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• 3 February 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – ISLAMIC GUERRILLA AND PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT RESUME EXPLORATIVE TALKS FOR PEACE PROCESS Manila (Fides Service) – The Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Muslim separatist active in southern Philippines have resumed talks to explore the possibility of re-opening of the peac ...
• 3 February 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - AFTER RECOVERING FROM ATTACKS BY HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS SALESIAN SCHOOL REOPENS WITH 75% OF PUPILS BUT ONLY 50% OF STAFF New Delhi (Fides Service) – Threats continue, tension is latent and violence has left its mark especially on Salesian Father Stanny Ferreira, seriously wounded by Hindu fundamentalists who attacked the school two week ...
• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – ELIMINATE CORRUPTION TO RESTORE PEACE. RADIO MARIA MALKIA WA AMANI DI BUKAVU EXPLAINS SITUATION TO FIDES Bukavu (Fides Service)- A government delegation to Bukavu, in east Democratic Congo in late January was the bearer of a message of peace and reconciliation for the entire country. For several years Bukavu was in the hand ...
• 2 February 2004
  VATICAN - 2 FEBRUARY: DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE - “THE MISSION OF CONSECRATED LIFE IN THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH, CONCERNS NOT ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THIS SPECIAL CHARISMA, BUT THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Today 2 February, Feast of the Presentation of the Infant Jesus at the Temple, the Church celebrates the 8th Day for Consecrated Life. In his message for the first such Day in 1997, the ...
• 2 February 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - A DELEGATION OF S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY LED BY MONS. VINCENZO PAGLIA VISITS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN MOSCOW Rome (Fides Service ) – From 25 to 28 January a delegation of the Rome based charity association S. Egidio Community led by its Spiritual Counsellor Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia paid another vi ...
• 2 February 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY – “AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED” OPENS NEW RADIO STUDIOS WHICH WILL FOCUS ON AREAS WHERE THE CHURCH IS PERSECUTED OR IN PARTICULAR NEED Munich (Fides Service) – The German branch of “Aid to the Church in Need” ACN recently opened a new Radio Studios in Munich. According to ACN Statement the studios will begin by broadcasting Universal Church News ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA - DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – SPANISH SISTER MARINA HAS SPENT 20 YEARS HELPING AFRICAN WOMEN REALISE THEIR DIGNITY AND SPECIAL ROLE IN SOCIETY Rome (Fides Service) - Sister Marina Martínez González, a Spanish member of the Teresian Carmelite Missionaries has spent more than 20 years in Africa promoting the conditions of women in different countries Democratic ...
• 2 February 2004
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S REFLECTION AT THE ANGELUS: "THE FAMILY NUCLEUS, FORMED THROUGH MATRIMONY, IS THE FIRST CELL OF SOCIETY. WITHIN THE FAMILY, LIKE IN A REASSURING NEST, LIFE MUST ALWAYS BE PROMOTED, DEFENDED AND PROTECTED ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – The theme of life and the family was the focus of the address given by Pope John Paul II before the Angelus prayer and blessing of the crowds on Sunday February 1st. In fact in many part ...
• 2 February 2004
  VATICAN - AT ABU DHABI CATHEDRAL CARDINAL SEPE ORDAINS NEW AUXILIARY BISHOP OF ARABIA: “TAKE UP THE STAFF OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND WALK AHEAD OF YOUR PEOPLE WITH COURAGE AND FARSIGHTEDNESS”. Abu Dhabi (Fides Service) – On Friday 30 January, at the Catolic Cathedral of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), filled to capacity with filled with about 8,000 people, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregat ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MISSIONARY FATHER ARMANINO, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE SERVING LIBERIANS, EXPLAINS UNSOLVED PROBLEMS AT ROOT OF CIVIL CONFLICT Rome (Fides Service)- “As always different factors intervene and interact in civil conflict and genocide as in the case of Liberia” Father Mauro Armanino, SMA Superior General in Liberia told Fides. Liberia is trying ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA “CHILDREN KILLING CHILDREN” TRAGEDY OF LIBERIA’S CIVIL WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) - “Children killing other children”. This is the war in Liberia according to a Human to Rights Watch report issued today Monday 2 February. According to the United Nations in the last 3 years ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – TWENTY YEARS OF CONFLICT: INFO UPDATE 2 FEBRUARY 2004 Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century when a coup led by sergeant Samuel K. Doe, put an end to Afro-American rule. Those rulers were former slaves in America, given t ...
• 2 February 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – PAKISTAN’S LARGEST MOSQUE WELCOMES FIRST CHRISTIAN DELEGATION BEARING MESSAGE OF PEACE FOR 3,000 WORSHIPPERS INCLUDING 100 ULEMAS Lahore (Fides Service) – For the first time ever, Badshahi mosque in Lahore, the largest in Pakistan, welcomed a delegations of Christians to its Friday worshipping service. Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, Archbishop of ...
• 2 February 2004
  ASIA/INDIA – DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF TARBES MARK 100 YEARS OF MISSION HELPING POOR CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN INDIA Bangalore (Fides) – The Sisters of St Joseph of Tarbes have worked in Kolar Gold Fields, Bangalore, capital Karnataka for a century. The community marked the 100th anniversary of missionary activity on 2 February, the ...
• 2 February 2004
  ASIA/INDIA – DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: CHRISTIAN ASHRAM VALORISES LOCAL TRADITIONS FOLLOWING IDEALS OF GANDHI Cochin (Fides Service) – Prayer and adoration mark the Day for Consecrated Life at Kurusumala, Ashram in Kottayam, Kerala (southern India). Christians have opened ashrams, places for meditation of Hindu in various part ...