News
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25 June 2004
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Radio Liseli new channel of hope opened by Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Lusaka (Fides Service)- A new Catholic radio station has been inaugurated in Zambia. Radio Liseli in an initiative of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. According to DIA a local news agency the radio has two obje ...
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25 June 2004
AMERICA/LATIN AMERICA - Every year thousands of children die due to lack of clean water and basic healthcare
Rome (Fides Service) - Every year in Latin America and the Caribbean more than 36,000 children under five die of diseases caused by lack of clean water and basic health-care.
Another 14,500 die because of pollution in ...
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25 June 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - “In Burundi all the warring parties are guilty of crimes against civilians” Human Rights Watch denounces
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “Everyone is pleased with the progress towards peace but they seem to forget that outside the capital for hundreds of thousands of people war continues ” Alison Des Forges, head of the Afri ...
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25 June 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Zarqawi the terrorist wants to free Iraq from foreign invaders? Well he should be the first to go, seeing he is not Iraqi and he is shedding the innocent blood of Iraqis” a priest in northern Iraq told Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service)-“Who asked him to come here to “defend” our people and carry out his heinous attacks on innocent civilians?”. Father Nizar Semaan, Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul north Iraq is dismayed by ...
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25 June 2004
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Espíritu y Carisma’", 25 years of evangelisation through the press to bring people closer to the Word of God
Parana (Fides Service) - The aim of ‘Espíritu y Carisma’, magazine which marked its 25th anniversary on June 23, is to “help the world know, accept and love Jesus as the only Lord and Master and to be 'the sword o ...
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25 June 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Local community of Opus Dei celebrates Mass of thanksgiving to God for its founder Saint San Jose Maria Escrivá
Taipei (Fides Service) - To celebrate the feast day of founder of Opus Dei Saint Jose María Escrivá canonised by Pope John Paul 6 October 2002 in Rome, the local Opus Dei community in Taiwan, guided by Rev. Rolando Sia ...
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25 June 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Kerala’s “barefoot missionary” proclaimed “Venerable”, first step towards sainthood
Palai (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church of Syro-Malabar rite in Kerala, southern India has obtained recognition of one of its apostles: the Holy See has given the title of Venerable to Father Augustine Thevarparambil ...
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25 June 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Only justice brings real peace. I will tell this to the American Secretary of State when he comes to Sudan” said Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “The fact that Mr Colin Powell is coming to Sudan is a positive sign. I want to meet him, to plead the cause of the weakest members of our country” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Sudanese Catholi ...
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25 June 2004
EUROPE/POLAND - Priests, men and women religious laity and seminarians reflect on missionary commitment in their respective communities in the light of the post synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in Europa”.
Warsaw (Fides Service) - As in the past, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland will hold an annual Course of Missionary Animation Grade 2, from June 28 to July 4, Father Jan Piotrowski, national director of the Pont ...
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25 June 2004
EUROPE/FRANCE - France’s annual national pilgrimage to Lourdes led by Cardinal Barbarin will include a special pilgrim this year, Pope John Paul II
Paris (Fides Service) - Last year Pope John Paul II received an invitation from the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Bishop Jacques Perrier and Bishop Jean-Pierre Ricard President of the French Bishops’ Conference, to vis ...
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25 June 2004
VATICAN - “Sport and Tourism, two Vital Forces at the Service of Reciprocal Understanding”: Pope John Paul II issues Message for the Church’s 25th World Tourism Day
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The event tourism should be seen not as one of many events of human activity but as a phenomenon inserted in a unitary and community understanding of humanity and society”, a projectio ...
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25 June 2004
VATICAN - “Tourism at the service of the meeting of peoples”: 6th Congress on Pastoral of Tourism
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The 6th International Congress on Pastoral of Tourism organised by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples will be held 5 to 8 July 2004 in Bangkok, ...
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25 June 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - ACN Italian branch presents Report 2004 on Religious Freedom in the World
Rome (Fides Service) - On Friday 25 June the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need ACN presented its 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World ,with the objective of speaking up for the victims of violence, abu ...
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25 June 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Message for Day of Prayer and Reconciliation and Unity of the Korean People
Seoul (Fides Service) - “Break down the wall between north and south Korea and plan seeds of justice peace and joy in Korean hearts”: this is the call launched by Bishop. Lucas Kim Woon-hoe, president of the Korean ...
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24 June 2004
EUROPE - A new historic responsibility for the Church in Africa and Europe: in November a Symposium in Rome of African and European Bishops
Rome (Fides Service) - The Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) and the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), with the patronage of the Congregation for the Evangelisation o ...
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