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7 July 2004
VATICAN - In Bangkok 6th International Congress on Pastoral of Tourism: "Tourism at the service of the meeting of Peoples".
Bangkok (Fides Service) - “The title of our Congress - “Tourism at the service of the meeting of Peoples.” - was chosen to indicate the central point of the proclamation of the Gospel” Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hama ...
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7 July 2004
EUROPE/MALTA - Rev. Joseph Bugeja confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has, 28 May 2004, confirmed Reverend Joseph Bugeja of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Malta, Nation ...
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7 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Church deeply committed to education: instil a mentality of peace, justice and truth in the new generations. Colombia’s first virtual University has 2,000 students
Rome (Fides Service) - "The Church in Colombia has always worked hard in the field of education providing a Christian education based on the values of the Gospel at all levels facilitated by the fact that Colombia has a ...
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7 July 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ordination of six new priests: four diocesan, one Camillian and one Missionary of Africa who at the end of the Mass was sent on mission to Uganda.
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - On Saturday 3 July the Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Archbishop Jean-Marie Compaoré, ordained six new priests in Ouagadougou cathedral. The Archbishop was assisted in the Ordination by Bishop ...
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7 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesia’s presidency: postponed to second round of votes in September
Jakarta (Fides Service) - With 40% of the votes cast on July 5 for a new president of Indonesia counted, no candidate appears to have obtained the necessary majority which means that there will be a second round of votin ...
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7 July 2004
ASIA /SOUTH KOREA - “To be a church community which is respected”: Cheongju diocese announces diocesan Synod to mark 50th anniversary of its institution
Cheongju (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Cheongju, which will have the 50th anniversary of its institution in 2008, plans to hold a diocesan synod and promote three projects to celebrate its 50 years of history. In this ...
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7 July 2004
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Justice and charity. Facing Future Challenges: Jewish-Catholic relations in the 21st century”: International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee meeting in Buenos Aires:
Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee started its 18th meeting on July 5 in Buenos Aires, on the theme “Tzedek and Tzedaká (Justice and Charity). Facing Future Challenges: ...
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7 July 2004
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “With its lies the government is pushing half of the population towards poverty!” says Archbishop Pius Ncube Bulawayo, second largest town in Zimbabwe
Harare (Fides Service)- “People have nothing to eat. People are dying because the government is lying ” Archbishop Pius Ncube, Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest town said in his discourse f ...
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7 July 2004
ASIA/INDIA - India’s Bishops welcome government’s promise to draft a law to protect religious minorities- Link Fides: to origins of Christianity in India
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have welcomed the government’s decision to draft a law to protect religious minorities in India. The spokesman of the Bishops’ Conference Father Babu Joseph, ...
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7 July 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Desperation, violence against exhausted people fleeing from a war without end. Latest report by UN High Commission for Refugees
Khartoum (Fides Service)- Despite a cease fire signed in April by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups fighting in the western Sudan region of Darfur continues to cause thousands of civilians to flee their homes, ...
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7 July 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “We risk epidemics because the streets are lined with tons of refuse. What are the NGOs and UN in the city doing?” an Italian missionary in Monrovia asks
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “We have peace but the country still lacks essential services. It is enough to take a look at the streets in the capital filled with refuse which no one collects” Father Mauro Armanino, Ital ...
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7 July 2004
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Country has 5 million people HIV + and 600,000 have no access to anti-retroviral treatment
Pretoria (Fides Service) - In South Africa more than 5 million people are HIV+ and one out of every mother is HIV+ which means that each year 70,000 children are born HIV+. Only 25% of the population can afford to pay an ...
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6 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - On the horizon a second round of voting for Indonesia’s president
Jakarta (Fides Service) - There will probably be a second round of elections for presidency in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country with 230 million people 87% Muslim. About 80% of the more than 150 mill ...
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6 July 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Day against sexual abuse and violence on the feast day of Saint Maria Goretti
Sydney (Fides Service) - A day of prayer and awareness promotion to eliminate sexual abuse and violence was held in Australia to mark 6 July feast of Saint Maria Goretti. The initiative, launched by the Catholic Women ...
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6 July 2004
AMERICA/JAMAICA - Bishop Paul Michael Boyle of Mandeville resigns , Bishop Gordon Dunlap Bennet appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 6 July 2004, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Mandeville (Jamaica), presented by Bishop Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. ...
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