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28 September 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - Growing concern for probable case of transmission person to person
Rome (Fides Service) - Health and hospital authorities in Thailand are worried that bird flu may spread to humans. Thailand has announced that a “probable” case of transmission among humans , might have caused the de ...
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28 September 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur is not the only tragedy, all over Sudan the situation is precarious and dangerous, Bishop Gassis Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides
Rome (Fides Service)- “The world is rightly concerned for the situation in Darfur, but that tragedy threatens to make people forget there are other crisis areas in Sudan” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of ...
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28 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Uto Ughi: “The language of Music is universal”. Little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital treated to a concert
Rome (Fides Service) - As part of an initiative “Uto Ughi per Roma” , today September 28, this famous violinist will give a concert to a very special audience, little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital i ...
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28 September 2004
ASIA/INDIA- “Children’s Village” in New Delhi in memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, champion of religious freedom in India
New Delhi (Fides Service) - In memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, a champion of religious freedom, a secular state and respect for rights of minority groups rights, the archdiocese of Delhi has opened a Memorial Childr ...
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28 September 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Salesians mark fifty years of service to Korean youth: education, professional training and evangelisation
Seoul (Fides Service) - “Pray and work that one day your love may reach also North Korea, in a united country” Archbishop Nicholas Cheong of Seoul told the Salesian Fathers who recently celebrated 50 years of servic ...
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28 September 2004
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 2nd Assembly of the International Association of Catholic Missiologists 29 in Cochabamba
Cochabamba (Fides Service) - The 2nd Assembly International Association of Catholic Missiologists IACM will start on Wednesday 29 September in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the Salesian Fatima Centre. The first part of the Ass ...
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28 September 2004
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic Bishops of Nigeria: “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics”
Lagos (Fides Service)- “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics and are occupying various posts. We congratulate those of them who have been trying to be true witnesses of justice and pe ...
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28 September 2004
ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides
Lahore (Fides Service) - “We are very pleased that president Musharraf will have a meeting with the Pope. This will be good for the Church in Pakistan and for the whole country” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore ...
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27 September 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission
Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission” is the title of a 74 page ‘Bischofswort’ (Bishops’ Word) issued by the Catholic Bishops of Germany at the end of their Au ...
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27 September 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides
New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Bishops strongly condemn this attack on Catholic Sisters, in Kerala yesterday” the spokesman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, Fr Babu Joseph Karakombil told Fides. “W ...
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27 September 2004
October 2004: “That the due presence of Catholics in national life and in the media of the Latin American continent may increase” Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention. Comment by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the post-synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in America”, Pope John Paul II encourages lay Catholics to be fully aware of their dignity as baptised Christians and he calls on bishops and p ...
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27 September 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda will host 15th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of East Africa
Kampala (Fides)- Uganda will host the next Plenary Assembly of AMECEAthe Association of Bishops’ Conferences of East Africa . According to CISA Catholic news agency in Nairobi Kenya, the Ugandan Bishops are preparing t ...
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27 September 2004
VATICAN - At his midday Angelus reflection the Pope says “personal resources must be used not selfishly but with solidarity”: to guarantee justice and development with solidarity is the “way to guarantee the world a future peace”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence, Pope John Paul II reflected on the Sunday Gospel on the parable of the rich man and the p ...
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27 September 2004
VATICAN - The Pope grant audience to Papal Nuncios in Africa: “continue to be witnesses of communion, helping to overcome tensions and misunderstandings and the temptation of particularism, and to strengthen a sense of belonging to the one and undivided People of God”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 September at the end of the morning in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II gave a special audience to Papal Nuncios from Africa taking part in a meeting ...
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27 September 2004
AMERICA/PERU - More than 50 Congregations of men and women religious in Peru take part in 1st National Mission Exhibition : “In Peru today…Mission is alive!”
Lima (Fides Service) - As part of celebrations and initiatives for World Mission Day 25 October, the National Mission Centre of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference has organised the first ever National Mission Exhibition ...
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