News

• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BELGIAN RESEARCHERS TRY RODENTS TO NEUTRALISE TRAGIC WAR HERITAGE OF LAND MINES Rome (Fides) - A group of Belgian researchers is working on a project to solve the problem of millions of land mines spread all over Africa. British daily The Guardian in its on line edition today, Friday 7 November 2003 ...
• 7 November 2003
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2):INTENSE PREPARATION AT DIOCESAN AND NATIONAL LEVEL CULMINATES WITH THE SENDING OF A YOUNG COMBONI MISSIONARY “AD GENTES” Quito (Fides Service) – “You represent our Particular Churches and you are new heralds of the life of our Church in Ecuador” Father Timoteo Lehane SVD, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER THE POPE WILL BEATIFY FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD FROM SPAIN, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND ITALY Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Sunday 9 November 2003, the feast of the dedication of the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran, at 9.30 am, Pope John Paul II will preside a solemn Mass in St Pet ...
• 7 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - VOLUNTARY WORK AND SOCIAL COOPERATION IN A WORLD IN MOVEMENT: HOSPITALLER BROTHERS ASSOCIATION OUTREACH TO DISTANT SICK CONFERENCE Roma (Fides Service) - Solidali con la solidarietà, volontari con il volontariato is the slogan launched by the Genzano section of AFMAL – Hospitaller Brothers Association Outreach to Distant Sick – on the occasion ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS ATTACKED, ONE INJURED, IN BUNIA CAPITAL OF ITURI REGION. NORMALISATION IN NORTH CONGO SLOW IN RETURNING Bunia (Fides Service)- “Night time shooting battles have become a common thing” a local source in Bunia main town of north eastern region of Ituri in Democratic Congo tells Fides. Ituri has been the centre of a civil ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS CALLING FOR AN END TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE: “WE ARE ALL SENEGALESE, ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WECANNOT KILL ONE ANOTHER ” Dakar (Fides Service)- “Yesterday’s protest took place peacefully and it was a demonstration of the Senegalese spirit of democracy ” a missionary in Dakar, Senegal tells Fides. Thousands gathered yesterday, 6 Novem ...
• 7 November 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - FILM ON LIFE AND WORK OF ITALIAN JESUIT GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE, GREAT MISSIONARY ARTIST TO THE COURT OF CHINA IN 17-18TH CENTURIES Beijing (Fides Service) – Early next year a film on the life and work of Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione (1688– 1766), well known in China as an artist and architect, will be shown on national television. The fil ...
• 7 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CHURCH IN COLOMBIA ADDS TWO MORE NAMES TO MARTYROLOGY: CATHOLIC PRIESTS SHOT DEAD WITHIN HOURS OF EACH OTHER Vatican City (Fides Service) - Father Paulo Carreno, parish priest of Saravena, a town on the border with Venezuela, in the Arauca region where conflict and violence are the order of the day, was shot dead on 3 November ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - DISASTROUS HEALTH CONDITIONS INFANT MORTALITY RATE 100/1000 (100 OUT OF EVERY 1000 DIE IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE) Rome (Fides Service) – Disastrous sanitary conditions in Madagascar were aggravated during the years of war particularly with regard to children and health care. Seeing this situation the Lazzarist Fathers built a Vill ...
• 7 November 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CHALLENGES FACING PASTORAL CARE FOR IMMIGRANTS Rome (Fides Service) –The number of Filipino immigrants to Europe grows steadily and this presents a major challenge for the Churches in the West. In Middle East countries Catholic Filipino immigrants find it difficult ...
• 7 November 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - CRISIS IN SRI LANKA, A QUESTION OF REACHING POLITICAL AGREEMENT , COULD ASSUME A RELIGIOUS HUE Colombo (Fides Service) – The present crisis in Sri Lanka risks becoming a mixture of politics and religion: reliable local analysts who prefer to remain unnamed tell Fides. They say that the peace process is influence ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - PEACE IN UGANDA AND PEACE IN SUDAN ARE CONNECTED” SAYS ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU. REPORTED DEATH OF CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NORTHERN UGANDA DENIED Kampala (Fides Service)- “The path to peace in Sudan and the path to peace in Uganda are connected: national reconciliation in our great neighbour will certainly lead to positive developments here in Uganda” Archbish ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. FATHER JIRÍ SLÉGR CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has confirmed, 31 October 2003, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Czech ...
• 6 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NOVEMBER 7 IN MILAN: SPECIAL PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL Rome (Fides Service) – In the cycle of Monthly Prayer Meetings organised by the Church in Need, on Friday 7 November in Milan there will be a special prayer thanksgiving on the 14th anniversary of the fall of the Berli ...
• 6 November 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - MISSIONARY SISTER AND MATHS TEACHERS LEAVES SOLOMON ISLANDS AFTER 35 YEARS OF MISSION TO EDUCATE YOUTH Honiara (Fides Service) – Algebra and geometry hold no secrets for Sister Margaret Tisch SMSM but her real passion was Jesus and his Gospel and preaching the Kingdom of God. Sister Margaret, a Missionary Sister of the ...