News

• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - YOUNG SPANISH VOLUNTEER TEACHER ON FIRST MISSION SHOT DEAD AT POLICE ROAD BLOCK Bata (Fides Service) – Ana Isabel Sanchez, aged 22, a Spanish volunteer teacher on her first mission abroad, was shot dead by accident at a police road block in Equatorial Guinea on July 1. Ana was a member of the Neo ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - AFTER TEN YEARS OF PLANNING KENYA’S FIRST CATHOLIC RADIO STUDIOS RADIO WAUMINI OPENS TOMORROW: A MODERN MEANS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL Nairobi (Fides Service) – “This is the arrival point of a process started ten years ago and at the same time the point of departure for new evangelisation” says Comboni Father Renato Kizito Sesana, enthusiastic dir ...
• 4 July 2003
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - KIMBE – NEW DIOCESE, FIRST BISHOP ALPHONSE CHAUPA Vatican City (Fides Service) The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (12 June 2003) created the diocese of Kimbe in Papua New Guinea, with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Rabaul, making it suffragan of the same ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “I SPEAK BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS ABSURD WAR WHICH HAS LASTED FOR 17 YEARS” PASTORAL LETTER BY ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU NORTHERN UGANDA Kampala (Fides Service) – “I wanted to speak on behalf of the weakest members of society who for 17 years have been the victims of this absurd war” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu (northern Uganda) in a ...
• 4 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY PRODUCE PEACE AND HARMONY: A SALESIAN’S EXPERIENCE IN MADHYA PRADESH New Delhi (Fides Service) – Father Stanny Ferreira who came to work in Madhya Pradesh six years ago set work immediately to improve the living conditions of the local people in Alirajpur and lessen tension between the ...
• 4 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - PARISH PROVIDES COMPUTERS AND INTERNET FOR YOUTH IN RURAL AREAS Hanoi (Fides Service) – Young people in a rural area of North Vietnam are taking a look at the world thanks to a course on how to use computers and the Internet offered by the local Catholic parish. Lien Phu parish in ...
• 4 July 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - PROMOTE RESPECT FOR DIGNITY OF WOMEN, EDUCATION AND FORMATION FOR LAITY AND YOUTH: NEW PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SOLOMON ISLANDS Honiara (Fides Service) – To discuss a new pastoral plan, formation of catechists, commitment for education and promotion of women: these were some of the questions faced at a week long Pastoral Council meeting in Hon ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE PRESENT SITUATION OF CRISIS THE CHURCH HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BUILDING A NEW SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL VALUES: INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP GUILLERMO JOSE GARLATTI, OF BAHIA BLANCA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Archbishop Guillermo Jose Garlatti, of Bahia Blanca, one of the 42 new Archbishops who received their Pallium from the hands of the Pope in Rome on June 29, told Fides Service about the r ...
• 3 July 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - NEW ECUMENICAL IMPULSE FROM SYMPOSIUM ON SAINT PAUL IN TARSUS AND ANTIOCH Antioch (Fides Service) – “The symposium opened new prospects for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue; encouraged debate among various university professors, students, religious and civil leaders including Mrs iri ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS (CAM 2) AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS, GUATEMALA CITY PREPARES TO WELCOME 300 DELEGATES OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – There are only 144 days to the inauguration of the 2nd all American Mission Congress “and on the journey towards this important missionary event the preparatory meetings are ever more ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/ERITREA - TOWARDS A CULTURE OF PEACE: RELIGIONS ARE A BRIDGE FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DIALOGUE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Peace and reconciliation were our first concerns and so we discussed and reflected on the situations in our countries.” This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia and Erit ...
• 3 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - EVANGELISATION AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE VIA RADIO AT YOGYAKARTA Jakarta (Fides Service) – Yogyakarta is the city with the most radio stations in the whole of Indonesia. Fifty two local radios have been opened since a new telecommunications law was passed in 2002 by the Indonesian g ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS A RIGHT TO RESPECT NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATE OF HEALTH: AN ETHIC-SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON AIDS Santiago (Fides Service) – The figures issued by the World Health Organisation with regard to AIDS in the world are alarming: 14,000 new cases every day, 95% in developing countries. Of these 14,000, about 2,000 are ch ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “IN LIBERIA, TAYLOR IS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM” SAYS LOCAL MISSIONARY Monrovia (Fides Service) – “The appeal launched by the Pope will certainly help keep the spotlight and international attention on the tragic situation in Liberia” a missionary in Liberia told Fides Service after Po ...
• 2 July 2003
  VATICAN - IN WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE TEACHING THE POPE SAYS: “WE ARE NOT LEFT ALONE, OUR DAYS ARE NOT RULED BY CHAOS OR FATE” AND HE APPEALS FOR PEACE IN LIBERIA AND UGANDA Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the General Audience today Wednesday 2 July, Pope John Paul II commented on psalm 145 – “Blessed are those who hope in the Lord” and at the end of the audience he appealed fo ...