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28 April 2004
EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “The red flag of Communism has gone and the flag of Christ flies once again in Lithuania”: Father Marko Mikalonis from Argentina tells Fides about his mission in Pumpenai, Lithuania.
Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was Divine Providence which led our Congregation to this lands which is living a crucial moment in its history. Twelve years after the country was freed of Soviet occupation the Catholic ...
28 April 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching at the general audience : “Even in solitude, forsaken by his loved ones, the praying believer is never completely alone, the all merciful God is with him”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his teaching for the general audience in St Peter’s Square this morning Wednesday 28 April, Pope John Paul II continued his reflections on the Liturgy of Vespers, commenting Psalm 26,7 ...
28 April 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - Motives behind violence in southern Thailand are political not religious Apostolic Administrator of Surat Thani diocese told Fides
Bangkok (Fides Service) - “This uprising is political not religious. Radical Islamic groups launched attacks on the government accusing it of thwarting certain Muslim leaders in the past. They want revenge for reasons ...
28 April 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” Archbishop of Gulu told Fides
Gulu (Fides Service)- “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” ” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, commenting a possible intervention of mediation ib the conflict between the gover ...
28 April 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishop issues message for “Labour Day”
Seoul (Fides Service) - Unemployment, illegal work, illegal immigrants are some of the problems afflicting South Korea which the local Catholic Church is committed to helping to solve in the light of the Church’s Socia ...
27 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Terrorism is a threat to Muslims as well” Father Nizar told Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Western diplomacy must make every effort to help democratic forces in the Arab world voice loud and clear condemnation of extremism ” Rev. Nizar Semaan, Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul told F ...
27 April 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese health ministry isolates new nest of SARS: 600 in quarantine in Beijing
Rome (Fides) - To prevent a new epidemic of SARS more than 600 people in Beijing have been put in quarantine. In the capital two reported cases of SARS have been confirmed and five are still suspect. It is also thought t ...
27 April 2004
VATICAN - Thursday 29 April, presentation of Pope John Paul II’s Message for Mission Sunday 2004 on the theme “Eucharist and Mission”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Thursday 29 April Pope John Paul II’s Message for Mission Sunday 2004 on the theme Eucharist and Mission will be presented at the Holy See Press Office.
Participants at the press conf ...
27 April 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Instability, military operations and forced migration of peoples increase risk of spreading HIV/AIDS
Rome (Fides Service) - The face of HIV/AIDS is ever younger. More than half the 14,000 new cases of infection by HIV virus registered every day are persons under 25 and most are women.
In Ivory Coast at the end of 2001, ...
27 April 2004
EUROPE - Together for Europe: international meeting for church Movements and Communities May 8 at Stuttgart “a soul for Europe”
Rome (Fides Service) - “All together in polyphony”: is the image used by Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Sant’Egidio, to present “Together for Europe” event in Stuttgart on May 8, which will bring together memb ...
27 April 2004
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 10 years of democracy in South Africa: “A positive decade all in all, but scars still remain” a local missionary told Fides
Johannesburg (Fides Service)-“The overall result is positive but there are scars which still need healing” Scalabrini missionary Father Mario of the Scalabrini Development Agency in Cape Town told Fides commenting th ...
27 April 2004
AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Yo también”, local Church programme to help street children in 7 years has reinserted more than 600 youngsters. “The world today needs concrete signs to build hope” Father Luis Rosario told Fides.
Santo Domingo (Fides Service) -“Yo también” is the name of a programme ans the name explains its objective: “take children off the streets and help them reintegrate into a nucleus of life with more stability start ...
26 April 2004
The Pope’s missionary intention for May 2004 “That through the maternal intercession of Our Lady, Catholics may recognise the Eucharist as the heart of soul of missionary activity ”.
Comment by Trappist Nuns at the Convent of Our Lady of San Giuseppe a Vitorchiano (Viterbo).
Rome (Fides Service) - According to a widespread religious conviction Christian missionary activity is first of all the expression of active generous and unselfish availability, willingness to carry the news of the Gospe ...
26 April 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Rev. Ornellas Coutinho appointed rector St Francis Xavier Pontifical Inter-diocesan Seminary a Poona
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 20 April 2004, Rector of St Francis Xavier Pontifical Inter-diocesan Seminary a Poona ...
26 April 2004
ASIA/KOREA - Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul issues message for national Day for Persons with a Disability
Rome (Fides Service) - On April 20 the National Day for the Disabled was celebrated in Seoul and Auxiliary Bishop Lucas Kim Woon-hoe issued a message urging local Catholics to work to overcome discrimination with regard ...
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