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13 May 2003
VATICAN - THE CHURCH NEEDS SCIENCE AND SCIENCE NEEDS RELIGION
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The Church reaffirms the legitimate autonomy of science and her appreciation for this eminent form of human knowledge, recognising her own errors committed in the past. Also in ...
13 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MAJOR SUPERIORS DISCUSS: FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS FOR MISSION IN INDIA TODAY
Bangalore (Fides Service) – Revise formation and ongoing formation for Religious to meet the challenges of the third millennium in a constantly changing world. This was the commitment taken at the end of a Meeting of ...
13 May 2003
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FINAL DOCUMENT OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION CONGRESS: LET’S WORK TO BUILD A SOCIETY WHERE FORGIVENESS IS POSSIBLE AND VALORISED AS A VIRTUE OF GREATNESS AND GENEROSITY
Bogota (Fides Service) – “Colombia is living one of the most critical periods of her whole history” it was said in a final statement issued by the 2nd National Reconciliation Congress held in Bogota, Colombia, 5-7 ...
13 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN CONGO IS NOT ACCIDENTAL, ONCE AGAIN ECONOMIC INTEREST ARE AT WORK” SAYS MISSIONARY
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “At the very moment when the Democratic Republic of Congo strives to restore national unity, war is intensified” Father Francesco, Xaverian mission in Congo, tells Fides Service. The Ital ...
13 May 2003
AFRICA/BENIN - ARCHBISHOP MARTINO: AFRICA NEEDS NOT PITY BUT SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE: TOO MANY ARE CONCERNED ONLY WITH EXPLOITING AFRICA’S RESOURCES
Cotonou (Fides Service) “Development cannot be built on conflicts, discrimination, rancour, exclusion, or the power of weapons. It demands harmony, solidarity, united efforts, justice, respect for others, for human dig ...
13 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REP. CONGO - IN BUNIA APPARENT CALM CHARGED WITH TENSION. BISHOPS AND MISSIONARIES CALL ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INTERVENE TO PREVENT MORE VIOLENCE
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “In Bunia there is relative calm but ethnic revenge is feared” a Missionary of Africa in Congo tells Fides Service. The missionary, a White Father, asked not to be named for security reas ...
12 May 2003
VATICAN - ON VOCATIONS DAY THE POPE ORDAINS 31 NEW PRIESTS FOR HIS OWN DIOCESE: THE PRIEST, MAN OF THE WORD, MAN OF THE EUCHARIST, MINISTER OF DIVINE MERCY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – In St Peter’s Basilica on 11 May, Good Shepherd Sunday, 4th of Easter, traditionally the Church’s annual day of prayer for vocations, Pope John Paul II presided Mass during which he o ...
12 May 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES DOCENTS AND STUDENTS OF LATERAN UNIVERSITY: THE GOSPEL MESSAGE - BEACON OF LIGHT AND SALVATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF EVERY RACE AND CULTURE IN WHATEVER SITUATION THEY MAY LIVE
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Friday 9 May Pope John Paul II received in audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, participants at the International Congress promoted by the Pontifical Lateran University on the t ...
12 May 2003
VATICAN - MISSION AND THE YOUNG CHURCHES: INTERVENTION BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE AT THE CONGRESS PROMOTED BY THE PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The work of the congress “John Paul II: 25 years of Pontificate- The Church at the service of mankind” promoted by the Pontifical Lateran University moved from the university to the P ...
12 May 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - SPECIAL MASS FOR DAYAK GOOD HARVEST DAY ON BORNEO
Pontianak (Fides Service) – Good Harvest Day festivities this year were markedly Christian among Dayak peoples in Western Kalimantan on the Island of Borneo. Celebrations lasting several days opened on 26 April with Ma ...
12 May 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHINESE NUNS VISIT KOREAN SISTERS: AN ENRICHING EXPERIENCE OF SHARING
Seoul (Fides Service) – A visit to South Korea to meet other Catholic nuns, to learn from spirituality and their way of convent life: this was the experience lived by 13 Superiors of diocesan female religious communiti ...
12 May 2003
ASIA/MONGOLIA - SARS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION LIFTS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS TO MONGOLIA
Geneva (Fides Service) - Mongolia was removed from the list of countries with recent local transmission. Twenty days had passed since the only case resulting from local transmission was appropriately isolated. Earlier, W ...
12 May 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - REBELS ATTACK LACHOR SEMINARY: LOCAL BOY SEEKING SHELTER FROM REBEL TERROR KILLED, FORTY ONE SEMINARIANS TAKEN HOSTAGE, ARCHBISHOP ASKS THE WORLD TO PRAY
Kampala (Fides Service) – Forty one pupils at Lachor minor seminary (northern Uganda) were taken hostage by guerrillas of the Lord Resistance Army LRA during the night 10-11 May. The rebels also shot dead a local boy w ...
12 May 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN BISHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES READY TO WORK FOR NEW IRAQ AS CHALDEAN NEWS AGENCY FROM THE DIASPORA RESUMES ACTIVITY
San Diego (Fides Service) – “We are ready to work in harmony and collaboration with all the other religious and ethnic groups in Iraq” the Bishops of Chaldean tradition in the United States say in a recent report p ...
9 May 2003
VATICAN - PAPAL AUDIENCE: THE PRINCIPLE TASK OF BISHOPS AND PRIESTS IS TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH THROUGH PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE TEACHING OF CATECHISM
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “As the first catechist of the community, the priest, especially if he is the parish priest, is called to be the first believer and disciple of the Word of God and to devote assiduous c ...
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