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• 3 December 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR – TOLIARA NEW ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE, FIRST ARCHBISHOP MGR FULGENCE RABEONY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (14 November 2003) created the new ecclesiastical province of Toliara detaching it from the ecclesiastical province of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar). Th ...
• 3 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FEAST OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER, PATRON OF MISSIONS, AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECALL AND GIVE THANKS FOR VALID WORK OF WESTERN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA, BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE SPOKESMAN TOLD FIDES New Delhi (Fides Service) – While in India there is growing anti-Christian and anti-missionary propaganda, “the feast day of St Francis Xavier is an opportunity to recall and give thanks for all that western missiona ...
• 3 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 3 DECEMBER 2003: ST FRANCIS, ITALIAN XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES MARK CENTENARY OF “MISSIONE OGGI” REVIEW Parma (Fides Service) – The feast of Saint Francis Xavier, patron of the missions, is also the anniversary of the Italian Xaverian Missionary review “Fede e civiltà”, today known as Missione Oggi”. Which has bee ...
• 3 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT SONG FOR ISRAEL’S EXODUS FROM EGYPT BECOMES, WITH CHRISTIANITY, THE FIGURE OF ANOTHER, MORE RADICAL AND UNIVERSAL LIBERATION Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Wednesday 3 December during his general audience in the Paul VI Hall, Pope John Paul II reflected on Psalm 113 prayed at Vespers in the evening prayer of the Church: “marvellous exod ...
• 3 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - USE VALUES TRANSMITTED BY SPORT: COOPERATION, SOLIDARITY AND TOLERANCE. EU CHOOSES ANNUAL THEME FOR “2004” Rome (Fides Service) – Every year the European Union selects a theme to increase awareness among people and national institutions for a whole year. These themes have focussed on a variety of subjects ranging from prote ...
• 2 December 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA – LIRA DIOCESE BISHOP JOSEPH OYANGA RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (2 December 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Lira (Uganda) presented by Bishop Joseph Oyanga in conform ...
• 2 December 2003
  AFRICA/LESOTHO – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV MICHAEL MATIMA MOOROSI CONFIRMED Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has confirmed 25 November 2003, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lesotho, ...
• 2 December 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - EXHIBITION ON 20 CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANITY IN SPAIN, “TO KNOW THE PAST AND UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT” AND CELEBRATIONS FOR COMPOSTELA HOLY YEAR 2004 DISCUSSED BY SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE Madrid (Fides Service) - “Christus Splendor: 20 centuries of Christianity in Spain” is the name of an exhibition next year which aims to make known the spiritual heritage and full importance today of the Christian me ...
• 2 December 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CATHOLIC AND ANGLICAN SEMINARIANS’ GET TOGETHER CONSOLIDATES AND BOOSTS ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE Seoul (Fides Service) – Catholic and Anglican seminarians in South Korea, students at the Catholic University in Seoul and the Anglican University in Incheon will have regular meetings to experience brotherhood, share ...
• 2 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT COLLOQUIUM "TRUTH, JUSTICE, LOVE, FREEDOM: PILLARS OF PEACE" - “JOIN YOUR VOICES WITH MINE AS I REPEAT THAT THE HOLY NAME OF GOD MUST NEVER BE USED TO INCITE VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM” Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning 2 December Pope John Paul II received in audience participants at the Colloquium: "Truth, Justice, Love, Freedom: Pillars of Peace", promoted jointly by the Pontifical Counci ...
• 2 December 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “HUMAN DIGNITY THE MOST DESIRED AND VALUABLE GOOD OF OUR SOCIETY”: CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CHILE CALL FOR WATCHFULNESS AND SOLIDARITY Santiago (Fides Service ) – In a final statement entitled “Let us treat others as we would have them treat us” issued at the end of their 86th assembly 17 to 21 November 2003, the Bishops of Chile deal with delica ...
• 2 December 2003
  4 DECEMBER IN THE VATICAN: COMMEMORATION ON 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF VATICAN II LITURGY CONSTITUTION “SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the promulgation during the Second Vatican Council of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium (4 December 1963), the ...
• 2 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE FUTURE OF CATHOLIC/ANGLICAN DIALOGUE: THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH REMAIN COMMITTED TO CONTINUING THEIR DIALOGUE Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Tuesday, 25th November, 2003, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, met with the Reverend Canon John L. Peterson, Secretary ...
• 2 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “FINDING INFORMATION SOURCES”: 3RD SYMPOSIUM ON JOURNALISM AND MASS MEDIA MASS MEDIA AT PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY Rome (Fides Service ) – A major challenge for journalism today consists in sources of information and how they should be considered? How to judge their reliability? These question will be discussed during a “Journali ...
• 2 December 2003
  VATICAN - SYNOD OF CHALDEAN BISHOPS MEETING IN THE VATICAN WILL ELECT NEW PATRIARCH OF BABYLON Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 1 –3 December the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Bishops convoked by Pope John Paul II is meeting in the Synod Hall in the Vatican to elect a new Patriarch of Babylon, spiritual l ...