News

• 27 November 2003
  VATICAN - CONCLUSIONS OF 25TH PLENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM": CHARITY WORK AND THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF CHARITY Vatican City (Fides Service) - "The Church does not limit herself to providing for the material needs of those in difficulty; her charitable work consists not only in building structures... it strives to meet the most hi ...
• 27 November 2003
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 IS A CALL TO OUR DIOCESAN CHURCHES, TO OUR YOUNG CLERGY IN PARTICULAR, TO REALISE THAT MISSIONARY WORK IS A TASK FOR ALL NOT ONLY FOR RELIGIOUS” SAYS BISHOP OF BARAHORA Santo Domingo (Fides Service) – “The importance of CAM 2 lies mainly in the fact that for our diocesan churches and for the young priests in particular it is a call to realise that mission is a task for all and not o ...
• 26 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “THE CEASE-FIRE A BLESSING FROM GOD, BUT WE CALL ON GOVERNMENTS TO KEEP THEIR PROMISES” KASHMIR’S ONLY BISHOP TOLD FIDES Srinagar (Fides Service) – “The cease fire is a blessing from God! It comes at the end of Ramadan and it is the Lord’s gift to all the people of Kashmir so sorely tried. We welcome the treaty with great enthusiasm ...
• 26 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “FORTY YEARS OF LIFE OF ARIS HAVE THEIR ROOTS IN THE WORK OF JESUS WHO HEALED THE SICK AND IN HIS COMMAND TO HIS DISCIPLES” CARDINAL RUINI SAYS AT THE END OF ARIS CONFERENCE Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian Religious Association of Social-Health Institutes ARIS marked its 40 years of activity with a conference in Rome attended by about one hundred members of ARIS from all over Italy. Talks ...
• 26 November 2003
  VATICAN – MESSAGE FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II TO SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS: “RESPOND PROMPTLY TO THE LORD’S CALL! BE JOYFUL WITNESSES AND ENTHUSIASTIC APOSTLES OF THE GOSPEL TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II addressed a Message to Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, Archbishop of Guatemala, President of the Second American Mission Congress taking place in Guatemala City 25 to 3 ...
• 26 November 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - DESPITE FEAR IN RECENT DAYS, AS RAMADAN COMES TO AN END FAMILIES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS GATHER TO SHARE MEALS AND DIALOGUE Antioch (Fides Service) – In these days of Muslim festivities for the end of Ramadan in Antioch, known to be a city of peace and harmony among peoples and religions, fear has been set aside and the different religious ...
• 26 November 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED NATIONS - FAO WARNS: 842 MILLIONS SUFFER FROM HUNGER. 27 MILLION MORE THAN LAST YEAR. 2003 “THE STATE OF FOOD INSECURITY IN THE WORLD” Rome (Fides Service) – Hunger affects more and more people in the world and it is increasingly difficult to eliminate: almost 850 million people, 27 million more than last year, eat too little and this number, reduced ...
• 26 November 2003
  HUMANITARIAN AID AND MILITARY PRESENCE: WHAT RELATIONSHIP? CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS SEMINAR Vatican City (Fides Service) – Relations between Caritas workers and soldiers in conflict areas will be the subject of a Seminar 4 and 5 December at Caritas Internationalis headquarters in Roma. The question of sharing ...
• 26 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS WITH JOY AND PRAYER: “IT IS A GIFT FROM GOD THAT GUATEMALA CITY HAS BECOME THE CAPITAL OF THE CATHOLIC WORLDS, AND A CHALLENGE TO ALL” SAYS CARDINAL TORUNO WHILE AFRICA AND ASIA DREAM OF THEIR OWN MISSION CONGRESSES. Guatemala City (Fides Service) – With joy and prayers the 2nd American Mission Congress was solemnly inaugurated in the afternoon of November 25 at the Paul II Auditorium in Guatemala City. Some 3.000 delegates inclu ...
• 25 November 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “MAY CAM2 BRING BREATH FO FRESH AIR TO AMERICA AND INSPIRE IN EUROPEANS WAYS TO ANIMATE AND CONTINUE MISSION IN EUROPE” SAYS NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN THE COUNTRY WITH THE MOST MISSIONARIES Madrid (Fides Service ) – “I hope CAM 2 will bring fresh air to America and help Europeans to animate and continue mission in Europe, materially rich by spiritually impoverished” Bishop Francisco Pérez González, ...
• 25 November 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - ARE MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALIST SCHOOLS EXPORTING TERRORISM TO LIBERIA? GROWING CONCERN IN MONROVIA Monrovia (Fides Service) – Is there a threat of Muslim fundamentalism in Liberia? Local sources told Fides that in recent years of civil war between president Taylor and the rebel groups LURD (Liberians United per la R ...
• 25 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS DEVASTATE A CATHOLIC CHURCH, BIBLES BURNED, NUN RAPED Bhubaneshwar (Fides Service ) – The Catholic community in Orissa state, east India is in a state of shock after a new wave of Hindu fundamentalists against the Indian Catholic Church. A group of men on motor bikes belo ...
• 25 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2:AN AIR OF FESTIVITY IN GUATEMALA CITY WITH ONLY HOURS TO GO BEFORE OPENING OF CAM2: “THE WARMTH AND DEDICATION OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE IS THE MOST WELCOME IMPRESSION ” Guatemala (Fides Service) – “As soon as we arrived we felt the atmosphere of festivity. Along with delegations from all over the world, especially from all over America, we were welcomed by enthusiastic young mission ...
• 25 November 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - NEW JESUIT PUBLICATION “RENLAI” TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE WITH THE CHINESE WORLD Taipei (Fides Service) – With a new monthly publication Renlai, Jesuits in Taiwan intend to promote authentic dialogue with the Chinese world. Renlai, meaning “Flute of Humanity”, is published by the “Ricci Cultu ...
• 25 November 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - KOREAN RELIGIOUS PROMISE GREATER COMMITMENT TO MISSION AD GENTES IN ASIA AND AFRICA Seoul (Fides Service) – Religious in South Korea have vowed to increase their commitment for missionary activity. This fact emerged from a recent General Assembly of Superiors Major of Religious Institutes and Societi ...