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• 21 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: THE NEW EUROPE MUST BE HELPED TO BUILD ITSELF BY REVITALISING THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS FROM WHICH IT ORIGINATED Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In recent months intense work has been undertaken to draft a European Constitution, the final version of which will be examined for approval by the intergovernmental Conference from ...
• 21 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PARTICIPANTS AT EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE: JUST AS NEW EUROPE CANNOT BE PLANNED WITHOUT DRAWING FROM ITS ROOTS, THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF THE UNIVERSITY Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Just as the new Europe cannot be planned without drawing from its own roots, the same can be said of the university. It is in fact the place par excellence for research for the trut ...
• 21 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FIRED BY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, ALONGSIDE EUROPE OF MARKET AND INSTITUTIONS EUROPE OF CULTURE MUST MAKE A NEW AND BOLD START Rome (Fides Service) – Sunday 20 July was the closing day of a universal Symposium, University and Church in Europe, which brought together 2,000 teachers, students, chaplains rectors and bishops from 41 European count ...
• 21 July 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - TRAVELLING BIBLE-BOX ATTRACTS MORE THAN 100,000 VISITORS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, IN THIS “YEAR OF THE BIBLE” Cologne (Fides Service) – At least 100,000 people visited a travelling BibleBox exhibition which concluded its journey through Germany in Cologne on Sunday 20 July. The exhibition, inaugurated three months ago in Mannh ...
• 21 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - BEING BOTH PATRIOTIC AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ‘ENEMY’ PEOPLE AT WAR: CHALLENGES FACING EVANGELISATION IN CONGO. INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP OF KISANGANI Kinshasa (Fides Service) – The Lord is challenging his disciples in Africa of the Great Lakes region to live the Gospel radically”. Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani said this in an in an interview wi ...
• 18 July 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: CARD. SEPE URGES NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS TO INVOLVE A GREATER NUMBER OF PERSONS AND EFFORTS AT THE SERVICE OF MISSION AD GENTES Belo Horizonte (Fides Service) – In preparation for the 2nd all American Mission Congress in November, the Church in Brazil officially inaugurated yesterday 17 July in Belo Horizonte its 1st National Mission Congress p ...
• 18 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE”. UNIVERSITIES: WHERE GOSPEL AND CULTURE MEET Rome (Fides Service) – “Probably Europe has never seen a Symposium of this type. We have come from more than 40 countries to discuss and re-launch dialogue between University and Church. A dialogue which despite alte ...
• 18 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - A CREDIT CARD FOR CHARITY: FORMER CATHOLIC SCHOOL PUPILS OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS TO POOR CHILDREN Bangalore (Fides Service) – Shopping can also be a work of charity. Former pupils of Christ College in Bangalore, a prestigious Catholic college where many of India’s eminent personalities of the world of culture, po ...
• 18 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - FIRST PASTORAL VISIT BY CARDINAL CRESCENZIO SEPE: THE CHURCH IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BEGS NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 7 – 13 July Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, made his first pastoral visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo during which ...
• 18 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ARCHBISHOP OF KISANGANI PAX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL VICE-PRESIDENT ASKS FOR UN MANDATE IN ITURI TO BE PROLONGED Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Pax Christi International PCI has launched an appeal for the extension of operations of the United Nations and the European Union to Ituri, in the north east of Democratic Congo. In a letter ...
• 18 July 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “OPTIMISM AND HOPE IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES” BISHOP IN MINDANAO TELLS FIDES SERVICE – GOVERNMENT REBELS CEASE FIRE IS FRUIT OF CHURCH MEDIATION Kidapawan (Fides Service) – “We are delighted: the cease fire agreement is truly a welcome signal of hope and encouragement. I am optimistic for the outcome of peace talks: there is commitment and good will on both s ...
• 18 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN’S UNIVERSITY HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR CARDINAL GIOVANNI BATTISTA RE EUROPE/ITALY ST JOHN’S UNIVERSITY HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR CARDINAL GIOVANNI BATTISTA RE Rome (Fides Service) – St John’s University established in New York in 1870, which has a branch in Rome, will hold a cere ...
• 18 July 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - NEW YOUTH MAGAZINE IN FAISALABAD IN MEMORY OF LATE DOMINICAN BISHOP ANDREOTTI WHO “LED YOUNG PEOPLE TO CHRIST” Faisalabad (Fides Service) – He is remembered in his diocese as a passionate supporter of youth pastoral, a Bishop who encouraged and accompanied many priestly and religious vocations, built schools, social and cultura ...
• 17 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: IN THE PSALMS THE MATERNAL TENDERNESS OF JERUSALEM IS AN IMAGE OF GOD’S LOVE FOR MANKIND Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II held his first Summer audience for a small group of lucky people on Wednesday 16 July in the courtyard of his residence at Castel Gandolfo in the cool of the Roman hi ...
• 17 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ANOTHER MASSACRE IN ITURI REGION. TERRIFIED PEOPLE SEEK SAFETY IN PARISHES AND FOREST Bunia (Fides Service) – “We have reliable confirmation that at least 24 people were killed four days ago in that area” local Church sources in Bunia, main town of Ituri region in north east Democratic Congo, commen ...