News
2 June 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - ANDONG DIOCESE STARTS SPECIAL MISSION TOWARDS THE POOREST OF THE POOR
Seoul (Fides Service) – Greater efforts for mission, with “joy and passion” is the commitment taken by the diocese of Andong in South Korea. At a recent Mission Seminar organised for the diocesan clergy, the priest ...
2 June 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - ALARM IN ACEH: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS – RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR AN END TO HOSTILITIES
Jakarta (Fides Service) – “Widespread violence terrorises civilians. The situation appears worse than in East Timor. The attack was planned and no one was able to stop it. Many civilians have been killed, schools tor ...
2 June 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - PASTORAL LETTER FROM CARDINAL PAUL SHAN: “WE ARE LIVING A NEW LENT TO FIGHT SARS”
Taipei (Fides Service) – To encourage Catholics in Taiwan and all people of goodwill at this difficult time of the SARS epidemic, on May 25 Cardinal Paul Shan, President of the Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference an ...
31 May 2003
AFRICA RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE CONSECRATES KIBEHO MARIAN SHRINE: “MAY KIBEHO SHRINE BECOME A PLACE FROM WHICH THERE WILL ARISE A PEOPLE OF RWANDA RENEWED IN FAITH, THIRSTING FOR LOVE FOR THEIR GOD, DETERMINED TO FORGET THE SAD PAST OF FRATRICIDAL WAR”
Kibeho (Fides Service) – “I exhort you to prayer fervently that this Kibeho Shrine may become a place from which there will arise a people of Rwanda renewed in faith, thirsting for love for their God, determined to f ...
31 May 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - VISIT BY ARCHBISHOP CORDES PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL COR UNUM, MANIFESTS HOLY SEE’S COMMITMENT TO BUILDING AN IRAQ OF PEACE
Baghdad (Fides Service) – “The Archbishop’s visit is yet another sign of the keen interest with which the Holy See follows the situation in Iraq” Youssef Bahofhy, local Caritas official, tells Fides Service. On 2 ...
31 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - “A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT CONVERT PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN SPEAKS ABOUT GOD AND GOD CONVERTS HEARTS” SAY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF INDIA WHERE CHRISTIANS HAVE SUFFERED OVER 500 ATTACKS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS
New Delhi (Fides Service) – In recent years there have been over 500 attacks on India’s Christians and Christian structures. Christians in India are persecuted by fundamentalist ideological nationalism. Several extre ...
31 May 2003
ASIA/THAILAND - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: NEW LYMPH FOR ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Bangkok (Fides Service) – To mark Communications Day 2003, the Asian Research Centre for Religion and Social Communications has a new director, a new review, new cultural initiatives. The Catholic centre located in Ban ...
31 May 2003
EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES CONFIRMED
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has, on 31 May 2003, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Slovakia, ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS PASTORAL WORKERS AND SEMINARIANS: “CHURCH IN RWANDA YOU ARE CALLED TO SET OUT AGAIN ON MISSION!” A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO PRISONERS CALLED TO WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Kigali (Fides Service) – Continuing his pastoral visit in Rwanda, on 29 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with pastoral workers whom he encourage ...
30 May 2003
EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - CHRISTIANS JOIN IN ECUMENICAL PRAYER FOR NORTH KOREA
London (Fides Service) – A ecumenical week of prayer in aid of North Korea in underway launched by the London based human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide CWS which promotes awareness of situations of ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/TOGO - REV. PIERRE DOVI N’DANU-ALIPUI APPOINTED RECTOR OF THE JOHN PAUL II MAJOR INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN LOME
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of John Paul II Major inter-diocesan seminary in Lome, (Togo) Rev. ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - REV. ALAIN THIERRY RAHARISON APPOINTED RECTOR OF PAUL VI UNIVERSITY SEMINARY IN ANTANANARIVO
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of Paul VI University Major Seminary in Antananarivo (Madagascar) ...
30 May 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE: “GOD NEVER ABANDONS HIS PEOPLE ON THE BRINK OF DESPERATION”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general audience on Wednesday 28 May, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II gave his teaching on Psalm 107: “Praise to the Lord and call for help”. “The psalm present ...
30 May 2003
VATICAN/RWANDA - FIDES SERVICE MULTIMEDIA DOSSIER
85 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service announces new multimedia Dossier on Rwanda articulated in four parts:
History
After the genocide: the present situation
The mission of the Church
The dioceses
The ...
30 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - BEIJING HOSTS TWO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON SARS
Beijing (Fides Service) – To adopt common measures of prevention and treatment in order to take control of SARS is the objective of two international meetings in the coming month of June in Beijing.
On 1 and 2 June r ...
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