News

• 16 May 2003
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - SALESIANS IN AFRICA: FIFTY PERCENT LOCAL MEN, A SOURCE OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE TO BE ENCOURAGED Yaounde (Fides/ANS) – “I think we can look with confidence to the future of Salesian Africa: almost half our confreres are local men. They are the fruits of our Project Africa” said Father Valentin de Pablo regiona ...
• 16 May 2003
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS OPENS WEB PAGE ON MISSION IN ASIA Paris (Fides Service) – The Paris Foreign Missions Society MEP has opened a new web page focussing on mission in Asia. At the address www.mepasie.org you will find information with regard to the history and the mission ...
• 16 May 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - PRIESTS VOLUNTEER TO CARRY COMFORT OF SACRAMENTS TO HOSPITALISED SARS PATIENTS Hong Kong (Fides Service) – No less than forty five priests in Hong Kong volunteered to go to SARS assigned hospitals to administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, in response to a call from the diocese. Af ...
• 16 May 2003
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CARDINAL SECRETARY OF STATE IN KAZAKHSTAN ON 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORY MAKING PAPAL VISIT Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State, is visiting Kazakhstan from 16-19 May at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and the local Catholic Bishops to mark th ...
• 16 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - THE ROLE OF CATHOLIC TEACHERS IN INDIA IS TO BUILD HARMONY BETWEEN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS Bangalore (Fides Service) – Catholic teachers in India have an important role to play in the present social context of polarisation of caste, language, culture and religion: teachers can help create a national consci ...
• 16 May 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY DIFFICULTIES, REMIND EVERYONE THAT COOPERATION, INDISPENSABLE FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF THE WORLD, IS A DUTY AND A RIGHT FOR ALL THE BAPTISED" Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 11.30 on 16 May in the Sala Clementina in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II received in Audience the participants at the General Assembly of the Supreme Council of ...
• 16 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA BENEDICTINES THE WORLD OVER PRAY FOR PEOPLE OF CHINA STRUGGLING AGAINST SARS Beijing (Fides Service) – The Superior General of the Benedictines, Father Jeremias Schroeder, recently wrote an encouraging letter to Xin-de or Faith, the most widely read Catholic bulletin in mainland China, in which ...
• 15 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - LOCAL CALCUTTA COMMITTEE FOR OCTOBER BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA Calcutta (Fides Service) – The Archbishop of Calcutta Lucas Sirkar has instituted a local committee to prepare for the beatification in Rome 19 October 2003 of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries o ...
• 15 May 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE AT GENERAL AUDIENCE SAYS: THE SACRIFICE MOST PRECIOUS AND ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD IS A CONTRITE HEART AND HUMBLE SPIRIT During the general audience on Wednesday 14 May, held in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II resumed his teaching on the Psalms used in Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church, commenting the Canticle in Daniel 3,26 ...
• 15 May 2003
  VATICAN - POPE RECEIVES SYRO-MALABAR AND SYRO-MALANKARA BISHOPS: BE LEAVEN OF EVANGELISATION FOR A NEW INDIA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Working in communion and unity for evangelisation to meet the challenges of secularism: this is the encouragement made by Pope John Paul II when on 13 May he received in audience Bishops ...
• 15 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - "THE SYRO-MALABAR CHURCH RICH IN MISSIONARY VOCATIONS, IS READY TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL” SAYS CARDINAL VARKEY VITHAYATHIL Vatican City (Fides Service) – Our Church is flourishing, rich in priestly and religious vocations, committed to family pastoral, filled with a keen missionary spirit: the Syro-Malabar Church in India, fruit of the pre ...
• 15 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHURCH AND CATHOLIC MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY OPENS TODAY Murcia (Fides Service – Catholic Means of social communications in the 21st century is the title of the 2nd International Congress on Church and Catholic Means of Social Communications which opens today, 15 May, in Mu ...
• 15 May 2003
  INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - “FAMILY – CHILD – STATE” AT KIEV (UKRAINE) The Ukraine-wide “Pro Human Dignity” Charitable Endowment has organised an International Congress “Family – Child – State” At Kiev. Key Experts in family rights, childhood and motherhood protection, medics, ...
• 15 May 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - FIRST SUB-REGIONAL MEETING OF ANDES GROUP FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF CHILDREN Lima (Fides Service) – The first sub-regional meeting of the Andes group for Pastoral Care of Children was held in Lima, Peru, 13-15 May. The purpose of the meeting was to present a Guide for the Pastoral Care of Child ...
• 15 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA LAUNCHES APPEAL: “UNITED NATIONS MUST INTERVENE TO DISMANTLE NETWORKS OF INTERESTS BACKING AFRICA’S WARS ” Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Dismantle the networks of arms trafficking and financial support behind wars in Africa! This appeal was launched to the United Nations Organisation from the Democratic Republic of Congo at th ...