News
5 July 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - 57th Missiology Week at Burgos: “This is the hour of Mission! Organisms of missionary animation, spaces for communion ”
Burgos (Fides Service) - From 12 to 16 July in Burgos there will be the 57th edition of national Missionary Weeks. The theme chosen for this year is the following: “This is the hour of Mission! Organisms of missionary ...
5 July 2004
VATICAN - Swahili version of Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Day 2004 “Ekaristi na Misioni” now available
Dar-es-Salaam (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II’s Messge for this year’s World Mission Day, celebrated in most countries on Sunday October 24, is now available in Swahili spoken by the Bantu people and used as a li ...
5 July 2004
VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope tells people about the recent visit of Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I: “Christians can and should always collaborate even when there are divisions and conflict. This is an eloquent manner of announcing the Gospel of peace to a world marked sad to say by unbalance and violence.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday July 4, during his address before the Angelus prayer, once again Pope John Paul II reminisced about the recent visit he received by the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantin ...
5 July 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Addis Ababa at the centre of continental diplomacy. Tomorrow African Union Summit. From capital of Ethiopia UN Secretary-General suggests a ‘Green Revolution’ for Africa
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- The Darfur tragedy, the situation in Democratic Republic of Congo, the crisis in Ivory Coast, tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea. These are the main themes on the agenda for discussion by h ...
5 July 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Twenty days of intensive formation for 102 catechists from parishes in Liao Ning
Liao Ning (Fides Service) -The Liao Ning Community Formation Centre in Liao Ning (north east China) holds courses for priests, religious and laity, catechists in particular. As every year before the Summer the Centre off ...
5 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “With the re-opening of the border with Rwanda, Bukavu can breath again at last” local sources tell Fides
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “On Saturday 3 July at 10am to border between Congo and Rwanda was opened and supply trucks started to cross into Congo. This is an important sign of hope for a speedy return to normality ” ...
5 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - In 25 years 35 new infections, experts study remedies, from Sars to pandemics of influenza
Rome (Fides Service) - Thirty five new infectious diseases have emerged in the last 25 years including HIV, BSE, Ebola, SARS and various aggressive viruses passed from birds to humans. These epidemics were favoured by po ...
3 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Monday 5 July Indonesia will elect a new president: fears and hopes for a nation balancing between Muslim fundamentalism and democracy
Jakarta (Fides Service) - Indonesia, the world’s most popular Muslim country, which in recent years started out on the path to democracy, struggling with ferments of dangerous fundamentalism, is about to elect a new pr ...
3 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Candidates and strategies in first direct presidential elections
Jakarta (Fides Service) - This is the first time that Indonesians will vote their president. During the dictatorship (1966-1998), and in the following years, the President was elected by the People’s Consultative Assem ...
3 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Old policies and a new course: path bristling with obstacles for Indonesia’s fragile democracy
Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Ghost of the past may return”: this is the observers’ fear on the eve of presidential elections on July 5. Reliable Fides sources in Jakarta say that the present day political scene feels ...
3 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Religion, ethnicity, fundamentalism and attempts at dialogue in the archipelago of Indonesia
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - An archipelago of 17 thousand islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans Indonesia is one of the world’s most populous countries (215 million), with a millennial culture, more than 250 ethnic gr ...
3 July 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Links to Fides Archive
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of presidential elections on 5 Jul2004 in Indonesia, Fides gives a list of links from its archives to supply background to the present political and situation in Indonesia. ...
2 July 2004
AFRICA/CHAD - Darfur Crisis: UN High Commission for Refugees continues to assist 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad. Massive air lift to supply aid. But unless the violence is stopped it is like pouring water into a bottomless bucket!
Rome (Fides Service)- The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has begun an air lift to carry extremely urgent emergency aid to tens of thousands of Sudanese who have fled to Chad from the western Sudanese r ...
2 July 2004
VATICAN - “May Christians and Churches live in peace and harmony to bear witness together to the message of the Gospel in a credible and convincing manner”: John Paul II and Bartholomew I issue Joint Declaration
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the end of visit made by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople to Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, John Paul II and Bartholomew I signed ...
2 July 2004
EUROPE/BELGIUM - Reverend Jan Dumon confirmed National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies for Belgium
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