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• 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 ...
• 2 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 3 DECEMBER 2003, 21ST EUROPEAN DISABLED DAY: “GLI AMICI” PROGRAMME S. EGIDIO MOVEMENT IN AID OF PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY Rome (Fides Service) - A manifesto issued by “Gli Amici”, movement of the S. Egidio Community with 1000 members with mental or physical disabilities opens with the words: “We are many, we are known in many cities� ...
• 2 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FIRST INTERACTIVE MALAYALAM BIBLE ON CD-ROM TO SPREAD THE WORD AMONG INDIA’S YOUTH Cochin (Fides Service) – Young people in India are spending increasingly more time in front of the computer. To spread the Word of God among PC users, young and old, ten years of labour have made the Bible in Malayalam ...
• 2 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - HUMAN RESOURCES MINISTRY ASSIGNS NATIONAL CHILD CARE AWARD TO CHRISTIANS FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE: CATHOLICS EVER MORE INVOLVED IN HELPING LOCAL PEOPLE New Delhi (Fides Service) – While in some Indian states violence against Christians and Christian institutions reportedly continues, Catholics continue to serve the community. This commitment, often silent and unnotice ...
• 2 December 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A REFLECTION BY GENETIST REVEREND SIMPORE FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: HOPE AND FEAR: DO WE LET PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES ACCUMULATE DRUGS IN THEIR STORE HOUSES WHILE THE POOR DIE FOR LACK OF TREATMENT? AFRICA/BURKINA FASO A REFLECTION BY GENETIST REVEREND SIMPORE FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: HOPE AND FEAR: DO WE LET PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES ACCUMULATE DRUGS IN THEIR STORE HOUSES WHILE THE POOR DIE FOR LACK OF TREA ...
• 1 December 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: “TO PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS MEANS REAWAKENING HOPE FOR PEACE AMONGST OURSELVES AND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. HOW GREAT IS THE WORLD'S NEED OF THIS PEACE! I REPEAT MY CALL TO THE LEADERS OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS: LET US UNITE EFFORTS TO PREACH NON-VIOLENCE, FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION!” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On 30 November, the first Sunday of Advent, Pope John Paul II made yet another call for world peace urging the leaders of the great religions to unite efforts to preach pardon and reconci ...
• 1 December 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: A CALL AND HOPE FOR AFRICA DOVE WITH 30 MILLION SUFFERING FROM HIV/AIDS, BUT NO THERAPY Rome (Fides Service) – The Rome based community of S. Egidio supports the warning launched by Kofi Annan on the risk that the AIDS battle may be lost and it supports the moral appeal of the AIDS struggle as a central ...
• 1 December 2003
  AFRICA - “OUR PRAYER IS ALWAYS FULL OF HOPE ”: A MESSAGE FROM MORE THAN 600 AFRICAN BISHOPS FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS 1 DECEMBER Rome (Fides Service)- The Catholic Church’s commitment to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa and assist those suffering from the terrible scourge was confirmed once again by SECAM Symposium of Episcopal Conferences ...
• 1 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: CHURCH IN GOA DETERMINED TO PROTECT YOUTH FROM HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC Goa (Fides Service) – The alarming AIDS pandemic in India places a series of challenges which the Church in Goa is determined to answer to prevent the young generation in this region formerly under Portuguese governmen ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS AMERICA/GUATEMALA “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSIO ...