News

• 4 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conference on “Stem Cells, Science and Conscience” Rome (Fides Service) - On Monday March 8 there will be a Conference on “Stem cells, science and conscience” for doctors, researchers in this field which has been a point of attention of world public opinion but which ...
• 4 March 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - International humanitarian organisations mobilise to help victims of war in Darfur western Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service) - International humanitarian organisations increase efforts to help Sudanese refugees sheltering along the border strip between Sudan and Chad. Yesterday March 3, the Chairman of the Internationa ...
• 3 March 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Caritas in Africa decide to build solidarity fund for emergency aid Yaounde (Fides Service) - Christians in Africa are stepping up efforts to provide solidarity in emergencies. In fact, during a recent meeting of Catholic aid agencies in Yaounde, Cameroon 16-20 February, national Carita ...
• 3 March 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar on the social responsibility of businessmen and globalisation, promoted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the eve of the publication of a compendium of the fundamental principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Corruption in business and politics, destination of company profits i, the cultural impact of advertising and marketing policies are some of the subjects for discussion during a Study Semin ...
• 3 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Brother, sister your life is mission!” : Missionary Animation Course-Workshop organised by Callao diocese Callao (Fides Service) - To “collaborate in formation of the laity and promote missionary activity in response to Christ’s command: Go and make all peoples my disciples”, Callao diocese in Peru is holding a Mission ...
• 3 March 2004
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - “Love one another”: for Lent Cardinal O’Brien recalls Jesus' commandmentand calls Christians in Scotland to defend Christian schools, assist refugees and reject a draft Sexual Health Bill at variance with Catholic teaching Glasgow (Fides Service) - “What I wish to remind you of on the occasion of this Lenten Station Mass is quite simply that our journey toward Christ and the Sacraments is a journey toward love. Among the last words of Je ...
• 3 March 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - HIV/AIDS virus infection rate is twenty times higher than ten years ago Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of 2003 at least 26.6 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa were infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. According to a survey by a German humanitarian agency about two thirds of young people ...
• 3 March 2004
  AMERICA - “As families evangelise their milieu, they transform daily life into an extraordinary meeting place with God” say the Bishops of the Church in America San Antonio Texas (Fides Service) - “Family, become what you are!”: is the theme of a Message issued by Message from the 32nd Meeting of the Bishops of the Church in America San Antonio, Texas 16-19 February 2004. Th ...
• 3 March 2004
  AMERICA - Critical food shortage in five Latin American countries Rome (Fides) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO has denounced critical food shortages in Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Bolivia and Ecuador and that a total 38 countries are in the same situation. In Central ...
• 3 March 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “The people who plan and execute these acts want to prevent Iraq from becoming free and democratic ” Father Nizar in Ninive tells Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)-“We firmly condemn the attacks on the Shiite community in Baghdad and Karbala”, Father Nizar Semaan, in the Iraqi diocese of Ninive, told Fides with regard to the two attacks on Iraqi Shiite M ...
• 3 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Poor and abandoned youth “weigh on the conscience of society which wants and has globalised its economy but not its commitment for the development of peoples and the promotion of the dignity of every human person” says Salesian Rector Major Rev. Chavez Rome (Fides Service) - The precarious conditions of so many children and young people in many parts of the world and Don Bosco’s work in favour of poor, abandoned children, referred to today as ‘young people at risk� ...
• 3 March 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Sierra Leone refugees return from Liberia where they fled for safety. Liberian refugees head homewards from neighbouring countries Monrovia (Fides Service)- Now that the road from the Liberian capital Monrovia to the border with Sierra Leone has been re-opened the UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has resumed operations to repatriate Sierra Leon ...
• 2 March 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for the canonisation of Blessed Giuseppe Manyanet y Vives, the “prophet of the family”: “every home must become the home of Nazareth”. Barcelona (Fides Service) - Next Sunday, the first Sunday in March in every parish where there are Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus Mary and Joseph and Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, preparations will ...
• 2 March 2004
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “The evangelising mission of the Church has been consolidated on the Continent, mission ad gentes is becoming a determinant and incisive force which is renewing the Church”: CAM 2 Conclusions approved and consigned. San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) - “The evangelising mission of the Church has been consolidated on the Continent, mission ad gentes is becoming a determinant and incisive force which is renewing the Church as i ...
• 2 March 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Government and former rebel leaders welcome UN decision to send 6.000 peace keepers Abidjan (Fides Service)- The decision taken by the United Nations’ Security Council to send 6,000 UN peace keepers to Ivory Coast has been welcomed by the country, local church sources in Abidjan told Fides. “Both th ...