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• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - DOWNLOAD FREE OF CHARGE FROM FIDES 70 PHOTOS OF CAM2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS Vatican City (Fides Service) – For CAM2 the 2nd American Mission Congress Fides has a special photo section (www.fides.org.) in two parts: Fides Archives and New Photos both may be downloaded free of charge, but plea ...
• 29 November 2003
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - CARDINAL O'BRIEN CALLS FOR NATIONAL EFFORT TO RE-CHRISTIANISE SCOTLAND: CHRISTIAN MESSAGE HANDED ON AND LIVED FOR ALMOST 2000 YEARS IS THE STANDARD BY WHICH WE SHOULD BE LIVING OUR LIVES AND WHICH WE SHOULD BE HANDING ON TO OUR YOUNG. Edinburgh (Fides Service) - Cardinal O'Brien calls for national effort to re-Christianise Scotland and reminds Scots of 1600 years of Christian history and urges resistance to tide of secularisation, especially concernin ...
• 29 November 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - YOUTH CONGRESS IN KHARTOUM: A SIGN OF VITALITY OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN A COUNTRY WHERE LIFE IS A STRUGGLE Khartoum (Fides Service)- “This year the Lord wanted us to begin and hold our Diocesan Youth Congress under the banner of Christ the King. He is the Leader and King who is guiding his people in the third millennium”. ...
• 29 November 2003
  VATICAN - MESSAGE FROM CARDINAL JAVIER LOZANO BARRAGÁN, PRESIDENT DEL PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH PASTORAL ON OCCASION OF WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS 1 DECEMBER 2003 Vatican City (Fides) – On the occasion of World Day Against AIDS, December 1, Cardinal Lozano Barragán, President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health workers and the Sick sent a “message of love ...
• 29 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY 30 NOVEMBER: CITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD LIGHT UP MONUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE CULTURE OF LIFE Rome (Fides Service) – “There is growing support for the campaign to eliminate the death penalty and this encourages us. To be here in Rome for this World Day is a source of courage and hope”, David Atwood, directo ...
• 29 November 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN – DECEMBER 1 WORLD DAY AGAINST HIV/AIDS: CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN FRONT LINE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC Rome (Fides Service) – 12% of the institutions caring for people with HIV/AIDS are run by the Catholic Church and 13% of aid to persons suffering from HIV/AIDS is provided by Catholic NGOs. Through church run instituti ...
• 29 November 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - ST ANDREW’S DAY IN ISTANBUL: ANNUAL GESTURE UNITY AND COMMUNITY AMONG CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX SISTER CHURCHES THIS YEAR IN THE LIGHT OF SOLIDARITY WITH JEWS AND MUSLIMS Istanbul (Fides Service ) – “The encounter of Catholic and Orthodox church leaders on the occasion of Saint Andrew’s Day is an important event of brotherhood among Christians. It is an even which demonstrates mutua ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - BISHOPS CONFERENCE AND UNICEF SIGN AGREEMENT OF COLLABORATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS Lima (Fides Service) – On 27 November 2003, at the head offices of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference in Lima, a pact for collaboration was signed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the United Nations Children� ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 6.000 ATTEND NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERS' MEETING WHICH CLOSES WITH SENDING OF MISSIONARIES Gualeguaychú (Fides Service) – “Respond to the challenges posed to youth pastoral by the new times, renewing with youth leaders the commitment to build a civilisation of love”: this was one of the main objectives ...
• 28 November 2003
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR DECEMBER 2003 “THAT THE CHURCH IN COUNTRIES STILL UNDER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES MAY BE GIVEN FULL FREEDOM TO CARRY OUT HER SPIRITUAL MISSION” Comment by Cardinal Nicolás De Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo. Vatican City (Fides Service) – As sons and daughters of the Church we can all identify ourselves fully with this missionary prayer intention, most important still today. We know that the Church has suffered from perse ...
• 28 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2 DAY TWO: THE HEART OF THE CHURCH MUST BEAT TO THE RHYTHM OF THE WORDS OF ST PAUL: “WOE TO ME IF I DID NOT PREACH THE GOSPEL”. Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On Thursday 27 November DAY TWO of CAM2 was ‘Asia Day’. The opening prayer focussed on mission as an urgent necessity for Asia. During the prayer, Fides correspondent in Guatemala ...
• 28 November 2003
  VATICAN - 7TH MEETING ON SPIRITUAL CINEMA: CHRIST IN THE CINEMA Rome (Fides Service) –“How cinema has approached themes and subjects related to religion and the sacred and in particular the figure of Christ” is the aim of the 7th international study meeting organised by the Pon ...
• 28 November 2003
  AFRICA - “HELPING AFRICA TO DEVELOP IS A MORAL DUTY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CARDINAL MARTINO, PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Rome (Fides Service)- “It is an imperative of moral and political solidarity for the entire international community to provide a future of hope to Africa, which means giving a future of hope and civilisation to the who ...
• 28 November 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES RECEIVE ROYAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION: QUALITY INSTRUCTION PROVIDED BY THE CHURCH OVERCOMES CULTURAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES Kathmandu (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Nepal, a small community of 6,000 among a population of 23 million, is celebrating since two of its members received a national award from the hands of the King. Two ...
• 28 November 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - EVANGELISING THROUGH MEDIA CULTURE, PROMOTING JUSTICE: MEETING OF CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL CIMEMA ORGANISATION OCIC IN ASIA Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Catholic media must unite to defend justice , promote the rights of citizens and imbue society with the values of the Gospel values. These ideas were voiced by Bishops Joseph Zen of Hong Kon ...