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5 May 2003
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - CARITAS APPEALS FOR MORE FOOD HEALTH AND AGRICULTURAL AID FOR NORTH KOREA
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Caritas Hong Kong has made a new appeal for aid to North Korea, hoping to collect 2.6 billion US Dollars in 12 months, to meet North Korea’s needs for food supplies, health and agricultura ...
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5 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - MORE ACCESS, MORE TRAFFICK, MORE FREEDOM ON THE INTERNET SINCE OUTBREAK OF SARS, ALSO HELPS STUDENTS WITH SCHOOLS SHUT DOWN
Beijing (Fides Service) – The outbreak of SARS has had at least one positive effect on China: greater freedom to use the Internet, until now under strict government control. Following the dismissal of the Chinese healt ...
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5 May 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - NON CONFESSIONAL PARTIES, SCHOOL REFORM, SECULAR STATE, TRIBALISM OUTLAWED: THIS IS THE IRAQ IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT
Baghdad (Fides Service) - “Democracy in Iraq is possible and this is what we hope for as Christians, because a system of authentic democracy would enable us to stay in our country” Father Nizar of Ninive diocese tell ...
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5 May 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - BORNEO : THE INTERNET REACHES ACROSS 5000 KM OF INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO TO FORM CATHOLIC TEACHERS
Jakarta (Fides Service) – To communicate, instruct, share experiences across the Indonesian archipelago which extends from east to west for 5,000 km in the Pacific Ocean, the local Catholic Church has decided to use fo ...
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5 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - HOW TO PUT AN END TO AFRICA’S WARS: SEMINAR AT CONGO’S CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY 7-11 MAY
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – In Africa there are many, too many forgotten wars. At present conflicts are bringing death and destruction to Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, Ethi ...
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5 May 2003
AFRICA/CAMEROON - BAFIA - BISHOP ATHANASE BALA RESIGNS, REV. JEAN MARIE BALLA, APPOINTED BISHOP
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (15 April 2003) accepted the renunciation of the Pastoral Government of the diocese of Bafia, Cameroon, presented by Bishop Athanase Bala, C. S ...
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5 May 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “CEASE-FIRE? REAL PEACE IS NOT SIMPLY THE ABSENCE OF FIGHTING. PEOPLE WANT A DECENT LIFE, LOOTING MUST STOP” SAY MISSIONARIES IN IVORY COAST
Abidjan (Fides Service) – “People can’t take anymore. The situation must change. It is not possible to live a situation of anarchy for months on end.” This is how missionaries in northern Ivory Coast describe the ...
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2 May 2003
VATICAN - POPE AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: MODEL OF POLITICAL LEADER SHOULD BE: DIVINE INTERVENTION IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD
Vatican City (Fides Service) – After two Wednesday catechesis on the significance of the Liturgical Celebrations of Easter, during the general audience on April 30, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II resumed his ...
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2 May 2003
EUROPE/ALBANIA - CARITAS MARKS TENTH ANNIVERSARY: MATERIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO BE NEAR TO THE PEOPLE
Tirana (Fides Service) – Ten years ago, in conjunction with a visit by Pope John Paul II, Caritas Albania was opened. This tenth anniversary coincides with a time of “re-discovery” of the Church which kept the fait ...
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2 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES COMMITTED TO FIGHTING SARS: CATHOLICS CALL FOR SUPPORT OF UNIVERSAL CHURCH
Beijing (Fides Service) – Communities of the different religions in China, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians have joined the mobilisation of the people to fight SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, in particular by ...
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2 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - REV. LAURENT SONDITYA APPOINTED RECTOR OF REGINAE PACIS SEMINARY BUTEMBO-BENI
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed (11 April 2003) rector of Reginae Pacis seminary Butembo-Beni Rev. Laurent Sonditya.
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2 May 2003
AMERICA/CHILE - REV. GEORGE VEGA VELASCO APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (11 April 2003) National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Chile, Rev. Georg ...
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2 May 2003
VATICAN - ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES OPENS MAY 5: HOW TO MEET THE GROWING NEEDS OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITY?
Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Monday 5 May, with a welcome speech by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, the annual assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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2 May 2003
VATICAN - ROSARY AND MISSION: AT THE START OF THE MARIAN MONTH OF MAY IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY WE PRESENT A REFLECTION BY REV. FERNANDO GALBIATI, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY UNION
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The meditation of the Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (RVM) offers several points for missionary reflection. Indeed it opens the mind to the universal dimension that the myst ...
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2 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - LEADERS OF HINDU MOVEMENT REACH OUT TO CHRISTIANS ANXIOUS TO BUILD BROTHERHOOD AND UNIVERSAL FAMILY, REMOVING BARRIERS WHICH DIVIDE HUMANITY
New Delhi (Fides Service) – Not only tension between Hindus and Catholics in India. Although in some states there are still attacks on Christians and Christian institutions by extremist Hindu groups, there are many gro ...
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