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18 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - “POPE JOHN PAUL II: THE BEAUTY OF A SOUL IN LOVE WITH GOD AND THE HUMAN PERSON” – REFLECTION BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ FOR THE 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE
Madrid (Fides Service) – “With his testimony, perhaps today the Pope is writing an encyclical equally important as those he has written on paper … young people admire him not for his appearance but for his inward ...
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18 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: INTENSE PREPARATION IN PARISHES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY: “MISSION AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE LIFE OF EVERY BAPTISED CHRISTIAN”
Madrid (Fides Service ) – Material for Mission Sunday prepared by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain included catechesis for children of various age groups diverse; a guide for a prayer vigil and special Mission ...
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17 October 2003
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - MISSION SUNDAY – OUR FAITH GROWS AS WE SHARE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRIA FOCUSES ON RWANDA
Vienna (Fides Service) – “The Mission Sunday collection, this year on 19 October, is the most widespread act solidarity in the world. The entire Catholic Church is involved in this 77th Mission Sunday collection to h ...
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14 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION SUNDAY – “A HOME FOR EVERYONE” A SLOGAN NOT FOR A DAY BUT FOR THE WHOLE YEAR ANIMATED BY THE MISSIONARY BREATH OF THE CHURCH
Rome (Fides Service) – “The missionary month of October always begins a new path in our Christian communities, in fact it marks the start of a new pastoral following the liturgical year. For some years now the Italia ...
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13 October 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - MISSION SUNDAY – “TRUSTING IN THE WORD”: IN THE YEAR OF THE BIBLE THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN GERMANY LOOK TO CATHOLICS IN THE PHILIPPINES TO HELP GERMAN COMMUNITIES TO GROW
Aachen/Munich (Fides Service) – The 2003 October mission campaign launched by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany has been planned to fit the framework of the Year of the Bible being celebrated in local Churche ...
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13 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - ROME CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE
Rome (Fides Service) – On Monday 13 October Rome City Council will hold a special session to mark the 25 years of pontificate of Pope John Paul II. The programme will include an introduction by the City Council preside ...
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13 October 2003
EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - MISSION SUNDAY: TODAY NOT ONLY ANGLO SAXONS; MULTI-CULTURAL CATHOLICS IN UNION WITH THE POPE SUPPORT UNIVERSAL MISSION WITH PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES
London (Fides Service) – In this third millennium Catholics in England and Wales are no longer only Anglo Saxons, they come from many other cultures and this rich diversity of traditions is harnessed for universal miss ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMENTS: PROF. JUSTO LACUNZA EXPERT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES; MS FARIAN SABAHI PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN HISTORY; MOAZZEMI GOUDARZI IRANIAN JOURNALIST
Rome (Fides Service) – “This award reopens the challenge of human rights as a field which brings together religions and cultures” said Prof. Justo Lacunza rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic stu ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Oslo (Fides Service) – The Nobel Peace prize 2003 has been awarded to Iranian layer Ms Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to defending families of writers and intellectuals killed in 1998-1999. Persecuted for the investig ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
Rome (Fides Service) – The death penalty is still in use in 83 countries including the United States, China, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. On the occasion of the World Day World Day Against the Death Penalty - 10 October, L ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/POLAND - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY –YEAR OF THE ROSARY: THOUSANDS OF ROSARIES FOR THE MISSIONS AND THE POPE “THE GREATEST MISSIONARY OF OUR TIME”
Warsaw (Fides Service) – In preparation for World Mission Sunday, the diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies took part in a three day spiritual retreat followed by a missiology session on “The mission ...
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9 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MEETING “THE DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH” : CARDINAL RUINI WARNS “THEOLOGY MUST NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY”
Rome (Fides Service) – “Faith and reason can never contradict one another if they both tend towards the truth, the authentic condition for the freedom of the human person” said Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s ...
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9 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD
Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the ...
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8 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - “THE POPE’S CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES IN THESE 25 YEARS OF HIS PONTIFICATE HAS BEEN A SPECIAL GIFT OF GOD FOR WHICH WE WISH AND WE MUST GIVE THANKS” STATEMENT TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE ISSUED BY STANDING COMMITTEE OF SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Madrid (Fides Service) – “His concern for all the Churches in these twenty five years of pontificate is undoubtedly a special gift from God for which we can and we must give thanks” the Standing Committee of the Sp ...
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7 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - EXHIBITION ON MOTHER TERESA: A FEW POOR BELONGINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, WRITINGS REVEAL HER SOUL – AND AFTERWARDS VISITORS ARE INVITED TO STOP A WHILE FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Rome (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is a personality known and loved all over the world, but few people know about her spirituality: this is why the Postulators of her Beatification Cause have organised an exhibition ...
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