News

• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - INFO: EVANGELISATION Rome (Fides Service) – Evangelisation in Guinea Bissau which in 1998 marked 500 years took place in four or five laps. The first began with the arrival in Guinea of Portuguese Europeans in 1446, and ended with the crea ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - POPE ON THIRD APOSTOLIC VISIT TO SLOVAKIA: “DO NOT BE SATISFIED WITH THE SOLE QUEST FOR ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES. GREAT AFFLUENCE IN FACT CAN ALSO GENERATE GREAT POVERTY” Bratislava (Fides Service) – “I thank the Lord for granting me the joy of treading the third time onto the beloved land of Slovakia. I come as a pilgrim of the Gospel to bring to everyone greetings of peace and hope� ...
• 12 September 2003
  JOURNEY THROUGH CINEMA “FROM AFAR” SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER FIDES SERVICE PUBLISHES CINEMA DOSSIER IN ITALIAN PART 3: FOCUSSING ON ASIA Saturday 13 September Fides Service will publish part 4 of its Dossier (in Italian only) on Cinema “from afar” with the title “Le parole e i silenzi dell’anima narrante dell’America Latina” (words and silence ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - VICE PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC ACTION IN ITALY SAYS: RENEWAL FOR BETTER PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL Rome (Fides Service) – A special meeting of Catholic Action Italy (ACI) opened on 12 September at Domus Pacis, Rome. Over 800 delegates and 171 auditors and from all over Italy have gathered to discuss changes in the ...
• 12 September 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - CITY AND RURAL CATHOLIC YOUTH COME TOGETHER TO SHARE EXPERIENCES Beijing (Fides Service) – Their life styles differ but their faith is the same. This discovery was made by a group of Catholic youth during the Summer holidays when a parish community in Beijing organised a visit to a ...
• 12 September 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - WEEK FOR PEACE 2003: “RECONCILIATION HORIZON OF PEACE” – CHURCH IN COLOMBIA PERMANENTLY COMMITTED FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AS A PATH FOR PEACE Bogota (Fides Service) – “The Colombian Bishops have reflected on their pastoral responsibilities in view of the armed conflict in the country. This reflection allowed the Church to understand better the reality of ...
• 12 September 2003
  SATELLITES TO FIGHT EBOLA AND MALARIA WILL HELP FORECAST EPIDEMIC SEED BEDS Rome (Fides Service) – Satellites are being harnessed to help scientific research in the fight against the Ebola virus. “Epidemio” project launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) includes the use of satellites ...
• 12 September 2003
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE IS POSSIBLE: LEGACY OF D. ULISSE CAGLIONI FIRST FOCOLARE MEMBER WHO LIVED FOR THIRTY YEARS IN ALGERIA, EARNING LOVE AND RESPECT OF LOCAL MUSLIMS Algiers (Fides Service) – On 13 September Christians and Muslims will gather with the Catholic Archbishop of Algiers Henri Teissier, to commemorate Father Ulisse Caglione, a member of the Focolare Movement, who died on ...
• 12 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - KASHMIR’S FIRST MINISTER PRAISES CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: EDUCATION GIVEN BY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND MISSIONARIES Srinager (Fides Service) – Catholic schools were publicly praised by the first minister of Jammu-Kashmir state in India. In a speech to inaugurate the school years Minister Mufti Mohammad Syeed, addressing teachers, pu ...
• 12 September 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - A FORGOTTEN CRISIS: THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Bangui (Fides Service) – Africa is known to the general public for its humanitarian emergencies, its wars, its calamities. For a moment media attention is riveted on the continent, humanitarian organisations go into ac ...
• 12 September 2003
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - RELIGIONS CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS PEACE: RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN SINGAPORE ISSUE INTERRELIGIOUS DECLARATION OF HARMONY, AN IMPORTANT STEP AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER Singapore (Fides Service) – Religions in Singapore aim to build harmony to contribute to building peaceful co-existence in the social life of the country. This was the intention of a Meeting of the Interreligious Harmo ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CLEARLY AFFIRM VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE, SAY NO TO DRUGS, OPPOSE ANY FORM OF LEGALISATION OR EASY, HASTY, SOLUTIONS: SOME OBJECTIVES OF 5TH GLOBAL DRUG PREVENTION CONFERENCE Rome (Fides Service) - The 5th Global Drug Prevention Conference, will be held 22-26 September in Pomezia, near Rome. Among the participants Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan President of the Pontifical Council for the P ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CUORE AMICO AWARD TO FATHER FRANZONI, MISSIONARY AMONG YOUTH IN BRAZIL; SISTER FOSCA IN MIDDLE EAST WITH A SCHOOL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE; LAY WOMAN IVANA COSSAR 29 YEARS OF TEACHING AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Brescia (Fides Service) – Father Lorenzo Franzoni, an Italian Missionary aged 74, who has worked for 46 years in brazil; Comboni Sister Fosca Berardi, aged 78, in the Middle East since 1954 and lay missionary Ivana Cos ...
• 11 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: GOD NEVER ACTS TO BRING RUIN, CONDEMNATION OR ANNIHILATION OF THE SINNER Vatican City (Fides Service) – Continuing his teaching on the Psalms and Canticles used in the Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church, during his Wednesday Audience on 10 September in St Peter’s Square, Pope John P ...
• 11 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN BURGOS: “THIS IS THE HOUR OF MISSION” – WE ARE ALL CALLED TO PROCLAIM THE SAVING LOVE OF GOD TO A RESTLESS AND UNSATISFIED WORLD Madrid (Fides Service) – From 18 al 21 September Burgos the Church in Spain will hold the National Mission Congress on the theme “This is the hour of mission”. The Congress is expected to draw participants from al ...