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16 June 2004
EUROPE - “Now is the time of a new discovery and proposal of the Gospel for our continent”. Conclusions of General Secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe CCEE Meeting in Belgrade
Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the same time that the inhabitants of the 25 nations of the European Union were going to the polls for the election of Members of the European Parliament, the General Secretaries of the Bis ...
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16 June 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “We have a real opportunity for peace in Southern Philippines ”: analysis by Father Eliseo Mercado, head of the Office for Justice and Peace of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Manila (Fides Service) - “The Philippines has a real opportunity to end the conflict between the government and rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front MILF in the southern islands”: this is the opinion voiced by ...
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16 June 2004
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islands consolidates social peace and restarts engines of economy and tourism - local Church works to promote social reconciliation and offer psychological assistance to heal traumas caused by violence
Honiara (Agenzia Fides) -Solomon Islands is rediscovering life, hope and serenity a year after the arrival of the peacekeepers from Australia who came to restore order and security in a situation of conflict which had la ...
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16 June 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Form laity to carry out pastoral and social tasks: urgency for the Church in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - According to Italian missionary Father Giorgio Pasini, PIME, parish priest at St Andrews Catholic parish in Hong Kong, priests and especially parish priests must get out of their offices and c ...
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16 June 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics learn the joy of voluntary work: more Catholics serving at centres for disabled persons and leprosy sufferers
Beijing (Fides Service) - A growing number of Catholics are volunteering to serve at “Hui Ling Community Service for People with disabilities” in Beijing, a Church run centre with the help of missionaries for childre ...
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15 June 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - Universal mission at Germany’s 95th ‘Katholikentag’ opening tomorrow in Ulm: funds collected will go to help street children in various parts of the world
Ulm (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 June in Ulm, in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the Church in Germany will celebrate its 95th “Katholikentag” with the motto “Drawing life from the Power of God”. The pro ...
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15 June 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Seminar on “Evangelisation and Ecumenical Encounter” for young Catholics and young Presbyterians
Taipei (Fides Service) - In Taiwan, and not only in Taiwan, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue are fundamental for social harmony. Recently Father Albert Poulet-Mathis, head of the Commission interreligious dialogue a ...
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15 June 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Salesian Superior of the Chinese province leads course of spiritual theology for the Sisters of St Joseph in Beijing
Beijing (Fides Service) - Salesian Father Savio Hon, Superior of the Chinese province, was recently invited to Beijing to give a series of conferences to the community of the Sisters of St Joseph. According to the local ...
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15 June 2004
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 3rd National Youth Mission Congress now imminent: about 700 participants will “celebrate, study and proclaim the gift of faith and the challenge of Mission Ad Gentes starting from the situation of youth in the Third Millennium”
Caracas (Fides Service) - Last minute preparations for Venezuela’s 3rd National Youth Mission Congress to be held 24 to 27 giugno, at the parish of “Our Lady of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá del Santo Cristo della Vega ...
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15 June 2004
EUROPE/AFRICA - Dialogue with cultures and religions, particularly with Islam, building peace, fighting the AIDS pandemic, promoting African values: objectives discerned by White Fathers General Chapter which closes tomorrow. Fides interviewed new Superior General Father Gérard Chabanon.
Rome (Fides Service) - Founded in 1868 in Algeria by Archbishop Charles Lavigerie of Algiers, the Missionaries of Africa came to be known as White Fathers because of the white habit they chose. Archbishop Lavigierie want ...
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15 June 2004
AFRICA - Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo humanitarian emergencies. UN sounds the alarm
Rome (Fides Service)- At least 10 million people are unable to receive aid from humanitarian organisations because of 20 conflicts in different parts of the world. This was said by Jan Egeland UN co-ordinator for emergen ...
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15 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Dramatic humanitarian situation in east Congo. “The alarm sounded by the UN is a positive fact but it should not be forgotten that war is the cause of all this” say local Fides’ sources
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “ The alarm sounded by the UN is a positive signal. At last the spotlights are turned to Congo’s tragedy ” say Fides’ local sources in Bukavu, main town of the South Kiu region in Democrat ...
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15 June 2004
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Catholic schools, appreciated for high quality education, teaching corps and structures, grow steadily in number and number of pupils
Wellington (Fides Service) - Confidence in Catholics school education is growing among the people of New Zealand. According to a report by the NZ Catholic Education Office, the 2004 school year is starting out with new e ...
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15 June 2004
VATICAN - “The Church wished to ask forgiveness not in a disordered manner but with effective knowledge of that happened because from the truth there is nothing to fear ” Card. Georges Cottier said at the presentation of the Acts of a 1998 International Symposium on the Inquisition
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the modern epoch in Europe there were roughly about 100,000 trials in civil and ecclesiastical courts. Of these 50,000 were trials by civil courts which led to condemnations to the st ...
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14 June 2004
EUROPE/IRELAND -Ireland rediscovers its rich missionary heritage through Mission Alive 2004: initiatives include three day Festival of Mission on evangelising activity
Dublin (Fides Service) - A long term plan to help the country rediscover its rich missionary heritage is proving a success, the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ireland, Father Edward Grimes C.S.S ...
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