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• 18 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: MAY SLOVAKIA “TREASURE THE GOSPEL, THE GREATEST GOOD, SHARE IT AND WITNESS TO IT WITH OF HOLINESS OF LIFE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 17 September the Pope told the thousands of visitors from various parts of the world present in St Peter’s Square about his recent apostolic journey to ...
• 18 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN “THE HOUR OF MISSION” NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS OPENS IN BURGOS: OPENING CONFERENCE BY ARCHBISHOP ROBERT SARAH, SECRETARY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Madrid (Fides Service) – “The Hour of Mission” is the theme of the Spanish National Mission Congress which opened in Burgos today 18 September. The first conference “The Church and the Challenge of Mission Today� ...
• 18 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - NEW LOOK WEB SITE DAUGHTERS OF SAINT PAUL, COMMUNICATORS OF THE GOSPEL: SPECIAL SECTION “SPREADING THE GOSPEL” TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Rome (Fides Service) - The Daughters of Saint Paul, communicators of the Gospel, known as DSP Sisters, have a given a new look to their web site www.paoline.org first opened in 1997. The site has five languages: English ...
• 18 September 2003
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - ‘BORN TO LIVE’ CAMPAIGN: LOCAL CATHOLIC CHURCH DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS Vanimo (Fides Service) – ‘Born to Live’ is the slogan of a campaign launched by the local Church in Papua New Guinea on 16 September, national independence day, by a special Commission set up by the PNG Catholic Bi ...
• 18 September 2003
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION FUNDED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING CENTRE RUN BY CANOSSIAN SISTERS IN DILI OPENED BY ARCHBISHOP MARTINO Dili (Fides Service) – Some 120 students have enrolled for courses in domestic science, sowing and computer techniques, at a new Professional Training Centre run by the Canossian Sisters in Dili, capital of East Timor ...
• 17 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – MISSION CANNOT BEAR FRUIT WITHOUT SOUND MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY: A PRIORITY EMERGING FROM FIRST NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN PERU Chiclayo (Fides Service) – The spiritual dimension is a priority in the work of evangelisation because “mission cannot bear fruit unless it is based on convinced and sound missionary spirituality…. Those who evange ...
• 17 September 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - REMOVE PREJUDICE AND STEREOTYPES TO BUILD PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN INDONESIA AND EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD: CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM AND BUDDHIST YOUTH EXCHANGE EXPERIENCES Padang (Fides Service) – The situation is not only one of violence and conflict in the tormented island of Sumatra where the army is waging a vast campaign to suppress separatists, there are also experiences of dialogu ...
• 17 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - BISHOP SHELMON WARDUNI OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF BAGHDAD TELLS FIDES: "WE ASK ONLY FOR RESPECT FOR OUR RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ETHNIC RIGHTS” - A NEW DOOR IS OPEN FOR DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS Baghdad (Fides Service) – In the new post-war Iraq all the different political parties and ethnic and religious groups are anxious to play a part in the rebuilding of the new nation. Chaldean Catholics, 80% of the enti ...
• 16 September 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE TALKS COLLAPSE, WIDESPREAD BANDITRY STRIKES ALSO LOCAL CHURCH LAST OASIS OF ASSISTANCE FOR SUFFERING CIVILIANS Bujumbura (Fides Service) – “This is serious and could cause a new outbreak of civil war” a local source in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, tells Fides Service after the collapse of peace talks between the Burundian ...
• 16 September 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - NEW ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA GAUDENCIO ROSALES: “AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME I WILL WORK FOR CONTINUITY: GRATITUDE TO OUTGOING ARCHBISHOP CARDINAL SIN Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am uneasy. I feel like Saint Joseph after he had the vision of angel telling him not to worry, when Mary was expecting Jesus, or troubled like the Blessed Mother after the annunciati ...
• 16 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “THE CHURCH IS NOT AN NGO: IT IS GOOD TO WORK FOR SOLIDARITY, BROTHERHOOD BUT MORE IMPORTANT IS MISSION, THE PROCLAMATION OF CHRIST” BISHOP FRANCISCO PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ, SAYS ON THE EVE OF THE NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS Burgos (Fides Service) – “The command given by Jesus ‘go into the whole world an teach the Gospel’ is the most important and we must all be aware that this is a task for all Christians. An experience, which is no ...
• 16 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - AFTER SUNDAY’S COUP BISHOP OF BISSAU APPOINTED HEAD OF NATIONAL TRANSITION COUNCIL: COMMENT FROM BISHOP’S HOUSE Bissau (Fides Service) – “This is definitely recognition of the Church’s role in the past and in the present for peace in this country”, personnel at the Bishop’s Residence in Bissau say with regard to the appo ...
• 16 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - PRESIDENT OF AVSI ARTURO ALBERTI: EVERY MAN ON THIS EARTH ASPIRES TO HAPPINESS EVEN IN THE MOST DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH HE FINDS HIMSELF – THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE WORKING FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH OF THE WORLD WHILE INSTITUTIONS ARE STILL INDIFFERENT Milan (Fides Service) – “No condition of poverty can suffocate the longing for happiness which characterises the human heart. The thousands of people who seek refuge every evening in hospitals in northern Uganda (Gul ...
• 16 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL LEADERS TO DISCUSS PRESENT SITUATION AND IDENTIFY CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE Rome (Fides Service) - Leaders of Catholic Charismatic Renewal from all five of the world's continents will meet in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) at the Maripoli Centre for a Consultation on the present situation and to identif ...
• 16 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CATHOLIC TELEVISION COMPANIES IN EUROPE: A SYMPOSIUM TO VERIFY NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND DISCUSS CO-PRODUCTION Rome (Fides Service) – “"Catholic initiatives in television throughout Europe: current reality and the future outlook" is the title of the seminar to be held in Rome on 18th September 2003. The Catholic Church's rela ...