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• 3 October 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF SECAM/SCEAM.: RENEWAL FOR GREATER IMPULSE TO MISSIONARY ANIMATION AFRICA/SENEGAL - PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF SECAM/SCEAM.: RENEWAL FOR GREATER IMPULSE TO MISSIONARY ANIMATION The Purpose of the Meeting is to give new impulse to missionary animation and co-ordination among the components of ...
• 3 October 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF SECAM/SCEAM OPENS IN DAKAR: SECRETARY OF CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES SAYS: “THE CHURCH MUST REFUSE FOR AFRICA THE LOGIC OF MARGINALISATION ” Dakar (Fides Service) – Yesterday, Wednesday 1 October in Dakar (Senegal) SCEAM/SECAM began its Plenary Assembly. SECAM is the Symposium of the Bishops Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. Present was the Secretary ...
• 3 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO REDEMPTORISTS: YOUR MISSIONARY TASK DEMANDS PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY INTENSE PRAYER Vatican City (Fides Service) – “You are called to participate combining a life of special dedication to God with missionary activity, following the example of our Saviour Jesus Christ p ...
• 3 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES- BISHOP LEDESMA SAYS BOMB BLAST IN MINDANAO MOSQUE WAS POLITICAL NOT RELIGIOUS ACT Manila (Fides Service) – There are no religious motives behind the bomb blast on 3 October in the early afternoon (local time) at Midsayap mosque near Cotabato on the island of Mindanao in southern Philippines. The rea ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 55 MISSIONARIES SALESIAN – RELIGIOUS AND LAY – SET OUT FOR 22 COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD Torino (Fides Service /Ans) - Some 55 Saleisan missionaries are about to depart for mission in 22 different countries in various parts of the world. The missionaries are 23 Religious (17 Salesians and 6 Daughters of Mar ...
• 3 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - GOVERNMENT INSTITUTES NATIONAL AWARD IN MEMORY OF MOTHER TERESA TO PROMOTE HER MESSAGE OF LOVE AND SERVICE New Delhi (Fides Service) – A national award in honour of Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be instituted by the Indian government to commemorate the spirit of the religious of the white Sari. The award will go to a perso ...
• 3 October 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA – PRESIDENT KAGAME WINS ELECTIONS Kigali (Fides Service) - The President of Rwandan has won elections again. After winning presidential elections in late August with 95% of the votes, Paul Kagame has gained a victory with his coalition obtaining the abs ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY -CACAO PLANTATIONS IN IVORY COAST EXPLOIT CHILDREN WHO IN THIS PART OF AFRICA ARE USED ALSO FOR WAR. FIRST DOSSIER BY NATIONAL INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORY Rome (Fides Service) – Each year in Ivory Coast alone 615,000 children are forced to work in cacao fields and it is estimated that in the world 1.2 million children are victims of trafficking and that 5.7 million are i ...
• 3 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA – SPECIAL EDITION OF “CHINA HEUTE” FOR THE CANONISATION OF JOSEF FREINADEMETZ Sankt Augustin (Fides Service) – A special issue dedicated to Saint Josef Freinademetz, Divine Word missionary in China bron in Tyrol has been published by the prestigious review of Chinese studies China heute (China T ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI FIRST TO HARNESS “FEMALE GENIUS” FOR MISSION: FIDES INTERVIEWS SR ADELE BRAMBILLA, SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS Rome (Fides Service) – Where there are Sisters, mission is solid ” Daniele Comboni (1831-1881) used to say in days when few people recognised the importance of the “female genius” in every sphere of human activi ...
• 2 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT WEDNESDAY GENERAL AUDIENCE: “OUR UNCERTAIN STEPS ARE SUSTAINED BY THE SPLENDOUR OF TRUTH WHICH CHRIST DIFFUSES IN THE WORLD AND IN HISTORY” – “PLACE YOURSELVES WITH TRUST INTO THE HANDS OF MARY, INVOKING HER HELP INCESSANTLY WITH THE ROSARY PRAYER” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Wednesday 1 October, Pope John Paul II held his usually general audience in St Peter’s Square and he concluded the series of teaching on the Psalms, with a discourse on the Benedictu ...
• 2 October 2003
  VATICAN - AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS MANDATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ARRIVES ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO POPE JOHN PAUL II Rome (Fides Service) – The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also president of the Anglican Communion, will arrive in Rome today, 2 October for an official visit to Pope John Paul II. The Arc ...
• 2 October 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - OUR HOMELAND, THE FUTURE IRAQ, WILL BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER! Baghdad (Fides Service) - To share and alleviate people’s troubles, show solidarity, help them grow in faith: with these objectives a group of Iraqi Catholic seminarians, presently studying theology at the Pontifical ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MIGRATION NOT ONLY A TECHNICAL MATTER IT IS A HUMAN, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEM Rome (Fides Service) - Caritas Roma, sponsored by CNEL and International Organisation for Migrants IOM, presented “Contemporary Immigration in Italy - Current trends and future prospects”, on Wednesday 1 October 200 ...
• 2 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - JOSEF FREINADEMETZ FIRST NON MARTYR SAINT IN CHINA THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE IS THE ONE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS INTERVIEW WITH SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 5 October Pope John Paul II will canonise three great missionaries including Josef Freinademetz (1852-1908) one of the first two Divine Word missionaries to go to China. While still a s ...