News

• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE PROSPECTS AFTER TEN YEARS OF WAR Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “This is perhaps the most serious effort to restore peace in Burundi” a local Church source in Bujumbura, who remains unnamed for security reasons, told Fides Service, referring to peace ag ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/UN - PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN. ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE HOLY SEE PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSES GENERAL ASSEMBLY New York (Fides Service) – “The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force in September 1990. That same month, a World Summit for Children was held to adopt the Declaration on the Survival, Protectio ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN SOMALIA TARGETED AGAIN: TWO BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOUND DEAD ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - AT LEAST 100 DEAD AND 15,000 HOMELESS AFTER ATTACKS ON FIFTEEN VILLAGES IN WESTERN SUDAN Khartoum (Fides Service) – At least 100 people were killed and 15,000 forced to flee their homes when groups of armed bandits attacked 15 villages and torched homes in western Sudan. (Fides Service 21/10/2003 EM lines ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - KINSHASA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE NOT THREATENED BY FLOODS SAY EXPERTS, BUT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL COULD BE STOLEN Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is no danger of erosion at the CRENK Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies adjoining Kinshasa University, DIA local Catholic news service reports. Experts say although the Centre is in a ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PREPARATION FOR CAM2 AND MISSION YEAR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON MISSION AMONG THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL AMERICA SAY PMS NATIONAL DIRECTORS Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “The fact that we have assumed responsibility both for the preparation of CAM 2 and for the celebration of Mission Year has united us all the more and given us the chance to engage in c ...
• 20 October 2003
  VATICAN - TOMORROW POPE JOHN PAUL II HOLDS 9TH CONSISTORY TO CREATE 31 NEW CARDINALS Vatican City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow 21 October at 10.30 am Pope John Paul II will hold an Ordinary Public Consistory in St Peter’s Square for the creation of thirty new Cardinals, one of them in pectore. It will ...
• 20 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SAVE THE CHILDREN WELCOMES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES’ DECISION FOR GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB AND MALARIA Rome (Fides Service) – More than 14 million children under 15 in the world have lost one or two parents because of AIDS. At present only 3% of the Global Fund goes to support this category. Half of the amount is spent ...
• 20 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - A MONTH OF CULTURAL EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – For the whole month of October the Church in Chile has organised a series of events to celebrate the 25 years of Pope John Paul II pontificate’s. The events are organised jointly b ...
• 20 October 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - FOOD EMERGENCY ACUTE SITUATION OVER. BUT POOREST PEOPLE STILL AT RISK. CATHOLICS OFFER FULL AID COMMITMENT Lilongwe (Fides Service) - Zambia and Malawi have overcome the acute stage of a serious food crisis affecting various southern African countries. In fact the UN World Food Programme WFP reports that cereal harvests were ...
• 20 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE BEATIFIES MOTHER TERESA: “WITH THE WITNESS OF HER LIFE MOTHER TERESA REMINDS EVERYONE THAT THE CHURCH’S EVANGELISING MISSION PASSES BY WAY OF CHARITY NOURISHED N PRAYER AND LISTENING TO THE WORD OF GOD”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Mission Sunday, 19 October, Pope John Paul II presided a solemn Mass in St Peter’s Square during which he beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta 1910-1997 foundress of the Missionaries ...
• 20 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE CLOSES 25TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: THE ONE AND ONLY GOSPEL PROCLAIMED WITH ONE HEART AND ONE MIND: THIS IS CHRIST’S COMMANDMENT; THIS IS WHAT IS ASKED OF US, AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COLLEGE, BY THE CHURCH OF TODAY AND OF ALL TIMES; THIS IS WHAT IS EXPECTED OF US BY MEN AND WOMEN TODAY ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – At the end of the special Symposium organised by College of Cardinals to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, on Saturday 18 October the Pope received in audience the ...
• 20 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – REV. GILBERT A. GARCERA NKURIKIYE APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has (1 October 2003), appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Phili ...
• 20 October 2003
  AFRICA/GHANA – REV. RAPHAEL OSEI SOADWAH APPOINTED RECTOR OF SAINT PAUL MAJOR SEMINARY IN ACCRA Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has (9 October 2003) appointed rector of Saint Paul’s Inter-diocesan Major Seminary in Accra, R ...
• 20 October 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – NO TO N. KOREA’s NUCLEAR PROGRAMME: “PEACE IN THIS LAND”. KOREAN BISHOPS CALL FOR RECONCILIATION ON THE PENINSULA Seoul (Fides Service) – No to North Korea’s nuclear programme, yes to a resuming of peace talks and reconciliation between the two sides of the Korean peninsula, to lead in an era of peaceful and coexistence and harm ...