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• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/MONGOLIA: SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CARDINAL SEPE’S VISIT AS POPE'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON THE OCCASION OF THE EPISCOPAL ORDINATION OF FIRST APOSTOLIC PREFECT AND CONSECRATION OF LOCAL CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL ON FIDES SERVICE WEBSITE On our website – Section Congregations – you may view a series of photographs of a recent visit to Mongolia by Cardinal Sepe. The photographs may be downloaded and freely used. The Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregati ...
• 2 September 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS (CAM 2) – 3RD CONGRESS OF SALTA ARCHDIOCESE MARKS GROWTH OF MISSIONARY AWARENESS Salta (Fides Service ) – With the motto “Church of Salta, your life is mission”, the archdiocese of Salta in Argentina will hold its 3rd Mission Congress from 10 to 12 October in preparation for the 2nd all America ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WE MUST THINK NOT ONLY OF DEMOLISHING, BUT OF COMMITTING OURSELVES TO BUILDING NEW MISSIONARY PATHS TO RESPOND TO TODAY’S WORLD: ITALIAN NATIONAL WEEK OF MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION IN ASSISI COMES TO AN END Assisi (Fides Service ) – Diocesan Missionary Centres become ‘fraternal teams’ of people able to transmit concretely to parishes the Church’s missionary dimension; parish communities strive to identify ways and w ...
• 2 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS REPLACE EU TROOPS IN BUNIA BUT THERE IS ANOTHER SILENT WAR IN OUTLYING VILLAGES TO BE STOPPED Bunia (Fides Service)- There was no trouble in the hand-over of control by the European Union peace force in Ituri (north-east Democratic Congo) to the United Nations peacekeepers, as part of the MONUC (UN Mission in Con ...
• 2 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES IN NORTH IVORY COAST SAY: “EVERYTHING IS BLOCKED… WE FEAR HOSTILITIES MAY RESUME MORE VIRULENT THAN EVER ” Abidjan (Fides Service)- “We still live a situation of war, despite the peace agreements and the setting up of the national unity government” a missionary in Korhogo, in northern Ivory Coast, reports to Fides Service ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - JESUITS OFFER HOME AND HOPE TO ORPHANS AND ABANDONED CHILDREN Bombay (Fides Service) –“Snehasadan” which means “Home where we are loved” is the name of a home for street children run by the Jesuits which for forty years has restored hope and joy of life to orphans or aban ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FIDES SERVICE FOR STREET CHILDREN “A child never chooses the street” Jesuit Father Placido Fonseca who runs a home for children in Bombay tells Fides Service. Nevertheless today the world has more than 100 million street children mainly in Asia, Lati ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC BISHOPS SUGGEST TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT DAY OF THE BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA SHOULD BE A STATE HOLIDAY New Delhi (Fides Service) – The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India has officially proposed to the Indian government to proclaim 19 October, date of the Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a state holiday. ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - WHILE THERE IS FEAR OF ANOTHER COUP THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR MORAL INTEGRITY AND SOCIAL HARMONY, AN END TO POLITICAL BICKERING, CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER Davao (Fides Service) – Stop political bickering, power games; stop infighting among politicians and accusations which upset the whole country; stop sensationalism in the media. This was said in a pastoral statement is ...
• 1 September 2003
  “THAT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES OF CENTRAL ASIA WHO LIVE AMONG PEOPLE OF OTHER RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, MAY BE COMMITTED TO SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM THROUGH ACTIVE TESTIMONY OF THE FAITH.” Comment by Metropolitan Archbishop Thaddeus Kondrusiewicz of the Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow Vatican City (Fides Service) – Central Asia, formed of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, is a vast territory of about 4 million square kilometres, with a total population of 49 million. A ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - REV. FATHER ANTOINE VU HUY CHUONG APPOINTED BISHOP OF HUNG HOA Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has (6 July 2003) appointed Bishop of Hung Hoa (Vietnam) Rev. Father Antoine Vu Huy Chuong professor of dogmatic theology at Can Tho inter-diocesan ma ...
• 1 September 2003
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - ULAANBAATOR PREFECT APOSTOLIC REV. WENCESLAO PADILLA RAISED TO THE DIGNITY OF BISHOP ASIA/MONGOLIA ULAANBAATOR – PREFECT APOSTOLIC REV. WENCESLAO PADILLA RAISED TO THE DIGNITY OF BISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has (2 August 2003) raised Rev. Wences ...
• 1 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - LUEBO:BISHOP EMERY KABONGO KANUNDOWI RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (14 August 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Luebo (Democratic Congo) presented by Bishop Emerry K ...
• 1 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES START GENERAL CHAPTER TODAY: NEW PATHS OF MISSION FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM Rome (Fides Service) - The 16th General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries opens today September 1st to reflect on “The Comboni mission at the beginning of the third millennium”. Father Juan Gonzalez Nunez, head of ...
• 1 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ENTRUSTS ONCE AGAIN THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: “MAY THE MOST HOLY VIRGIN MARY HELP EUROPE BECOME A SYMPHONY OF NATIONS WORKING TO BUILD TOGETHER A CIVILISATION OF LOVE AND PEACE” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “For the last few Sundays I have reflected on Europe and its Christian roots, looking at the text of the post synodal exhortation Ecclesia in Europe. This document ends with an ‘en ...