silvana Campisi, head of the Operational Unit of Sant’Andrea Hospital in ...
• 4 March 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Elections postponed? So far only rumours possibly to see the reaction of the international community Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “So far there is nothing official. The date of the elections has not been altered” local Church sources in Burundi told Fides after the Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye said that pres ...
• 4 March 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem issues Lenten Message: “However, the human person in this land is not called to live in a state of permanent war...those who impose oppression have the duty to put an end to it so that the land might then know the security and peace that are so much desired” Jerusalem (Fides Service) - “Fasting is to return to God and thereby to return to all our brothers and sisters. It is to rid ourselves of all the evils that have accumulated in us, so that we acquire the strength of t ...
• 4 March 2004
  ASIA/TURKEY - Friars Minor in Istanbul open new International Fraternity Centre for dialogue with Orthodox Christians and followers of Islam Istanbul (Fides Service) - In the presence of the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, Fr. Josh Rodriguez Carballo, a new International Fraternity Santa Maria Draperis was opened in Istanbul on 29 February. The ...
• 4 March 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Hispanic America Day: “Efforts for evangelisation must not wane, they must increase to meet new challenges ” Madrid (Fides Service) - On March 7 the Church in Spain will mark Hispanic America Day with the motto “United in Missionary Efforts ”, in communion with the American Missionary Congress held in Guatemala last Novemb ...
• 4 March 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Communion is our horizon and our dream we want to open our frontiers to bear witness to what we have seen and heard” says newly elected President of the National Mission Council COMINA. Brasilia (Fides Service) - From 26 to 29 February the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil hosted the 26th annual meeting of the National Mission Council of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference. T ...
• 4 March 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Women in the Church and Society Today”: course on the anthropological, philosophical and theological aspects of women and their role in the Church and society Bogota (Fides Service) - To “reflect on the dignity and mission of women in the Church and society, to promote pastoral and social processes with women’s active participation in building a more just and fraternal so ...
• 4 March 2004
  ASIA - United Nations: drug abuse continues to spread Rome (Fides Service) - The rising use of heroine in eastern Asia, a region where drug abuse is one of the main factors for the spread of AIDS, in China in particular, is causing serious problems. In a recent report the ...