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• 8 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - HOPE IS THE DOOR TO MISSION – COMMENT ON THE POST SYNODAL EXHORTATION ECCLESIA IN EUROPA BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ OF OSMA-SORIA NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN Osma-Soria (Fides Service) – On June 28th the eve of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, in St Peter’s Basilica in the presence of many of the Bishops of Europe, Pope John Paul II promulgated an important Church docu ...
• 8 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO 17TH ASSEMBLY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS: “HELP OFFERED TO NEIGHBOUR MUST NOT BE ALMSGIVING FROM RICH TO POOR, BUT RATHER SHARING IN BROTHERHOOD, RECOGNITION OF EQUALITY AMONG ALL PEOPLE Vatican City (Fides Service) – Globalisation solidarity is the theme of the 17th general assembly (held every four years) of Caritas Internationalis being held presently in Rome 7-12 July. For the occasion Pope John Pa ...
• 8 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN CHRISTIANS MOURN PATRIARCH RAPHAEL BIDAWID OF BAGHDAD Beirut (Fides Service) – On July 7 in Beirut, Lebanon, His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, died at the age of 81, after some months in hospital. The Patriarch was born in Mosul, Iraq ...
• 8 July 2003
  VATICAN - CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS PROMULGATES 10 DECREES: HONOUR OF THE ALTARS FOR BLESSED DON ORIONE APOSTLE OF CHARITY AND LAURA OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA MISSIONARY TO THE INDIOS Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Monday 7 July in the Sala Clementina of the Papal Palace in the Vatican, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS) promulgated decrees regar ...
• 8 July 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM WELCOMES GLIMPSE OF HOPE FOR PEACE: UNIVERSITY RESUMES SUMMER COURSES Bethlehem (Fides Service) – The town of Bethlehem is living again hopes for peace. The Christian community and all Bethlehem people are confident. Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas, superior of the Nativity Church tells ...
• 8 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - LOCAL CHURCH DECIDES TO LAUNCH NATIONAL CATHOLIC RADIO-TELEVISION NETWORK Kinshasa (Fides Service) – The Bishops’ Conference of Democratic Congo (CENCO) has decided to open a national Catholic radio-television network (RTC) to cover the entire territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
• 8 July 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - OIL STRIKE OVER AFTER AGREEMENT OVER PRICE. CHURCH CALLS FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY IN FUEL INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT Lagos (Fides Service) – The oil strike in Nigeria against rising prices which had brought the country to a standstill, is over. On July 8, 6am local time, the government announced that the price would be lowered to 34 ...
• 8 July 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: PROGRAMME OF NEWLY CHOSEN HEAD OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE, ARCHBISHOP FERNANDO CAPALLA OF DAVAO Davao (Fides Service) – “My programme is dialogue. I have always worked for peace and reconciliation in Mindanao and I will continue to do so” , these were the first words entrusted to Fides Service by the new pres ...
• 7 July 2003
  VATICAN - DURING SUNDAY ANGELUS PRAYER THE POPE OFFERS YOUTH MESSAGE OF SAINT MARIA GORETTI: “PURITY OF HEART AND BODY MUST BE DEFENDED BECAUSE CHASTITY GUARDS REAL LOVE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Sunday 6 July addressing from his study window the crowds gathered in St Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus and receive his blessing, the Pope mentioned Saint Maria Goretti who died ...
• 7 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FINAL MESSAGE FROM ITALIAN PMS NATIONAL MEETING: REDISCOVERING IDENTITY OF ANIMATORS IN LOCAL CHURCH AND FUNDAMENTAL MISSION VOCATION OF THE FAMILY Rome (Fides Service) – “The present day calls the entire Church to listen to what the Spirit is saying through this time of epochal changes which must not be borne but rather oriented with the power of the Spirit tow ...
• 7 July 2003
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - APPEAL FROM BUDAPEST AT THE CONCLUSION OF CONGRESS FOR PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FULL INTEGRATION CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS AND VALORISATION OF RESOURCES Budapest (Fides Service) – Full recognition of the rights of Gypsies or Romany peoples and their fundamental freedoms as sanctioned by the European Convention; same identity papers as other citizens; commitment by gove ...
• 7 July 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - COMMUNITY MOURNS MURDERED PRIEST FATHER IBRAHIM: SOLIDARITY FROM MUSLIMS, BUT CHRISTIANS FEAR MORE FUNDAMENTALIST ATTACKS Faisalabad (Fides Service) – “We Christians are persons of peace. People know us and respect us. We call on the civil authorities to prevent fundamentalism which threatens us and to bring to justice those responsible ...
• 7 July 2003
  EUROPE/FRANCE - MONUMENT IN PARIS IN MEMORY OF PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS SOCIETY MARTYRS IN KOREA Paris (Fides Service) –French missionaries martyred in Korea have been commemorated with a new monument placed in Rue de Bac in Paris. The memorial was officially inaugurated by the Paris Foreign Missions Society MEP i ...
• 7 July 2003
  VATICAN - “THE TRAGIC EVENTS WHICH AFFLICT THE MODERN WORLD AND THE DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS OF UNDER-DEVELOPMENT REVEAL THE PERMANENT VALIDITY OF THE CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING” PAPAL MESSAGE TO CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTEFICE FOUNDATION: Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message to mark the tenth anniversary of foundation of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontefice Foundation set up to promote and diffuse knowledge and implementatio ...
• 7 July 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - SYNERGETIC RESEARCH CAN HELP ELIMINATE FOR EVER MANY HEREDITARY DISEASE AS WELL AS AIDS FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY AND THE GLORY OF GOD SAYS FATHER SIMPORE MOLECULE GENETICS EXPERT Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – A paediatric anti AIDS vaccine in preparation for Africa is being tested and Fides Service spoke about the initiative with Father Jacques Simpore, consultor general of the Camillian Father ...