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31 May 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - VISIT BY ARCHBISHOP CORDES PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL COR UNUM, MANIFESTS HOLY SEE’S COMMITMENT TO BUILDING AN IRAQ OF PEACE
Baghdad (Fides Service) – “The Archbishop’s visit is yet another sign of the keen interest with which the Holy See follows the situation in Iraq” Youssef Bahofhy, local Caritas official, tells Fides Service. On 2 ...
31 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - “A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT CONVERT PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN SPEAKS ABOUT GOD AND GOD CONVERTS HEARTS” SAY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF INDIA WHERE CHRISTIANS HAVE SUFFERED OVER 500 ATTACKS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS
New Delhi (Fides Service) – In recent years there have been over 500 attacks on India’s Christians and Christian structures. Christians in India are persecuted by fundamentalist ideological nationalism. Several extre ...
31 May 2003
ASIA/THAILAND - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: NEW LYMPH FOR ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Bangkok (Fides Service) – To mark Communications Day 2003, the Asian Research Centre for Religion and Social Communications has a new director, a new review, new cultural initiatives. The Catholic centre located in Ban ...
31 May 2003
EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES CONFIRMED
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has, on 31 May 2003, confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Slovakia, ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS PASTORAL WORKERS AND SEMINARIANS: “CHURCH IN RWANDA YOU ARE CALLED TO SET OUT AGAIN ON MISSION!” A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO PRISONERS CALLED TO WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Kigali (Fides Service) – Continuing his pastoral visit in Rwanda, on 29 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with pastoral workers whom he encourage ...
30 May 2003
EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - CHRISTIANS JOIN IN ECUMENICAL PRAYER FOR NORTH KOREA
London (Fides Service) – A ecumenical week of prayer in aid of North Korea in underway launched by the London based human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide CWS which promotes awareness of situations of ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/TOGO - REV. PIERRE DOVI N’DANU-ALIPUI APPOINTED RECTOR OF THE JOHN PAUL II MAJOR INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN LOME
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of John Paul II Major inter-diocesan seminary in Lome, (Togo) Rev. ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - REV. ALAIN THIERRY RAHARISON APPOINTED RECTOR OF PAUL VI UNIVERSITY SEMINARY IN ANTANANARIVO
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of Paul VI University Major Seminary in Antananarivo (Madagascar) ...
30 May 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE: “GOD NEVER ABANDONS HIS PEOPLE ON THE BRINK OF DESPERATION”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general audience on Wednesday 28 May, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II gave his teaching on Psalm 107: “Praise to the Lord and call for help”. “The psalm present ...
30 May 2003
VATICAN/RWANDA - FIDES SERVICE MULTIMEDIA DOSSIER
85 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service announces new multimedia Dossier on Rwanda articulated in four parts:
History
After the genocide: the present situation
The mission of the Church
The dioceses
The ...
30 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - BEIJING HOSTS TWO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON SARS
Beijing (Fides Service) – To adopt common measures of prevention and treatment in order to take control of SARS is the objective of two international meetings in the coming month of June in Beijing.
On 1 and 2 June r ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/EUROPE - BISHOPS ASK G8 SUMMIT FOR NEW MOBILISATION FOR AFRICA
Berlin (Fides Service) – “Give practical support to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) by increasing development aid and reducing the debt of developing countries” is the request made by Catholi ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - CARITAS CONGO SENDS 8 TONNES OF MEDICINES TO BUNIA CITY TRAPPED IN TRIBAL FIGHTING
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – On 29 May 8 tonnes of medicine sent by Caritas Congo arrived in Bunia city. Flying with the medical supplies, purchased with funds from Caritas Germany and Trocaire Ireland, was the director ...
30 May 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: SPANISH BISHOPS’ MESSAGE “COMMUNICATORS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD OF SOCIETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON”
Madrid (Fides Service) – In a message issued for Communications’ Day (in Spain June 1) the Commission for Social Communications of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has called on Catholic media workers to fulfil thei ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: RADIO FOR PEACE IN THE HEART OF WAR TORN AFRICA: ON THE SHORES OF LAKE KIVU, RWANDA/BURUNDI BORDER, THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
Bukavu (Fides Service) – Radio Mary Queen of Peace, Maria Malkia wa Amani is only two years old and yet even its name is a programme. Maria Malkia wa Amani the Catholic radio of Bukavu archdiocese was started at a ston ...
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