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• 4 February 2004
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL YEAR BOOK 2004: NUMBER OF PRIESTS REMAINS STABLE, INCREASE IN PERMANENT DEACONS AND LAY MISSIONARIES, NUMBERS OF SEMINARIANS RISING IN AFRICA AND AMERICA Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Pontifical Year Book 2004 presented to Pope John Paul II yesterday 3 February by Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano, supplies information on the pastoral activity of the Catho ...
• 4 February 2004
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’S PRAYER INTENTIONS 2005 ASSIGNED TO THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER FOR THE YEAR JANUARY Missionary - For vocations in mission lands: may the Lord continue to call holy and selfless men and women eager to proclaim the Gospel. General - For people working for peace in the Middle East: may they neve ...
• 4 February 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - ROTAVIRUS ATTACKS GUATEMALA, CHILDREN FIRST HIT: 12 DEAD AND 11,000 INFECTED Rome (Fides Service) – An epidemic of rotavirus in Guatemala has killed 12 children and infected 11,000 in a few days. The health ministry has declared a situation of emergency in 5 of the country’s 22 departments. ...
• 4 February 2004
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES (CCEE) AND OF THE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN CHURCHES (CEC) LOOK TOWARDS THIRD EUROPEAN ECUMENICAL ASSEMBLY ON THE THEME ‘CHRIST IS THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE’ St Gallen (Fides Service ) - The Joint Committee of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) met in Kamien Slanski, (archdiocese of Opole) Poland, from 29 Jan ...
• 4 February 2004
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• 4 February 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD - SUDANESE MILITIA PUSH AS FAR AS 70 KM INTO CHAD CHASING REFUGEES FROM VIOLENCE IN WEST SUDAN Rome (Fides Service) - the situation of Sudanese refugees in Chad is ever more dramatic. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR says there are more than 110,000 refugees along the border with Sudan. UNHCR ...
• 4 February 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FIRST COMMUNITY OF DON ORIONE SISTERS NOT FAR FROM EVIL-SMELLING DUMP IN QUEZON CITY Manila (Fides Service) - "For years we dreamed of having a community of Little Missionary Sisters of Charity in the Philippines and now the dream has come true" said Sr. Maria Ortensia Turati, Superior General of this re ...
• 4 February 2004
  AMERICA/CHILE - “IN THE LIGHT OF THE FAITH, EVERYTHING IS GRACE”: MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLES AND FAMILIES OF AMERICA AT THE END OF 20TH INTERNATIONAL CIEC CONGRESS ON THE FAMILY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM MILLENNIO Santiago del Chile (Fides Service) – More than one thousand participants, bishops, teachers, mother and fathers, from all over the Continent of America, attended the 20th International Congress of the Inter American Co ...
• 3 February 2004
  VATICAN – THE POPE CELEBRATES DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: “IN THE QUIET OF THE MONASTERY OR CLOISTER, OR BESIDE THE POOR AND THE EXCLUDED, AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, OR IN CHURCH STRUCTURES, ENGAGED IN VARIOUS APOSTOLIC ACTIVITIES OR IN MISSION LANDS, GOD WANTS YOU TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS MISSION AND DEDICATED TO THE GOOD OF OTHERS.”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Those who have offered their life to Christ for ever for the coming of the Kingdom are invited to repeat their “yes” to the special vocation they have received. But also the entire ...
• 3 February 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN – DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE - “OUR MISSIONARY CONCERN WITH REGARD TO THE FUTURE MUST BE NOT TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF COMMITMENTS BUT TO FILL WHAT WE DO WITH LIFE AND MEANING ” Madrid (Fides Service) – I64.966 Spanish religious in 7.526 communities belonging to 391 different congregations celebrated the 8th Day for the Consecrated Life with the motto “Seduced by Jesus for the Cause of Justi ...
• 3 February 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY – CONCRETE COMMITMENT FOR PROMOTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS A DUTY FOR ALL BELIEVERS: GERMAN BISHOPS FOCUS THIS YEAR’S CAMPAIGN OF SOLIDARITY ON PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA Bonn (Fides Service) –“Solidarity with Persecuted and Discriminated Christians in our Day ” is the slogan of a second annual campaign launched by the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Germany to increase awareness ...
• 3 February 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – “AUTHORITIES AND PEOPLE ARE CALLED TO WALK THE PATH OF SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE TO BUILD A FUTURE OF AUTHENTIC PEACE”: SAY BISHOPS IN ANNUAL STATEMENT Guatemala de l’Asunción (Fides Service) – At the end of the annual plenary assembly the Bishops of Guatemala issued a statement “Urgent need for solidarity and justice ”, dated 30 January 2004. The document has ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA: WORST HEALTH INDICATORS ON THE PLANET; LIFE EXPECTANCY 47 YEARS; INFANT MORTALITY RATE 125 FOR EVERY 1.000 BORN ALIVE; MORTALITY OF MOTHERS ESTIMATED 1,500 FOR EVERY 100,000 BORN ALIVE. CUAMM Medici Doctors with Africa has been in Angola since 1997. Here peace arrived only in February 2002 after a long devastating war. But Angola is till a difficult, complex country, with regard to which it is difficult ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - TRAGIC ACCIDENT AT CHIULO INVOLVING HEALTH WORKERS SENT BY CUAMM MEDICI CON L’AFRICA: ONE KILLED THE OTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED Rome (Fides Service) - Not mines, not some terrible disease but a tragic road accident due to bad roads in the rainy season was the cause of the accident involving Italian CUAMM health care workers at Chiulo in Angola. O ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN – FIGHTING CONTINUES IN WEST SUDAN. REPORTS OF VIOLENCE AND MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS. MORE THAN 100,000 TAKE REFUGE IN NEARBY CHAD. SINCE FEBRUARY LAST YEAR 3,000 KILLED Khartoum (Fides Service)- The humanitarian situation in Darfur, west Sudan, is ever more critical. International humanitarian organisations say the Sudanese army and airforce are attacking villages along the border with ...