News

• 10 October 2003
  TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER OF CHURCH STATISTICS To mark World Mission Sunday Fides tomorrow Saturday 11 October will publish a dossier on the Statistics of the Catholic Church updated as far as available data allows. You fill find:  World population; number ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY Rome (Fides Service) – The death penalty is still in use in 83 countries including the United States, China, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. On the occasion of the World Day World Day Against the Death Penalty - 10 October, L ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Oslo (Fides Service) – The Nobel Peace prize 2003 has been awarded to Iranian layer Ms Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to defending families of writers and intellectuals killed in 1998-1999. Persecuted for the investig ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMENTS: PROF. JUSTO LACUNZA EXPERT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES; MS FARIAN SABAHI PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN HISTORY; MOAZZEMI GOUDARZI IRANIAN JOURNALIST Rome (Fides Service) – “This award reopens the challenge of human rights as a field which brings together religions and cultures” said Prof. Justo Lacunza rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic stu ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA DENGUE KILLS 83 PERSONS AND EFFECTS MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND Rome (Fides Service) – In the past decade monsoons have caused a wave of Dengue fever in India killing at lest 83 people and infecting more than 5,100 in one of the worst epidemics ever known, and it is feared that the ...
• 10 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - COUP FOILED. REBEL MILITARY CHIEF COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – An attempted military coup in Burkina Faso was foiled. According to local sources contacted by Fides Service in Ouagadougou the capital, the police have arrested 12 soldiers of the Preside ...
• 10 October 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - CASAMANCE SECESSIONISTS SAY “ THE WAR HAS ENDED”. PEACE IS NEARER BUT BEFORE WE CAN SPEAK OF PEACE WE MUST WAIT FOR THE RECONCILIATION COMMISSION TO FINISH ITS WORK Dakar (Fides Service) – After 21 years the war over secession for Senegal’s Casamance region territory inserted between the Gambia and Guinea Bissau, has come to an end. The announcement was made by Jean-Marie Biagui ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - KARNATAKA AND VATICAN: CELEBRATIONS FOR MOTHER TERESA, 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II, CLOSING OF ROSARY YEAR Mangalore (Fides Service) – Celebrations in Rome and Mangalore will bridge the distance of thousands of kilometers in this month of October. Catholics in Managlore in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are plannin ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW ROAD IN THE FOREST MEANS NEW PARISH FOR PASTORAL CARE AND EVANGELISATION AMONG DAYAKS Sintang (Fides Service) – A new parish, a point of reference for evangelisation among Dayak tribals on Borneo Island in the diocese of Sintang on the Indonesia/Malaysia border. In this area the Church is deeply involve ...
• 10 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - A YEAR DEDICATED TO CHINESE HISTORY AND CULTURE: PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS PIME Milan (Fides Service) – “ SENTIERI CINESI Paths to China: paths of knowledge and encounter between Italy and China”: is the theme of a serious of special initiatives organised in Milan by the Pontifical Institute f ...
• 9 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - TWO ARRESTED SUSPECTS MAY BE ANNALENA’S MURDERERS. BUT THIS EXTRAORDINARY CHARITY WORKER WAS IN FRONT LINE TO FIGHT THE BRUTAL CUSTOM OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATIONS, SO? THE SHADOW OF FUNDAMENTALISM? Djibouti (Fides Service) – “It was an execution. Nothing to do with a robbery” Bishop Bertin of Djibouti, apostolic delegate in Mogadishu, tells Fides referring to the murder of Annalena Tonelli on Sunday 5 October ...
• 9 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NORTH EAST CONGO: MAP OF MASSACRES FOLLOWS MAP OF OIL DEPOSITS. PEOPLE CHASED AWAY TO EXPLOIT REGION’S WEALTH AT CHEAP PRICE Bunia (Fides Service) – More details with regard to the massacres in Ituri, north east Congo have reached Fides Service. “On Monday 6 October, in the village of Kachele, 65 people, mostly children women and old peop ...
• 9 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the ...
• 9 October 2003
  VATICAN - HOLY FATHER TELLS PHILIPPINE BISHOPS ON AD LIMINA VISIT: MAJOR PASTORAL COMMITMENT DEVELOPING INTO A COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES OF THE LORD Vatican City ( Fides Service) – A major pastoral commitment must be to “develop into a community of disciples of the Lord” Pope John Paul II said to a group of Philippine Bishops from the provinces of Caceres, Capi ...
• 9 October 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - OIL REVENUE REVOLUTION: BY LAW 80 PERCENT OF OIL INCOME WILL SERVE TO IMPROVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURES N’Djamena (Fides Service) – On October 10, in the presence of some 600 guests, Canadian President Idriss Deby will inaugurate a new oil field in southern Chad which is expected to produce 950,000 barrels of oil a day ...